Time Management: Tips for Three Types of Female Entrepreneurs – Part 1

Whether a business owner has myriad responsibilities in addition to running her business or she simply has an overwhelming volume of business-related tasks to complete, she undoubtedly will benefit from improving her time management skills. Increasing efficiency and productivity will benefit the business as well as the entrepreneur’s overall work-life satisfaction.
A recent study from Jane [...]

Posted on February 18, 2010 Filed Under Accidental Jane, Jane Thoughts, Merry Jane, Success Tips for Jane, Tenacity Jane | Leave a Comment

Business Accounting: How Two Types of Female Entrepreneurs Deal with Bookkeeping Issues

Nothing is more frustrating than when the numbers don’t add up in a business. It can create havoc on a day-to-day basis and additional headaches at tax-time. But while almost no one enjoys having an accounting crisis on their hands, diverse entrepreneurs are likely to respond to that crisis in different ways – and all [...]

Posted on December 17, 2009 Filed Under Accidental Jane, Jane Dough, Success Tips for Jane, Which Jane Are You? | Leave a Comment

How the Five Janes Respond to Trouble with Cash Flow, Part 1

It happens at some point in the life of every business: cash has been coming in, things are going well, and then all of a sudden, things take a turn for the worse. Whether it’s a bad time of year for the business’ particular product, or a rough patch in the economy, weathering slow cash [...]

Posted on November 19, 2009 Filed Under Accidental Jane, Go Jane Go, Merry Jane, Success Tips for 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

How Will YOU Respond When a Customer Threatens to Leave? – Part 1

Maybe it will be due to a gap in communication. Maybe it will happen due to increased pricing competition, a poor fit, a service problem, or a new product your competitor creates. Regardless of the cause, every entrepreneur faces the risk of losing customers at some point. But what we know from our research is [...]

Posted on July 2, 2009 Filed Under Success Tips for Jane, Which Jane Are You? | 2 Comments

Meet a Jane: Renee Wood

The Comfort Company was founded by Renee Wood, a social worker with a mission to simplify the difficult process of expressing sympathy. The Comfort Company specializes in the development and sale of non-traditional sympathy gifts currently offers over 300 specially selected or custom designed gifts to honor the loss of a loved one and gained [...]

Posted on June 17, 2009 Filed Under A Day in the Life of an Entrepreneur, Meet a Jane, Which Jane Are You? | Leave a Comment

Can you “Accidentally” Start a Business?

As funny as it may sound, many women do start businesses kind of by accident. Recent research we’ve conducted has uncovered 5 unique types of women entrepreneurs showing that nearly 1 in 5 women-owned businesses were started this way. In in-depth follow up research with these women, we uncovered the typical paths that [...]

Posted on April 9, 2009 Filed Under Jane Thoughts, Success Tips for Jane, Which Jane Are You? | 1 Comment