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Backpack business idea prompted by frustration - Click To Read Article
After years of travel with bags that were miserable, non-functioning, or unattractive in a business setting, Myrna Marofsky and Karen Stinson decided to design one that worked for them and for other women business travelers. They are the founders of WiseWomen, an e-commerce business selling the WisePack™, a perfect travel backpack purse for women. The bag was designed for women by women and has many features that make it both fashionable and functional. Read about how they started up the business and overcame obstacles along the way.
What do I need to grow my business? - Click To Read Article
There are now over 1 million self-employed women in the UK, and whilst over 70% own their own businesses, less than 20% of those have employees. Some might argue that women don’t want to grow big businesses, but it’s not true for many female entrepreneurs today. So what will encourage women to grow their businesses to a size that contributes to the economy by providing jobs for others? Read this article to find out more....
How to keep motivated when the going gets tough - Click To Read Article
Running a business has its challenges as well as its rewards. Many people find it hard to keep motivated especially when things go wrong or the unexpected happens. Read Sue Stockdale's top three tips for how to remain motivated when work gets difficult!
How to run a gold medal business - Click To Read Article
We are now in the middle of the Olympics and every evening I watch the highlights on TV. I marvel at how the athletes can pull exceptional performance out of the bag, when the pressure is on and there are hundredths of a second between win or lose. So having achieved the heady heights of running for Scotland in athletics here are my five tips to help you run a gold medal business.
Top tips from successful women entrepreneurs - Click To Read Article
Read these tips from some of the UK's leading women entrepreneurs which have helped them to achieve success in their chosen fields.
The ingredients of strong leadership and what really counts - Click To Read Article
Learn about what really counts as a leader when you are striving to achieve tough goals. Sue Stockdale uses her own experience from polar expeditions to explain how using a transformational style can be really effective in both business and the world of adventure.
How to seize opportunities - Click To Read Article
Having the ability to seize opportunities is vital if you want to be enterprising. This skill can be developed and will help you to start up or grow your business. Sue Stockdale saw the chance to become a polar adventurer, something she had always dreamed of, when she noticed a newspaper advert. By grabbing the opportunity it changed her life dramatically and became the reason she started up her company, Mission Possible. Read about how you need to be thinking in order to grab opportunities when they appear.
Top tips for women who aspire to be great speakers - Click To Read Article
Being able to speak confidently in public is the no 1 fear for many people, yet in business it’s a skill that you really need to have when you speak to investors, the bank manager, clients and suppliers. Here are some tips to consider so that you feel more confident as a public speaker.
Setting up an effective home office - Click To Read Article
When you are starting out in business one of the first decisions that you will have to take is where to locate your business – in your home or in office premises? If you choose your home, it is useful to take some time to plan how you will set it up before you begin, as it will make life much easier in the long run. Sue Stockdale offers some tips to help you set up an effective home office.
Profile of Jeanette Forbes, leading woman in a man's world - Click To Read Article
What would you do if after two years of trading your company found it had a £179,000 bad debt? For most people it would spell disaster and they would probably close the company, but not Jeanette Forbes. She overcame this challenge and has since continued to build a success business as a total ICT provider to the Oil and Gas industry - traditionally a male dominated environment. Read more about how she started up and grew the company.
How honesty helped Gail Goodman to grow Constant Contact - Click To Read Article
Honesty is just one of the many attributes that has helped Gail Goodman to grow e-mail marketing solutions company Constant Contact. Today it has over 185,000 customers and last year added 100 new employees alone. Read more about how Gail Goodman started up and grew this successful business.
30 ways to get motivated - Click To Read Article
If you are feeling a bit jaded or needing to motivate yourself to get going in business, then here are 30 suggestions from Sue Stockdale, to help you get energised and excited about your business again!
Anita Corbin, How winning an award kickstarted her success as a photographer - Click To Read Article
Applying for competitions and awards is a great way to raise your profile - and this was the case for UK photographer, Anita Corbin. Read more about her and what helped her to succeed in the competitive environment of photography
Innocent Drinks: profile of Richard Reed, the fruit smoothie king - Click To Read Article
Innocent Drinks are one of the UK's best known brands, and a small company with big ideas. The company turnover is heading towards £100 million and the business is expanding rapidly across Europe. I heard Richard speak recently and felt that their ethos of sustainability driving profitability is very similar to the principles behind many women-owned businesses. In short, Innocent focus on procuring ethically, reducing and offsetting carbon emissions, recycling and putting something back through charitable living.
The simplest idea can make the best business - Click To Read Article
Babylicious was the first brand of frozen babyfood to launch in the UK and is now the latest producer in Europe. The idea behind Babylicious was simple, as a mother of 2 small children founder Sally Preston wanted to give me babies the best possible food, no salt, additive or fillers, just good quality food. She discovered the only way to do this was to make it herself as jars and cans were very heavily processed and tasted terrible. There was huge market opportunity to provide quality frozen food for babies, so she did it herself!
Debt consolidation: how it has worked for a female entrepreneur - Click To Read Article
Tahminae Madani runs two successful financial services broker businesses in France - yet started them up with almost no management experience and speaking a limited amount of French. So how did she achieve this? Read on to find out more....
Networking strategies for growth - Click To Read Article
Networking is becoming more and more popular as a method of meeting business contacts and building relationships. Some people like to network to meet like minded people and develop a support network because it can be lonely if you are working on your own. Others want to seek out people who can refer them to new sources of business, or might even become a client themselves. Yet with so much choice available, how do you decide on a strategy to meet your business goals?
Today's woman entrepreneur - do you recognise her? - Click To Read Article
How would you describe today's successful woman entrepreneur? Is she a focused individual driven to work all hours in the pursuit of profit? Or is she someone who balances work and time for family and social commitments? Sue Stockdale, author of Secrets of Successful Women Entrepreneurs outlines what she has learned about today's successful woman in business.
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With nearly two decades in the advertising and design business, with clients like Domino's Pizza, General Motors, Direct TV, Pedigree, Wolfgang Puck, Higher Octave Music, Hollywood Celebrity Products, Disney, and Paramount, as well as thousands of entrepreneurs around the world define, structure, communicate, and position their business for greater profits, BrandU(R) co-creators Kim Castle and W. Vito Montone discovered that entrepreneurs could experience the same power that big brands command for a fraction of the cost with the world's only process-based results-drive Integral approach to business creation.
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George Ludwig
George Ludwig is a recognized authority on sales strategy and peak performance psychology. An international speaker, trainer, and corporate consultant, he helps clients like Johnson & Johnson, Abbott Laboratories, Northwestern Mutual, CIGNA, and numerous others improve sales force effectiveness and performance.
Though it's George's strategies and processes that help corporations increase productivity and performance, it's his tremendous energy and dynamism that spark the transformation. Again and again, clients remark on his amazing ability to unleash human capacity and inspire men and women to break out of their comfort zones. The result is a whole new type of salesperson.
His customized presentations teach achievers to make stunning advances in their lives. From helping salespeople realize cherished dreams to helping corporations exponentially accelerate revenue streams, George Ludwig leaves audiences and individuals empowered, emboldened, and clamoring for more.
George is the best-selling author of Power Selling: Seven Strategies for Cracking the Sales Code and Wise Moves: 60 Quick Tips to Improve Your Position in Life & Business. - Visit George Ludwig's Website
Vwodek Wojczynski
Business Coach and Consultant Vwodek Wojczynski (pronounced Voy-chin-ski) brings fun, awareness, accountability and fresh perspectives based on his diverse experiences in life and business.
Born in Poland and educated in Greece and Canada, he is trilingual with 8 years experience in business development with clients in Canada, USA, Switzerland and Poland.
His approach is systematic and process-driven. He fuses the know-how of proven business methods with his commitment that entrepreneurs experience satisfaction and joy based on their values, motivations and strengths. He believes that businesses succeed based on their ability to generate value by providing what’s needed and wanted.
Ultimately, he trains executives and true business owners - people who work less, produce more, own businesses that run automatically after a while and make a difference globally.
His current research focus is the development of intelligent business systems and the application of emerging artificial intelligence technologies in business.
He is also an avid traveler, spoken word performer and visual artist. He resides in Toronto, Canada. - Visit Vwodek Wojczynski's Website
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Sue Stockdale
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Sue Stockdale founded Mission Possible, www.miss
ionpossible.co.uk to help women to
achieve their goals in business, using the
same principles that led to her success in
becoming the first British woman to ski to
the Magnetic North Pole. Since 1997, the
company has worked with 1000s of women
worldwide. Services include an
award-winning businesswomen’s network, and
peer support groups for growing
businesses.
A fitness fanatic, Sue has represented
Scotland in athletics, and in 2004
finished runner-up in TV’s Superhuman. Her
academic achievements include an MBA in
Entrepreneurship and an MSc in Quality
Management. She lectures at several
Universities on leadership and
entrepreneurship and her advice on
motivation regularly appears in the media.
She is author of Kickstart Your Motivation
and Secrets of Successful Women
Entrepreneurs. For further information www.suestockd
ale.com
Sue Stockdale Video - Polar adventurer and motivational speaker Sue Stockdale speaking at Millionaire Mind Event in London about building trust in your team on an expedition and setting up systems to make expeditions and business easier.
