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Entries from July 2007

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July 30th, 2007 by Lauren · No Comments

We love sup­port­ing other small, women-owned busi­nesses, and we also love cheer­ing on women mak­ing career changes — so of course we’re excited (if a lit­tle sad) to hear about amet and sasha’s clos­ing sale.
Appar­ently A&S’s founder, Jesse, is on the cusp of a career change and as a result she’s clos­ing down her lovely […]

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Overcoming Barriers to Success

July 30th, 2007 by Emira · No Comments

The Writ­ers Revealed online chat yes­ter­day was fan­tas­tic. It was so great to engage with Michelle in women’s ques­tions around run­ning their busi­ness. Unfor­tu­nately we ran into a bit of a tech snag that blocked both Michelle and I from post­ing at the end of our time (and strangely all my posts from yes­ter­day have […]

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Live Chat: How to be a successful entrepreneur

July 27th, 2007 by Emira · No Comments

We’ve been blog­ging over at Writ­ers Revealed with some other smart busi­ness ladies — Alex Beauchamp and Michelle Good­man — in prepa­ra­tion for a live chat com­ing up this Sun­day. Here’s our post: Do you need a busi­ness plan? The chat will run this Sun­day, July 29th at 7pm EST/4pm PST in the com­ments space […]

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The Art of the Business Card

July 13th, 2007 by Emira · No Comments

In one of the chap­ters of our book (com­ing out Spring 2008) we deal with the many, many mar­ket­ing mate­ri­als you could put together when you start up your busi­ness (or that you’ll redesign and develop through­out the life of your busi­ness). Because our book isn’t aimed at folks who are inclined to do things […]

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