StartUp Ladies™

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S is for Smiley Faces
It would not have occurred to me to write about this, but a friend told me I should.
As commercial illustrator I have hired sales representatives, but in the end have always come back to working directly with my clients. The more people who [...]

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Y is for Yesterday
Forget it. Forgive yourself for your ignorance and errors and get on with today.
We all make mistakes, but some of us learn from them and others of us beat ourselves up for having been so…oh…fill in the blank. But, as entrepreneurs we are, by [...]

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F is for Fear
Nobody is fearless. Fear is our body’s way of getting us to pay attention. What we do with it shapes our lives. Some people try to live in safe zones, but I’ve found that entrepreneurs thrive on a little bit o’ thrill. It keeps [...]

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V is for volunteering.
Which, unlike crime, does pay. It’s not always about the money. Doing something for someone else and for a cause you support can bring more concrete rewards than you might expect.
Those of us who are starting businesses are sometimes sucked into the dark vortex [...]

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B is for Business Card
I still remember my first business card. I drew a dandelion on it and wrote Have Dandelion Will Pick, the name of my business. I was six years old. The plan was to dig up dandelions for 5¢ a bucket and business [...]

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M is for Make One, Sell One
We generally associate manufacture with mass production - machines that spit out those products we use and wear every day. But manufacture simply means to make something.
The most intimate form of manufacture has to be make one, sell one. A huge [...]

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R is for Relationships.
There is no single thing, in any business of any size, that is more important than relationships. We do not exist outside the context of other people. As business people we have a product or service which we provide to someone. That someone, or [...]

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Here’s another great article written by my guest, Barb Hranilovich, an extreme StartUp Lady! Please visit her Barbco website to find out more about all of her endeavors. I need to correct myself regarding Barb’s article series. She will be writing an alphabet series of articles using the “entire” alphabet centered around what [...]

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This article is written by my guest, Barb Hranilovich, an extreme StartUp Lady! Please visit her Barbco website to find out more about all of her endeavors. Barb will be writing an alphabet series of articles using the beautiful word Entrepreneur. So, here’s her take [...]

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