Every day more and more women are stepping up to the plate and starting their own businesses. successful businesses. When you’re starting out, it can be a bit intimidating. Where do you start, how do you rally up support, followers, clients and fans? What about the writing and graphics, marketing know how?
In a world with new websites and businesses popping up left and right, what are you going to do to set yourself apart and avoid the pitfalls most people fall into when starting their own business? You’re going to have to get smart about it.
Luck for us, Sheri McConnell joins us for WISH to help get us started and show us the way. Sheri is spearheading the Smart Women’s Institute of Entrepreneurial Learning and she’s here to teach us the success strategies she uses to help smart women become millionaire entrepreneurs and create the lives they truly want for themselves.
We’re sitting here with an idea, or a dream or a vision and we’re trying to make ends meet, it can be tough to imagine running a multimillion dollar business.
Here are some of the things Sheri covered in this call:
5 steps you can take today to grow your business faster and easier
What business models allow you to
What one thing you MUST always focus on in business to be successful.
Why women-owned businesses need to man up!
What it takes for a woman with a family to run a business, and maintain balance.
The best way to get your partner on board to support you.
What’s the secret to your business model’s success?
Action steps and resources for women at all levels of experience in business and entrepreurship!
You can listen to this interview here:
Sheri McConnell is fast becoming the voice of Smart Women Entrepreneurs all over the world. Her current company, the Smart Women’s Institute of Entrepreneurial Learning focuses on teaching various wealth building business models such as information publishing, membership-based companies, and real estate. Her company also teaches its followers and members (which is nearing the 30,000 mark) how to market online, create a magnetic brand, and most importantly do this while maintaining down to earth balance in their lives.
Under the Smart Women Institute umbrella women entrepreneurs can enroll in annual programs ranging from $197 a year to $100,000. Sheri’s goal of building a company where women truly inspire each other and hold each other accountable in a graceful manner is exactly what has set her company a part. “Money is power” she explains. “Power to create positive change.”
She is also the author of Smart Women Create Membership-Based Businesses, The Smart Women’s Book of Powerful Quotations and Smart Women Know Their “Why” – A Guide for Discovering Your Life Purpose While Owning a Business So You Can Create Positive Change in the World (and Making Big Profits!) Pub Date June 2010. You can visit Sheri, access her free article archive, and find out more about her and all of her companies at www.smartwomeninstitute.com Sheri lives in San Antonio, Texas with her husband, their four children, and two adorable “weenie” dogs.