For the second year in a row, WomenOnBusiness.com has been named to the list of the top 100 websites for women in 2011 by Forbes. Meghan Casserly and Jenna Goudreau of Forbes.com spent a year researching and developing the 2011 list of the top websites for women and offer the following insights into the criteria that went into selecting the 100 sites that made the list this … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Improve Communication Overnight
Guest post by Maranda Gibson (learn more about Maranda at the end of this post) I was thinking the other day about how I’m addicted to multitasking. I was hanging out with a friend, just chatting, and suddenly I realized that I had checked my email about five times in a 20 minute span. Why was I doing that? We use email to communicate but when you have conversation happening … [Read more...]
29 Fortune 500 Companies Have No Women on Boards
In a new ranking of public companies without women in top leadership from Bloomberg Businessweek.com, it was revealed that 5.8% of the companies in the S&P 500, "remain all male in decision-making roles, with no women on the board of directors or among the company’s top five highest-paid officers." Perhaps the most surprising company on this list is Discovery … [Read more...]
Learn How to Pitch Your Company to the Federal Government – Free Webinar
I just learned about a free webinar hosted by American Express OPEN and Women Impacting Public Policy that might be very helpful to some WomenOnBusiness.com readers. The details are below! Did you know there is roughly $27 billion in contracts set aside specifically for women business owners? Thanks to the Small Business Administration’s Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) … [Read more...]
Discover How You Can Benefit from Content Marketing
Following is an edited excerpt from my latest book, Content Marketing for Dummies, which teaches individuals and business owners how to create and publish online content that can help you reach your goals. The primary benefits of content marketing are building brand awareness and developing relationships with your target consumer audience and online influencers. The idea is to … [Read more...]
DIY, the Small Business Mirage
Unedited guest post by Alina Popescu (learn more about Alina at the end of this post) For most women running a small business, constantly growing it also means cutting all unnecessary costs and trying to save whenever possible. If a fee seems a bit much for a certain service they might want to contract, they turn to the Do it Yourself/DIY approach. In most cases, doing … [Read more...]
New Jobs Posted to the WomenOnBusiness.com Job Board
Have you stopped by the WomenOnBusiness.com Job Board lately? You can search the job board by keywords, title, company, location, and more. You can also post job openings to find talented new employees for your organization. Green Energy Corp. posted two new positions to the job board last week! Green Energy Corp. is looking for a Senior Software Engineer and a Software … [Read more...]
Step Out of Your Comfort Zone
Post by Jane K. Stimmler, contributing Women on Business writer Recently it was announced that Jill Abramson will be the next Executive Editor of The New York Times. Ms. Abramson is the first woman to lead the organization and another example of a woman breaking through the barriers to obtain a top job. She is to be congratulated on what is clearly a victory in the … [Read more...]
Wait…what?
Guest Post by Amber Little Listening seems like a pretty basic skill that doesn’t take much thought. If we can hear, we can listen, right? Wrong. Hearing and listening are two very different things. What gets me about listening is that we’ve had very little formal instruction on effective listening, yet we spend plenty of time training to effectively read, write and speak… … [Read more...]
Employee Sick Time Makes Your Whole Company Ill
Guest Post by Suzanne Weinstein of In Sync Consulting Employees do call in sick because they are truly under the weather. However, many people also take sick time off due to other factors. Sometime, just becuase they do not want to go to work that day. To ebb this pattern, managers need to communicate with their employees and make sure the work environment is open, alive and … [Read more...]