Top Five Ways To Cash In On Your Feminine Strengths

One of the joys I get from professional networking is getting to know very talented people with great ideas. One such person is Linda Hollander, better known as the Wealthy Bag Lady.

Women are the fastest growing segment of business start ups. There are many new business networking groups sprouting up to help women network and grow and this week I want to share Linda’s great tips with you.

Top Five Ways To Cash In On Your Feminine Strengths
- by Linda Hollander

Ladies, you were born with the ability to make your dreams a reality. Being a woman is your base of power, not your weakness. Women entrepreneurs are the fastest growing segment of the economy. We are starting businesses at twice the rate of men and claiming our true economic power. It's not just because we want financial independence and empowerment. It's because we're good at it.
Here are some ways to develop entrepreneurial power:

1. NURTURE YOUR CLIENTS
Women are all about connections and relationships. From birth, women are relationship-oriented. In business, this translates to nurturing clients, listening to their problems and providing great customer service. In sales, women are able to focus on helping, rather than pushing products. They ask poignant questions, learn their customer's needs and offer extraordinary solutions.

2. DEVELOP YOUR INTUITION
Some of the most talented business people can read profit and loss statements but neglect to pay attention to their intuition. Use that famous female sixth sense. If you get a bad feeling about the character of a prospective customer or business associate, heed your body's warning instead of ignoring it. Your first impression is usually right.

3. SEEK OUT MENTORS
Finding a mentor is the fast track to success. It allows you to tap into the business skills and knowledge of visionaries. Many successful business people have had mentors who believed in them and pushed them to excel. Mentors come in many forms. Some women are lucky enough to find mentors within their own families. For Patti Regan of the Regan Group, a marketing firm, it was her father who helped her build her business. Over the years, he offered Patti great advice, inspiration and insight.

4. FORM SUCCESS TEAMS
A success team is a group of people who gather at regular intervals to help each other achieve their goals. The group intelligence activates imagination and creative energy. Being with successful people who believe in you and who are actively working on behalf of your success will instill tremendous confidence. The members of your success team balance out your strengths, weaknesses and experience, and they widen your horizons.

5. PRACTICE LIFETIME LEARNING
There's a reason that women are more likely to ask for directions than men. We're willing to learn. We're also willing to change. We seek out ways to better our lives and the lives of the people we care about. School is never out for the pros. Don't ever become complacent and think that you know it all. You've got to invest in yourself. Develop the mindset of a wide-eyed child always eager to learn new things. Each day brings you new problems to solve, new challenges, new things to learn. Finding mentors, attending seminars, reading books and forming success teams are all a part of the course. For women, success is the ability to live life on their terms. To be fulfilled creatively, financially and emotionally, cash in on the feminine.

Like so many successful entrepreneurs, Linda Hollander overcame her personal adversities to create her own successful business and help women around the country. She is a small-business consultant, international speaker and
frequent television and radio guest. She is the founder of Women's Small
Business Month and the Women's Small Business Expo and has more than
twenty years of experience running a small business. Visit her website and sign up for her blog and newsletter.

Please pass this on to other women and, and by the way, I think these tips are valuable for men too!