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Building a Million Dollar Business Part Time #10: How We Are Getting Press & Buzz

Let’s continue our discussion of how to do marketing and pr, shall we? Especially since Esther and I spent all %*$#i day organizing our email folders since we are so overwhelmed by the response to our project (good) and seem to have had the email-organization part of our brains partially lobotomized (bad). We are a tad overwhelmed at the Hot Mommas Project right now and looking forward to Fall reinforcements.… Read More »Building a Million Dollar Business Part Time #10: How We Are Getting Press & Buzz

Building a Million Dollar Business Part Time #9: How to Market_Networking Our Brains Out

Esther and I are in San Francisco for the BlogHer 2008 conference. Okay, to be totally honest, we came out here for a party being hosted by Guy Kawasaki’s venture http://www.alltop.com/ and BlogHer. We decided to do this just last week. (Side Note: If you want to see why we like Guy Kawasaki, click here or here. Here is the link to the Alltop page where we’re listed http://moms.alltop.com/). This… Read More »Building a Million Dollar Business Part Time #9: How to Market_Networking Our Brains Out

Building a Million Dollar Business Part Time #7: How to Implement

I also affectionately refer to this post as: “How to get s*&t done.” What are the big takeaways from today’s post?: 1. Focus 2. Focus 3. Focus Esther, pictured here (with our original business partner), and I have been religiously and regularly deploying the “F-word”: FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS. We have been very focused on results, and – unfortunately – not fun stuff like blogs. For the full post on our… Read More »Building a Million Dollar Business Part Time #7: How to Implement

Building a Million Dollar Business Part Time: #4 The Productive Amoeba

I. WHAT‘s WORKING? Let‘s start on a positive note. Doing my goals is working. I am accomplishing them, mainly due to the fact that they are hovering over me like a school marm tapping her watch. It prevents them from eking out into the abyss of 100%. Dennis Hightower, former big-time Disney exec, advised “Good general managers must be able to make decisions with between 40 and 70% information.” So,… Read More »Building a Million Dollar Business Part Time: #4 The Productive Amoeba

May 3 Women’s Leadership Conference

It would be very hard for this Simmons conference to be anything less than amazing. Beginning this summer, my dear friend Dr. Susan Duffy will be heading their undergraduate Women's Entrepreneurship program. Click here for conference link:http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-11-2008/0004771678&EDATE=

Type AAA Solution to De-Stress

I’ve always sucked at meditation. But after reading Eat Pray Love and this recent article in www.Lime.com, I feel sort of guilty for not trying harder. The article quotes meditation expert Dawn Groves, author of Meditation for Busy People “Learning to meditate is like developing any new skill like playing the piano or learning how to skate. There’s a clumsy, awkward growth stage when you have to be patient with… Read More »Type AAA Solution to De-Stress

Queens Business Plan Competition

There are many foundations offering awards for established entrepreneurs (read: Ernst and Young, Am Ex, Eileen Fisher, others). Below, however, is a nice monetary prize for a university level plan. (Also see Association for Corporate Growth hosting a student business plan competition for $10k in DC in 2008). The Queen's Entrepreneurs' Competition The Queen's Entrepreneurs' Competition is an international business plan competition that allows university students from around the world… Read More »Queens Business Plan Competition

Newsweek Profiles Women Leaders

The October 15 issue of Newsweek (hitting stands Oct 8) profiles women leaders in politics and Hollywood. We are fans of Kyra Sedgwick and others mentioned in this issue. For more, click link here. Coverage of older Newsweek issues:msnbc click hereprnewswire click here