Top 20 Biz Women To Follow On Twitter – Round 2
Posted on 26. Sep, 2010 by Natalie in Entrepreneurs, Social Media
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 doing such a shout out. Almost all these fabulous women contacted me personally to say a big thanks (especially as I featured it on Forbes).
From this fortuitous yet unassuming move to write that post, I’m grateful for the many new friendships that were born from it. I was also excited at the recommendations many of you provided so some of these are included below.
Here I present 20 more awesome women to follow on Twitter for business, entrepreneurship and beyond.
Enjoy and please share and add your own to the list in the comments section. I intend to produce these every two months and there are so many more amazing women to profile!
Btw to make it super easy for you I’ve made a Twitter list (see image below) that you can just follow, it includes the last 20 too! Just follow it here.
WomanzWorld Top 20 Biz Women
Yes really the top 20 women for this month
@NaomiDunford is an outspoken character making business fun and manageable. With her fantastic site IttyBiz for small businesses she’s most known for co-creating `How to Sell the **** out of eBook (a great read by the way). She has a number of awesome free and paid for resources and products on her site. She’s a queen on Twitter with personality and pizzazz and she tells it straight up.
@Sheconomy is run by Stephanie Holland who takes pride in being able to reach a guy’s mind on marketing to women. She’s constantly putting out great facts and statistics on women in the marketplace and provides proof of why company brands should be marketing to us ladies. She also now on Twitter Grader’s 100 most influential women on twitter list.
@StartupPrincess Kelly operates Startup Princess, an organization for women entrepreneurs everywhere to network, learn, share and mentor one another and she’s gorgeous to boot. She works with her Fairy Godmothers to help you grow your business. She’s energizing, optimistic and has just held her 4th annual Touchpoint Conference for Women Entrepreneurs.
@SarahRobinson is helping us to escape mediocrity one biz adventure at a time. So you can see why I think she’s a breath of fresh air and also shares my viewpoint on life. She’s super accessible and real, smart, fun and funny. She’s also a perfect example of a great Twitterer. Enjoy.
@LizStrauss is the super talented Founder of Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference. She’s also an incredible brand strategist who is all about brilliance, fun and connecting with customers in a meaningful way. She also gives a ton of her time and energy celebrating others. A must follow.
@vickidonlan is an entrepreneur, a business coach, speaker and author of `Her Turn – Why It’s Time For Women To Lead in America’. She tweets pure business and is totally pro women entrepreneurs.
@women2 are an awesome group of ladies who have the awesome goal of increasing the number of female founders of tech startups. They’re based in San Francisco but hold Founder Friday events globally in connection with Startup Weekend. What’s more they do it for love.
PS I video interviewed the founder of Women 2.0@Shaherose while at Web 2.0. It’s a great watch. This bundle of energy is also a fantastic lady, totally worth a follow too.
@EntMagazineAmy is Amy Cosper, the Editor-in-Chief at Entrepreneur magazine and a lady after my own heart who loves Ducatis. That in my mind is one cool chick. Need I say more? She’s also really personable and engaging on Twitter with a good mix of fun and business.
@connectedwomen is run by the passionate Icelandic entrepreneur Runa Magnusdottir. It’s a great platform for women entrepreneurs worldwide to be seen, heard, promoted and empowered and she’s built a great international community of women entrepreneurs. I’m super excited for Runa’s launch of BrandIt in October that I wrote about.
@BeckyMcCray is a rural entrepreneur & publisher of Small Biz Survival http://www.smallbizsurvival.com She’s all about teaching new marketing and social media with TourismCurrents.com and learning from small town businesses about survival and community building. She’s got a great down to earth personality too.
@ewoman_magazine is run by the effervescent Cathy Watters who created this online ‘Entrepreneurial Woman Magazine’ for women who are running their own businesses. She’s super proactive in helping other women and promoting them which I love.
This is just to break up the text and remind you about the Twitter list I’ve lovingly created where you can find all these fab women here. PS what do you think of my avatar from Ivatar? More on that soon….
@DondiScumaci is a bestselling author of `Designed for Success: The 10 Commandments for Women in the Workplace’ and `Career Move’. She’s also an international speaker. But most imporatnatly she’s a champion for mentoring so you can rediscover your passion, overcome your fears, and create the life you’ve always wanted!
@Fabienne is the creator of Client Attraction System, a Millionaire Mompreneur, speaker, author and mentor on marketing and mindest – phew. She gives a great mix of advice and inspiration and she’s super enthusiastic on Twitter. She’s also great on video and her passion for what she does is evident.
@nataliemacneil is the founder of fantastic blog She Takes on the World that aims to ensure women create their career and live their dreams. She’s also got an excellent first name 
Natalie’s recently created the Women’s Business Academy and in her `spare’ time can be found living, breathing and speaking about business and entrepreneurship.
@JillFoster is the Founder of Live Your Talk and founding editor of WomenGrowBusiness.com. She brings together a big network of female entrepreneurs to discuss leadership, marketing, operations, talent retention, online presence, entrepreneurship, social technology, mentorship, failure and success – and well you get the gist.
@TheMogulMom Heather Allard is empowering mom entrepreneurs and helping them live happier, healthier, smarter and wealthier. She loves to share her lessons in being mom entrepreneur and does so with grace, humour and heart.
@ChiefHotMomma is the one and only Kathy Korman Frey who, since 2002 through the Hot Mommas® Project has produced award-winning role models on paper for women and girls that act as virtual mentors. She’s also the Women’s Entrepreneur Leadership Professor at GWU and an all around energy ball.
@RedHotCopy Lorrie is a red hot entrepreneur, mother and internet marketer who provides fabulous copywriting to appeal to conscious and female entrepreneurs. She’s also sassy and has style. Plus her Copywriting Bootcamp just sold out so she must be good! (Love that Lorrie uses Bootcamp too like my Social Media one – that’s a whole lotta ass kickin).
@jessmathews has a motto `Brilliant Business, Brilliant Life’ and it shows. She’s an inspired biz coach and entrepreneur, a mum, small business lawyer and like me, a supporter and fan of anyone who dreams of launching a business.
@ninakaufman is an award-winning business lawyer who is demystifying small business law for entrepreneurs. She’s also a speaker and blogger and writes for OpenForum, Entrepreneur mag and more. She’s naturally great at celebrating others successes and supporting people in business.
Natalie’s note: I recognise there are a wealth of women out there yet to be profiled, so please put your suggestions in a comment below. I also know that this is largely North American dominated so the next one will have an international flavour. Come tweet with me on @womanzworld and @nataliesisson
Kelly McCausey
26. Sep, 2010
Great list! I follow and have learned from many of them – top of the list for me would definitely be Lorrie Morgan Ferrero
Natalie
26. Sep, 2010
Thanks Kelly, I’m glad you’re prioritizing this list
Seriously though I have also learned a lot from these ladies and will continue to.
Gil Pizano
26. Sep, 2010
This is a very good list! Thank you for taking the time to put it together and sharing it with us.
Best Regards and Take Care!
Gil
Henriette Weber
26. Sep, 2010
Thank you for really great inspiration and a great list – followed some of these fierce ladies already, but you sure gave me reason to follow some more=)
Sharon McMillan
26. Sep, 2010
I read Kelly’s RT of this post and came right over. One of the ways twitter is useful for me is via the insight I gain from thoughtful tweets by interesting and productive members many of whom I find on resourceful lists like these. Thanks for putting this together.
Natalie
26. Sep, 2010
Fierce and fabulous they are.
Cathy Brooks
26. Sep, 2010
I’m honored to know some of these women and while you raise the point that it’s impossible to create a comprehensive list I think you’ve done a great job picking some wonderful women – especially because you’ve raised quite a few to my attention of whom I’ve never heard and now intend to seek them out!
Thanks for broadening the scope of broads
Natalie
26. Sep, 2010
Thanks so much Cathy. It actually took a long time to pull this together and write fitting words about the great ‘Broads’ so glad there’s some new names for you to connect with.
Cathy Watters
26. Sep, 2010
Hi Natalie!
Wow, what a wonderful surprise and honour. Thank you for including Entrepreneurial Woman Magazine (@ewoman_magazine) on your Top 20 list.
I’m now ‘following’ your top 20 list on twitter and I’m looking forward to getting to know more about the other women on the list as well.
Natalie
26. Sep, 2010
You’re so meant to be on there Cathy! And you’re in fine company
Stephanie Holland
27. Sep, 2010
Wow, I am completely humbled to be on this list! Thanks so much for putting this together!
Stephanie Watson
27. Sep, 2010
I read Kelly’s re-tweet of this post and ran over to read it. Lots of fabulous ladies on there! I didn’t discriminate and added everyone I wasn’t already following. I love learning from the best.
Heather Lopez
27. Sep, 2010
@Fabienne is speaking at my conference in Oct. The Super Mom Entrepreneur Conference & Expo will be held in NY on 10/30. http://www.supermompreneur.com I can’t wait to meet her in person as she is amazing!
Natalie MacNeil
27. Sep, 2010
Thanks for including me here Natalie. You’re awesome
Natalie
27. Sep, 2010
Great to hear Stephanie.
Natalie
27. Sep, 2010
You’re awesome, that’s why you’re on here!
Natalie
27. Sep, 2010
That’s fantastic to hear Heather.
Natalie
27. Sep, 2010
Oh you’re so welcome!
Bex
28. Sep, 2010
How wonderful…I’m always looking for inspiring women to follow. How convenient to have some wonderful suggestions all lined up here!!
Sofia Ribeiro
28. Sep, 2010
Great list Natalie, thanks for putting this together! I follow many of these fantastic women and everyday I learn something new from them. But you forgot to put your name down
Natalie
28. Sep, 2010
Oh thanks Sofia. I do believe I put both my Twitter handles at the bottom
That said I didn’t add myself to the list….hmmm
Alison
30. Sep, 2010
Great to see another list here – and I’m looking forward to the international version!
Ali
http://www.twitter.com/alisonrothwell
Natalie
01. Oct, 2010
Oh so am I! Any suggestions for me to add in?
acavoulacos
30. Nov, 2010
I love @PrtyYoungPro as well, a new online resource for young professional women. They’ve got great articles and useful advice (which has been a lifesaver since I started my first job) http://www.prettyyoungprofessional.com
NatalieSisson
30. Nov, 2010
@acavoulacos well you would as a cofounder and all
I’d like to know more about the name you’ve given the site, do you believe that younger women want to focus on being feminine and being business like too? Let me know more
acavoulacos
30. Nov, 2010
@NatalieSisson It’s an interesting debate, we we’ve certainly had one. We’ve had a positive response from the majority of people visiting our site – many of which are young professional women who want to be able to be seen as professional without having to erase the feminine aspect of their identity. Others were more opposed – some of which have changed their minds after hearing the rationale behind the site, some of which have not.
If you’re interested, you can find out more about the debate in our article “The Problem with Pretty”:
http://www.prettyyoungprofessional.com/hearitfromher/problem-with-pretty.html
NatalieSisson
30. Nov, 2010
@acavoulacos I thought there’d be some debate and the comments on that post are interesting for sure. I’m whole heartedly pro women in business also being feminine and embracing that. In fact it’s been proven that women have many characteristics that make them more successful that are inherently feminine. I like that you’ve discussed it on your site, I’d be inclined to have it under the about us – a `what’s behind our name’ page too. Congrats on starting your site and I’m sure you will be a huge benefit to many young women!
acavoulacos
30. Nov, 2010
@NatalieSisson Thanks for the suggestion, I think you’re absolutely right about adding it in the About Us section as well. And thanks for the support, I look forward to following developments from WomanzWorld as well!
melodygranger
21. Jul, 2011
This is an amazing list! I recognize & socialize with a few of these ladies. I’m looking forward to meeting more of them
Thanks for sharing these ladies with us!
Social Don
31. Jan, 2012
Great list! I would add Bex Mitchell (my wife and business partner), @socialbex, of Social Butterfly Marketing. She started Social Butterfly in her dining room and now flies across the country to meet with potential clients.
Also, our business model wouldn’t work if it wasn’t for all of the “mom-trepreneurs” who make up our workforce, our Social Butterflies.