Archive for September, 2010
Interview With Adventurer, Entrepreneur and TV Show Host Ingrid Vanderveldt
Posted on 29. Sep, 2010 by Natalie.
If you’ve ever envisioned yourself as superwoman then perhaps you’d like to forge a path of entrepreneurship and adventure like Ingrid Vanderveldt is. If you need large doses of inspiration and that gung ho attitude to get you on the road to success, this interview will definitely provide it. Ingrid Vanderveldt is the CEO of Clean-Air Conversions, Chief [...]
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Top 20 Biz Women To Follow On Twitter – Round 2
Posted on 26. Sep, 2010 by Natalie.
Late July I decided to honour some top ladies doing excellent work on Twitter and in the business world that I personally followed and engaged with. For some fantastic reason you loved it. I loved it. The world loved it…ok well maybe that’s a tad over the top. I hadn’t thought about the `repercussions’ of [...]
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Create Your Daily Power Hour. Reclaim Your Time.
Posted on 23. Sep, 2010 by Natalie.
Does this sound like you? Your alarm goes off on your phone and you wake up a little groggy. Immediately you check your emails and answer some. You then turn to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to see your updates and notifications and attend to any `urgent’ business. Before you know it over 30 minutes has [...]
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3 Hot New Social Media Updates From the Big Players
Posted on 20. Sep, 2010 by Natalie.
So in my `official’ role as a Personal Trainer I feel I owe it to you to keep you abreast of the latest exercises I’m conducting with my current Social Media bootcamps. In addition to my bootcamp attendees telling me how overwhelming it can be to learn all the tools, those very tools then go out [...]
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Toolkit Set 2: 7 Fantastic Tools Your Business Should Know About
Posted on 16. Sep, 2010 by Natalie.
Due to popular demand on my first set of recommendations, here’s my second set of wonderful business tools every entrepreneur should check out. Nobody likes accounting, well I don’t and that’s why so many people love Freshbooks. It has a great interface that makes it incredibly user friendly. It is amazing for invoicing your clients [...]
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Why Billionaire Donald Trump’s Secret To Success Is Not A Secret
Posted on 14. Sep, 2010 by Natalie.
When I actually make time for it, I like to read or watch videos of entrepreneurs’ success stories from around the world. It’s fairly obvious to me why this is a habit we should all form, but just in case you don’t see it for yourself, here’s why: One it inspires you to keep on [...]
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Are You A Social Media Snob Or A Non-Believer?
Posted on 12. Sep, 2010 by Natalie.
I had an amusing experience last week where I was discussing with my friends how we were addicted to social media and how hanging out with people who weren’t on it was causing problems – of snobbery. Ok so that may be a little over the top, but it’s kind of true. As I took [...]
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How Creative Entrepreneur Tara Agacayak Used A Turkish Bazaar, eBay And Social Media To Create A Life Of Freedom
Posted on 09. Sep, 2010 by Natalie.
Through the power of Twitter I was fortunate enough to meet Tara Agacayak. We started a conversation and before you know it we were Skyping. She’s led a pretty fascinating life thanks to a chain of events and life changes. She’s gone from a corporate career in IT to selling goods from a Turkish Bazaar on [...]
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Four Ways To Get An Angel Investor To Part With Their Cash
Posted on 06. Sep, 2010 by Natalie.
It’s a well known fact that one of the biggest challenges a new business faces is securing adequate financing. While I am a big advocate of bootstrapping for as long as you can, there comes a time when you just need more money. One of the primary ways that you can do this, if you [...]
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10 Ways To Create a Winning Work Environment
Posted on 03. Sep, 2010 by Natalie.
This is a guest post from Ruth Fearnley, a research student in educational theory at the University of Waikato New Zealand, that touches on a topic dear to my heart – the best working environment for you. Recently I spent two and a half years in an open plan office. Lighting and temperature were effectively [...]

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