A resource publication for Entrepreneurial Moms
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Email has gone from a technology panacea to the bane of our existence. The problem is only partially due to the sheer volume of email correspondence we must drudge through on a daily basis. The REAL problem is its use – or rather its chronic misuse. Email is not, to echo the words of Erika Napoletano, a replacement for personal communication and it...
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” —Laurel Thatcher Ulrich This quote is posted on my inspiration board above my desk to remind me that sometimes is you need to be a little bad assed in business. Sometimes you need to stretch the rules just a little, push the boundaries or do something no one else would dare to do. Don’t think of...
Creativity is a funny thing. Sometimes you have it, other times you just don’t, which makes life more than a little difficult when you are in the business of being creative (and arguably all businesses require creativity in some form or another to be successful). So what do you do when that creativity dries up? When there’s nothing left in the...
Living in the idea space is a fun and happy place to be – everything is all exciting and full of potential. There’s absolutely nothing stopping you from following that thread of an idea wherever it wants to go. After all, in the idea space, you don’t have to think within the boundaries of limitation. That’s probably why ‘brainstorming’...
Are you driving your success or is your success driving you? Meaning are you too busy managing your success and keeping up with day-to-day customer demands that you no longer have the ability to pursue new ideas and opportunities? That’s how success becomes a trap. It forces the unprepared entrepreneurs to shift their focus from the big picture...
Ever look up the long winding path in front of you and think to yourself, “I will NEVER in a million years reach the top”? And yet, if you continue to take one step at a time, soon enough you will be looking back at that long winding path and think, “Wow, look at how far I’ve come in what seems like no time at all.” In business (and in...
Don’t you just hate it when you start the day with the best intentions only to realize at 5 o’clock that you got nothing on your list done thanks to countless interruptions? It starts innocently enough – a simple phone call that turns into a half-hour discussion, a brief scan through your inbox that translates into 2 hours of email management...
Whatever happened to good old-fashioned common sense? It seems that commonsense advice less and less common these days – what with all the technology and tools available to distract and misdirect. Where businesses are failing isn’t with mastering the extraordinarily complex aspects of business, but with the boring, every day simple stuff. That’s...
Sometimes you would think asking costs millions of dollars the way people avoid it, doing everything BUT asking for what they need to grow their business – be it support, referrals or even the sale! Timid entrepreneurs do almost anything EXCEPT ask. You overspend on marketing that distances yourselves from the results. You hire a sales team to do...
What you do everyday matters. Perhaps more than you think. It matters because every day you are taking (or not taking) teeny tiny steps toward your goal, your ultimate success. It may not feel like you are making much progress some days, but trust me, you are. The reason comes down to simple math. Little steps taken everyday propel you farther than...
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