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competitor research — Guest Post by Rodney Laws….Image credit: Pexels Competitor Research When selling your handmade goods, craft items or art, you need to think like a commercial business. You’ll need to consider who is going to buy your work, whether there’s a market for it, and what you need to do to […]

How To Use Competitor Research To Your Advantage

9 Aug, 2019 in Inspiration / Small Business / Strategy Tips / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged competitor research / how to find out about your competitors / how to spy on your competitors / how to use competitor research to launch your business / Rodney Laws / tips and tools for competitor research by Elaine Slatter

Cuban Entrepreneurs 2018 Fabulous Fempreneurship Mastermind — On our annual visit and business mastermind to Cuba in 2018, I was interested to see if anything had changed for Cuban women entrepreneurs. Cuban Women Entrepreneurs in 2018 As expected, life was continuing as normal. Not much has changed in a year. The talks with the U.S. have ground […]

Cuban Women Entrepreneurs 2018 – Has Anything Changed?

14 Dec, 2018 in Inspiration / Inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs / Leadership / Small Business tagged advice for women entrepreneurs / entrepreneurship / female entrepreneurs / inspiration for women entrepreneurs / women entrepreneurs in Cuba by Elaine Slatter

women entrepreneurs in Cuba — Has The Installation Of Trump as U.S. President Changed Anything For Women Entrepreneurs in Cuba? On our third trip to Cuba this year for a women entrepreneur mastermind, that was the question on our mind. What has changed for women entrepreneurs in Cuba? The answer is “nothing”. It’s still business […]

Women Entrepreneurs in Cuba 2017

11 Dec, 2017 in Inspiration / Small Business / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged advice for women entrepreneurs / Cuban women entrepreneurs / inspiration for women entrepreneurs / women entrepreneurs / women entrepreneurs in Cuba by Elaine Slatter

Molly Burke and guide dog Gallop — Imagine you are 14 years old and popular among your peers, but life’s events take a nasty turn and in a short time you become the target of bullying. Bullying to Believing This is the moving story Molly Burke shared with women entrepreneurs at the Company of Women conference in May […]

From Bullying to Believing: The Inspirational Story of Entrepreneur ...

5 Jun, 2017 in Inspiration / Leadership / Social Media / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged advice for women entrepreneurs / inspirational thoughts. women entrepreneurs / overcoming bullying / overcoming depression / the molly burke story by Elaine Slatter

Leadership — Leadership Tips for Women Entrepreneurs No-one knows better than Teresa Cascioli about leadership. Teresa is the former Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Lakeport Brewing. She took bankrupt Lakeport to a successful income trust IPO and subsequent sale to its biggest competitor despite never having run a corporation before. (Teresa […]

Leadership Tips for Women Entrepreneurs

12 May, 2017 in Inspiration / Inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs / Leadership / Small Business tagged advice for women entrepreneurs / female entrepreneurs / inspiration / inspirational thoughts. women entrepreneurs / women entrepreneurs / womenentrepreneurs by Elaine Slatter

7 Tips to Avoid Burnout for Women Entrepreneurs — Are You Scrambling Up A Down Escalator & Heading For Burnout? Entrepreneurship is stressful enough, let alone trying to juggle your family needs. Often burnout is just lurking around the corner unless we recognize how to avoid it. Try some of these tips to achieve optimum health, focus and business […]

7 Tips To Avoid Burnout for Women Entrepreneurs

8 May, 2017 in Inspiration / Leadership / Small Business / Strategy Tips tagged advice for women / advice for women entrepreneurs / Avoiding burnout / female entrepreneurs / how can I avoid burnout / how do I avoid burnout? / I am a solopreneur / tips to avoid entrepreneur burnout / women entrepreneurs / womenentrepreneurs by Elaine Slatter

You never know where you are going to meet someone and hear and amazing story. Last week I was at Legoland in Orlando, Florida where I met Logan Joiner and his Dad. Logan is 11 and he is helping people facing fear. Logan says: Letting fear take over can hold […]

Logan Joiner and Facing Fear: Be Brave and Ride ...

20 Feb, 2017 in Inspiration / Leadership / Social Media / Success tagged Be Brave and Move On / Facing Fear / Koaster Kids / Logan Joiner / Overcoming Fear by Elaine Slatter

Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM): Education for the Future As we have an increasingly complex world, science, technology, engineering, and math play more important roles than ever before. Whether it is the use of robotics in manufacturing, artificial intelligence (AI) in productivity or the science protecting our planet […]

Explore Science with Shwetal Shah, A STEM Educator

20 Jan, 2017 in Inspiration / Inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs / Leadership / Small Business / Social Media / Strategy Tips / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged #femaleentrepreneurs / advice for women / advice for women entrepreneurs / Shwetal Shah / STEM education / womenentrepreneurs by Elaine Slatter

Can You Exit Your Business and Extract the Business Value? Have you founded your own family business, nurtured it from a startup to a successful business for the last 25/30 years? Now as you approach retirement, you want to extract the value, rather than just shut it down and walk […]

Time to Exit Your Business? Case Studies of 3 Women ...

18 Jan, 2017 in Inspiration / Leadership / Small Business / Strategy Tips / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged business exit strategies / entrepreneurship / women entrepreneurs exit strategies / womenentrepreneurs by Elaine Slatter

Sustainable Fashion “We do not need new clothes, we need a new look.” So, says the landing page on the Roupa Livra website. Roupa Livra is all about sustainable fashion and eco-fashion. The sustainable and eco fashion industry has been growing from strength to strength as the alternative to mainstream fashion. It aims to reduce the carbon footprint and limit the environmental impact created by producing fashion products. It is consciously driving and promoting social responsibility. Sustainable fashion brands are inclusive but not limited to […]

The Sustainable Fashion Movement, How to Use Fabric to Impact ...

15 Jan, 2017 in Inspiration / Inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs / Leadership / Small Business / Social Media / Strategy Tips / Success / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged Brasil sustainable eco fashion / Mariana Pellicciari / Roupa Livre / sustainable fashion by Elaine Slatter

The Glass Ceiling Could be Shattered Forever The empowerment and encouragement for young girls to follow their own independent dreams are having powerful results in the world of business. Armed with great education and a new sense of confidence women are founding businesses all over the world. USC Marshall […]

Women Entrepreneurs Are Founding Businesses At A Fast Rate

31 Dec, 2016 in Inspiration / Leadership / Social Media / Success / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged female entrepreneurship / female entrepreneurship in the U.S. / how many women are founding companies in the U.S. / successful women entrepreneurs in the U.S. / women entrepreneurs by Elaine Slatter

Focusing on women entrepreneurs in Cuba In November 2016 we held our Fabulous Fempreneurship mastermind at the beautiful, French owned Pullman Resort in Cayo Coco, Cuba. This hotel is in its second year of operation. Every year we are anxious to talk to women entrepreneurs in Cuba to see if […]

What will 2017 be like for women entrepreneurs in Cuba?

19 Dec, 2016 in Inspiration / Inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs / Leadership / Small Business / Strategy Tips tagged entrepreneurism in Cuba / female entrepreneurs in Cuba / women entrepreneurs / women entrepreneurs in Cuba by Elaine Slatter

Joni Lien, The SupperWorks Franchisor and Founder Making the leap from the world of social work to an entrepreneurial life and becoming a franchisor is a dramatic change. Now with 10 franchised stores and expanding, Joni Lien, SupperWorks Franchisor, shares her journey with us. When her husband passed it was […]

A Leap from Social Work to SupperWorks Franchisor

16 Dec, 2016 in Inspiration / Inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs / Leadership / Small Business / Strategy Tips / Success / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged award winning female entrepreneur Joni Lien / female entrepreneur / female entrepreneurs / food franchise opportunities in Canada / interview with SupperWorks founder Joni Lien / Joni Lien / Supperworks founder Joni Lien / SupperWorks Franchisor by Elaine Slatter

From Healthcare to Home Staging For over 30 years, Jill Ackerman had a nursing career, holding executive positions as Vice President Professional Services, Cornwall Hospital and as Manager in the Ontario Government Health Services. In 2012, Jill decided to make a complete switch, from designing healthcare programs to home […]

A Successful Career Transition from Healthcare to Home Staging

12 Dec, 2016 in Inspiration / Inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs / Small Business / Strategy Tips / Success / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged Home Staging Burlington / home staging Hamilton / Home Staging Oakville / Ontario by Elaine Slatter

Many busy entrepreneurs struggle with Procrastination. Despite their Uber-Creativity and Enthusiasm for their ideas, they sadly aren’t able to consistently action them. Diane O’Reilly is a ADHD coach and says that 95% of her clients have this problem. But in reality, all of us procrastinate even if we aren’t […]

A Simple Procrastination Fix

7 Nov, 2016 in Inspiration / Strategy Tips / Success / Women Entrepreneurs tagged advice for women / advice for women entrepreneurs / female entrepreneurs / procrastination / startup strategies by Elaine Slatter