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If you're starting up your business, or you're just now professionalizing your home-based or hobby business, this group is for you.

Four Priorities for Women-Owned Businesses Contracting with the U.S. Government Post date: Sunday, April 8, 2012 - 9:03pm Type: Story For small, women-owned, and minority-owned companies, consider government contracting as a way to expand your existing business. If you're wanting to break into the market of supplying federal and state needs, here are four items to review during...	Six Tips to Increase your B2B Roster of Clients Post date: Monday, March 19, 2012 - 1:55pm Type: Blog entry One of the first questions for a new business owner, or for a firm that is streamlining operations, is understanding how to sell your products and services in an easier format. Your challenge is to tailor your processes to fit your business-to-...
Deciding Whether to Start a Business Post date: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 7:10pm Type: Story For many in the marketplace, the prospect of starting up a business is appealing. Want to work for yourself, call the shots, be the big boss, set your own prices? Here are some questions to ask as you go through the pre-evaluation process. 1)...	How to Get Clients by Building your Email List, Part One Post date: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 11:22am Type: Blog entry What are the two things that we hear the most about building your practice online? Content is king and the money is in the list! So just how do you go about building a list? The 4 steps are: Targeting an audience. Getting...
7 Tips for Proper Phone Etiquette Post date: Monday, December 19, 2011 - 12:17pm Type: Story Treat a phone call (or Skype session or Facetime communication or whatever) the same as you would treat a face-to-face conversation. 1) Identify yourself and ask if it is a good time. If you are calling without an appointment, immediately...	Laws That Every Small Business Owner Should Know Post date: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 11:27am Type: Blog entry Most small business owners start a company thinking about how great it is to live in a country where a person with a professional dream can turn it into a reality through hard work and perseverance, and eventually realize a level of financial...
Starting a Business? Top 5 Must-Haves Post date: Monday, November 7, 2011 - 1:40pm Type: Blog entry Most people would love to start and manage their own business. The thought of working for oneself is a dream for many adults. But not everyone has what it takes to get a business venture off the ground. There are a lot of pieces...	Seven Biggest Mistakes in Raising Startup Capital Post date: Saturday, October 29, 2011 - 9:01pm Type: Blog entry While startup capital can be a tremendous benefit in helping new companies get off the ground and gain a footing in their respective markets, too many small business firms go under because their owners failed to understand how best to “pitch...
Blogging – Long Term Investment, Potentially Amazing Pay-Off Post date: Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 2:58pm Type: Blog entry Blogging – Long Term Investment, Potentially Amazing Pay-Off It’s no secret that countless business entrepreneurs, men and women alike, have either started a business through blogging or used blogging to catapult their mediocre...	Planning an Event to Promote Your Business Post date: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 5:00pm Type: Blog entry When it comes to promoting your business, it may behoove you to wine and dine clients, prospective clients, and even the press if you want to get your name out there and increase your earning potential. But you probably have a couple of...
Teach your Business Coaching or Personal Business Coach Clients How to Optimize Their Time Post date: Friday, September 23, 2011 - 12:02am Type: Blog entry Teach all of business or personal coach clients how to control their time. One of the most effective ways for your business coaching clients to achieve this is to employ associates or specialists on an as-needed basis. You, as a ...	How to Earn Money by Working at Home Post date: Friday, September 9, 2011 - 10:54am Type: Blog entry All of us have hit road blocks on the career front. Sometimes it’s just a small stumble, soon remedied by a new offer of employment. But with the economy in its current state, a hiccup can easily turn into a hiatus (whether you...
Starting Up Your Start Up with Incubators and Accelerators Post date: Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 1:38pm Type: Blog entry You hear entrepreneurs discussing business incubators or accelerators as viable means to assist startup businesses with fiscal or structural issues. But what exactly are these business solutions and how common is female participation? ...	Make your Passion into a Reality - Crowdfund your Green Project through GreenFunder.com Post date: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 11:50pm Type: Group Post If you have an idea for a green business, and you have a relatively stable plan and a good sense of how to reach your customers or clients, then consider using GreenFunder http://www.greenfunder.com to raise the startup capital for your endeavor...
Choosing a Logo Design to Represent your Business Post date: Sunday, April 17, 2011 - 9:03pm Type: Group Post If you are starting up a new endeavor where you're selling products or services, choose to first focus on the essentials, including your mission/vision/values, business plan, and marketing materials. In this post we're focusing on how...	Converting Web Surfers Into Customers Post date: Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 4:28pm Type: Blog entry With e-commerce booming, every Tom, Dick, and Jane has an e-commerce website, but why have only Tom’s sales increased? It’s probably because Dick and Jane figured they could just ride on the coattails of the industry without putting a...
KISSinsights - Grab Customer Feedback Immediately Post date: Friday, April 1, 2011 - 8:21pm Type: Review Items The KISSinsights survey tool for webmasters allows you to query your customers quickly to "Give customers a way to tell you what they need." Beginning webmasters and those who need quick results can use the tool to get feedback on confusing or non-...	How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Starting and Managing a Business Post date: Sunday, March 6, 2011 - 11:00am Type: Blog entry This is a guest post by Maria Palma, author at Online Business Resources and The Good Life (originally posted February 28, 2008) Starting a business is an exciting time for any entrepreneur. It’s something new and it’s certainly...
Unfear, by Karlin Sloan: Defining Success Post date: Sunday, March 6, 2011 - 2:00am Type: Blog entry Yesterday, Karlin Sloan presented an article about The Death of Short-Term Thinking. Today, on the final day of A Successful Woman's four day blast as part of Karlin's virtual tour, she has brings us, Defining Success....	The Perfect Home Office for You and Your Clients Post date: Saturday, March 5, 2011 - 12:51pm Type: Blog entry Be honest: since you started working from home, your office has not only become a catchall for everything work-related (in addition to the clutter that was in there before), but it has somehow managed to spread into other areas of your home....