Saturday, March 05, 2005
Inaugural 10 Tips for 10 Million Women...I'm up in 2 weeks
Kirsten Osolind at re:invention Consulting is my kind of woman.
She brings up serious issues for women business people and entrepreneurs. She believes strongly in womentorship and creating a strong old gal's network, but she's not above having a link to the "Shoe of the Week" on her site and above telling some women to take a chill pill occasionally.
She has started a new weekly feature on her blog, scheduled to be a Saturday post:
10 Tips for 10 Million Women
Each week a woman entrepreneur will provide her 10 tips for starting and running a business.
The inaugural 10 Tips for 10 Million Women features Yvonne DiVita author of perhaps the best-titled marketing book around: Dickless Marketing: Smart Marketing to Women Online.
I had the pleasure of meeting Yvonne in January at the NewComm Forum in Napa. We had a great time talking the first evening of the conference. One of those wonderful putting a face with a name events.
I've already turned in my contribution to the 10 Tips series, and it will run in 2 weeks, on 3/19/05.
Yvonne's 10 Tips are great, and I only see one little tip where we knock heads a bit: it's in her tip #4 about referrals (vs. "networking".) First, I think I define networking a little differently than Yvonne's definition. Second, I think referrals are great, once you have a base of clients to work for the referrals. But what if you're just starting and looking for a little visibility? Don't get me wrong, I've gotten clients through referrals, no doubt about it. But I also see the value of networking for getting your name/face in front of a different crowd that you might never meet via referrals alone.
But, you'll just have to read my 10 Tips in 2 weeks to really compare our two philosophies.
Bookmark or subscribe to the re:invention blog, and you'll get a treat...especially every Saturday!
Stay tuned for the Worker Bees 10 Tips on March 19th.
She brings up serious issues for women business people and entrepreneurs. She believes strongly in womentorship and creating a strong old gal's network, but she's not above having a link to the "Shoe of the Week" on her site and above telling some women to take a chill pill occasionally.
She has started a new weekly feature on her blog, scheduled to be a Saturday post:
10 Tips for 10 Million Women
Each week a woman entrepreneur will provide her 10 tips for starting and running a business.
The inaugural 10 Tips for 10 Million Women features Yvonne DiVita author of perhaps the best-titled marketing book around: Dickless Marketing: Smart Marketing to Women Online.
I had the pleasure of meeting Yvonne in January at the NewComm Forum in Napa. We had a great time talking the first evening of the conference. One of those wonderful putting a face with a name events.
I've already turned in my contribution to the 10 Tips series, and it will run in 2 weeks, on 3/19/05.
Yvonne's 10 Tips are great, and I only see one little tip where we knock heads a bit: it's in her tip #4 about referrals (vs. "networking".) First, I think I define networking a little differently than Yvonne's definition. Second, I think referrals are great, once you have a base of clients to work for the referrals. But what if you're just starting and looking for a little visibility? Don't get me wrong, I've gotten clients through referrals, no doubt about it. But I also see the value of networking for getting your name/face in front of a different crowd that you might never meet via referrals alone.
But, you'll just have to read my 10 Tips in 2 weeks to really compare our two philosophies.
Bookmark or subscribe to the re:invention blog, and you'll get a treat...especially every Saturday!
Stay tuned for the Worker Bees 10 Tips on March 19th.
// posted by ElisaC @ 9:30 AM 
