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July 4 & 5 2013.  Two day workshop on how to write, publish and market your own book. Have you got a book inside you that you can’t wait to get out? Have you been waiting for the right opportunity to share your wisdom and knowledge with a hungry audience? This course “How to write and publish a business bestseller” is for small business owners who have been dying to find the right time to get their book out into the big wide world. One of the best ways to ... Read More »

When I read Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In, one of the areas that most stuck out for me was her discussion around mentoring. She talks in detail how important mentoring is and how challenging it is for many women to find mentors. Interestingly, one of the things that she is most criticised for in her book is how elitist she is because she had a mentor who was also the head of one of the colleges at Harvard when she attended, but clearly she has mastered the art of finding great mentors ... Read More »

Sometimes when we are running a micro business we don’t realise that creating a strong strategy is just as important for us as it is for big business.  Businesses grow and develop in many different ways.  Some business owners are super organised and spend 3 months planning their business, producing a 25 page business plan plus executive summary, 15 page marketing plan and 10 pages of financial documents; others launch their business without really thinking about where the money is going to come from or how they are going to ... Read More »

Last week I shared my thoughts on Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In… and one of the key issues that many women have is lack of confidence.  As Sheryl says, they don’t put themselves forward, preferring to wait until they feel confident enough for whatever the task requires. In this video Amy Cuddy, shows both incredible vulnerability and honesty around when she didn’t feel like she was good enough (note she is now an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School) and some fantastic advice that she was given by one of ... Read More »

When I arranged to interview Maggie Semple, I had no idea what a force of nature she was.  She is frequently described as formidable, but I also found her style to be extremely gentle and gracious.  There is no way that she could have achieved all that she has without being formidable, but I love that she has not lost her feminine energy along the way. Maggie and her sister grew up as two black girls in London in the 60’s and were very much in the minority. But she ... Read More »

To say that I was resistant to reading Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead is a bit of an understatement.   However, when my great friend Joanna Penn sent me an email on Friday night telling me for the third time that I should read this book, I decided to stop fighting it and bought the book on Kindle … fully expecting to do battle with Sheryl in my mind as I read the pages. I really admire Sheryl Sandberg and what she has ... Read More »

On Friday, March 8th (the 102nd International Women’s Day) over 200 women descended on the BAFTA headquarter in Piccadilly for a day of inspiration, learning and connecting for our 5th annual conference Thrive 2013!.  And what an amazing day it was. The Mentoring Breakfast The day began with a fantastically successful meet a mentor breakfast where 40 mentees and 40 mentors came together to discover whether there was good match between them.  In December we ran a Get Mentoring workshop with SFEDI and partnered up with SFEDI so that our ... Read More »

One of the great challenges as a small business owner is “How can I make more money, help more people, expand my offerings when I am only one person?”  At Women Unlimited we made the decision late last year to move most of our courses into a format that can be delivered online.  It was quite scary in many ways to stop delivering our face to face courses, but in the long run it will give us a much larger reach than we ever could have achieved by delivering courses ... Read More »

Commenting on blog posts is a great way to build natural links back to your own website and start to build relationships with other bloggers … And you may have noticed that some people have their pictures next to their comments, and some people don’t.  Those pictures are called a Gravatar image.  Gravatar images can be a great way to make your comment stand out and also are a useful relationship building tool if you are active on social media. Setting up your Gravatar image Thankfully Gravatar’s are really easy ... Read More »

As I’m sure you can imagine, there are lots of things that need to go on in the background to run Women Unlimited.  But our team is small!   The Women Unlimited Team consists of myself, Jayne, our content manager and Kizzy our social media bod.  And we all work part-time! So we need to pack a lot in to a short space of time.   Besides creating and establishing clear activities and goals, we also rely heavily on a number of tools to get the job done.  These are ... Read More »