Women In Business Continues Growth
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Women entrepreneurs are increasingly growing their ranks in the world of small business. Today women business owners are a significant part of the small business world. And now more than ever, women entrepreneurs aren’t just starting a business, they’re doing a great job staying in business.Today there are more than 10 million privately-held women-owned businesses which generated roughly $2 trillion in annual sales and approximately 13 million people employed nationwide.
But there’s so much more work to be done to help women business owners succeed. The #smbiz Twitter chat (8-9 pm EDT on July 14) is dedicated to women in business issues. Join the hour-long chat to network with other women, get great advice and discuss issues important to female entrepreneurs and small business executives. Our guest experts will be @connectingwomen (host of the Connecting Women radio show on Blog Talk Radio) and @avasiare (owner of a successful cosmetics company).
Women entrepreneurs are also great at supporting each other since they know what it’s like to build a company in today’s business climate. Their support network is amazing and they are the first ones to pool together for advice and help. Female entrepreneurs also take a large interest in supporting future women business leaders by providing resources, forums, seminars and mentoring programs, especially through social media and social networking.
Although this blog is mainly for small business, it’s interesting to note that women are making powerful strides in Corporate America, too. Companies now believe (and some have evidence) that enterprises with more women in senior management positions are more successful and make more money. There are even organizations set up like buddy systems to help accomplished female executives reach boardroom status.
All over the Internet are examples of successful female entrepreneurs who’ve made their mark on the business community. Many of these women have leveraged the power of the Internet to learn from each other to become stronger business leaders.
Here are some great resources for any women entrepreneurs looking to start or grow their business:
The PR Toolkit - helps female entrepreneurs get media attention for their business
The Boss of You: Everything A Woman Needs to Know to Start, Run, and Maintain Her Own Business
Leading From the Front : No-Excuse Leadership Tactics for Women
Are you a female entrepreneur? Share your comments here and tell us about some tips to help women business owners grow their business.
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July 11, 2009 at 11:26 am
Good article. I am on the advisory board for the Center for Women’s Business Research, and I am also the Women’s Entrepreneurship columnist for the DC Examiner. My articles would definitely appeal to your readers. Here is the column link:
http://www.examiner.com/x-12152-DC-Womens-Entrepreneurship-Examiner
In addition, I am the sales columnist on http://www.womengrowbusiness which has fantastic women columnists on all issues pertaining to women owned business.
Finally, I am a Yahoo! small business blogger (my firm runs the entire content strategy for Yahoo’s small business community). That too is a great reseource for all entrepreneurs. Here is the link:
http://smallbusinessblog.yahoo.com/post-1166-Is-Working-With-Your-Spouse-a-Good-Idea
Thanks!
Marissa Levin
CEO, Information Experts
July 14, 2009 at 10:24 am
anyone interested in this topic ought to check out eWomenNetwork.com - a national organization. Example of a local event below.
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Sandra Yancey, Founder and CEO of eWomenNetwork, to Speak at Boston North Shore Chapter’s Accelerated Networking Event, Wyndham Hotel Andover on July 22
BOSTON, July 6 /PRNewswire/ — The way to triumph the recession is to tap your GLOW. With GLOW, women are charging ahead and have a positive outlook despite the economy!
While it is invisible, women can see it. While it cannot be touched, women can feel it. Sandra Yancey has spent the last nine years focused on helping women navigate the ups downs of life. She teaches women what she has learned about the power of having and cultivating great relationships. She explains how she went from having just 15 contacts in her personal database to now over 500,000 while also rolling out a successful multimillion dollar business model that now boast 118 chapters and produces 2,000 women’s business events annually. Sandra Yancey, Founder and CEO, eWomenNetwork, an international women’s networking organization, understands what it means to be consumed with fear, worry and doubt while trying to survive and keep your head above water. She too had to climb out of dark moments and scary times. As one of the creators and producers of the GLOW Project, a ground breaking movie that shares the story of successful, impassioned women who overcome incredible challenges to find their GLOW, Yancey walks her talk and doesn’t mince words.
Sandra Yancey, will be in Andover on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at the Wyndham Hotel Andover as the Key Note Speaker for the eWomenNetwork Boston North Shore Chapter Accelerated Networking Event. Sandra will share why it’s important to embrace the recession and charge ahead with a positive outlook. This is the best time ever to re-think, re-align, re-calculate and re-imagine your approach to the re-cession. When all the rules change you get to write your own rules and set a new destiny. This is a great time — don’t be fooled by the naysayers.
For more information and interview opportunities with Sandra Yancey please contact Laura Rocha, Managing Director of eWomenNetwork Boston North Shore Chapter (978) 957-1940 or cell (978) 902-6118, laurarocha@eWomenNetwork.com.
SOURCE eWomenNetwork