2008 Business New Year’s Resolutions

On Tuesday my Mastermind group met to discuss our goals for 2008 — but instead of just sharing my goals ($200K income, buying new house in the mountains), I wanted to set New Year’s Resolution-type Intentions for my busines & life in 2008.  And now, I’m sharing them with you … to keep me accountable to the blog-o-sphere, and help you think of some intentions that may be powerful for you in 2008.  Read more

Mom & Women Entrepreneurs Carnival #3

Welcome to the November 2007 edition of mom and women entrepreneurs.  This issue contains tons of great articles that may help you on your adventures in small business.  Enjoy!

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Easy System to Get Control of Cash Flow … Today

Do you want an easy system to boost your profits & stop stressing
about your small business cash flow? 

Want to learn from a lawyer & financial advisor who specializes in
solo-entrepreneurs and will give you practical, straightforward
advice, tailored to your situation?

http://www.GrowUpStrategies.com

My new book, Grow Up! Strategies for Small Business, will teach you
the 7 practical legal & financial strategies you need to take
your business to the next level. 

BUT — the book is not going to be out for another few months
(publishing a book takes forever!).

As such, I’m offering you complementary sneak peeks and strategies from
the Grow Up! system, so you can get started on improving your business
today.  The Audio Class, Special Report, and weekly eZine will give you
tips and strategies you can start using TODAY to improve your cash
flow and Grow Up! your business.

(oh, and I’m doing this because I know you will quickly get addicted to
these tips and will want the book when it comes out in early 2008 …)

Join & learn more by going to:

http://www.GrowUpStrategies.com

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The Best Retirement Plan for Solo-Entrepreneurs

The best retirement plan for most solo-entrepreneurs is the Solo 401(k). 

No, not a SEP-IRA or Simple or Keogh … but a 401(k) just like the old 401(k) you had at your last corporation job … with a few GREAT differences.  Read more

“Are You a Hot Mogul? Take the Quiz and Find Out” by Sandy Grason

So first of all, what exactly is a mogul? Dictionary.com gives us this definition:

An important, powerful, or influential person: A very rich or powerful person; a magnate. a mogul of the movie industry.

I heard Kimora Lee Simmons (Baby Phat) use it in the intro to her reality show. She said something like "I’m a model, a mogul and a mom." I liked how it sounded so I looked it up. It’s become something of a game amongst my friends, "let’s be Hot Moguls" ~ we added "doing work we love and giving back to the world in a MAJOR way."

Take my quiz to find out if you’re already a Hot Mogul or if you’re on your way to getting there. Once you’ve tallied your points, I’ve got some tips for developing your Hot Mogul-ness. Send me your results and any more Hot Mogul Tips you come up with! We’ll be awarding the Hot Mogul Award in an upcoming issue- (there’s a prize!) so send us your entry- tell us why you are a Hot Rock Star Mogul.  My intention is to surround myself with lots of Hot *Rock Star* Moguls- who lift me up, inspire me to play Bigger in my life and give their gifts, talents and abundance back to the world. I hope you’ll join me! 

Hot *Rock Star* Mogul Quiz: 

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How to Prevent Seminar Overload

After back-to-back information overload and networking at the Glazer-Kennedy Info-Summit and Alexandria Brown’s Online Success Blueprint Workshop, it was easy to get overwhelmed.  Here’s what I do at the seminar and when I come home to make sure that the stack of business cards and lists of notes don’t get wasted.  Read more

Learn the Easy Way to Control Cash Flow

If you’ve been an entrepreneur or small business owner, you’ve learned the dirty little secret.  Running a business is not about selling, or clients, or profits, or fancy business cards … it’s all about cash flow. 

You may have the most brilliant idea or the best method of helping your clients, but if you run out of money tomorrow, you are doomed. 

How to you consistently and easily keep yourself above water? 

By using Money Meetings. 

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You Are Your Friends by Jack Canfield

It’s important to acknowledge the power of positive thinking. This goes not only for yourself, but also for the people you surround yourself with.

Attitudes are catchy. Whether they’re positive or negative, they’re rubbing off on you. If you’re around people who complain, judge, spread negative gossip, blame others, and play victim roles, chances are you do, too. (ouch!)

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Water spilled on laptop = good?

How can spilling a glass of ice water on your laptop keyboard be a good thing?  Yesterday afternoon I was shoo-ing my cat off my desk, and knocked over a glass of ice water on my MacBook Pro keyboard.  I tried to clean up the mess with paper towels, but the damage was done — now the keyboard either does not work, or random keystrokes appear on the screen (in other words, it’s shorting out).  So right now, my laptop is unplugged, with the battery pulled out, in drying mode.  And I’m writing this blog to you on my husband’s PC desktop (ick). 

Here’s what I have learned from spending the last 30 hours without my laptop.  Read more

Book Review: The Now Habit by Neil Fiore Ph.D.

The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play by Neil Fiore, Ph.D., originally was published in 1989, so perhaps everyone besides me has already read this book … but I found it incredibly helpful in diagnosing my current procrastination problems with finishing my book and getting done some nagging stuff on my to-do list.

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