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Learning from Successful Small Business Women Entrepreneurs

One of the questions we normally ask women entrepreneurs we feature on Women Home Business is: What advice can you give other entrepreneurs?
Here are the tips and advice our featured entrepreneurs shared:

Suzanne Meyer, Founder of the personal greeting service business The Welcome Committee
Find your passion and be true to yourself. Anything is possible when you believe [...]

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How to Get Six-Figure Income

Do you have what it takes to achieve financial success?
Barbara Stanny in her book “Secrets of Six Figure Women” explores the strategies that financially successful women – from entrepreneurs to corporate executives to freelancers and part-timers — employ to reach their highest income potential.
According to the author, here are the eight secrets of six-figure women:
1. [...]

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10 Reasons Why Online Retail Entrepreneurs Succeed — and Fail

The book “How to Start a Home-Based Online Retail Business” by Jeremy Shepherd is one of my favorite startup guide for starting an ecommerce business. The author writes from the perspective of someone who will run the business from a small office tucked in the kitchen with the inventory located in a spare room or [...]

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5 Steps to Creating a Great Life with Your Small Business

I came across the book by Louis Barajas entitled “Small Business Big Life,” which takes a more philosophical and psychological approach to teaching how to start a business that I find interesting.
The book doesn’t discuss how to select the right business, or how to patent an idea or how to write a business plan. Rather, [...]

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Trait of a Successful Entrepreneur: Knowing When to Listen and Get Help

I just wrote in the Learning from Big Boys blog that one of the characteristics of PepsiCo’s CEO Indra Nooyi is that she is not afraid to get help when she needs it. When named as the CEO, she went straight to her competitor for the job and ask him to stay and help her [...]

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What is the Most Important Step for Small Business Success?

Someone asked me recently, “If there is a single step in starting a business that could guarantee success, what could it be?”
This is a tough question to answer. It’s like asking for a magic bullet for attaining business success when none exists. Success in business sometimes feels like it depends on whether the stars align [...]