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The Canadian theme for International Women’s Day is a powerful one - Strong Leadership. Strong Women. Strong World: Equality. Reflecting on this theme has really made me think back on my career. I have been managing staff in my career for the last ten years and it has truly been the most rewarding part of my [...]
As a relatively new business owner I struggle through learning many tasks in order to run an efficient and thriving business. I love all the new things I am learning and it is tempting to want to do all the cool stuff myself. The result of this is that I am dealing with my own [...]
If you are a photographer, stylist or anyone who works in a creative field that would benefit from sharing their photos on Pinterest then you need to get the plug in for WordPress called "Pin It on Pinterest" . We here at WIBN have it and find it really easy to us. [...]
My very bloggy friend Mara Shapiro told me about a website last week called Pinterest last week…… I said "What’s That?" and Mara proceeded to laugh at me affectionately when I told her I had not heard about Pinterest yet… How 2011 of me …. Pinterest is similar to Facebook and Twitter in that it allows [...]
This month we are going to be featuring different articles on advertising in celebration of Advertising Week in Canada. This week I thought I would focus on a topic near and dear to my heart – E-Newsletters! Do you have a e-newsletter that you send out to your clients or customers on a regular basis? [...]
I came across a great video post on business resolutions. The video is from speaker and marketing expert Scott Stratten of UnMarketing Fame. Scott actually spoke to our network a few years back and I have always loved his common sense advice. Scott does a great job describing what not to [...]
As a seasoned marketer is is hard to believe that when I first started dabbling with Facebook Advertising I was extremely nervous to use it. I had heard stories of colleagues using it and saying that they got little results so I thought to myself… what’s the point? Being that I am a pretty determined [...]
A friend of mine forwarded me an excellent post on how to grow a community online. What I loved about this post is that it is realistic. Growing an online community doesn’t happen over night. It will take many years of hard work to realize your goals. Blogger Danny Brown shares some excellent points about [...]
Has a strong, balanced image with no little extras that clutter its look; Is distinctive and bold in design, making it easy to see at a glance; Has graphic imagery that looks appropriate for your business; Works well with your company name; Is done in an easy to read font; Communicates your business clearly; and [...]
Google+ My Take: I will admit that I have not done a lot of digging around it yet but after a quick play session with this it seems an awful lot like Facebook! The circles are neat and easy to use and you don’t have to wait for people to “Like” you but if [...]
Our Hashtag: #Womeninbiznetwork Hashtags Introduction Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. Hashtags were developed as a means to create ”groupings” on Twitter, without having to [...]
One of the reason’s I love running a business network is that I get to learn about some really cool businesses! As a women entrepreneur it is really important to me to also work with other entrepreneurs for a number of reasons. For one I love the immediate gratification I feel when working with these [...]
