Women Entrepreneurs

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

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

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

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

Developing Good Habits If you want to see positive changes in different areas of your life, including becoming more productive, you should also start changing your bad habits into positive ones, ie good habits. It’s just logical that positive actions and behaviors would bring positive results. Saying this is easy, […]

7 Steps to Developing Good Habits

5 Nov, 2016 in Blog / Inspiration / Small Business / Social Media / Strategy Tips / Success / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged blogging / female entrepreneurs / infographics / Social Media Marketing / success by Elaine Slatter

Is There such a thing as ‘Fail Well’? Absolutely! most experts including millionaire and TV celebrity Dragon/Shark Robert Herjavec agree that entrepreneurs will fail many times before they find a product/service that hits the mark and is successful. But Lauren Long knows how to fail well. Lauren Long knows this […]

How to Fail Well and Still Become a Successful Entrepreneur

1 Nov, 2016 in Inspiration / Inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs / Leadership / Small Business / Strategy Tips / Success / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged entrepreneurship / female entrepreneurs / how to become an entrepreneur / inspiration / Pivoting for success / Starting a business / women entrepreneurs / womenentrepreneurs by Elaine Slatter

Career Transitions will be a way of life for this generation According to Professor Dr. Eva Klein, during her keynote address at the McMaster DeGroote School of Business, Breakfast Series in May 2016, we are going to have at least 5 complete career transitions in our lifetime. Some of these careers […]

Confidence Is A Key Factor In Making Career Transitions

25 Oct, 2016 in Inspiration / Inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs / Leadership / Small Business / Social Media / Strategy Tips / Success / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged advice for women / advice for women entrepreneurs / confidence / entrepreneurship / female entrepreneurs / inspiration / inspirational thoughts. women entrepreneurs / leadership / Pivoting for success / startup strategies / women entrepreneurs / womenentrepreneurs by Elaine Slatter

Reading this week’s Sunday New York Times, I came across an article by reporter Adam Bryant featuring U.S. Secretary of the Air Force, Deborah Lee James. He asked her “What’s your advice on how to get a mentor?” Here’s part of Deborah’s reply: A mentor can be anybody in your […]

Are you tapping into the value of mentorship? Finding ...

23 Oct, 2016 in Inspiration / Leadership / Strategy Tips / Success / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged finding a mentor / keys to mentorship / mentor / mentors / mentorship advice / value of mentorship by Elaine Slatter

The Marci’s Bakery Story Marci’s Bakery in Hamilton, Ontario is the dream of Marci Prebianca-Upson. She launched her wholesale gluten free bakery business in 2012 after some life changing events. Marci has so much experience in the food/restaurant business. From front end manager of a restaurant, owning a vegan/healthy bakery […]

Marci’s Bakery, Feeding You Well

18 Oct, 2016 in Inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs / Leadership / Small Business / Strategy Tips / Success / Women Entrepreneurs / Women Entrepreneurship tagged advice for women / advice for women entrepreneurs / female entrepreneurs / how to become an entrepreneur / marci's bakery hamilton / small business / startup strategies / women entrepreneurs / womenentrepreneurs by Elaine Slatter