Most  of my BEST ideas are “birthed” in the tub, which is my THIRD favorite place to be in the entire world.  (First is in my Mister’s arms, second is on my back deck, just in case you were wondering.)   So, when the founders of Zen Breeze offered to send us BATH BOMBS for
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Storytelling is an incredible sales strategy… and READING stories — even fiction stories — helps business women become better writers, better bloggers, better communicators.  So, when Jocelyn Bates – author of  The Storyteller’s Throne — offered to send us a copy of her latest sci fi / coming of age book for the Birthing An Empire
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Think aspirin and ibuprofen can’t be made better… and made into a business?  Think again! This is EXACTLY what Josh and Tony Breeden did with b+b products! Josh and Tony Breeden grew up in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. At the height of the recession in 2009, Tony founded Ole Smoky Moonshine and Whiskey to
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HERE’S SOMETHING THE TRULY SUCCESSFUL ABSOLUTELY DO NOT — EVER — UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES DO… EVER, EVER. Can you imagine Tony Robbins or Oprah or Dan Kennedy or Gary Vaynerchuk or Katrina Ruth or ______insert your go to guru_____ putting their NAME on a book or course or white paper that was also being pitched
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AN MBA’S GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE MARKETING. (YAWN.) I love the sheer audacity of a university hosting degree programs teaching students how to run a business…. taught by professors who have never even run a lemonade stand… reading books written by academics… programs LED by people who have a guaranteed salary — a J.O.B. This whole
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