persevere - tech valley symposium for empowering women - 2013
DESCRIPTION
The Tech Valley Symposium for Empowering Women is a half-day afternoon event of strategies, and solutions, focused on education, enlightenment, and empowerment to achieve success. From the strategic to the tactical, Annmarie presents on developing solutions to ongoing challenges specific to women who own their own businesses, and build a network of support with other entrepreneurial women.TRANSCRIPT
PERSEVEREFrom strategic to tactical, running your own WOB
@amlanesey | @greanetree
www.greanetree.com
STRATEGY & TACTICS
From strategic to tactical, running your own WOB
STRATEGYEVERY INDUSTRY and BUSINESS is UNIQUE
BUT…
•Perseverance
•Embrace failure
•Be prepared for long hours
•Understand you are hopping on an emotional rollercoaster
•Run toward your fears
TACTICS
•Network, Network, Network (on and off-line)
•Seek Mentors (Beth’s panel/example)
•Develop relationships at many levels
•Seek WBE certification if it will help your business
•Never stop learning
•Work on the business, not in the business
•HELP OTHERS BE SUCCESSFUL!
READING
• Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi
• Good to Great by Jim Collins
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to create uncontested
market space and make competition irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
RESOURCES
http://www.score.org/ http://www.sba.gov/http://www.sba.gov/content/women-owned-businesseshttp://www.esd.ny.gov/MWBE.html http://www.nawbo.org/ http://www.nwbc.gov/ http://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/women-entrepreneurs
http://www.renscochamber.com/resources/redp/entrepreneur-training