Welcome to all the brand new Smart Women Members this week! I am off to speak about opportunities women have right now in the current economy on CBS in Memphis and in Nashville. Would love for you to tune in during the morning business segments if you live in those areas. I am also really looking forward to staying at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis. They have a wonderful family of ducks that live at the hotel and are escorted to the fountain in the lobby I believe a few times a day. Lucky ducks!

Congratulations to this month’s Twitter Contest Winners:

1st Prize – Ticket to Smart Women Event goes to @ShawnaHarper
2nd Prize – Free Smart Women Membership goes to @ColortheUnivers
3rd Prize – Smart Women Business and Marketing Planner goes to @MarieCornelio

Brand New Smart Women’s 8 Week Course Starting in August!

Today is the last day to take advantage of the Early Bird discounts for our next online course at http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com/createnetwork If you want to grab the discount links, just subscribe to the primer preview series here and the autoresponder will go right out to you. Note, you will not find the discount links on the page above. Enjoy the preview calls, a number of my past and current clients came on the calls to talk about their fast results using this model.

Have a great week,

Sheri McConnell

The Smart Women’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Learning™

http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com

PS – This intro was taken from our latest newsletter.  Not getting our newsletter?  Sign up by clicking on “Send My Kit” at the TOP of this page and you’ll also receive our FREE Smart Steps to Success kit!

The Real Reason You Do Agreements
by Alexis Martin Neely (Smart Women Institute Faculty Member)

I’ve talked with so many business owners recently who are doing business with undocumented agreements.

Hand shake deals.

They tell me they intend to get it done, but we both know the truth … they won’t.

I get it – I experience a lot of my own personal resistance to getting agreements documented.

Getting written agreements in place brings up a lot of stuff that can be challenging to deal with.

Just the other day though I was reminded of how important it is.

Tina Forsyth hired me to create custom Terms of Service for the website for her THRIVE Hiring System and a template agreement that business owners who invest in the THRIVE Hiring System can use before hiring.

Before I began work, I sent Tina an agreement confirming what I understood the scope of work to be and it’s a good thing I did because I was slightly wrong about what I thought I was doing for her.

Had I gotten right to work without sending her the agreement for review/signature (as many of you are doing!), I would have wasted my time and hers.

This is why you do agreements – clarity, certainty, the best possible chance of success in your relationships, which means more work with less time and more ease.

Who knew you could get all that from an agreement?!?

Do you use agreements in all your business dealings? If not, why not? How can I help?

Read more about Alexis on our faculty page – Click Here

Welcome to all the brand new Smart Women members this week! And a big huge welcome to all the amazing women I met last week at the EWomenNetwork’s 10th Anniversary Conference in Dallas. We have lots of pictures posted here of you. Enjoy!

We also started some amazing preview calls this week for leaders and visionaries! Click this link: http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com/teleseminar for more info on the content we are covering and to sign up for the free preview calls and if you want to go ahead and check out the entire course, you can do that below. Enjoy the preview calls!

Brand New Smart Women’s 8 Week Course Starting in August!

For the first time, I am teaching an Eight Week Course with Step-by-Step Instruction where I will hold your hand as you create and launch your own network the right way! This course will include weekly training calls, weekly Q & As, and weekly individual hotseats in a group setting. Plus A LOT more! Find out all the details here http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com/createnetwork and register soon so we can go ahead and send you some of the amazing bonuses.

Have a great week,

Sheri McConnell

The Smart Women’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Learning™

http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com

PS – This intro was taken from our latest newsletter.  Not getting our newsletter?  Sign up by clicking on “Send My Kit” at the TOP of this page and you’ll also receive our FREE Smart Steps to Success kit!

Welcome to all the brand new Smart Women members this week! I hope you enjoyed this week’s monthly bonus call with Jessica Eaves Mathews on building a strong business foundation. Members can download the call on your Core Curriculum page and if you missed it, you can still join today and access it immediately! Click Here

I also want to invite you to a series of informational Preview Calls on our new 8 Week Create A Network Course that start on July 20th at 2 pm CST. Click this link, http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com/teleseminar for more info. and to sign up for the free preview calls and if you want to go ahead and check out the entire course, you can do that below. Enjoy the preview calls!

Brand New Smart Women’s 8 Week Course Starting in August!

For the first time, I am teaching an Eight Week Course with Step-by-Step Instruction where I will hold your hand as you create and launch your own network the right way! This course will include weekly training calls, weekly Q & As, and weekly individual hotseats in a group setting. Plus A LOT more! Find out all the details here http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com/createnetwork and register soon so we can go ahead and send you some of the amazing bonuses.

Eating For Beauty
by JJ.Virgin (Smart Women Institute Faculty Member)

In my new book, “Six Weeks to Sleeveless and Sexy,” I’m not taking away your favorite foods, but instead helping you make lateral shifts for great health and to lose weight.

Now a confession: Many of the foods that I want you to shift towards will also help you look younger, reduce wrinkles and keep your skin in great condition.

You’re welcome!

But seriously….beauty experts have known forever that creams can only do so much. What you eat directly relates to how your skin looks – and how it ages. For examples, if you’re someone who ingests a lot of sugar through juice or cola then your body will be working overtime to process all that high fructose corn syrup in these products. That sugar overload will create inflammation that will make your skin look older and saggy while making it more prone to wrinkles.

That’s the bad news. The great news is that there are so many foods you can eat that do “double duty beauty.” You’re slimming down with the “side effect” being a natural glow that makes you lose five to ten years off your face. Ever see someone who has lost weight and they suddenly look like they turned back the hands of time? The reason is they’re probably eating foods that support great skin. To that end, why not try these meal suggestions from my new book:

*Fresh salmon with a side of spinach for dinner

The anti-inflammatory properties in the omega-happy salmon will make your skin glow and get rid of any bags under your eyes while the Vitamin A in the leafy greens like spinach helps support skin healing.

*Oatmeal topped with chopped walnuts 

The oatmeal is a high in fiber, keeping you fuller, longer and the walnuts give you a dose of heart and skin healthy optimal fats.

*Coconut milk for a quick stir fry or avocado slices on your turkey burgers.

These are healthy fats and your skin craves a little fat for hydration. Ever see someone with that crusty dry skin? Perhaps the problem is they have little good fat in their diets. By hydrating from the inside out with good fats, you may even help prevent wrinkles. And if you’re following my Sexy Arms program, that hydration will help make your new gorgeous arms look beautiful, soft and hydrated when you show ‘em off.

*Mixed berries for dessert

High in fiber and low on the glycemic index, these delicious antoxidant gems also help protect you from sun damage and help your skin stay youthful.

*Green tea as a drink or water with lemon.

The green tea is a wonderful anti-oxidant that does the same thing as the blueberries. It gives you stronger skin, plus helps fight harmful lights. The water will detoxify and hydrate.

As you can see, you’re gorgeous from the inside out. Now, please pass the strawberries.

Dear Smart Woman,

Welcome to all the new Smart Women Members this week!

Thank you to everyone who “played” with us during our Smart Women Know Their WHY book launch last week, we are grateful to everyone who purchased or promoted (or did both!) Because of YOU, we reached #11 in entrepreneurship at Amazon and I was the only woman author in the top 25 that day! Maybe competing with the hoopla of Twilight’s Eclipse movie launch was just too much for us to hit #1. Either way, I am forever grateful that so many women are now on their way to finding their WHY and being part of the WHY Movement.

Brand New Smart Women’s 8 Week Course Starting in August!

For the first time, I am teaching an Eight Week Course with Step-by-Step Instruction where I will hold your hand as you create and launch your own network the right way! This course will include weekly training calls, weekly Q & As, and weekly individual hotseats in a group setting. Plus A LOT more! Find out all the details here http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com/createnetwork and register soon so we can go ahead and send you some of the amazing bonuses.

Have a great week,

Sheri McConnell

The Smart Women’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Learning™

http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com

PS – This intro was taken from our latest newsletter.  Not getting our newsletter?  Sign up by clicking on “Send My Kit” at the TOP of this page and you’ll also receive our FREE Smart Steps to Success kit!

Chickens Came First, At Least Last Week | An Example of New Business Opportunities and the Importance of Keeping Moving
by Andrea J. Lee (Smart Women Institute Faculty Member)

As a business coach, I often hear the plaintive sounds of those newer in business:

“Andrea, when will I be done?”

Done, as in finished building the business. Completed. Complete.

Of course, the answer is never, but I do try to break the news gently.  Still, there IS delight in the fact that nothing is ever done, I think. There IS joy to be found in the ever-moving nature of Planet Entrepreneur.

A great example of this comes in the form of a by-law that was recently passed in the city of Vancouver, allowing the keeping of chickens in urban backyards.  Prior to May 18, 2010 – it was not lawful to raise chickens in your yard.  Now, by stroke of executive pen, it is.

And with that, a whirlwind of commerce begins.

Chicks… Roosters, of course…. Hens. All the accoutrements to keep them including food, shelter, and of course, information.

What to do when the urban chicken gets sick?

How to cope when the coop gets overcrowded, or, dare I say flown?

Is it true that sometimes an egg can get stuck and what is the proper handling of such circumstance – ebook, or better yet, educational video, anyone??

When and exactly how to, err… not just properly husband the beginning of life – the eggs – but…well… you know.

(Now’s probably not the time to tell you about the ‘pet’ bunny rabbits our cousins had as children…another time over wine, then.)

And then there’s the infrastructure.  Chicken resource directories. Chicken swap tweetups. Insert your idea here. (Go on, you know you can!)

If you look closely, or think just a few moments longer than usual, you’ll see that in this example, current as of just last week, is a pattern.  It’s a pattern of activity, behavior, consumption and BIRTH of VALUE that occurs when something new (that someone wants) comes onto the scene.

The City of Vancouver may have thought of this as a quelling of a small urban uprising.  Responding to a group of people intent on taking control of a part of their lives, their food chain, their sense of capability. But the bylaw that was passed was even more important in my eyes for one reason – it stepped out of the way and allowed the birth of value to occur.

Commerce, of the great kind, the kind that really matters, is just human behavior that follows the creation of value.

What added-value can you create today?

How can you over-deliver on your promises to contribute value, to your customers?

When might it be useful to think about the value you add as a citizen of the world (who also happens to be an entrepreneur) as opposed to ‘how much money can I make?’

If you fall on the other side of the spectrum, when is it useful to seize the opportunity to make money as a result of value?

Comments, questions, answers, debate, are all welcome.

Read more about Andrea on our faculty page – Click Here

July Bonus Teleseminar for Smart Women Members!

Title: A Smart Women’s 4 Simple Steps For Building a Foundation for Business Brilliance

with Jessica Eaves Mathews

On this call, you will learn:

(1) Make it a Brilliant Beginning (entity choice, how to prevent losing that entity status, handling business funds, etc….):
(2) Protect Your Brilliant Ideas (copyright and trademark basics, NDAs, etc…)
(3) Setting up A Brilliant Website (what to have on your website, including Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, Earnings Disclaimers; following FTC rules on affiliates/testimonials, etc…)
(4) Working Brilliantly with Others (how to use contracts to protect yourself and your relationships, working with independent contractors, hiring employees, etc…)

Date: July 13th at 2 pm Central (Noon PST, 1 pm MST, and 3 pm EST)

Jessica Eaves Mathews’ Biography
Jessica Eaves Mathews is America’s Advocate for Women in Business. She is passionate about helping women launch wealth-building businesses infused with authenticity & passion.
Jessica is a seasoned business lawyer, advisor and coach for business owners and entrepreneurs. She is also a multi-passionate entrepreneur herself, having launched a number of successful
ventures of her own throughout the past 15 years.

Jessica has had a wonderfully successful career as a lawyer. She has spent her career representing businesses and business owners, from solopreneurs, to mom and pop stores and restaurants, to professional service-providers to Fortune 500 companies. She has even represented some of the most successful and most wealthy entrepreneurs in the world. She has been there in every phase of the business life cycle from start-up on.
She has also been a successful entrepreneur in her own right for almost a full decade.

However, she has always suffered from entrepreneurial ADD because she has never wanted to be defined as “just a lawyer.” Her heart has always been drawn to creating businesses out of her creativity and passions. And over the years, she found that her clients, friends and family regularly sought her out for advice, support and guidance on how to launch and run their own businesses. As a result, Jessica shed her role as “just a lawyer” and realized her own dream of devoting her time and energies to helping women business owners reach their own dreams and goals through their own businesses.

Her Business Brilliance™ brand is dedicated to empowering women with the tools they need to create a life of personal and financial brilliance through entrepreneurship. Through her dynamic Business Brilliance Blueprint™ programs, books, live events and ezines, Jessica guides women entrepreneurs through the emotional and practical steps toward a rock solid business that empowers and liberates women to have a brilliant business and brilliant life on their own terms.

Jessica’s professional activities include:
• Expert blogger for StartupNation (www.startupnation.com),
• Adjunct faculty member for the Smart Women’s Institute of Entrepreneurial Learning
(http://www.sherimcconnell.com/faculty/),
• An eLearning expert for MOMeo, the online community for mompreneurs
(http://www.momeostore.com/index.html),
• An expert on the up-coming reality life makeover show for women on the Oxygen
network, 180: Life and Style Makeovers,
• Author of the soon-to-be-released book, Brilliant Business, Brilliant Life: A Woman’s
Handbook to Having it All! (release date: August 2010).
She also has a successful golf clothing line for women called Grace & Game Golf,
www.graceandgame.com.

In her free time, Jessica loves spending time in her Corrales, New Mexico home with her daughter, where they ride and show their Arabian horses, play with their three, silly, large doggies, and enjoy the New Mexico sun.

How do I Register?

This is a monthly bonus teleseminar for Smart Women Members. If you are a member already, call in details are on your Member login page. If you need your password, e-mail us at support@smartwomeninstitute.com

Not a member yet? You can join now and enjoy this teleseminar and so much more at Membership Benefits.

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