If you’re reading this September is National Literacy Month and part of my company’s mission is to contribute a portion of profits to literacy organizations. I mean, can you IMAGINE not being able to read?! Almost 800 million people worldwide are illiterate. I can go on and on, but this article is not so much [...]
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Editor’s Note: We are thrilled to welcome a new addition to the Women Grow Business family: Chief Troublemaker aka Joanna Pineda brought Marcus John into the world last week. What follows are her thoughts, with minor edits and cross-posted with permission from The Matrix Files, on why growing her family will also grow her business. [...]
A colleague and I recently discussed women’s self-promotion styles compared to men. Then Clay Shirky’s blog post “A Rant About Women” came up, along with his thought-provoking remarks on the subject. His comments also sharpened my own reflections that I had resisted admitting Photo credit : Reflections I, Creative Commons by VisualAge I wish Clay Shirky’s [...]
On working from home Officially, my business is such that I can take it along for the ride, wherever I go. In reality, I’ll happily work from coffee shops, hotel rooms and other random locations, but I’m much more comfortable in my home office. In part, my preference is due to the fact that I [...]
Yesterday we held our monthly #wgbiz Twitterchat where the special guest, as I mentioned last week, was YOU. It was indubitably, positively, categorically, most excellent. Did I get enough superlatives into that sentence? Not that special guests aren’t great – they are, especially when they’re the likes of Tinu Abayomi-Paul, Kathy Korman Frey and Lori [...]
A quick reminder that we hold our monthly #wgbiz Twitter chats the second Monday of each month, 12-1 pm ET. We’ve had some great times since we kicked these off a few months ago: talking with Tinu Abayomi-Paul about inbound marketing, Lori Saitz about customer service, and Kathy Korman Frey aka Chief Hot Momma about [...]
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 [...]
Sister, Sister If you’ve been following Women Grow Business or the #wgbiz hashtag, you’ll know that Kathy Korman Frey’s New Sisterhood of Success keynote at our first-ever WGB boot camp was a huge hit. Image: (CC) Shashi Bellamkonda So much so that we asked Kathy to be our guest on the monthly #wgbiz Twitterchat last [...]
With the first-ever Women Grow Business Boot Camp successfully behind us, I wanted to make sure you were able to access the resources even if you weren’t able to make it to the boot camp (there’s always the next time, right?). So, here goes. You can download several of the presentations from Network Solutions’ Slideshare [...]
Business owners know that connecting with other executives, mentors, and industry experts must be a key component of a growth strategy. They also know that there aren’t enough hours in the work-week to attend every networking function that they would like to attend – especially in the DC region where there could be 8-10 high-profile, [...]
