Business Planning

Does Your Business Need Pruning?

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I’m ready for Spring and since I’m looking ahead to the new season, I made an appointment to prune the trees that line my long driveway.

As usual, an activity that on the surface seems [...]

New Year Strategic Plan: Set Goals, Not Resolutions

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Statistics show that 97% of new year’s resolutions get broken, most within the first week of the new year. I prefer to set SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, [...]

Winning Strategies for Starting a Business Part 1 of 3

This is a guest series by Jane Wesman. Jane is the president of Jane Wesman Public Relations, Inc., a firm that creates high impact book publicity campaigns for publishers and writers. She is also the author of Dive Right In -The Sharks Won’t Bite: The Entrepreneurial Woman’s Guide to Success.

Do you dream [...]

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Meeting Goals

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Are you where you want to be in your life professionally? Are you making what you thought you would be making? Have you accomplished everything you wanted to accomplish to date?

We all have dreams and goals of obtaining something, whether [...]

She Takes On The World Presents the First Edition of the Blog Carnival for Women Entrepreneurs

ferris wheelWelcome to the first edition of the She Takes On The World weekly blog carnival for women entrepreneurs. The goal of this blog carnival is to share a selection of quality entrepreneurship articles and introduce you to fellow women entrepreneurs. There is so much [...]

Part 1 of My Interview with Sabrina Parsons, CEO of Palo Alto Software

0132Today I am pleased to be featuring an interview with a woman whom I greatly admire, Sabrina Parsons. Sabrina is the CEO of Palo Alto Software (PAS), makers of Business Plan Pro and Marketing Plan Pro. Prior to stepping into her role as CEO, she [...]

The Ready, Set, Go Business Start-Up Guide: Building a Business Step-by-Step

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Every day around the world millions of people think of new business ideas yet only a small fraction of these ideas will ever become businesses.

What prevents these ideas from becoming businesses? Perhaps the idea [...]

Going Solo Versus Partnering Up

Starting a business with a partner is a big commitment. In my opinion, it is so easy to be a solopreneur with social media and access to talented freelancers. You should have a clear reason why you need a business partner. As a solopreneur you can use a website like Elance.com to hire freelancers [...]