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Ep 251: Maria Smith on the Science and Benefits of Goal-Setting

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Maria Smith worked as a sales leader for Fortune 500 companies across three different industries, and now she helps leaders, employees, and organizations understand the science and benefits of goal-setting. At age 9, she set goals to become the first college graduate in her family and to earn the title of Miss Kentucky.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

Success

The industries of women in business The industries these women settled into differed between the reports. According to Guidant, the highest number of women-owned small businesses were in retail (18%), followed by “food and restaurant” at 12% and “health, beauty and fitness services” at 10%. of women-owned businesses.

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Please Mind Your Manners

Loosely Speaking

Networking and other live business meetings often take place in local restaurants. Let’s face it: organizers love to schedule these at restaurants who have space and are willing to host meetings at no charge or with no minimum purchase. RSS Comments RSS Subscribe in a reader Copyright 2004. Loose Ends.

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Arizona Virtual Assistants Retreat

Loosely Speaking

We will use ning.com, a social networking site, to continue brainstorming on how to best serve people who need emergency help. RSS Comments RSS Subscribe in a reader Copyright 2004. The ideas kept flowing. Other retreat attendees joined us. More ideas. More questions. It was fun, at times hilarious, and quite serious in nature.

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VA Industry Leaders: a conversation

Loosely Speaking

In addition to not totally understanding the blogging craze, I am really stumped on how social networking could possibly help me market my services. I hear you on the weekly new invites to join new networks. So, I founded the first Virtual Assistant network in the southern hemisphere without realising what I was doing at the time!

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