As entrepreneurs and leaders, it’s important to break out of your comfort zone and get away to business conferences. It’s your opportunity to completely remove yourself from your business and the pressures of your everyday life to get inspired, invigorated and empowered to take your business and life up.Read all of her advice at: Keep Your Business Thriving By Attending Live Events
What we discovered in our research is that while the empowerment part of the equation has been loudly celebrated, there has been very little honest discussion among women of our age about the real barriers and flaws that still exist in the system despite the opportunities we inherited.Why Women Can't Have It All
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A new study says almost 600-thousand new businesses are created each year by young adults right out of college.Catch the remarks from a clothing shop owner about why she felt the need to start her own business rather than work for someone else.
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Starting a business explicitly to raise children sounds like one too many projects, but a growing number of women make it work. Being behind the steering wheel of their own ventures allows women to take detours (to the school play, doctors and grandmas). In fact, integrating work and family is one of the top reasons why women start businesses, according to research.Learn more about the realities of starting a business while starting a family here.
“I decided to bring it up a notch and opened the store at 6 E. Third Ave. Then we outgrew that space and moved to Broad Street, the former Roman Rose Antique store,” Winterboer said. “We do floral design as well.”Read the entire article here.
I think it takes hard work and determination, and a little help from veterans in the business field along the way.Illustration credit here.
After having two children, she struggled to find a balance between work and home. She decided to become a stay-at-home mom and began her own online business, Craft Caravan. The subscription service is $10 each month for a new craft project shipped to your home. Suitable for children aged two to eight, Zingle tests the crafts on her brood before approving them for retail sales.She offers advice for other stay-at-home moms thinking about starting their own business and explains why engineering and crafting share a lot of similarities.
An indoor play area, the space offers everything from playground equipment, to bounce houses, to playhouses, to Lego blocks, to puzzles and coloring for kids from 0 to 5.Fast-forward four months. In addition to the kids playing, Ms. Lamb has hosted events including a vendor fair, birthday parties, a magician and an Easter egg hunt.
The number of women-owned businesses across the United States increased 54 percent over the past 15 years. That was a rate one a half times the average for all other businesses.Marceau also attributes her Mom as a role model for encouraging her to go into business for herself.
788,000 Latinas now run their own businesses, according to the most recent Survey of Business Owners (last conducted in 2007). This represents a 46% increase against a 20% found across all female business owners over a five-year period.Find out three (3) reasons why Latinas are leaving corporate America and becoming entrepreneurs here.
Contact Karma is a social recommendation engine that stocks B-B deals for local Chicago business owners and execs to take advantage of. Contact Karma is simple to use … business owners and execs in Chicago seeking a deal on a corporate product or service can head to our site and enter the vendor type (PR firm, bookkeeper, lawyer, web design firm) that they are looking for into our home page. We then give them a series of vendor suggestions and deals, ordered by who in their local business community and network likes and uses the vendor.View a quick video tour here.
... eleven years ago, Casey Hickey's work wasn't so delicious. As director of development for a San Francisco-based medical society, she spent her days in a windowless office. "I was proud of what I did," she says, "but my self-expression was limited to fund-raising propsoals and spreadsheets." Hickey spent her free time reading cookbooks; when she baked a wedding cake for a friend, a chef attending the reception was so wowed that she suggested Hickey rethink her career.The rest is sweet history.
1. Understand why you are doing this.Read the full story on where these great ideas came from here.
2. Don’t be afraid to get out of the building and validate your business idea.
3. When being called stubborn, take it as a compliment.
4. Learn to hold contradictory values together.
5. Don’t quit when things are just getting started.
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