You're ready to start your new business and leave your old job behind. You should be excited about this new chapter and proud of yourself for taking the next step. What you may not realize is that everything you learned working at your corporate job can now be used to succeed in your new business. The challenges you faced don't ... Read More
Business Success
How to Sip Your Way to Small-Business Success
By Cathi Nelson Do you sip your coffee in the morning or gulp it down? Do you jump out of bed ready to take on the day, or are you a slow riser, needing an hour or so in your PJs before you get dressed? Do you drive like you're in a race or take your time, enjoying the journey? Your answers to these questions are a great indicator ... Read More
How an Incubator Can Help Grow Your Small Business
Back in 2011, when I first started teaching my daughter and her friends how to cook from my home kitchen, I never imagined the potential for turning my itty bitty passion into something life changing for myself, or for others. Fast forward to the end of 2015, and as I look back on yet another year of 60-hour work weeks, with ... Read More
Five Personality Traits for Small Business Success
It’s a given that business owners and employees alike should act in a professional manner. What constitutes professionalism? To a degree, it can be interpreted in different ways. When you own your own business this becomes even more important to be professional and be conscientious of how others view you. Professionalism directly ... Read More
How Women In Business Can Use Emotional Intelligence
Women in business operate in an environment dominated by male business owners. In this context, we learn to exhibit behaviors that help us to sustain successful businesses, sometimes allowing masculine traits to override our natural nurturing strengths because in the current business paradigm, nurturing traits are sometimes viewed as ... Read More
Your Purpose is What Will Lead YOU to Entrepreneurial Success
By Kelly Robbins Many women strive to live the entrepreneurial dream. They want to work from home, create a work-life balance that perhaps they didn’t grow up with, and they want to live an authentic life – a life of purpose. I am a firm believer that if you have the desire to accomplish a goal, you have the means to achieve ... Read More
Female Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Business Success
Sponsored by Alibaba Being an entrepreneur is all about empowering yourself to create a business that's right for you. It's about facing up and rising to different challenges, overcoming the day-to-day demands, learning and planning for the future. In a new campaign e-commerce specialists, Alibaba is celebrating female ... Read More
7 Reality Checks to Make Sure You Are On Track to Running a Successful Business
Each week I have the pleasure of talking to small business owners or to those who aspire to own their own business. While a lot of them have a good grasp on what it takes to be a business owner, many do not. Don’t get me wrong - I can relate to the feeling of being unsure about what needs to be done to run a successful business and ... Read More
