Quote of the Week

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions. And the actions which speak louder than the words. It is making the time when there is none. Coming through time after time after time, year after year after year. Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln 

Top 10 Industries to Start a Business in

The Industries

1. Internet Services, data processing and other information services
2. Computer systems and related services
3. Software
4. Employment services
5. Management, science, and technical consulting
6. Home health care
7. Personal financial advisory
8. Childcare services
9. Arts, entertainment, and recreation
10. Motion picture/video

Hey I found this and I watched it like 5 times.... its really inspiring... You guys will like it too!

5 Myths About Women Entrepreneurs

I found an article on a website called www.more.com and found that it was very inspiring to me and hopefully will inspire you women as well. I hope you like it! Let me know your thoughts on the 5 myths.

Entrepreneur Myth #1: You Have to Be Young

Entrepreneur Myth #2: You Need Heaps of Cash

Entrepreneur Myth #3: You Have to Be an Expert

"The third myth about entrepreneurship -- that you have to have your head in the sand about everything except your own area of expertise -- doesn't apply at all to women. Women are responsible for 83 percent of consumer purchasing. We are the ones buying not only for ourselves but also for our children, husbands, and parents. We aren't in tune with the market because we study data; we are the data. We succeed because we notice everything around us, we respond instinctively to what we see, and we develop our expertise accordingly." www.more.com

Entrepreneur Myth #4: Women's Businesses Are Small

"Amy Birnbaum runs Royal Coachman Worldwide, an international limo service. Livia Whisenhunt runs PSEnergy Group, a Georgia-based energy provider that brought in $165 million last year. There are thousands more examples like those. And Debbi Fields's little cookie company is now a $96 million global business. None of the women I've met measures success by size alone. But it is a huge mistake to think that women can run only small, girlie companies." www.more.com

Entrepreneur Myth #5: You Have to Be on One of the Coasts

When I read this article I was inspired in every way. I hope that you can get some inspiration from this as well!

List of Important Social Media Platforms to help Promote Your Business

Top Social Media Sites
* www.facebook.com
* www.twitter.com
* www.linkedin.com
* www.youtube.com
* www.flickr.com
* www.digg.com
*www.foursquare.com
* www.stumbleupon.com
* www.myspace.com
*www.itunes.com

Video Sites
*www.youtube.com
*www.howcast.com
*www.vimeo.com

** www.digg.com- site to vote on favorite videos, blogs, articles
** www.slideshare..com- site to upload and share our podcast, e-book, powerpoint
**www.reddit.com-similar to digg
** www.stumbleupon.com- vote on webpages

Photo Sharing Sites
*www.picasa.com
* www.flickr.com

Blogging Sites
 *www.blogger.com
*www.tumblr.com
*www.vox.com
*www.xanga.com

More Complex Blogging Sites
*www.joomla.com
*www.drupal.com
*www.typepad.com
*www.wordpress.com

Review Site
*www.feedback.com
*www.yelp.com

Track All your Social Media Sites
*www.tweetdeck.com
*www.hootsuite.com

A Place to Hold All Our Ideas

Want a place where you will not lose all those ideas that come to your head? I have the solution, Evernote. Evernote is a place where you can store over 500,000 notes, pictures, ideas etc. You snap a picture of a business card and you can send it to your Evernote. Capture plane tickets and confirmation numbers, hotel invoices and more all to Evernote.  Have a big meeting coming up and you are not very fast at writing all the notes down from the whiteboard? Just snap a picture of the whiteboard and send it to your specific file in Evernote.

These are just a few of the many features Evernote can offer you! It is easy to use and will help keep you organized and your head on straight, thats what it has done for me.  Now that it sounds to good to be true you may wonder how much? Free!  This is just another great website I have been using and feel that it could help you as well!

                                              
http://www.evernote.com/about/home.php

"Action is more important than motivation"


"If you are failing to plan,

you are planning to fail."