Archives: Being Your Own Boss

If you are like most women in business, you are looking for new strategies to stimulate growth. Whether solutions to better communicate or how to best manage employees, here are 5 Proven Strategies to Accelerate Business Growth: Expand thru Alliance Partnership An extremely effective strategy for expanding your business is by forming an alliance with [...]

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Remember when you first thought about starting your business? You envisioned working on the things you loved, spending your days honing your craft. The thought of escaping your soul-crushing cubicle job was thrilling; at last you would be your own boss! You took the leap and started getting your first real clients. Things were looking [...]

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Providing quality customer service is vital and should be an important part of your business model.  What is quality customer service?  It involves relationship building, establishing communication, building trust and resolving potential problems or conflicts.  Are you at the top of your customer service game? Do you have processes in place to handle customer complaints?  [...]

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Whenever I’m speaking to entrepreneurs—whether they are around the country or around the world—I’m always asked to share my now famous “ATM Story”. It’s one I kept close to the vest for years, because I was too embarrassed to reveal it. But today, I know it’s important to share. And why. You see, we always [...]

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Every now and then in the office, the workday will be cut in half for a half day of work which is both a blessing and curse in disguise. It’s always great to be able to leave work a little early to enjoy the rest of the day but at the same time all of [...]

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Whether you’re down to the wire in a 30 seconds or less elevator pitch or emailing media contacts from a PR firm looking to snag one to feature your client in a story, pitching has never been on a time constraint now more than ever. Don’t let the clock scare you – I like to [...]

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“Wow, what an incredible business conference that was!” is a phrase that we don’t often find ourselves saying after leaving a conference event for the day for multiple reasons. Maybe the WiFi was spotty, the sessions started late, the topics got off the subject, the room was cold… and the list goes on. In fact, [...]

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Back in January I started working on a little piece about the growing movement of women starting businesses. That “little” piece kept growing as I gathered more stats and quotes and listened to women entrepreneurs from all over the place tell me their stories following the release of my book. Forbes published the piece on [...]

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