The Best of Jane: When Opportunity Knocks, Should You Answer?

When new business starts heading your way, most of us naturally leap at the opportunity. However, not all new business is GOOD new business, so it merits the time to consider whether or not the individual opportunity is right for you. Here’s your step-by-step plan for evaluating each engagement.
1. Check in with your passion
Is [...]

Posted on October 29, 2009 Filed Under Jane Thoughts, Success Tips for Jane | Leave a Comment

Meet a Jane: Megan Jenifer

Megan Jenifer, author and teacher, is the owner of The NIA Project, Inc.,  a company dedicated to fostering the development of Self through empowerment education, health & wellness, as well as performing and healing arts. Megan is committed to helping people find joy and purpose in their lives. She offers classes [...]

Posted on October 28, 2009 Filed Under Jane Dough, Meet a Jane | Leave a Comment

Meet a Jane: Sherry Lynn Simoes

Sherry Lynn Simoes co-founded Women of Today, a professional group for women in business that focuses on supporting their members to grow their businesses. The group offers marketing support, co-op advertising, educational workshops and tools and resources to help the members succeed in their marketing efforts, including a customized Vision Board. She also started Women [...]

Posted on October 21, 2009 Filed Under Meet a Jane, Tenacity Jane | Leave a Comment

When Opportunity Comes Knocking, Part 2

Every female entrepreneur dreams of the day her preparation meets opportunity and her own good luck is born. In her dreams, she knows exactly what she’ll do when presented with an opportunity, and exactly how the cards will fall when she takes it. But in real life, opportunity often seems to come out of nowhere [...]

Posted on October 21, 2009 Filed Under Accidental Jane, Go Jane Go, Jane Thoughts, Success Tips for Jane | Leave a Comment

When Opportunity Comes Knocking, Part 1

In every female entrepreneur’s life, opportunity will knock. Successful women must determine how they’ll answer. Will they fling the door open and shout, “Welcome!” with no more trepidation than they’d use when hosting their best friend? Or will they hook up the security chain and open the door just a crack, asking, “What do you [...]

Posted on October 15, 2009 Filed Under Jane Dough, Jane Thoughts, Merry Jane, Success Tips for Jane, Tenacity Jane | Leave a Comment

Meet a Jane: Christine Harris

Christine Harris is Founder and Director of Operations of the Christine’s Closet and the Woman to Woman Advocate for Women Rising Project. Their mission is to promote personal and professional growth by helping to build and enhance self-esteem, character and strength in individuals who are in a transitional period and/or are economically challenged.
Through her personal [...]

Posted on October 14, 2009 Filed Under Meet a Jane, Tenacity Jane | 2 Comments

Get a $100 gift card by participating as a research panelist!

Attention Women Business Owners!
As you may know, Jane Out of the Box was created as a platform to collect valuable information from women entrepreneurs like yourself.
Every once in a while, we will ask for your assistance in our research programs so that we can effectively advise companies and agencies that want to serve you – [...]

Posted on October 9, 2009 Filed Under Contests for Women Entrepreneurs, Events, Trends Impacting Entrepreneurs | Leave a Comment

Massive Growth: How will you handle it? Part 2

Are you prepared for explosive growth? What will you do when it happens?
Growth. It’s a word whispered through the lips of female entrepreneurs as they dream about their businesses. But even though you’ve dreamed of it since you hung out your shingle, are you really ready to handle it when it shows up on your [...]

Posted on October 8, 2009 Filed Under Jane Thoughts, Success Tips for Jane | Leave a Comment

Meet a Jane: Renee Charbonneau

Renee Charbonneau is an Organizational Virtual Assistant and owner of Out of the Inbox. She identified a niche in the VA marketplace after realizing that e-mail and scheduling are the two biggest time drains for her clients. She began to focus on helping them manage those activities through technology solutions like TimeDriver.
Renee started her [...]

Posted on October 7, 2009 Filed Under Meet a Jane, Success Tips for Jane, Tenacity Jane | Leave a Comment

Want some free publicity?

Want some free publicity?
Calling all Janes! I’d like you to envision YOUR business being introduced to the nearly 2000 female entrepreneurs expected to attend the 2009 Women Business Owners (WBO’s) annual National Business Convention! It can be a reality!
Michele is slated to speak as keynote at the luncheon on Friday October 23rd. During her PowerPoint [...]

Posted on October 2, 2009 Filed Under Contests for Women Entrepreneurs, Events, Which Jane Are You? | 2 Comments