Monthly Archives: August 2009

In August 2008, the state of Utah implemented a trial four-day work week for 17,000 of its employees. A four-day work week involves working four 10-hour days rather than five 8-hour days. The Working 4 Utah program has been a success with survey results showing 82 percent of program participants wanting to stay on the [...]

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Sales are the driving force behind your business. That’s why this edition of the blog carnival for women entrepreneurs is all about sales -how to increase sales, tips for selling during the recession, training your sales staff, and how to follow up after the sale. Linda C Smith presents Does your sales staff sabotage your [...]

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From the picture on the left, you can see that Lea Woodward does not have a typical office. She runs her business, Kinetiva, from locations around the world. Natalie: Lea, tell us more about yourself and your business, Kinetiva. Lea: I’ll start with the real basics. I’m 32, was born in HK, adopted by British [...]

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Welcome to the second edition of the She Takes On The World weekly blog carnival for women entrepreneurs. If you are a woman entrepreneur and have a blog post or article that you would like to bring to our attention for a future edition, please use the submission form. Sabrina Parsons presents Why Are Women [...]

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Secrets to Staying Motivated

By Natalie MacNeil

Do you have days when you simply are not motivated to accomplish what you need to accomplish? It happens to all of us once in awhile. Sometimes it is just a bad day while other times it lasts far beyond a day. Yesterday I had one of those days, likely caused by having too much [...]

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Welcome to the first edition of the She Takes On The World weekly blog carnival for women entrepreneurs. The goal of this blog carnival is to share a selection of quality entrepreneurship articles and introduce you to fellow women entrepreneurs. There is so much we can learn from each other’s experiences. If you have a [...]

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Millions of women write blogs but only a small fraction write blogs about business. The majority of blogs on topics relating to business and entrepreneurship are written by men yet women are starting small businesses at twice the rate of our male counterparts. While there are many great business blogs written by both men and [...]

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I first met entrepreneur, Cheryl Koo-Leung, when she won the She Takes On The World & Stylish Copywriter contest back in April. Since then she has been hard at work growing her second company, Pink Panda Fabrics. Can you tell readers about yourself. I’m a work at home mom who owns and operates an online [...]

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