Where can
you find women business owners producing butter cookies, children's clothing, hair care products, cold - pressed juice, booties for dogs, soap, fruit - flavored brandy and much more all in one center?
Not exact matches
More than 60 percent of the 320
women business owners surveyed by Forbes Insight and KeyBank's Key4Woman said that they don't track social media to
find out what they're customers are saying about them.
But slice the data slightly differently, and you'll
find an unexpected trend: The group of
business owners who are really putting stakes in the ground are
women veterans.
Attendees can make connections with a legion of successful
women business owners, and create a unique type of access that can not be
found anywhere else.
They
founded WBDC over 15 years ago, and have since helped more than 30,000
women business owners and provided entrepreneurial training for over 25,000 Chicago area
women.
A short survey was conducted among established
women business owners in the United States and
found that «missing middle»
women business owners:
We received over 2,600 responses from current and aspiring
business owners and
found that
women business owners have significant differences from their male counterparts, especially when it comes to their demographics, challenges they face and their confidence in the current state of small
business.
A companion story to this piece,
found here, explores the same subject with
women business owners.
Yet a recent survey by the National Association for the Self - Employed
found 80 percent of
women business owners used their personal finances to start their
business.
In addition to helping
women business owners find the best freelancers, Vendeve is the first freelancer platform where helping others and sharing your expertise is directly linked to getting more leads.
That's what many
women business owners in the U.S. are
finding, according to a series of recent surveys conducted among active small
business contractors.
For example, a Heritage Foundation document titled «Time to Repeal Federal Death Taxes: The Nightmare of the American Dream» emphasizes stories that rarely, if ever, happen in real life: «Small -
business owners, particularly minority
owners, suffer anxious moments wondering whether the
businesses they hope to hand down to their children will be destroyed by the death tax bill,...
Women whose children are grown struggle to
find ways to re-enter the work force without upsetting the family's estate tax avoidance plan.»
THEN... they
found me on facebook... and somehow got the name of some friends and started calling... they called a
woman I had just met two weeks ago who was a very successful
business owner who I had just friended (in my quest to network and
find a job)....
NAFE,
founded in 1972, is the largest
women's professional association and the largest
women business owners» organization in the country, providing resources and services through education, networking, and public advocacy to empower its members to achieve career success and financial security.
She was also a
founding member of the Tuesday Girls whose mission was to provide networking opportunities for
women executives and
business owners; was a partner in Accelerent, a national platform for mid-sized corporate
businesses in the Mid-Atlantic; served as a corporate mentor for the COMMIT Foundation, whose mission is to mentor mid-level female veterans to reach their full potential personally and professionally; and served for nine years on the board of the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland with a focus on their capital campaign to expand services for inner - city girls.
Her other blog is actually designed for
women entrepreneurs, particularly other shop -
owners, although I
find her experience, advice, wisdom applicable to my
business as well.