A Girl's Guide to Building a Million Dollar Business

The P3 Group (Power, Passion & Purpose) has a radio show that TODAY (November 19, 2008 at 10:00am) will be hosting a call with Susan Solovic the author of "A Girl’s Guide to Building a Million Dollar Business". You can listen to the show by going to www.blogtalkradio.com .

Here’s what The P3 Group says about Susan:
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Women In Business We've Come a Long Way With Much Further To Go

It terms of humans, in general, existing on the face of the planet, women in the work force are just like that… a tiny speck of time within a much larger scheme.

It wasn’t that long ago where women were expected to stay home, cook, clean, have children, and tend to the needs of others.

A quote from Wikipedia lends this statement more insight:

“The change in women in the labor force can be viewed over time as a shift from a state of evolutionary phases to a revolutionary phase. The evolutionary phase saw an entrance of women into the workforce, but typically only for temporary periods with the main focus being on the women’s home life. The revolutionary phase is characterized by a change in mindset in correspondence with a change in economics that enabled women to view careers as long-term options.” — Wikipedia.org

The modern day woman typically still feels those “cave man” days and the pressure of pulling off both a career and a home. However, with the advent of home business opportunities, women are now seeking greater freedom to explore, and exploit, their hidden potentials.

Consider this:

“While research has shown that women cultivate more than half the world’s food – in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, women are responsible for up to 80% of food production – most such work is family subsistence labor, and often the family property is legally owned by the men in the family.” — Wikipedia.org

While this is a global look at women, underneath it all don’t we sometimes feel that these attitudes still exist be they on the home front and/or the office? We work, we collect less than our efforts provide for others.

That’s why the internet, and a home business opportunity online, has such mass appeal – particularly for women!

Where else can you prove your worth, without a boss breathing down your neck? The challenges are ones women can create for themselves, and, like women universally everywhere, carry out and get the job done.

Here’s another striking fact I uncovered in my research. According to a Washingtonpost.com report, it was estimated that by the year 2006, 70% of the female population in the United States would be online. Over 106 million women, outnumbering men. In fact, when asked what they (women) would not give up, women (overall) made it abundantly clear they would keep their internet access.

In addition, women flock to the internet to “conduct more product research online than they would be able to offline.”

These statistics are evidence that more women are logging on; it is also great news for those seeking to supplement their incomes, and regain control of their lives. Here is an area where we can dominate and “plant and grow” our own self worth – with a tidy income to boot.

However, a word of caution. The careful, business savvy woman needs to rely on her innate common sense and “shop around” for the income producing opportunity best suited to her temperment and needs. Like their counterparts, women seeking to start a business online need to exercise caution. With our long, long history of holding our families and friends together, investing our time wisely, and gaining the maximum benefits of that time, should always be our top priority.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Janet Giacoma provides home business direction and home business solutions for women seeking to start a home business online. Stop by The Abundant Alliance Blog for more information.

Have You Asked Yourself How to be Successful?

I was listening to a conference call yesterday that a colleague of mine, Greg McMahon was hosting. He had brought up a number of interesting points to ask yourself about being successful. First, he suggested looking at the word SUCCESS . There are three "S" in the word , which all represent an action.

• The first "S" represents "Seeing yourself as being successful ". If you can’t visualize yourself having a profitable business and making money, it will be hard to get there. You need to believe you can.
• The second "S" represents "Setting goals ". This applies to short term, long term, financial, personal, etc. If you don’t have a target you won’t know if you’re on track
• The third "S" represents "Sustaining the effort ". This might be one of the hardest to do, because at times when you become disillutioned and lose your focus, that is the exact time, you need to sustain your efforts and keep moving forward.

He also mentioned asking yourself 3 questions that might help during the process. These are:

• Where have you been?
• Why are you here?
• Where are you going?

Thanks Greg, for the insightful call!

Leave a comment and share with us about what questions you ask yourself regarding Success

Until next time, J.

"Take control of your destiny or someone else will"

"ID Syndrome" – How to Quiet Your Needy Inner Voice

Here’s an interesting article discussing the 3 steps to being more productive at work (by Bob Cox )
Please leave a comment about the steps YOU take to be more productive…

I need to e-mail my sister this video of dogs and cats playing. It is so cute, she will love it.
I need to check my favorite sports team website to see who has been traded and all the recent rumors surrounding our star pitcher.
I need to call Bill to set up our golf game for next week.
I need to add to my blog so my readers will be updated on my latest insights into Obama’s campaign.
I need to go online and pick out a gift for Aunt Sarah’s birthday.
I really need to think about where I’m going for lunch and what I’m going to eat.

Do any of the above sound familiar? Of course they do!

I call this "ID Syndrome " – the disease of Internal Distraction . And unless you learn how to defeat this affliction, you won’t get anywhere at work or in life.

We all have personal thoughts like these while we are working. But there’s a big difference between how high achievers deal with them and how people who never do better than the status quo deal with them. You see, high achievers recognize that these thoughts are WANTS – not NEEDS – that should be dealt with outside of the working day.

Here’s a little example of just how problematic internal distractions can become…

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