| Most women business owners that I know don’t begin their business with a full-blown business plan. They have ideas, concepts, dreams and a desire to spend more time with their family. And so they begin. I did the same. Like many women business owners, I began my business while I had a full-time job [...] When I work as a business coach with women business owners, we often discuss marketing and sales. These are the revenue-driving engines of your business. One of the first hurdles we need to overcome though, is the entrepreneur’s natural tendency to want to be all things to all people. This leads to confusion in the [...] I tend to tear out magazine articles that start me thinking. I have one from Pink Magazine about leadership by Laura Lee Gentry. In it, she focuses four core skills that were “critical for successful executives: results orientation, team leadership, collaboration and influencing, and strategic orientation.” As a woman entrepreneur, you are an executive of [...] In her book, Tough Choices: A Memoir, Carly Fiorina seems surprised that the press wanted to focus on the fact that she was a woman CEO, not just a CEO. “I was trying to tell women that although there are plenty of obstacles and prejudices, there isn’t some invisible barrier that prevents them from achieving [...] | 
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