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10 Biz Tips For The New Year: Connect With Your Customers

People want to do business with people they like, and that is why it is so important to really connect with your customers. This will help you build relationships with them, and once that happens, they will look at you as their “go to” person — they won’t think about doing business with your competition! Here are some ways to…

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10 Biz Tips For The New Year: Use Tech Tools

Running a business is hard work, but there are many tools that can make it easier. If you are dragging your feet on technology, it’s time to embrace them! Did you know that if you have a smartphone and use WordPress for blogging, you can download an app and do all of your blogging from your phone? Speaking of blogging,…

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10 Biz Tips For The New Year: Be Consistent

One of the best tips I can give you to help you grow your business in the coming year is to be consistent. Yeah, sounds pretty simple – but it’s easier said than done! We all have things that get “in the way.” That’s life. But if you let them get in front of your business, they can pile up…

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Vote For My Laughing Cow Personality Description!

The Laughing Cow recently asked me, and 29 other bloggers, to come up for a “personality description” for one of their products — in 120 characters or less! (That’s 20 less characters than you get for a tweet on Twitter, in case you were counting….) I was assigned the Mini Babybel Original flavor. You can view what I wrote (and…

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Don’t Let Your Biz Fall Apart During The Holidays

It’s the holidays. Life is busy right now. You can now add shopping, cooking, parties, and celebrations to the balls you were already juggling. There are going to be days where you don’t even feel you have enough time to breathe, let alone work on your business. This is the time of year when it can be really easy to…

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First Impressions Count

I’m sure that I am not the first person who has ever told you that first impressions count. Your mom probably told you this several times while growing up, most likely when you were arguing over what outfit you were going to wear. Just like “the real world,” it’s important to make a good first impression online, as well. Here…

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The Indie Biz Chicks Podcast, Episode 35

This is a jam-packed episode, full of good information, if I do say so myself! Our main interview is with Jenny Hart of Sublime Stitching, which was originally recorded as a session of The Indie Biz Chicks Conference, back in 2009. Jenny gives us some great tips on getting a book published – and she has authored several books, so she…

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Verizon HopeLine: What To Do With Your Old Phone

Recently, a few bloggers that I know of wrote posts about how they finally upgraded to smartphones. If you have recently upgraded – or if you upgraded a while ago and have old phones laying around, I encourage you to donate the phones you are no longer using to Verizon Wireless’s HopeLine Program. With this program, Verizon Wireless collects no-longer-used…

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One Of My Favorite Biz Women Is Getting An Award!

I wrote this post last year, about one of my favorite business women, Kris Carr. Kris is the film maker behind the documentary Crazy, Sexy, Cancer. Since making the film, she has wrote several books and started the site Crazy Sexy Life. On November 2, Kris will be accepting the Smart Women Of The Year award at The Smart Women’s…

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Meme Monday: Be Courageous!

I am starting a new thing here at Indie Biz Chicks. MEMES. On Mondays! A “meme” – pronounced with a long e, like “theme,”  is basically a blog “topic.” So, I’ll post something here, and you can take the topic, run with it on your blog this week, and when you write a post on that topic, you come back…

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