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November 26th, 2007

Are You LinkedIn?

Bridget did a great post last week on the value of LinkedIn for professional networking, and I’d like to echo her sentiment that it’s a great tool — but only if you use it.
Do you have a LinkedIn account? If so, do you have any connections? Are you actively participating in the professional question and […]

By Kristen King -- 0 comments

November 25th, 2007

Cyber Monday (Black Friday’s Online Cousin)

This is news to me, but apparently there’s a twofer after Thanksgiving nowadays: first Black Friday, and then Cyber Monday. According to Wikipedia, the term was coined in 2005 and refers to the kickoff of the US online holiday shopping season. The Cyber Monday website lists deals that are mostly available elsewhere, too, but donates […]

By Kristen King -- 0 comments

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 21st, 2007

Stress-Free Success

How can you achieve success AND stay stress-free? If you can answer that question, you can win one million dollars!! Well, no not really.
However, answering that question does qualify it as the million dollar question because success requires so much from us that it can put us under stress. What I have found out […]

By Bridget Wright -- 6 comments

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 14th, 2007

It’s Good To Be In Charge - - Being My Own Boss

The other day while I was furiously working on a writing project, my son asked me if I was going to go on his field trip to the museum. (pause). You know that feeling you get when you don’t want to really say yes but don’t know how to say no? Well, I had it.(replay). […]

By Bridget Wright -- 0 comments

November 12th, 2007

He Said, She Said

Sometimes I’ll ask my husband to do something for me around the house or to run a quick errand for me. No big deal. But when I see him again and the errand didn’t get run or the thing-around-the-house didn’t get done, I wonder, “did hear he me or is he trying to ignore me?”
The other day […]

By Bridget Wright -- 2 comments

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

November 8th, 2007

Hiring Employees: A Difficult Task

Yesterday,I talked about the challenges that one can face when they are seeking qualified, skilled help for their companies. Today I want to go into that a little further and look at some other reasons that the employee sees that can make it a difficult task for them to be hired. In other words, what […]

By Bridget Wright -- 1 comment

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