Category Archives: Women in Business

Overcomers Inc. Advice to Business Owners

October 20, 2009 by Barbara Weaver Smith

This week is the book launch of Overcomers, Inc., a collection of essays by people who have overcome various kinds of obstacles and gleaned lessons from the process.  Not all of the lessons are business lessons, many are life lessons; nevertheless, there … Continue reading →

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Why You Need Women on Your Management Team

July 11, 2009 by Barbara Weaver Smith

An excellent article in the Sunday, July 12 Washington Post called

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Forbes–You Got it Wrong

July 9, 2009 by Barbara Weaver Smith

I just got an email inviting me to join Forbes Woman, the new offering that Forbes launched July 1. So excuse me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Forbes about business?  I guess unless you are female. Lead story is on … Continue reading →

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More Great Women Bloggers

June 22, 2009 by Barbara Weaver Smith

Here’s a link to my weekly post at Women on Business. This week I’ve written about Joyce Anthony, MaAnna Stephenson, Rebecca Benston, and Hazel Walker. They all blog at least indirectly about business development and the first three focus on business women, women … Continue reading →

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Take-Aways from Whale Hunting Women Summit

June 6, 2009 by Barbara Weaver Smith

The Whale Hunting Women Summit in Indianapolis was a great success on Thursday June 4.  More than 175 awesome business and professional women attended, with some very self-assured men in our midst! In a new format this year, we had two … Continue reading →

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Business Women Bloggers to Follow

May 31, 2009 by Barbara Weaver Smith

Just finished my weekly Sunday post for Women on Business. This week it’s about four business women who freely contribute exceptional ideas to the small business marketplace.  Each of these women offers consistent useful information on business growth strategies sales … Continue reading →

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NAWBO and SCORE

April 13, 2009 by Barbara Weaver Smith

I had a great time presenting the keynote at the first annual Women’s Resource Day in Phoenix last week, at the lovely Desert Willow Conference Center, co-sponsored by the Phoenix chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) and … Continue reading →

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Power of Social Media/Power of Women

March 19, 2009 by Barbara Weaver Smith

Maureen Mulvaney’s amazon.com bestseller campaign for The Women’s Millionaire Club was a complete success–she made the top-25 amazon sales list on March 17 and remains at #173 today–a remarkable feat which is at least 10,000-15,000th %ile higher than I’ve ever been with … Continue reading →

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Women Millionnaires via home-based business

March 13, 2009 by Barbara Weaver Smith

I’m taking part in a “virtual blog tour” to introduce a new book.  It’s like a “live” new author tour but is conducted in the blog sphere instead.  Nikki Leigh introduced me to the concept, and I’m looking forward to … Continue reading →

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Women on Business Resource

March 3, 2009 by Barbara Weaver Smith

I’ve joined the writing team at the Women on Business blog–will have a regular column each Sunday evening.  My current post is Three Soft Skills for Hard Deals. Blog owner Susan Gunelius has enlisted a team of business women to blog about business … Continue reading →

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