And as you grow your business well beyond the million dollar mark, we want you. Only women presidents and CEOs need apply: Women Presidents' Organization.Shatterbox wants you to wake up in the morning and love what you do. So we’re going to introduce you to lots of people who do and help you find how to get there yourself.
Social entrepreneurs are often reluctant to relinquish control and create strong leadership teams. Unless they make this important transition, the organizations entrepreneurs worked hard to create are unlikely to scale or have the desired impact.Whether you run a social enterprise or a business poised to scale up, this article will help you vault your company into high-growth phase.
Competence in forecasting does not mean being able to predict the future with certainty. It means accepting the role that uncertainty plays in the world, engaging in a continuous improvement process of building your firm’s forecasting capability, and paving the way for corporate success.As the authors state, "all models start with assumptions." What are yours?
A good forecast leads, through either direct recommendations or informal conversation, to robust actions — actions that will be worth taking, no matter how the realities of the future unfold.
The Small Business Administration announced last week that it had finalized rules for its Women’s Procurement Program. This program gives female business owners access to an estimated $25 billion, 5 percent of the federal procurement budget. In some cases, it will give such businesses a slight advantage in bidding for federal contracts.Read more here. While you are at it, check out this piece which covers some good government contract advice (healthy dose of reality).
Women Impacting Public Policy is a nonpartisan group that helped bring about the changes. It has taken more than a decade to implement the program since Congress approved it in 2000, and the federal government hasn’t met its own goals for contracting with female-owned firms.
• If you are a small business and you buy new equipment, you can immediately write off the first $500,000 of your investments;Read more details (including about tax cuts) here.
• If you are one of over one million eligible small businesses, key long-term investments in your company will be subject to zero capital gains taxes;
• If you are an entrepreneur and take a chance on a new idea, you can deduct the first $10,000 of your start-up costs;
• And if you are self employed you can deduct 100 percent of the cost of health insurance for you and your family from your self-employment taxes.
Here's what people have already said about the program:"I own an advertising agency and have experienced many brand seminars, but Neeli's seminar was like an MBA-level crash course on branding -- amazing -- and I walked away with tools that can be integrated immediately to develop a company's brand." ~ Beth Bronfman, Leibler Bronfman Lubalin Advertising, WPO New York I & Platinum MemberRegistration here (http://tinyurl.com/2a4p2tu). Lunch is included. Seating is limited. Better grab your place at the table fast!
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"I attended both Neeli's workshop at our April WPO conference as well as a special half day workshop this summer she did with my Platinum group. Neeli's wisdom about marketing, brand development and customer service was tremendous, presented with great humor and insight. She gave me a better understanding about brand development and retention globally, as well as steps I might consider to help Adesso's business and brand recognition. So I suggest you run, not walk, to Neeli's WPO workshops this October!" ~ Margaret A. Traub, President & CEO, Adesso Inc
Women Presidents' Organization (www.womenpresidentsorg.com) President and Founder, Marsha Firestone, Ph.D. (pictured), is quoted two different times in The Wall Street Journal:
In, Enterprise Dispatch, she states:The new portal initially isn't "going to make a huge dent," because only six large corporations are so far involved, adds Marsha Firestone, president of the Women Presidents' Organization, a New York group made up of mostly small "B2B" companies. "But if it grows and a lot of contracts come out of that, it could," she says.Further, she is quoted:
Do you have brilliant ideas (e.g., you are considered one of the best minds in business), know how to present well and like to share? Then you're poised to become a TED talk person.
A great way to stay on top of all that is shared by the people you follow is through paper.li, which organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format. Newspapers can be created for any Twitter user, list or #tag.
In case you've been too busy to catch the latest and greatest from Google, they just released a new and improved version to their Updates with Realtime Search (http://www.google.com/realtime), which lets you see up-to-the-second social updates, news articles and blog posts about hot topics worldwide.
What does your business have in common with creators of products that grill a burger, catch varmints, and save the earth? Design excellence.
We are happy to report that our 7th Annual WPO Chicago 2010 Summit held August 12th at Carnivale Chicago and sponsored by Harris N.A. and Wm. Wrigley, Jr. Company was a huge success.
As more high-achieving women -- such as the entire WPO membership base spanning across four continents -- grow their businesses to multimillion dollar + levels, they will continue to embrace power to get things done. 
Growing your business is not a sprint. It's a marathon that requires a plan and a process involving trials, errors and successes.
Many business owners feel that summer is typically a slow time of year for their business. Is that you too? Obviously a lot depends on where you live, your firm's sales cycle, whether you market seasonal products (locally and globally) and what else is going on in the industry and economically.Summer is a great time to jump your business ahead. If your clients and customers are all taking a break, take advantage of the slow market and get yourself ready for the fall.How do you get ready? He offers a couple of fun recommendations here.
What do you do when you or someone in your company makes a mistake -- whether it be in producing a product, launching an advertising campaign or making an inappropriate off the cuff statement on a national television network?"We're not perfect," admitted Steve Jobs, the boss of Apple, at a press conference today at which he discussed the firm's new smartphone, the iPhone 4. To people who have long ascribed almost God-like powers to Mr Jobs, that may come as a shock. But the ham-fisted way in which Apple has handled a fuss over connectivity issues with its new device has shown that even one of the world's most admired companies can get things wrong every now and again.Read more here.
In view of the notion of a potential double-dip recession coming to our economy very soon, whether it happens or not, how do you prepare for such an event?Economic growth is not likely to return in a sudden and massive way. The “New Normal” is viewed as an economy of much tighter regulation, much higher taxes for the wealthy and for corporations, higher government spending, and consumers living with less and enjoying far less opulence than in prior years. It is even arguable that the recovery was merely a stimulus and stability recovery matched merely by an inventory replacement cycle with no follow-on gains.The Huffington Post defines 'Double-dip' recession here.
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