Divapreneur Community Launches!
For today’s Delightful Wonderful Things, I wanted to call your attention to the lovely DivapreneurTM community, a project of Divapreneur, LLC and founder Elaine Biss. The community is focused on women entrepreneurs and includes articles, postings, and advice. It’s now online at www.Divapreneur.org. We had the opportunity to chat a little bit with Biss about the […]
IRS Increases 2008 Standard Mileage Rates
The IRS announced Monday that it has increased the standard mileage rate for the final six months of 2008 in recognition of rising gas prices. The rate will increase to 58.5 cents per mile for all business miles driven from July 1, 2008 through Dec. 31, 2008. This is an eight cent increase from the 50.5 cent rate that is in effect for the first six months of 2008. Taxpayers can use the optional rates to calculate the deductible costs of operating a vehicle for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes. The IRS usually updates the mileage rate once a year in the fall for the next calendar year."Rising gas prices are having a major impact on individual Americans. Given the increase in prices, the IRS is adjusting the standard mileage rates to better reflect the real cost of operating an automobile,"said IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman."We want
Cross Market with Milano Italy Businesswoman Malin Carlberg
Malin Carlberg Master Mind Group Business development +390396820434 www.mastermindgroup.eu Roncello Lombardia Milano Italy Interested in Partnering with: Innovative software companies on the edge . We also provide outsourced software development. Ideal client: SMB providing web and IT services going international or breaking into a new market.
Empowering Women to Excel in the 21st Century
On the Gold Coast, this weekend - 19 - 21st April 2008. Discover how to: Maintain your femininity and succeed in business Excel spiritually, financially and emotionally in the 21st century Attract to and connect with the resources you need to grow Your Successful Mind is offering you the opportunity to attend this powerful 3 day event […]
International Womens Day Lunch, Brisbane - Suzanne Hammond
Suzanne Hammond will be speaking out our Luncheon in Brisbane for International Womens Day on Friday 7th March, 12noon to 2pm - The GPO Hotel, Ann Street, Fortitude Valley. Cost is $45 - still a few tickets available. For more details and to bookonline - go to www.WomenDoingIt.com.au THE POWER OF THE THREE G’S SHAPING OUR ENTREPRENEURS […]
Empowering Women to Excel in the 21st Century
We’re thrilled to be able to offer you free tickets (valued at $1295) to join us for an event that will provide you with the solutions to being a woman in business, understanding how to maintain your femininity and connect you to the resources you need to succeed. 21st Century Women’s Academy is designed to empower […]
International Womens Day - Fun Run/Walk - Brisbane
Date: Sunday, 9 March 2008 Venue: Cultural Forecourt, South Bank Parklands Time: 7.00am 10.00am The adidas International Women s Day Fun Run/Walk is an annual event and arguably one of the largest of its kind in Australia attracting up to 4,300+ female participants each year. The run/walk, now heading for its 17th year, is all about bringing together females […]
Hooray for (Kids) Books
The cover of the New Yorker this month depicts a delivery man handing an Amazon.com package to a young woman standing in her apartment doorway. She looks sheepishly at her next-door neighbor who is unlocking the door to his small bookstore and witnessing the transaction. This illustration may capture the story of what’s happened to many independent book stores in the last few years as they’ve struggled against a wave of customers defecting to Amazon.com, other e-commerce sites and mega bookstores, so it’s heartening to report that a new children’s bookstore is opening in Alexandria this Saturday. Two former staffers of A Likely Story, a small bookstore that abruptly closed its doors last November, have taken over the store’s old space near the King Street metro in Old Town and opened Hooray for Books, an independent children’s bookstore. A Likely Story was in business for more than 20 years, but
Health Care Concerns Loom over Micro-Businesses
Improving the performance of America’s health care system is one the nation’s most important challenges, the chairman of the Federal Reserve said today, shortly before a micro-business advocacy group released data showing that health care’s high cost continues to be a significant barrier to growth. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said challenges fall into three main areas: improving access to health care for the 47 million uninsured Americans — which comprise about 16 percent of the population — bolstering the quality of care and controlling costs. He spoke on Capitol Hill during a summit on health care reform. The National Association for the Self-Employed released in a report today that the number of micro-businesses(pdf) that offered health plans to full-time employees dropped significantly from 46.2 percent in 2005 to 18.6 percent today. Meanwhile, more than 65 percent of the survey takers said cost was the most significant barrier to whether they
Leading Edge Resources
With a host of new projects and assignments to help you build your corporate brand, your employer brand, your internal brand and your personal brand through traditional and new media, I would like to direct you from here to where…
Trust: the heart of your personal brand
As I continue to reference here and over at Biz Growth News, building your personal brand as a leader takes many forms and we can build or destroy our reputation in just one action or comment. Today I received an…
A Carnival of Personal Branding Tips, August 2007
You might recall some time ago I mentioned that we would host a blog carnival of Personal Branding Tips. Well there seemed to be a problem with the submission form for the first carnival and this months carnival has unfortunately…
Thinking Outside the Shoebox
Receipts in America are pretty much a universal occurrence — everyone has them scrunched in their wallets, purses and pants or littered about their house, where they may or may not get filed away. Receipts have become part of pop culture. They’re something that characters like George Costanza of"Seinfeld"have a love-hate relationship with - George kept a fat wallet full of receipts but had back problems because of it. They’ve also become a part of politics - there’s a law that says businesses can’t list a person’s full credit-card number on a receipt, only the last four digits, for security and privacy reasons. But will paper receipts become a thing of the past?"The whole idea of receipts seems anachronistic to us,"says Dan Englander, a vice president with Shoeboxed, based in Durham, N.C."Every time you make a transaction there needs to be a piece of paper
Budget Resolution Includes Small Biz Bump-Up
The Senate on Wednesday passed a budget for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1 that includes an increase in funding for some small business programs. The Senate voted 48-45 for the nonbinding $3 trillion fiscal 2009 budget that outlines spending priorities. The House is expected to pass the measure this week. The measure adds $101 million to the president’s request for the Small Business Administration budget for 2009. Additional monies would be targeted for Small Business Development Centers, Women’s Business Centers, veterans’programs, microloans and technical assistance programs, among other things."We’re working to create jobs and steer our economy out of this slowdown,"said Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), who heads the Senate’s Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee."The best way to do that is by investing in small businesses, which create more than two-thirds of all jobs and employ over half of our workforce…This budget shows our commitment
See It, Smell It, Taste It
Today Women On Business has a guest post from author Danielle Weinstock who includes an excerpt from her new book, Can an Elephant Curtsy on Cue? Life Lessons Learned on a Film Set for Women in Business. This is a great book to help women in business be inspired about their jobs or find […]
How Businesswomen Can Get on Corporate Boards of Directors
In a “Women in Business” Roundtable at the University of Illinois College of Business last month sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers, three prominent businesswomen from the Chicago, Illinois area (Doris Christopher, Ann Cresce and Jean Reagan) addressed the gender gap in corporate board rooms and provided suggestions for how women can increase their chances for getting in […]
2008 PINK Conference Schedule
PINK Magazine is hosting its fourth annual conference series for women in business. Conferences will be held across the country with each featuring influential, female business leaders speaking over the course of a two-hour lunch. Each session runs from 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., and tickets cost $125. You can follow the link to register […]
SmallBizPod #69 - Clive Birnie, MBOs and jumping through windows
Interview with Clive Birnie of Somerset manufacturing company Severn Delta, on management buy-outs, leadership, jumping through windows, finance and business blogging.