October is Women’s Small Business Month
It really is amusing that there are so many special labels for different months of the year. Who can possibly keep track of all of them? But in my recent reading online, I noticed that October is earmarked to recognize women in small business and I felt that I needed...
When You are the Company: Self-Promotion for Entrepreneurs
It's one thing to sell a product or service for another company, but when it's YOUR product or service, it is downright scary. In this case, we are especially vulnerable and uneasy putting ourselves in the spotlight because the potential rejection is personal. The...
How to Keep Your Job: Promote Yourself at Work
These are scary times and many people are fearful of losing their jobs as the financial crisis in our country continues. The instability of our economy breeds fear and sometimes panic. Suddenly, the job we currently have is the most important factor in our own...
Promote Yourself with Passion and Confidence. Self-Promotion Part Three
Let's shift the energy from the limiting beliefs of our upbringing and the negative chatter of self-doubt in our heads to a place of self-confidence. Identifying what holds us back from promoting ourselves is the first necessary step in this process. Once we recognize...
How Do You Relate to Self-Promotion? Self-Promotion Part Two
In the first part of this series, I discussed some common limiting beliefs that women have when it comes to self-promotion. These limiting beliefs are culturally based and therefore, pretty challenging to overcome. i.e. "Bragging is unbecoming for a woman." "People...
Why is Self-Promotion So Difficult? Self-Promotion Part One
It is a well known fact that many of us, especially women, have reservations about promoting ourselves. We find it extremely awkward to talk about ourselves in a positive manner. When we do make the push to "sell" ourselves, we are so self conscious and apologetic...
Networking: It’s About Giving
What is the real purpose of networking for business? Traditionally, it has always been about meeting people in order to acquaint them with your business, and hopefully, to solicit their support to build your business, or better yet, to get an immediate referral! The...
It’s All About Trust
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what is next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark". Agnes De Mille How likely are you to take a...
What’s with all the negative thoughts?
How often-even before we began-have we declared a task "impossible"? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate?....A great deal depends upon the thought patterns we choose and on the persistence with which we affirm them. --Piero...