A woman in her late 70's or 80's, from a highly regarded national publication, was seated to my left at the Women's Media Group lunch event this week. The topic of the hour was: The Future of Media is Podcasting. There was an exceptional panel of women qualified to...
Before we went on break for the holidays, I asked each of the remarkable women in my Mastermind Intensive to share her best marketing tip. They were all exceptional, but when everyone got out of their seats to inspect the packaging and note card that Diane Ripstein...
I wish I could ingest Carolyn See's book Making a Literary Life and have it swirl around inside me keeping me as inspired and excited about writing as I was in my first moments reading her marvelous words and advice. Ms. See has a success formula that she insists...
I'm at Google, using their free wifi, and learning stuff about wordpress and adwords so I can make my business grow. So far, a couple of hours in, the most memorable, informative and inspiring talk was just given by Michelle Weber on blogging. Here's what I want to...
I had the privilege of hearing Seth Godin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday night. Not a typical venue for this entrepreneurial guru. But, in a stroke, or SPARK, of creative genius, Julie Burstein invited him onto a two-person panel to celebrate a...
I'm getting ready to re-start my Mastermind Intensive this September. I'm interviewing each of the eight women entrepreneurs who will be joining me monthly for the next year. I'm inviting the members who've participated before to recall each expert we had address...
When I first started my business, I called it, very imaginatively, AN EGG BY JANE. Gosh! How'd I think that one up? During my keynote address, I repeated a conversation I'd frequently have with new vendors. "What's the name of your company?" they'd inquire. "An Egg...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8_8VnfeRHE&w=560&h=315] During our recent Mastermind Intensive, Christina Frei presented to our group as an expert demonstrating how to create videos that capture your message. She told us, with nods all around when...
It didn't take Lisa Corrado long to decide that being in business for 10 years was worthy of celebration. Her Mastermind Group urged her to nail down a date and get the invitation out to her happy clients and supporters. Selfishly, we all wanted to party with Lisa....
Since attending a lunchtime networking meeting a couple of weeks ago, I've had three coffee dates with three remarkable women. This morning Shahrina Ankhi-Krol and I met at Dean & Deluca's midtown to find common ground. For this archaeologist turned lawyer, it...
Lena West of Influence Expansion ruffled the feathers, in a good way, of my monthly Mastermind Group last Friday. She shared her 9-Step System for managing and thriving with social media and made it sound possible. While I won't share her entire program, I do want...
I am mega-proud of my amazing client, Susan Beallor Snyder. I have watched Susan transform from a Westport homemaker/mother extraordinaire with a huge talent and small business as a goldsmith, into a full-fledged artist/sculptor working in a new medium and...
Went to two good networking meetings this week and met several terrific entrepreneurial women in the city. One shared a business name that made everyone in the room laugh out loud, sit up and take notice. She told us about an architecture firm where she knew the...
Brilliant entrepreneur that she is, Louise Albin had the good sense to let her new hire pastry chef get creative. Lesley, the pastry chef, did just that and came up with a line of desserts served in jars. Not only are they delicious and attractive, they're also...
On the recommendation of my most recent Apple tutor (!) I downloaded Mick, the unauthorized biography of Mick Jagger. I'd loved Keith Richards' autobiography Life, but Mick is an unrewarding chronology of a very complex guy. That said, I couldn't put it down, but...
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