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I have been emailed a request for help for business women who have websites and/or blogs. The request was specifically about how to drive traffic to websites.
First of all… traffic getting? What do I mean by that? A weird term for those of you who are new to all this I know, so I thought I’d best explain myself… Read More→
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Party plan as a vehicle to become a Business Woman is an option that many women contemplate at some stage in their lives.
When our youngest child has started nursery or school, we mothers find ourselves left with a dilemma: Do we return to work part time, with all its limitations, or do we start our own business? Returning to work has several serious limitations, let me list them for you:
- Unless you are fortunate enough to have left a career that you are able to return to part time, most part time jobs are paid minimum wages. By the time you have factored in the new clothes you will need, the travelling costs and lunches etc, not to mention tax, it can mean that you are working for very little more then the privilege of calling yourself employed!
- You need the hours to fit around your family. Your employer needs workers who can fit around customer volumes. Customer volumes are higher (be they visitors to shops, or telephone callers) when school is out. Not a great match, I think you would agree.
- You may find, that having to compromise on your hours so that both you and your employer are happy, means that you end up paying child care, which eats even further into your pay.
Unless you are committed to returning for work for reasons other than the money, part time work really isn’t a great option. Read More→
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Taking the action you fear the most....
I was travelling home from a seminar in London on Sunday and I was listening to one of the many local radio stations. There was a discussion on about whether positive discrimination, in favour of women is a good thing. One of the two women being interviewed (Emma) said that if women aren’t confident enough to take the top jobs, this is an issue personal to them and that they shouldn’t apply. The other woman (Julie) insisted that with the right level of support, women can achieve in exactly the same way as their male counterparts. This got me thinking about confidence…. Read More→
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Business Advice for women is often about how to ensure that you manage to run your new business, feed your family gourmet meals each evening, look like a model and still manage to get romantic in the bedroom every night.
So, I decided (devil that I am!) to give you “anti advice”. I am going to give you 7 Tips that are absolutely 100% GUARANTEED to make you fail in business! Read More→
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Goal setting is actually a very exciting and fun thing to do. In an ideal world, you would set a goal with your coach, but there is nothing stopping you from giving it a go yourself and this blog is going to tell you how to do it.
You will need a pen and paper. Nothing more glamorous than that.
First of all, you need to sit back, relax and let your mind wander to a time in your life when you were feeling fantastic and successful. That could be something as personal as when you gave birth, or something as public as an award you received or anything in between. You need to remember how you felt and to experience those feelings again. Give yourself a moment or two in this place in your mind and then pick up your pen. Read More→
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I think that when many, if not most of us, hear the words goal setting, we groan inwardly. Goals are something that we talk about, but very rarely actually use. However, I believe that the humble goal is a much maligned thing, and let me tell you why:
I would like you to imagine that you want to travel from A to B. A can be anywhere and B needs to be somewhere else. In an ideal world, the quickest way between these two points would be in a straight line or ”as the crow flies”. However, I believe that most women would identify with the following way of travelling from A to B: A is your house and B is the house you are going to for the first time for a coffee with a whole group of women and a new friend/colleague/mum from school. You know roughly where it is and so you set off in your car to the place that you believe is “somewhere near”. However, when you get there, you realise that your mind’s eye was being unrealiable today and that actually, you really don’t know where you are going. So, you go home to find the directions that you were given, but have mislaid and didn’t worry too much about, because after all, you knew roughly where you were going. So, you do arrive eventually, but you are seriously late. Or… more likely perhaps is that by the time you get home and realise that those directions have been put somewhere safe and you just can’t find them, you cry off altogether and stay home.
My analogy here is quite obvious: A goal is a map. With a sound, clear map, you know where you are going; without one, you bumble along and get to some fun places on the way, but as you are never heading anywhere specific, you always end up somewhere general. Read More→
