Posted by rieva7 | Posted in Finance | Posted on 05-10-2010 | 
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Learn What You Need To Know For Your Future Are you ready for retirement? I’m not asking if you’re ready to sell your business and start making clay sculptures in Sedona or want to retire right this moment. I’m talking about whether you’re financially on the right track to be ready to retire when you [...]
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Posted by rieva7 | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 28-09-2010 |
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Learn How to Keep Your Employees Motivated Do your employees have meaningful jobs? A recent Los Angeles Times article reported on several studies that looked at the concept of “meaning” in work. In one study, subjects were paid to build Lego models. They were paid the most for the first model, then a decreasing amount [...]
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Posted by rieva7 | Posted in Growing | Posted on 21-09-2010 |
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Bridge Connections Internationally and Grow Your Biz In today’s economy, we’re all looking for new markets to tap into. One of the most promising, writes Isobel Coleman on Forbes.com, is the burgeoning market of women in developing nations. Coleman cites a Booz Allen study that says women represent the “third billion,” a market equivalent to [...]
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Posted by rieva7 | Posted in Managing | Posted on 14-09-2010 |
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Learn How To Find the Right Balance as a Manager Is micromanaging costing your business? BNET recently took a look at this common problem, spotlighting BrightStar home-care franchise founder Shelly Sun. Sun, who had been working 90-hour weeks to lead new initiatives to help her franchisees, was shocked when a franchisee satisfaction survey showed that [...]
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Posted by rieva7 | Posted in Marketing, Uncategorized | Posted on 07-09-2010 |
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Mom Inventors Succeed with Products by Moms, for Moms If you are a business owner, you probably already know women in general are major spenders and influencers of their family members’ purchases. And that means moms, in particular, are a hugely important market. So who better to target products at moms than other moms? This [...]
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Posted by rieva7 | Posted in Marketing, networking | Posted on 31-08-2010 |
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The Importance of Networking in a Tough Economy With the economy on a roller coaster ride that seems like it’s never going to end, where can small businesses turn for help? One place is to each other. I was reminded of this recently when I read an article in The Seminole Voice about Rep. Suzanne [...]
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Posted by rieva7 | Posted in Growing, Women in Business | Posted on 24-08-2010 |
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Overcome Your Fear of Debt If you’re like many women I know, you may be cautious when it comes to money. Call it “Bag Lady Syndrome”—that irrational fear that lots of us have that, somehow, we’re going to end up penniless (no matter how hefty our bank accounts currently are), but the attitude invariably carries [...]
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Posted by rieva7 | Posted in Managing | Posted on 17-08-2010 |
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5 Simple Tips to Help Manage Your Time Did you click on the headline of this blog post eager to find the simple secrets of time management? Well, I have to admit, that headline was kind of wishful thinking. Time management isn’t easy (at least, not for many of us—including me) and we’re all looking [...]
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Posted by rieva7 | Posted in Uncategorized, obstacles, sales | Posted on 10-08-2010 |
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The Fight Women Face in The Market While women-owned businesses are growing in number, a new report from The U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce found that their sales are shrinking at an alarming rate. The report, Women’s Businesses Struggle for Market Share, analyzed the Census Bureau’s 2007 Survey of Business Owners and found that although [...]
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Posted by rieva7 | Posted in Life Balance | Posted on 03-08-2010 |
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Learn the Secrets of Work/Life Balance Are you thinking about starting a business? For many women, one reason to start a business is because they want to spend more time with their children and think entrepreneurship is a way to accomplish this. Sure, owning your own business could be a means to spending more time [...]
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Posted by rieva7 | Posted in Technology | Posted on 27-07-2010 |
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The Closing Technology Divide There’s a ground-breaking change going on in society, says Sally Helgesen, author of The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work. Interviewed on Bnet.com, Helgesen notes that today, for the first time in human history, men and women are using the same basic tools at work. In other words, we’re all [...]
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Posted by rieva7 | Posted in Growing | Posted on 20-07-2010 |
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The Secret to Growing Past $1 Million Are you trying to grow your business past the $1 million mark, but not getting results? You’re not the only one. Nell Merlino (pictured), founder of the Make Mine a Million program, recently talked with Bloomberg Businessweek about the difficulties women-owned businesses have surpassing this magic number. Make [...]
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Posted by rieva7 | Posted in Growing | Posted on 13-07-2010 |
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Do You Have a Mentor? Last week I wrote about a specific type of mentor/mentee relationship. But, having mentors is one of the best ways I know for any business owner to grow his or her business that I thought the topic was worth addressing again. And, mentors are especially useful for women entrepreneurs. So, do you have [...]
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Posted by rieva7 | Posted in Leadership | Posted on 06-07-2010 |
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Has Your Biz Obtained a Government Contract or Subcontract? If you’re new to the process, fulfilling your first contract can be a challenging task. To help you do it right, the General Services Administration (GSA) offers a Mentor-Protégé Program designed to encourage prime contractors to help small businesses perform successfully on government contracts and subcontracts, [...]
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Posted by rieva7 | Posted in Managing, customer service, sales | Posted on 22-06-2010 |
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Service is Critical to Small Business Conventional wisdom would have it that women business owners should excel in customer service. After all, we women are supposed to be tuned in to human relationships, touchy-feely and detail-oriented—all things that should make us experts at customer service, right? Apparently, wrong. According to the latest Key4Women/Forbes Insights report,“Strategies [...]
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Posted by rieva7 | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 15-06-2010 |
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Keep Key Talent
As the economy starts to heat up, so does the war for talent. Small-business owners will need to work to keep key employees who may be ready to seek other jobs as soon as they see opportunities. If you’re looking to keep women employees happy, one way to do so is to make [...]
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Posted by rieva7 | Posted in Leadership, Uncategorized | Posted on 08-06-2010 |
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Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program
Let’s face it, we women entrepreneurs still don’t have access to the same types of networks our male counterparts do. Ernst & Young, the global consulting corporation, wants to help—and for the third year is presenting its Entrepreneurial Winning Women program, which gives women business owners the chance to be part of [...]
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Posted by rieva7 | Posted in Marketing, SUCCESS, Starting | Posted on 30-05-2010 |
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America in Transition
Sometimes you hear an idea that just makes sense. That’s how I felt when I read about Moving Forward Transition Advisors.
Herman Trend Alert, which spotlighted this company last week, notes that the 1990s saw huge growth in advisors of all types—from business advisors like consultants to personal advisors like life coaches and nutritionists.
Moving [...]
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Posted by rieva7 | Posted in Managing, Marketing, SUCCESS | Posted on 25-05-2010 |
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How One Company Achieved Success
I love reading about women entrepreneurs who come up with smart ideas for doing things better. One hot trend during the recession has been do-it-yourself (DIY) just about everything. As consumers started cutting back, smart business owners launched DIY versions of their more costly products and services.
I Heart Design is one [...]
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Posted by rieva7 | Posted in Managing, Women in Business | Posted on 18-05-2010 |
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Women Bosses in the Workplace
Surely, in this day and age, the issue of women being poor managers has long been laid to rest—right? Wrong. Recently on The Huffington Post, Ella L.J. Edmondson Bell, an associate professor at the Tuck School of Business, examined stereotypes about women in the workplace after a quick survey of her [...]
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Are Women More Connected?
Do you use social media in your business? I hope so. Chances are you’re also using it differently than a male business owner would, according to an interesting article in ForbesWoman.
Jenna Goudreau, author of the article, reports that Facebook is 57 percent female and attracts 46 million more women per month than [...]
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Web Sites to Aid Your Success
I’m so excited to be joining the blogging team for the SCORE Women’s Success Blog. Supporting women entrepreneurs has long been one of my passions. The SCORE website and this blog are two great resources to help you start or grow your business. If you need more help or assistance, here are 15 [...]
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