Archive for the ‘Women Entrepreneurs’ Category
New SBA Contract Set Aside Program for Women Business Owners
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After a long struggle, on February 4, 2011, the federal government Small Business Administration (SBA) opened the doors on a program to allow contracting officers to set aside certain federal contracts for women-owned small businesses (WOSBs) in 83 industries. The government has a goal of 5% of contracts to be awarded to WOSBs and economically disadvantaged women-owned small businesses (EDWOSBs)… read more
Why Are there no Women at the Top? Overcoming Limiting Beliefs
I watched this TED video by Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, today and highly recommend you take the 15 minutes to do the same. Sheryl discusses the disturbing issue of why there are few women in top positions in any industry. It seems that in many ways we as women entrepreneurs and professionals are hindered by our own limiting beliefs.
Sheryl pointed out a number of issues, but several that really struck me are:
1) Men contribute their success to themselves and women contribute it to external factors
2) Women underestimate their abilities
3) Success &… read more
Just Released-The Spiritual Entrepreneur’s Guide to Success eReport
I just released a new eReport today-The Spiritual Entrepreneur’s Guide to Success, the first in an installment of my Living from the Core series.
We live in a world that is increasingly focused on the bottom line. Business is conducted with emphasis on sales and careers and selected more on making money rather than on what inspires and sparks us. In spite of this concentration on the financial aspects of life, people continue to exhibit higher levels of debt and depression than any time… read more
Women Entrepreneurs $3 trillion Strong
According to a recent study by the Center for Women’s Business Research (Oct. 2009), US women-owned firms generate $3 trillion in revenue annually. This equates to more than 23 million jobs, or 16 percent of all US jobs! To get an idea of the magnitude of this, if US based women-owned businesses were their own country, they would have the 5th largest GDP in the world! Think about that–that is larger than France, UK and Italy.
What does this mean? It means that… read more
