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#40b – How My Failure Almost Went Viral – Building a Million Dollar Business Part Time

By Kathy Korman Frey

So, here’s where the last post ended:  I’m in the copy room at Funger 315, I realize my Powerpoint presentation displays as Gobbledygook,  I have no workbooks (“printer warming up”), there’s a lobby full of attendees downstairs, and I have two minutes until I’m supposed to begin speaking.

Oh, yeah, and a bunch of the folks in the audience are social media folks.

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#40 Surviving a Business Crisis – Building a Million Dollar Business Part Time

In my days as an analyst in the merger and acquisition/competitive analysis industry, I would listen with utter shock as heads of major corporations would pour their “business hearts” out to my team.  Product x was lagging in sales, and consumers hated it. They asked us for help.  They were getting killed by a foreign competitor. Could we help them? We were the business therapists for corporate America. I always wondered if they spoke this way to everyone, or just a select few. Whatever the methodology, they seemed clear on one thing:  Our clients had the wisdom to realize they must confront reality, to change reality.Read More »#40 Surviving a Business Crisis – Building a Million Dollar Business Part Time

Summary of Posts 1 – Building a Million Dollar Business Part Time

As I mentioned in the Building a Million Dollar Business Part Time Intro Post, I am now sharing this previously somewhat-secret blog with the inside scoop of the Hot Mommas Project. I will have a “Million Dollar Biz-Part Time” category here starting today. Subscribe at the right. The below is retroactively posted from November 28, 2008. It’s a “Cliffs Notes” of the posts and my learnings between March and November 2008. Whew! A lot of challenges, but, ultimately success.Read More »Summary of Posts 1 – Building a Million Dollar Business Part Time

Intro Post – Building a Million Dollar Business Part Time

It’s time to share the Hot Mommas Project ‘Insider’s Blog” which I have previously kept secret and off the Hot Mommas Project site. Starting today, it’s out – and part of this blog. I will have a “Million Dollar Biz-Part Time” category here. Subscribe at the right. The below is retroactively posted from March 25, 2008. This is when I had no idea if the project would be a success or failure. Today, we’re the world’s largest women’s case study library. Women’s stories, making a difference, serving as role models, in a credible teachable format used from bookclubs to boardrooms.Read More »Intro Post – Building a Million Dollar Business Part Time

The Good Gals: The Washington Area Women’s Foundation – Best of Class Women and Philanthropy

Lorraine stood before the crowd of Washington, DC women, proudly announcing her age: “I’m 65,” she said and adds, “I know some people don’t like to talk about their age.” But Lorraine is happy to have gotten this far. She is a recovered 40-year heroin addict. Lorriane was in jail. Her two year-old daughter was taken from her 38 years ago, never to return. Despite her personal tragedies, or perhaps because of them, Lorriane’s life changed forever when she walked into Goodwill Industries.

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Toolkit for Women’s Success: Do Women Lie When They Act Perfect?

 

Why do you love me so? Knock it off.

 

By Kathy Korman Frey

A post by Athena Vongalis-Macrow and Andrea Gallant on the blog of Harvard Business School Publishing is entitled: Stop Stereotyping Female Leaders.  The myth of the “superwoman” is discussed, and how this myth continues to be perpetuated by women themselves.  This is sad not only because women feel pressure to appear or be perfect, but also because this is what we are teaching the next generation. Expectations are killing women across this great nation of ours…both expectations of ourselves, and those from others whether actual or perceived.Read More »Toolkit for Women’s Success: Do Women Lie When They Act Perfect?