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Archive for the ‘Professional Networking’ Category

December 21st, 2007

Teaching Our Kids Business Skills and How To Become Junior Business Leaders

I feel pretty flattered today. My 10-year old daughter says she wants to start her own business. Just like mommy. Even when she was just a little toddler, she would walk around with crayon and paper and say she was “doing business.” Wow.
When we are “doing business”, whether it’s from our home office, a rented […]

By Bridget Wright -- 0 comments

December 13th, 2007

Office Holiday Party Coming Up? Don’t Blow It!

I had planned to post on this topic, but then I saw that Elana from Funny Business covered it beautifully and hilariously…
Not sure if anyone has done a statistical study on this particular issue, but in business folklore there
is the common belief that many a career has been torpedoed at the annual holiday office party.
If […]

By Kristen King -- 0 comments

December 7th, 2007

Start Your Own Business With $50,000

If you have ever dreamt of starting your own business, here’s an opportunity for you now. All you have to do is to write a 500-word essay on why you’d like to start your own business. If you can write compelling copy and have a solid business idea, this might be the route for you! […]

By Bridget Wright -- 1 comment

December 7th, 2007

Geekalicious - Where Are the Technical Females ?

Are you an Internet-savvy female entrepreneur? Do you like taking apart your MAc just to see how it works? What about piddling around with some code and text to see how to build a website? If any of these things appeal to you, you could be a geekette - - a super-technical female who loves everything technical, […]

By Bridget Wright -- 0 comments

December 6th, 2007

Are You An Imus?

Picture this: You’re having a conversation with someone at a networking conference. Things are going well. You’re talking about the weather, politics, the school system, blah, blah, blah. Then all of a sudden, they ask you your opinion about the local business down the street that went bust because they couldn’t pay their back taxes. […]

By Bridget Wright -- 2 comments

November 27th, 2007

Reasons to Be a Chick Entrepreneur

I loved this post from Bosshatch so much that I blogged it here and at my freelance writing blog, Inkthinker. Here are my favorite reasons to become an entrepreneur from a biz chick perspective:

20. You want to stick it to “the man”… or woman. You want to show your boss “HA! See this? Yeah, well […]

By Kristen King -- 1 comment

November 26th, 2007

Finding (One) Of your Business Niches

If you are serious about marketing and networking in your business, you might want to consider checking out this women’s business site that will offer you tons of information on how to grow your business. Although this is not the typical website “collecting” email addresses, this is definitely for those who are ready to take […]

By Bridget Wright -- 0 comments

November 19th, 2007

LinkedIn Networking: Does it Work?

Anyone who works online knows about the LinkedIn network, or, at least should have an idea about it. The LinkedIn network is a large network of professionals, university students and organizations to find and connect with one another. Similar to FaceBook and MySpace, only LinkedIn tends to lean towards the business professional. If you haven’t […]

By Bridget Wright -- 1 comment

November 16th, 2007

Women of Color Represent on All Fronts

Women of color are starting to comprise a significant share of the business marketplace and are finding themselves as fiece competitors in a businessworld that was once primarily reserved for those who had a “right” to be there. Maybe their family had “old money”. Or maybe their educational accomplishments alone bought them unspoken rights to […]

By Bridget Wright -- 0 comments

November 5th, 2007

The ABC’s of Networking Offline: Joining Organizations

Networking offline for any business is just as critical as networking online. Contacts must still be made, clients must still be appeased and deals must still be hashed out just as they would in any setting. Most often, the mistake that most people make in networking offline is that they think it’s harder to do […]

By Bridget Wright -- 0 comments