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For All Those New Female Entrepreneurs, The 5 Cs For Building A Successful Business

YoungUpstarts

By Marsha Friedman, CEO of EMSI Public Relations and author of “ Celebritize Yourself ”. Since 1997, women-owned businesses rose by 68 percent. Protect their sanity from the clients who want to chew them up and from new hires who don’t fit in and hurt morale. Hire an accountant to handle the financials. Commitment.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I figured if agencies did not want to hire me because I lacked experience I had to create my own. Now a full-service agency, lotus823 combines traditional public relations, progressive content marketing, search engine optimization, and social media as well as Amazon marketing and website design for fully integrated strategies.

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Neurodiversity: Marie O’Riordan on the sense of belonging

Transformify

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. Our guest today is Marie O’Riordan, Senior Public Relations & Communications Manager at Prepaid Financial Services.

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15 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

10 – Because No One Would Hire Me. Thanks to Arzu Yonak, Addicted Youth Public Relations. #12 In 1997 we were IT consultants. The last nine years have been an incredible journey, and it’s been a blessing to see this initial vision serve clients and their businesses. Thanks to Drew Harden, Blue Compass. #10

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

As I watched the new CEO hire and fire 3 regional VP’s I finally sat him down. Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year. Although I had worked for many years before, had a degree and now a post-graduate certificate no one was hiring me.