by Jill Foster on November 2, 2009
by Jill Foster on November 2, 2009
She’s a former presidential appointee to the National Women’s Business Council. And she’s an advocate for entrepreneurs and small business, working with national plus state agencies on ensuring interests of small business owners are heard. She’s Vivian Shimoyama who founded Breakthru Solutions. Vivian was so eager to share what she values most about her company [...]
by Jill Foster on October 28, 2009
by Jill Foster on October 28, 2009
Entrepreneur Magazine has listed The Startup Princess as a top resource for women entrepreneurs. And she’s been voted by her home state as one of 30 Women to Watch. She’s that cool. Kelly King Anderson aka Fairy Godmother of helping business-owner dreams come true … founded Startup Princess a while ago to convene like-minded women [...]
by Jill Foster on October 27, 2009
by Jill Foster on October 27, 2009
Transporting back to last week, Las Vegas, early a.m. pacific time: It’s the opening keynote address for the Blogworld Expo and first time many attendees were convened in the same room. We enter a large meeting hall where rows and rows of chairs are filling up and projected up front is one huge phrase on [...]
by Jill Foster on October 26, 2009
by Jill Foster on October 26, 2009
It just seems inevitable that something cool will happen when hearing the phrase: “Jill meet Jill!” And at last week’s Blogworld Expo, that’s exactly what happened when being introduced to another ‘Jill’ (yet she spells her name with a cool, artistic spelling that she chose when she was six years old). I met entrepreneur (or [...]
by Jill Foster on October 26, 2009
by Jill Foster on October 26, 2009
It was fantastic meeting Nelly Yusupova, CTO of Webgrrls Internationals ( and founder of DigitalWoman). She’s shares on her cool projects (with a keen insight on what she’s surmounted to be of stronger service to her clients). Welcome to another segment of SmallBizCool(!), straight from Blogworld last weekend.
by Jill Foster on October 22, 2009
by Jill Foster on October 22, 2009
In meeting Mari Smith at last weekend’s Blogworld Expo, I felt delighted and also a bit like a hobbit standing next to Gandolph (I think she’s at least 6′ tall!). Fast Company calls Mari “the Pied Piper of the Online World.” And she’s president of the International Social Media Association. She’s known for launching major [...]
by Jill Foster on October 21, 2009
by Jill Foster on October 21, 2009
How cool is Janet Fouts? Well she co-founded ONTHERAIL and is former director of the dynamic organization San Francisco Women on the Web. She’s a forward, resourceful thinker in the social media space – savvy and with a distinct humor to boot. She’s also founded the Social Media Coaching Center and at Blogworld Expo last [...]
by Jill Foster on October 20, 2009
by Jill Foster on October 20, 2009
Blogworld’s opening keynote speaker Laura Fitton aka @pistachio on Twitter said in the middle of her address “And Becky McCray is awesome!” Cool -and- awesome Becky, founder of Small Biz Survival and numerous businesses, presented at last weekend’s Blogworld Expo on how small business makes big impact. In between morning bagels and networking, Becky shared [...]
by Jill Foster on October 20, 2009
by Jill Foster on October 20, 2009
She’s been featured in media outlets worldwide for her pioneering work on the Web and as a female tech entrepreneur and author. She presented at last week’s Blogworld Expo on stimulating brand conversations with women in the social mediasphere. She’s Aliza Sherman who answered – the one question – for our SmallBizCool series straight from [...]
by Jill Foster on October 19, 2009
by Jill Foster on October 19, 2009
She’s a thriving entrepreneur with a cool story to tell. And straight from Blogworld she talks with Women Grow Business for our SmallBizCool video series. She is Wendy Piersall who founded Sparkplugging – the largest blogger network focused on work-at-home resources for solo business owners (and she also launched the Woo! Jr. Kids Activities Network). [...]
