Are You Worth An Hour?

March 18, 2010

I can’t tell you how excited I am today. In just 90 minutes, I’ll be hosting my first teleseminar, How to Grow Your Business by Turning Passion for Your Work into Passion for Your Price. Women entrepreneurs and consultants from all over the world (yes, the world!) will be joining me as I reveal one [...]

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Celebrate the Ides of March

March 15, 2010

Celebrate the Ides of March by giving yourself a gift! Invest an hour this coming Thursday to learn how to grow your business by overcoming one of the biggest fears professional women have around asking for money. Join my no-cost teleseminar, “How to Grow Your Business by Turning Passion for Your Work into Passion for [...]

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New High School Football Coach…is a Woman!

March 12, 2010

Congrats to the new varsity football head coach at Calvin Coolidge High School in Washington, DC. In celebration of Women’s History Month, I share with you the story of Natalie Randolph. While not the first (that honor also went to a DC high school), she is believed to be only one in the U.S. at [...]

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Let the No’s Go

March 9, 2010

Many professional women in my life have been asking the same question over the last couple of weeks: What if someone unsubscribes from my list? The tone of their questions is usually full of fear, like, “Oh my gosh. Some teeny percentage of my list of contacts has decided not to get info from me [...]

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Bourn Creative: Killer SEO Strategies

March 8, 2010

I’m just finishing up a teleseminar with Jennifer Bourn of Bourn Creative, as part of Gina Bell’s List Attraction Week series. This call was chock full of information about best ways to make sure your web pages and blog posts hit high in search rankings. If you have the chance to listen to Jennifer, I [...]

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International Women’s Day: Celebrate Yourself

March 8, 2010

How appropriate that Kathryn Bigelow won the Oscar last night! Today is International Women’s Day. Wondering how you might celebrate this day? Which woman is worthy of your respect and attention today? How about YOU? Yes, you. Today of all days, you should be able to put yourself first. Tell people you’re celebrating a holiday. [...]

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March Forth!

March 4, 2010

Today is March 4th. Which is a homonym for March Forth! Let me make an argument for doing just that. Awhile back I met a friend and colleague for lunch. We were going to continue a previous discussion about how we might work together. I thought I was so prepared. I had outlined a really [...]

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Turn On Your Personal Power

March 3, 2010

Why does power have such a bad rep, especially for women? Some people think it means controlling others, others believe it leads to corruption, still others shy away from the attention that comes when it’s used. I like to focus on the positives of power: It can get you from one place to another. It [...]

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Women’s History Month: Word of the Day

March 2, 2010

OK, so there really is not a connection between Women’s History Month and a word of the day. But I came across the following while I was cleaning out some old writings. Word of the day: virago. One definition is “noisy, scolding or domineering woman”; another is “large, strong, courageous woman”. Guess which one’s my [...]

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Frightened by the New Economy?

February 23, 2010

When Oliver asked for more, the warden gave him more anger. He should have been more specific. We hear it all the time, from all sorts of places. You can’t do that in the new economy. You can’t expect that in the new economy. That just can’t happen in the new economy. So many people [...]

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