39th Edition - Reinventing Yourself and/or Your Business

Self Development Archive

Educate yourself about who you are with money

Written by: Helen Kim

If you want your business to make money, then you must educate yourself about who you are with money.
As a money relationship mentor and financial counselor, people initially come to see me because they are experiencing some kind of anxiety around money. They quickly come to see, however, that money issues are never about money [...]

Create a Productive Environment

Written by: Stephanie Shalofsky

Regardless of whether or not we are still pursuing additional training or an advanced degree, many of us still correlate the days immediately following Labor Day with thoughts of getting back to work or work/class as the case may be.  This is a great time to review our to-do lists and systems to be sure [...]

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Written by: Elisa Balabram

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Back to School Letter from the Editor

Written by: Elisa Balabram

Dear Entrepreneur,
Welcome to WomenandBiz.com, your source of inspirational and resourceful business articles.
In this month’s issue of WomenandBiz.com, our guest writers discuss the importance of investing in yourself and in your team by going “back to school”.
In the last few weeks I listened to an interview with Les Brown, hosted by Lance Hood, and to an [...]

What Your Love Life Can Teach You about Social Media

Written by: Lena West

I recently had an email exchange with a colleague about how similar romantic relationships are to the relationships we have with clients and then (of course) I began to draw parallels to social media engagement.
We always hear about strong communication being a necessity in relationships to avoid a lovers’ quarrel, but what about when it [...]

The Importance of Mentoring to Budding Female Entrepreneurs

Written by: Georgette Pascale

Being a mentor is an admirable way to come full circle and give back. There is a definite gap in the number of budding female entrepreneurs seeking mentors and those able to devote time and energy to be a mentor.  Therefore, we need to support those who seek to change the business landscape. The power [...]

How to Ensure Employee Effectiveness

Written by: Nina Kaufman

You’ve taken the plunge and hired your first employees.  Now that you’ve made that important commitment to the growth of your business, you need to nurture this “investment.”
Like other asset investments in your business, employees require care and maintenance to make sure they function at peak performance.  You can’t just ignore them like office furniture [...]

Training is not an Option

Written by: AdrianM

Those that understand the importance of training absolutely know this to be a fact.  It’s not a belief or an opinion, or a preference.  It’s certainly not an attitude.  It’s a cold hard fact: training is important.

But there’s a strange problem here; and you probably know what it is, either directly or indirectly.
Many people [...]

7 Tips for Building Relationships & Guaranteeing Repeat Business

Written by: Wendy Weiss

Would you like to have customers return again and again to buy? Would you like to be first in line for additional orders and repeat business? Would you like to keep your customers for a very long time? Then read on for:

7 Tips for Building Relationships & Guaranteeing Repeat Business

Make sure that you ask [...]