Deb and Amy talk about Thinking Bigger, how to Start Your Own Business without an MBA, how a Business Coach can speed up success, and much more in this final 3-pound mafia podcast.

If you missed it: Part 1 interview on Business Ownership
Part 2 interview on Business Ownership
Part 3 interview on Business Ownership

Deb and Amy talk about Women in Business, Work at Home Parents, following your destiny, and much more in Part 3 of our Business Ownership Interview with Amy from Hello World.

If you missed it: Part 1 interview on Business Ownership
Part 2 interview on Business Ownership

Stay tuned until Monday for part 4 of our Las Vegas Show Girl turns Business Owner series…

What do your days rate? Are you content with a 5 or a 6 day after day? Or are you willing to have a 1 day in order to shoot for those 10 days?

Some interesting Business Owner Mindset gets revealed in this Part 2 Interview:

If you missed it: Part 1 interview on Business Ownership

Stay tuned until Friday for part 3 of our Las Vegas Show Girl turns Business Owner series…

Amy was a Las Vegas Show Girl working in one of the most famous shows on the strip, until… “You never know when the tiger’s gonna bite ya!”

Deb and Amy talk about starting your own business, getting paid for your passion, and the freedom of business ownership.

This 3 lb Mafia Podcast was filmed on: March 21, 2007
at the TV set of: LOST Beach - on the famous North Shore of Hawaii

Stay tuned until Wednesday when our Las Vegas Show Girl turns Business Owner series continues…

The number of businesses owned by women grew nearly 20 percent between 1997 and 2002. Of course the U.S. Small Business Administration is woefully slow in their data collection and analysis, but the trend is clear now. This confirms somethign we’ve seen with our business coaching clients and new members of the Business Owner’s Coaching Club.

Women make more than 3/4 of all buying decisions — in and out of the boardroom

Women are directly and indirectly making 85% of the buying decisions in and out of business. That’s a major point to understand when planning your marketing. And women are running more and more of the small businesses in the US. Another trend that b-to-b marketers better wake up to.

During the five year period women-owned firms grew by 19.8 percent while all US firms grew by seven percent. A good number of those firms were in professional, scientific, and technical services, and in health care and social assistance.

Understanding how all this estrogen is tranforming the way business and marketing is done is essential to being successful in the marketplace of the New Millennium. (Just one more reason why you should grab your free excerpt to our book due for release in October Secrets Of Online Persuasion.)

The U.S. SBA report

Women in Business: A Demographic Review of Women’s Business Ownership uses newly released Census and other data to reveal some intersting trends including:

In 2002, women owned 6.5 million (28.2 percent) nonfarm US firms with 7.1 million employees and $173.7 billion in annual payroll.

Women-owned firms accounted for 6.5 percent of total employment in U.S. firms in 2002 and 4.2 percent of total receipts.

Of all women business owners in 2002, 85.95 percent were White, 8.43 percent African American, 8.33 percent of Hispanic heritage, 5.25 percent Asian, 1.23 percent American Indian and Alaska Native, and 0.18 percent Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander (total does not add to 100 due to some double counting across ethnic groups). This means that on average the number of women business startups mirrors the general population.

Here’s where you can grab your own copy of Women in Business: A Demographic Review of Women’s Business Ownership.

As small business owners, you and I know very well that all “subsidies” from the government have a cost. As a Krazy Capitalist I know there’s no free lunch! Tax breaks are a welcome incentive. But subsidies are an entirely different story. Subsidies come out of your and my pocket, and the money funneled to recipients is rarely well managed or even necessary.

In an unfolding story that surprised me, large national retailers are grabbing up state subsidies to build their stores. But one major retailer of outdoor sporting goods in America, Gander Mountain, opposes tax breaks for retailers and is critical of those who accept them. They compete head on with those who feed at the government trough, and have moved their way up into #3 position in the US.

Allegheny Institute for Public Policy has put together a great overview. Here’s the PDF version of their Policy Brief on Gander Mountain and subsidies for retailers.

If you’re a business person who appreciates keeping responsible ownership, less government intrusion, and true capitalist ideals, this is a good read for you.

Enjoy!

Well, the new Census Bureau figures confirm what we as business coaches have known for the last three years. The US is in the midst of a major boom in self-employment. Many of the people who lose their jobs in massive layoffs choose not to remain victims. They’re going out and starting their own businesses.

We have many business coaching clients who we’re helping leave unfulfilling careers to step out, gain freedom, fulfillment, and financial independence by starting their own small business or solopreneurship. These are people who have had the entrepreneurial drive for years and have finally had it with corporate life.

2004 US Census Bureau data shows that 19.5 million Americans are self-employed, and their numbers are growing. Between 2003 and 2004, the number of self-employed grew by 1 million (about 4.7%). Overall, these businesses without employees account for 70% of all US businesses and generate annual receipts exceeding $887 billion.

E-Bay is clearly having an impact as electronic shopping and mail order houses are among the fastest growing sectors (up 12.7%) for new self-employment ventures. Even faster growth can be found among building finishing contractors (up 22.5%), Internet service providers (up 18.7%) and nail salons (up 14.7%).

Some very positive data for existing business owners too in the July 2006 U.S. Census Bureau report. You can check out the Non employer Statistics at: http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/ns0400a01.pdf.

This is going to be an exciting and very busy month for us, as we put the finishing touches on our NEW book, “Secrets of Online Persuasion“.

Feel free to get a pre-release excerpt of the book and we’ll let you know once we hear from Ingram when it’ll be distributed in book stores everywhere. (If all goes well, the book will be released to the public early Fall 2006.)

We’ll be MIA as we sequester ourselves to finalize the book. Thanks for understanding!

Will women ever stop sabotaging each other in order to gain coveted top executive positions in business?

Click here to get “The Influence Code Podcast” on: The Apprentice TV show to listen to the conversation with Radio Host Wayne Kelly and Communication Coach, Deborah Micek

Who is more to blame for the so-called “glass-ceiling”? Women? Or men? Tell us what you think, and share your experience in business.

Coach Deb’s post-boardroom Analysis and Coaching Tips from weeks 12 and 13 of “The Apprentice with Radio Host, Wayne Kelly from KBS Radio

Lessons Learned from The Apprentice TV show (weeks 12 and 13) written by authors at Trump Univerity:

We can learn a lot from a “hindsight” perspective into the successes and failures of this week’s candidates.

Rule #1 in business:
Listen to your customers for what THEY want

Rule #2 in business:
Don’t assume you know what your customers want.

This business rule seems so simple, right?

But far too often, innovative entrepreneurs get in their own way. Or business owners and executives let their egos get in their way, and it costs them clients, sales and profits.

More important than the business lessons learned from this week’s The Apprentice, I’d like to hear from our podcast listeners and readers who have been hurt by the same type of behavior exhibited by Allie and Roxanne last week.

• Have you been the victim of a co-workers jealousy, or gossiping behind your back?
• How prevalant is this problem around the world?

I’m also curious to hear from you…

• Are back-biting, jealousy and “petty behavior” (i.e. negative body language, including rolling eyes, making snide gestures behind someone’s back, gossiping, etc.) problems that only women seem to have? OR
• Do men have to put up with the petty jealousy and vindictiveness that we saw both Allie and Roxanne exhibit as they rolled their eyes, and expressed negative body language toward their team leader, Tammie when they betrayed her in the boardroom?

Get caught up on the full Coaching analysis and re-cap of this week’s episode, (week 12 and 13) from the Influence Code blog highlighting The Apprentice podcast posing the question: Are women more ruthless than men in business?

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