Entries from September 2007
September 30, 2007
Kelly King Anderson did a workshop for women entrepreneurs at Brigham Young University and posted a video of the presentation here. (You rock Kelly!)
Pattie Simone posted Online Marketing Tips for the Tech Challenged, a guide for the technology challenged women entrepreneurs with lots of useful tips to help ready your site to generate sales.
Lack of time is my biggest complaint every day. Lorraine Cohen posted her Business Success Tip #12 on how to get things done in 15 Minute Increments
Tom Peters posted a PDF document he calls Organizations Serve. He points out that:
Research demonstrates that the best investment in “foreign aid” is investment in the
education of women—primarily because women in turn are the most committed to the development of children and educated, humane, productive communities.
To read it, download the PDF here
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September 25, 2007
The Avon company has always been big on empowering women by providing economic opportunity. Initially they did this by making it easy to get in business selling makeup and so on. In their latest effort to empower women, they developed the Hello Tomorrow Fund.
The fund over the course of 52 weeks (which started April 2007) will choose one applicant every week to award $5,000 to help that person start a program or a project or develop an idea that will empower women. In addition to the USA, the fund will be available to assist women in 20 other countries including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
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September 24, 2007
The Great Lakes Entrepreneur’s Quest (GLEQ) Competition is now open.
The mission of this competition according to their website, is “to continually encourage and educate entrepreneurs on the creation, start up and early growth stages of high-growth businesses within the state of Michigan.”
If you live or work in Michigan, or can find a business partner who does, take a look at this. The deadline for registration in the first phase of the competition is October 31 so you should work fast if you want to get in on this one.
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September 23, 2007
While a lot of researchers have in the past suggested that gender accounts for the differences in the level of success observed between male and female entrepreneurs, I came across the results of a study released last week, that found something a bit different. The study commissioned by the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy, found that gender alone does not affect a company’s performance.
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September 21, 2007
What sign would tell you equal opportunity for business women has been achieved?
Laura Yamanaka, incoming president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), when asked the above question in a recent Los Angeles Times article, said:
When people no longer have the need to say, “Oh, did you realize she is a woman-owned business?” When your accomplishments don’t stand on whether you are a male or a female. When we get to that point. When it’s no longer relevant. When it becomes so common it’s not an issue. That’s when I’ll know.
What do you think? Is she right? Do you think it is an even playing field and if not, when will you know that a business owner’s gender is truly irrelevant? Leave your comment below.
You might also want to See last month’s food for thought, Traits of an Entrepreneur
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