Once upon a boot camp the young entrepreneur with the growing company and the old advisor with many entrepreneurs as clients came together to talk about building a business successfully. Image: (CC) Shashi Bellamkonda Here’s what you can learn from their mistakes. Blunder #1: Being too cheap in the early stages Whether you are an [...]
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The definition of networking is “to cultivate people who can be helpful to one professionally.” The core of this is lost on most business owners and salespeople. To cultivate means to really work at something. In order to network well, we must plan to befriend those around us. We work with people we like, not [...]
One of our regular contributors, Melanie Spring (pictured above at this past Saturday’s #wgbiz boot camp), is holding a special class for CEOs on strategic marketing. Here’s the 4-1-1 in Melanie’s words: America runs on entrepreneurs. Those small businesses are made up of people with passion, excitement and drive. Most business owners know how to [...]
Humans are creatures of comfort. Image: modenaroid‘s Flickrstream, Creative Commons We seek it in our friendships, our families, our homes, our jobs and more. Most of us tend stay within our comfortable circles instead of venturing out into the world to find new and exciting things. As business owners we will fail if we don’t [...]
“Will you walk into my parlor?” Getting a client takes a lot of time, motivation and resources. Now that you have the client, how do you keep them coming back for more? Image: William Cho, Creative Commons Being a business owner means keeping your best foot forward throughout the entire process to be sure they’ll [...]
Never let it be said our Women Grow Business contributors keep their smarts to themselves. Melanie Spring of Sisarina, a new addition to our team, is doing one of those things that qualifies as, quite simply, a bright idea. Here’s the gen: Sisarina & Simply Leap are offering a series called 3 Steps to Success. [...]
Don’t women entrepreneurs deserve a “sisterhood”? There’s the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. There’s the one about the traveling pants and the seven sisters. Yet, when it comes to women and small business owners, rarely do we refer to it as a sisterhood. Maybe it’s a deep-seated need to be one of the boys, or a general insecurity [...]
