Dear Womenandbiz.com Reader, Have you stopped to think about your Vision lately? Where would you like to be in 5, 10, 20 years? When are you starting your business? What is the size of your business? Who is your strategic partner? How many businesses do you have? What actions are you taking today to help [...]

Where do you want to be one year from now? Five years from now? In a decade? Do you even have personal goals for yourself? As a Coach, I’ve found that the more my clients have a sense for where they are headed — and know how it is connected with what they are doing [...]

There’s something that happens when someone starts talking about vision. People tune out. This I can understand. Talking about one’s vision is…well…starting to get boring. I mean, how many times can you be told to set S.M.A.R.T. goals, break your large projects down into chunks or think about your future or raison d’etre without wanting [...]

What is the difference between Ralph Lauren and Jenny Craig? Yes, one is a clothing and accessories line and the other centers on nutrition and weight loss. But more importantly, Ralph Lauren diversified its income stream by using licenses; Jenny Craig did so through franchises. With proper planning, small businesses can use licenses and franchises [...]

In the year 2005 many businesses have web sites and over the past year I have been part of redesigning many company sites including my own. This made me wonder: how do you know when it is time to give your web site a facelift? Here are 8 ways to know it is time to [...]

Before we go to work, we usually take a good look in the mirror. The image we see tells us whether we are ready to walk out the door or if we need to do some fine tuning. Now, imagine that as you work, you have a “mental mirror,” the type of mirror that shows [...]

I was 16 years old and filling out a college application. Where it asked for a major, my mind went blank. I had no idea what I wanted to be. I had lots of ideas while growing up. After dissecting insects and small animals in one biology class, I wanted to be surgeon. After one [...]

Mid-Career Boredom—A Time To Vision Dear Jill, I’ve had my own graphic design firm for about six years. It took a while to build our client base, but the past four years have been very strong. Even though I’m always busy, I’ve been feeling increasingly bored. Things are going so well, I don’t want to [...]

This article addresses the issue about whether one can attract or magnetize circumstances without taken “action.” Its intention is to create better understanding in your minds about the use of mental and spiritual laws for success and the relationship between mental and physical action and work. Let’s Get Mental Yes, indeed, marketing your business is [...]

I have always found it amazing and even spiritual how we often receive messages of self-affirmation from the smallest and most unexpected of places. It can come to us in a line from a book, a conversation with a stranger, a song, or something we see while walking down a crowded street. It’s something that [...]

I recently attended the weekend long Internet Millionaire’s Protégé Bootcamp, provided by the Internet Marketing Center. Six years ago I bought their “Insider Secrets of Marketing your Business on the Internet” package, and I have been using the strategies I learned since then, and I have also joined their affiliate program. They have launched several [...]

When I first heard about Stephanie Jo Klein and her business, I was impressed by her creativity and was curious to discover how she decided to change careers and start her business. If you are unhappy with your career and you know that you want to have your own business, or you are in business [...]

“A Big Fish is an awakened entrepreneur who is wildly successful and has a lifestyle that creates room to live life, too. A Big Fish always attracts more Big Fish, self-actualizing people” Lorin D. Beller – From Entrepreneur to Big Fish: 7 Principles to Wild Success. If you envision yourself as a Big Fish according [...]