Like this article? PLEASE +1 it! Evan Signature
Evan Carmichael Top Header about About Home Profiles articles Tools forums inspirational quotes About facebook Twitter YouTube Blog

smart women Tagged Articles



Smart Women Trim the Layers of Their Lives
This article is about taking a look at your life and trimming back the different areas to ensure that you have more of what you want and less of what you don’t want in life. There are 6 areas that women generally focus on. It’s important to shed something that’s no longer a fit.

Smart Women Share Their Pearls….
This article is about taking a look at each decade of your life and finding the “pearls of wisdom” that have guided you and helped you become more of who you are today.

Smart Women Give Their Clients an Experience
This article is about how important it is to give your clients a positive experience when they visit you or call upon you about your products and services. Giving your prospects, and existing clients, a positive experience with you will help you to gain their business and also more referrals.

Smart Women Entrepreneurs, Solids, and Fluids
This article is about getting a foundation in place that has both a solid and fluid plan. Entrepreneurs need to be both solid and fluid in their decision making. A solid foundation is really important while we need to be fluid or flexible in our thinking in order for the business to grow and flourish.

Smart Women and the Race Against Time
This article is about how to take better control of your time. Creating better time management and how you organize your day is crucial to having a passionate and successful life.

How Smart Women Pack for Their Journey
This article is about taking an inventory of our lives. Do you carry exactly what you need to live a life full of passion and purpose or do you have excess baggage of things in your life that no longer serve you on your new journey? It's important to take an inventory as we move into "the afternoon of life" to make sure that we need is all we have to live our preffered life.

How Smart Women Stay Busy
I have the good fortune to spend meaningful time with a lot of smart women who keep me on track about what’s going on in women’s lives. One topic that resonates with many of these women (and with me) is the idea of busyness. It is vital that we as women take the time to explore what provides us with meaning, energy, and passion. Whether we are married or unmarried, with children or without, we all have the same number of hours in the day. We can spend those hours doing things that energize us.

Smart Women Have a Marketing Mantra
This article is about continuing to get your marketing message out to the public on a regular basis, no matter how busy you get with clients. This is a key to success. It’s important to continually let your ideal client know about your services and that you are there to help them solve their problems with your product or service.

Smart Women Serve It Up The Right Way
This article is about examining your products and services and making sure that what you offer is what your client wants. It’s essential that you package and “serve” your clients the services they want or need in a way that appeals to them.

How Smart Women Stay Connected
Staying connected to those people in our lives is essential---both personally and professionally. Ask yourself this question: Are you truly connected to these people? Do you feel securely linked to those people in your life that make the most meaningful difference? I’m talking about the people who champion you, who think you have great ideas---people who make you laugh! It’s equally important to connect with yourself---yes YOU! Are you creating the space to connect and nurture your mind, body, relationships and your creativity?

How Smart Women Tend Their Gardens
This article communicates what’s really involved in the process of women growing their preferred garden of life. What are you passionate about? What do you want your life to look like moving forward? Growing a beautiful garden of life full of passion and purpose takes proper planning and time. We must make the time to carefully plant, nurture and grow our garden of life. We must tend to it often if we want our lives to bloom beautifully. Too often we want everything to happen now---we don’t like to wait. However, planning and patience are necessary ingredients if we want to grow a garden of life that’s uniquely ours.

Smart Women Have a Good Eye
This article is about choosing collaborations that are “right” for you and your business. There will be many opportunities that come along as your business grows and knowing how to choose the right ones will position you for better business growth.

Smart Women and the Game of Entrepreneurship
This game is about designing a business that will be successful. Entrepreneurship can be both exciting and challenging. There are questions that you can ask yourself and action steps that you can take that will make your game of entrepreneurship successful and you will feel like a winner!

Smart Women Have a Winning Offense
This article is about how important it is to create a trusting and happy relationship with your clients---especially when they are brand new. It’s key to foster good communication and be in touch with them on a regular basis.

Smart Women and the Six Feminine Energies(TM)
This article is about women embracing what’s really important to them right now in their lives. It’s key to hone in and take action on what drives you, what fuels you, what energizes you. This is a key to living on purpose and with passion.

Smart Women Keep Showing Up
This article is about how important it is to “show up” in business using three simple tools to help you move your business to the next level of success. “Showing up” is 50% of your success. Doing it over and over again, with a great attitude, consistency and help from others.

Smart Women Understand “Life is an Occasion”
This article is about celebrating your life by making it into something that you are proud of and happy to live in. It offers tips and solutions on how to make your life more of an “occasion” with having more of what you want and less of what you don’t. This, of course, means that change may need to take place. Letting go or taking on what’s necessary to make your life an “occasion.”

Smart Women Take Their Business Offline
This article is about creating an “offline” presence if you are a service provider. You are the product and people need to meet you, get to know you, get a feel for what you provide and how your service can benefit them.

Smart Women Have an “Online” Presence
This article shares some simple tips and solutions on how to give your business an online presence. When you are putting your recipe together for an effective marketing plan, you’ll want to have both an offline and online presence.

Smart Women, American Girl® and Building Your Brand
If you are a woman entrepreneur, your goal is to create brand awareness with your ideal client. American Girl® does this beautifully. Here are a few tips to help you boost your brand awareness for your business.

Smart Women Rest, Recharge & Renew
This article is about women taking the time to Retreat alone. It’s essential that we take the time to rest, recharge and renew ourselves. There are easy tips and solutions that you can use to make your retreat very successful.

Smart Women Have a Clear Message
This article is about making sure that your marketing message is communicated effectively and clearly to your target market. Keeping the message clear and concise will help people understand how they benefit from working with you or your products.

Smart Women Get Off the Sidelines
This article is about being proactive when it comes to marketing your business. It’s important to take an active role in the game of entrepreneurship. Educating people about how you can help them with your business or service is critical to gaining new clients.

Smart Women Love, Give……and Have Fears
This article is about fear and how it keeps us stuck and trapped in our current situation. It offers tips and solutions on how to “manage” fear and move past it so you can accomplish your dreams and goals.

Smart Women Know Success Leaves Clues
This article is about 9 success “clues” that can take your business from “surviving “ to “thriving” The good news is they are low cost to no cost and easy to implement into your business dreams and goals.

Smart Women, Halloween and Attracting Your Ideal Client
This article offers ideas, tips and solutions on how to create a welcoming or inviting first experience so that ideal clients will become more interested in what they do. The presentation of yourself and your business is very important when marketing to your ideal client. You need to create ways to attract them to want to become a regular client.

Smart Women Find Their
This article is about finding what you are passionate about in life and making a plan to enjoy it. It offers a look into how we can find the “flow” in our lives. Finding what energizes us, what we love to do, and why it’s so important to do this.

Smart Women, Dorothy, and the Yellow Brick Road
This article is about realizing the road to success and achieving new dreams is never paved in a straight line. There are twists and turns of every kind imaginable. This article shares that you need to pack the right items in order to make a successful journey, even with its windy road.

Smart Women and the Movie
This article is about deciding what you want your next “adventure” in life to be and then taking some simple steps to make it happen. Time passes so quickly and it’s important to see and do all of the things that we daydream about.

Smart Women Live A Proactive Life
This article is about living a life that has a clear plan to take you where you want to go. Rather than “react” to our days, it’s more beneficial to be “proactive” about our days. It leads to a calmer life with goals being achieved. Being “Proactive” allows you to think ahead about your life and your goals week by week, day by day.

Smart Women, Subways and Asking
This article is about asking for help from people or “experts” that have the knowledge and information that could help women in their lives both personally and professionally. It’s natural to get “lost” at different times in our life. The key is to ask the right people for help and direction to get you back on track and moving in the right direction of your goals.

Smart Women and The Way Things Are
This article is about how having a positive perception on life can truly make the difference between success and survival. Your life unfolds according to how you feel about the future. It offers 3 easy to follow tips that you can use right away to change or enhance your views.

Smart Women Plan Ahead
This article is about being more aware of how we spend our time. It’s essential that you schedule time for the things you love most and want in your life. Otherwise, life happens and time is wasted on those things which do not hold a high value for you.

Smart Women Celebrate Their Independence
This article is about how fortunate women are to have the opportunity to live independent lives in this country (US). We have the opportunity to become whoever we want to be and do the things in life that we love. We can live out our passion and purpose freely.

Smart Women Need a Lighthouse
This article is about having a support system or “lighthouse” in your life, both personally and professionally, to help you navigate your life in a positive direction. It offers women some tips and ideas about how to develop this in their lives. We all need a thinking partner.

Smart Women Step Into Their Gift
This article is about the importance of exploring and discovering your gift. Being able to offer your gift to the world and live in your genius is the path to a truly meaningful and fulfilled life.

Smart Women Live into and Find the Flow
This article is about taking those first steps toward making your Big ideas, dreams or goals a reality. We can wait for the perfect time or sometimes we want everything to be in order before we can move ahead. Sadly, that time rarely arrives. This article offers some tips on how to move ahead with confidence.

Smart Women Know, Commit and Practice Their Values
This article is about getting clear on what your values are in your life right now. Knowing where you want to spend your time and who you want to spend it with. Practicing them on a regular basis. It empowers you and helps you feel more in control of your life.

Smart Women Dream Big
This article is about the power of dreams and how they can become a reality if you take the steps necessary to write them down, create a plan and follow the plan through.

Smart Women and Cravings
This article is about offering some suggestions on how women entrepreneurs can make their business more desirable to their ideal clients. Make sure that you create marketing, offers and image that will get people “craving” your product or service.

Smart Women Experiment
This article is about thinking of your Big Ideas, Dreams and Goals as an “experiment.” Taking some time to experiment and research your ideas. Learn more about the possibility if they are real for you.

Smart Women Are Plugged In
This article is about looking at our lives in a more positive way. It’s about making a decision to see the silver lining in all areas in our lives. Finding people who motivate and inspire you can be really helpful. It’s about having a new mindset and looking at life in a different way if you are currently challenged or experiencing some difficult situations.

Smart Women Never Miss an Opportunity
This article is about how important it is to market your product or service in many ways to increase or grow your business. There are so many forms of media today because of the internet that we need to explore and discover ways to attract our ideal client that best meet our needs. The key is to find them and use them over and over again. This article gives 3 effective marketing tips and how you can use them to grow your business.

Smart Women Give it Away!
This article is about the power of giving samples of your product away as a Free Sample in order to grow your business. This marketing tool is a simple, easy to use Strategy and perfect for women entrepreneurs to use. First determine who your ideal client is and then design ways to share your product or service with those people.

Smart Women, Barbie and Madonna
This article is about women making changes in their lives. Letting go of what’s not working and making room for new direction. It’ essential that we take an inventory of our lives and embrace what’s working and get out of your comfort zone for what’s not working using the Barbie doll and Madonna as real examples of women who embrace change.

Smart Women Know How to Work the Puzzle
This article is about taking quiet time for reflection about what we want our life to look like moving forward. A woman’s life is a bit like a puzzle with many pieces that weave together to create a meaningful life. The key is to create a puzzle that fits your life—that offers the most meaning and fulfillment both personally and professionally.

Smart Women, Baseball and Marketing
This article is about how Marketing your business is a lot like the game of baseball. There is a process of movement that takes place with your ideal client in getting them comfortable and interested in what you have to offer. You need to create belief and trust with the ideal client and make sure that you create a message about your product or service that they will understand.

Smart Women Love To Party
This article is about women becoming creative in their marketing strategies to build their business. Women are natural connectors and relationship marketing such as networking and hosting parties, gatherings come very easily to them. The “old-school” way of cold-calling and solicitation for business is not nearly as effective anymore. This article offers some creative ways to think about marketing your service or business.

Smart Women Are Like Christopher Columbus
This article is about the value of life-long learning. Women must continue to grow themselves personally, professionally and spiritually. Our confidence and outlook on life is much brighter when we are learning and mastering new skills. The positive energy flow in adult learning environments is wonderful.

Smart Women Know What They Want
This article is about taking the time to decide what you really want to happen in your life. It seems like a simple question but if can be a challenge for women to answer truthfully. Women can have what they dream about but they must be willing to take the time to determine what it really is. Not what feels “safe” and not what others may feel is best for them but what they authentically want.

Smart Women and the 4 Basic Marketing Solutions
This article is about how you can relate the 4 basic food groups to your marketing as there are 4 basic marketing solutions in your business. The key is to choose the portions that work well for your business depending on which growth stage it’s in.

Smart Women Think and Speak in Abundance
This article is about being positive in life. We must look for the gratitude and abundance that we have rather than focusing on the negative part of life. If you have your health and great friends and family, then this is something to be thankful for even if these times are unstable.

Smart Women and The Academy Awards
This article is about how real or possible a dream or goal really can be. If you have passion, commitment, hope and are willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen, your dreams can become a reality. It’s essential to stay committed to the process moving forward with positive action steps every day toward your goal.

Smart Women Ignite Their Fire
This article is about how we as women, can sometimes go through many years in our lives without allowing ourselves to realize our Big Idea, Dreams and Goals. We are so busy taking care of others that we hold our passion and desire inside of us. We fan the flames of other’s desires and dreams and put ourselves last. It’s important to create the time and space in our lives so that we can feel fulfilled and full of passion and purpose—bring our special gift to the world.

Smart Women Get a “Personal” Check-Up
This article is about women getting their very own personal checkup in order to realize their Big Idea, Dreams and Goals. It’s kind of like going to the doctor. Asking a lot of questions to focus on and get clear about what’s going on, what’s working, what’s not working. Finding the right support system so that you can work on and reach your goals and finally having a plan of action that clearly maps out your strategy.

Smart Women Believe
This article is about creating belief as the first step to realizing all of your goals and dreams. Many times we take that leap toward a big goal with a lot of action steps and it does not work out the way we had hoped. You must first believe in yourself, believe it can and will happen. A lot of times we “hope” something will happen. It’s essential that you believe in yourself and then take bold, courageous steps to make it happen with belief as a solid foundation.

Smart Women Face Their Fear
This article is about how fear can keep us “stuck” in a situation that no longer serves us. Fear of failure can prevent us from trying something new in our life. We have many Big Ideas, Dreams, and Goals and learning how to face and tame the fear is key to stepping into your preferred future full of energy, passion, and purpose. The article has several solutions to help you tame the fear factor and realize new dreams in your life.

Smart Women Make a Great First Impression
This article is about creating a lasting, positive first impression with your ideal client. Making sure that you have a process in place for people who inquire about your product or service is critical to long-term success and business growth.

Smart Women Are Like Rocket Ships
This article is about thinking about your life both personally and professionally in terms of launching a rocket ship. Taking the time to prepare for this journey into the future with a solid plan of action. It’s about getting clear on what you want to accomplish, what you will need in order to accomplish the goal and who will you need to have in your life to support the goal.

Smart Women Take the Leap
This article is about how women need to make a decision in their lives to “take the leap” or take action on an important Big Idea, dream or Goal. Sometimes we daydream about what might be possible in our lives and there comes a time when we have to make a decision to turn those dreams into reality and that means by “taking the leap.” “Taking the Leap” to realize a dream means making some changes in our lives in order to accomplish our goals. It means gathering support from people who can champion us and help us.

Smart Women Understand the BLT Factor
This article is about understanding that people will be more drawn to you both personally and professionally if they Believe you, Like you and Trust you. These attributes are just as important as the knowledge and expertise that you have about something. In order to have a successful life, you must be willing to create good, trusting and run relationships with the people around you and in your community. We all know it instantly when we meet someone that has the BLT Factor. When we leave this person, we feel great.

Smart Women are 40, 50, 60 and Beyond!
This article is about women realizing that it’s sometimes in our 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and Beyond when we realize some of our biggest life passions. Not so long ago, women felt that they had reached their prime after 50. Not so any longer! We’ve come a long way baby! Women today have Big Ideas, passion and energy. They are taking these ideas and turning them into big profits. Women beyond 40 begin to cultivate the wise wisdom they have learned in their 20’s and 30’s and use this to move their lives forward.

Smart Women Are In Control of Their Ride
This article is about realizing that you are completely in control of your “ride”---your journey through life. Many times, we (without even realizing it) allow other people to make decisions that may not be a best fit for us. Sometimes we are unsure of our own decision making and can become “stuck.” It’s essential to take some time to decide what’s most important for you moving forward. Look at what makes you really happy and incorporate that into your life. Look at what’s holding you back and take the steps necessary to remove that challenge from you life. Then you, too, can enjoy a life filled with energy, passion and purpose.

Smart Women Get It Off The Ground
This article is about making the right plans from the very beginning to get your Big Idea off the ground. Many times we can take some early steps to start a business and we become frustrated when it does not grow quickly. The beginning is such an important part of a new venture. It’s essential to realize that proper planning and gaining the support system you need is key to be successful.

Smart Women Never Quit
This article is about why it’s important to never quit as we are on the road to accomplishing our Big Ideas, Dreams and Goals. Although fear and doubt can creep in when we are working toward success, it’s key to stay the course and keep going. There are several things you can do to help you when fear and failure strikes.

Smart Women Are Like Harry Potter
This article is about women in small to mid-size businesses and how they should reflect on their products and services periodically. When we begin our journey as entrepreneurs, we may start our business with just a few products or services. In the beginning, you create your core product or service---your brand. As the business grows, it’s essential that you begin to dewant tosign or create other products and services that compliment your brand and that your valued customers would benefit from. J.K. Rowling has done an amazing job at creating a series with her core brand (Harry Potter) and then adding more characters and storylines that readers every where want to follow. The same applies to any successful business.

Just For Women: Buy a Business, Fulfill Your Passions!
A transition into small business is a natural progression for countless women who have invested the first phase of their careers in the corporate world. Paradoxically, many women are not focused on these opportunities, or if they are, they are unaware of the entire spectrum of possibilities, which includes not only starting a business from scratch, but buying an independent business or franchise as well as partnering with other small business owners.

Smart Women Have Dreams Too!
What fuels you? What’s your dream moving forward into 2008? When you land on where your energy and passions are, you feel this incredible sense of being alive with possibilities. Everything seems possible.

Smart Women Create
Whether you have a book inside of you, a new program you want to create for your business or maybe you have an idea for a new business you want to start, here are 3 solutions that are guaranteed to work every time.

Smart Women And The Tug of Transition
This article is about using some simple tips to start considering entrepreneurship or starting your own business.

Smart Women Make a Difference
If we as women want to truly make a difference in the world, we have to do it every single day in any single way we can. If you aren’t happy about the way things are, then I invite you to begin walking a path to make a difference.

Smart Women Have Their Own Hermageddon
This article is about the importance of taking a time out for yourself. If you are truly ready to make a change in your life and start living differently, there is no better way than to go on retreat and recharge and renew your mindset.

Smart Women Give Their Business a Marketing Makeover
If you’re ready to step out in your business in a bigger way, these tips and solutions will cause people around you to sit up and take notice that you are serious about success in business. Taking these steps will unleash more referrals, more clients and more income – 3 necessary ingredients for complete success.

Smart Women Make Decisions
you weigh yourself down in decision making and stall the moving forward process, the cost is high. It can affect your health and your business. Here are some tips and solutions I use when I'm feeling stuck and need to get moving.

Other smart women Related Articles

Travel Savvy: Packing tips for Women
With even lower allowances for baggage on airplanes this year, it's important to pack smart. And for those who aspire to reach their destination relaxed and in perfect order, here is how smart women manage packing with perfection.

SMART Organizational Goals
This article is designed to provide you with a tried and true approach to organizational goal setting. The best goals are smart goals. SMART is a handy acronym for the five characteristics of well-designed goals. SMART goals make for smart organizations. In our experience, many supervisors and managers neglect to work with their employees to set goals together.

Old Mutual and South Africa’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Launch $12.9m Microfinance Initiative, Isivande Women’s Fund (IWF)
The Department of Trade and Industry of South Africa has teamed with Old Mutual Group’s Masisizane Fund to launch the Isivande Women’s Fund (IWF), financing women-run enterprises in the country. The new fund is the result of a 2006 study conducted by the DTI’s Gender and Women Empowerment Unit, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and FinMark. The study found that although women are more responsible managers of credit than men, they only receive 30 percent of loans, with black women receiving the least funding.

How Smart Women Stay Busy
I have the good fortune to spend meaningful time with a lot of smart women who keep me on track about what’s going on in women’s lives. One topic that resonates with many of these women (and with me) is the idea of busyness. It is vital that we as women take the time to explore what provides us with meaning, energy, and passion. Whether we are married or unmarried, with children or without, we all have the same number of hours in the day. We can spend those hours doing things that energize us.

Suze Orman is Wrong
Suze Orman is wrong and I want to correct her folly. In her recent book, Women and Money, Orman starts from the premise that women are less than smart when it comes to managing money. By inference, this concept extends to women professionals as well. As a female who was a financial adviser, and also a board certified neurologist and psychiatrist, I understand money and the way women think. Over my investment and scientific careers, I’ve learned that women have just the right mix of caution, willingness to learn, intuition and appreciation of their innermost needs and desires to invest money well. They are smart about money, not dumb as Orman suggests. This is why.

Women and Men are Different: Financially Speaking
Men and women think differently, especially about money. Although both men and women are concerned about security; many women think about what money represents, where men tend to think of what money can buy. There is no right or wrong, we just think differently. Money has no gender, anyone, man or woman can earn, spend, save or invest it. The results of a survey of 1,000 spouses conducted for Money Magazine, found men and women had dramatically different ideas about who does what with the family finances and what is important to their partners. 27% of men believe their wives think having the right investments is very important. Yet nearly half of the women surveyed say it is important. 45% of men say that having cash for emergencies is very important to their spouse, when in reality 67% of women believe it's crucial.

Smart Objectives for Success - 10 Rules to Achieve Every Smart Goal
Most successful entrepreneurs will tell you that setting smart objectives is imperative for success. Implement these 10 effective tips when creating your smart objectives and be sure you are focusing on achieving your smart goal.

Women Entrepreneurs Setting the Pace
Women today, have a much more entrepreneurial, gutsy spirit, than they did 40-50 years ago. I have been a successful entrepreneur since 1986, and I have seen for myself the number of women that take bold step into the world of entrepreneurship, often driven by the desire to spend more time with their families, and these women are setting the pace for what is possible, for women and men alike.

2001 --- 2011 Ten Years\' Development of Smart Phone
From the first smart phone's release, smart phone has become a part of our daily life. This article makes a brif review of smart phone's development.

What Does It Mean to Work Smart? - Quiz
Have you ever known someone who just seems to "have it all together?" Maybe that someone is you and maybe you could do even better. "Having it all together," is what many perceive as "working smart." But what does it really mean to "work smart?" Is it a mysterious quality that some of us are born with, and the rest without? Or is it a skill set that can be learned and mastered? Most business and relationship experts support that "working smart" is a skill set that enables one to achieve balance in life and be fruitful.

Featured Article

Bottom Footer



Newsletter

Get advice & tips from famous business
owners, new articles by entrepreneur
experts, my latest website updates, &
special sneak peaks at what's to come!
Name:
Email:
Popular Articles

Selling with Humor (and a Sorry Butt)

Listen to Your Inner Melody

Marketing & Sales tools – going back to basics

Suggestions

Email us your ideas on how to make our
website more valuable! Thank you Sharon
from Toronto Salsa Lessons / Classes for
your suggestions to make the newsletter
look like the website and profile younger
entrepreneurs like Jennifer Lopez.