Deep Dive: Access to Capital for Small Businesses Hello, WISE friends. We are excited to present to you our first edition of Deep Dive, a monthly, themed email containing lots of great resources to let you dive deep and learn…
Category: business finances
Microloans for Your Small Business
Microloans for Your Small Business What are they? Microloans are small loans that are usually made by Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI), which are non-profit lenders. Their main purpose is to help unserved entrepreneurs get access to capital. A lot…
Types of Crowdfunding
Types of Crowdfunding for Your Business What is Crowdfunding? Crowdfunding means the idea of collecting small amounts of capital from a large number of people. It is typically done on websites that connect businesses, nonprofits and creative projects to people…
And the Gold Medal Goes to… (Traits of High-performing Teams)
What makes a truly successful team? The individuals or the collective excellence? The mix of personalities? Does it all depend on the team leader? Hubspot Agency Post editor Jami Oetting compiles the top traits of great teams as originally posted…
Unlikely Places to Find Inspiration
Have a project coming up that requires you to be at your creative best? Find yourself lacking focus or maybe even experiencing “writer’s block”? Never fear… inspiration is near! Inspiration is an abstract emotion that not only motivates you but…
Baby, Come Back: How to (Successfully) Get Return Customers
Business success is driven by your ability to gain and retain repeat customers. These repeat customers spend more, spend often and love your brand. They will stay loyal, talk about your business to friends and keep coming back for more.…
A New Year, A New You: How to be Innovative… Even After 100+ Years in Business
Innovation: it’s all about strategy—not spitballing, according to Ford Motor Co. CEO Mark Fields. In an article on Fortune.com, contributing editor Kirsten Korosec outlines the idea of innovation (without hurting profits) from a company that has been in business more…
A One-word New Year’s Resolution
It’s that time of the year: we’re all looking at 2015 in retrospect celebrating successes and learning from mistakes. As we complete this process of self-analyzing, most of us would end up in making resolutions to live by in 2016…
Following Your Dreams – Don’t Let Fear (or anything else) Stop You!
As a kid, we heard about ‘following your dreams’ and no profession was too far out of reach when asked ‘what do you want to be when you grow up’. To this day, we all have dreams and aspirations—whether personal…
Get Focused at Work… and Get More Done!
Everyone works differently—some of us make lists on sticky notes. Some of us use calendar management systems to track meetings and personal appointments. Others use task management tools and apps to stay focused. And some people choose not to do…
Let Failure Lift You Up, Rather Than Tear You Down
When you fail at something, do you become jaded and stuck or do you evaluate what went wrong and use it as a learning experience? For entrepreneurs, failure is just a part of the cycle. However, how you deal with…
Entrepreneurs and Innovators Dream > Believe > Pursue at the WISE Symposium
Over 900 attendees and exhibitors and approximately 6.2 million reached through Twitter, the 2015 WISE Symposium was a huge success in its 13th year. On the morning of April 21, 2015 women entrepreneurs, students and other business professionals from all over…
Four Important Aspects of Being a Successful Entrepreneur
Reading about successful entrepreneurs be it Steve Jobs or Walt Disney, there are a few concepts that stand out and are recurring in these entrepreneurs’ stories. Here are four essential aspects that every individual must understand in order to be…
Startup Tips from a Billionaire Entrepreneur
As entrepreneurs, we are always looking for words of wisdom from people who are successful and have overcome challenges and hardships to become so. We do this because we relate to the struggles and hardships that they’ve faced. Richard Branson,…
Strategic Marketing and PR (without spending a fortune)
It’s important to have a solid marketing and public relations (PR) strategy that builds a strong brand of the company and maintains the image you want to project to the public. But sometimes these efforts can be quite expensive if…
Entrepreneurial Myths (and how to overcome them)
Various studies have shown how you need to be charismatic and daring to be an entrepreneur. They have also shown how you need to look beyond the obvious and think out of the box. Some of us may be thinking…