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Archive for the ‘Work-Life Balance’ Category

December 24th, 2007

Kristen Is Taking a Break for the Holidays

Even though I don’t personally celebrate holidays, I do close for busines on days that other businesses like my own are off. And that means that after this note today and all day tomorrow, I will be taking a brief vacation to recharge. I’ll be back in full force on Wednesday to let you know […]

By Kristen King -- 0 comments

December 19th, 2007

What Keeps Me Going When I Need Inspiration

After BCR won last week’s Challenge, I’m feeling pressure to make a meaningful entry this time around. Here’s the assignment:
Everybody loves a success story. New business owners find them inspiring. Tell Kay [our fictional entrepreneur who’s the subject of the Business Channel’s Apprentice-like challenge] a success story that inspired you - it could be a […]

By Kristen King -- 8 comments

December 18th, 2007

How Do You Feel About Your Career in 2007?

The year will be over in less than 2 weeks, and it’s that time again: Time to assess how the previous year turned out. For the rest of the month, your favorite biz chicks will help you figure out what satisfies you about your current career situation and what you want to change. And beginning […]

By Kristen King -- 1 comment

December 15th, 2007

Tripping Down the BlogHer Blogroll, Part 2

Over at BlogHer, there are scads and scads of great women-written blogs and sites just waiting to be discovered. Here are several I’ll be checking out over the next few weeks from the second half of the alphabet.

Naturally WAHMs
News on Women
Pajama Professional
Sisters in Biz
Small Biz Survival
Smart Not Cheap
Startup Princess
The Anti-9-to-5 Guide
The Business of Life
The Work-at-Home […]

By Kristen King -- 4 comments

December 15th, 2007

Tripping Down the BlogHer Blogroll - Part 1

Over at BlogHer, there are scads and scads of great women-written blogs and sites just waiting to be discovered. Here are several I’ll be checking out over the next few weeks from the first half of the alphabet.

A Girl’s Guide to Managing Projects
Balancing Motherhood
Boss Lady
Career Assessment Goddess
Career Diva
Entrepreneur Moms
eMoms at Home
It’s Women’s Work
Family Friendly Work
Girls […]

By Kristen King -- 0 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 23rd, 2007

Black Friday, Anti-Consumerism Style

It’s supposed to be the biggest shopping day of the year, and since my business has nothing to do with shopping, I gave myself the day off. But that doesn’t mean I hit the malls. Here’s what I did on Black Friday, instead:

I continued cleaning up from Thanksgiving which, although I don’t celebrate holidays, somehow […]

By Kristen King -- 0 comments

November 22nd, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving Holiday!!

We here at Biz Chicks Rule want to wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving!!
I was sitting here Tuesday morning working on an outline to give to my webmaster about my website. There were changes I needed to make, things I needed added to the site and just general housekeeping issues resolved. We had been emailing […]

By Bridget Wright -- 1 comment

November 15th, 2007

Navigating the Holidays

The holiday season is fast upon us, and along with the stress of endless events and shopping galore comes a whole set of social conventions to navigate in your business. How do you handle the holidays?

Gifts for clients and coworkers — Should you chip in, get something individual, avoid it entirely? How much to spend, […]

By Kristen King -- 1 comment

November 11th, 2007

Taking Vacation When You’re Self-Employed: Kristen’s Experience

If you’re anything like me, you simultaneously look forward to and dread your vacation. I can’t stop thinking about how wonderful it will be to do nothing, to have no meetings, to have no e-mails to respond to, to have no deadlines… And then I am fearstruck when I remember that all of those things […]

By Kristen King -- 0 comments

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