Takia McClendon’s built an incredibly engaged fitness community and business with City Fit Girls. Read how she created an impressive social media and newsletter following.
The goal of any good elevator pitch is to get the next conversation. There are five components to an unforgettable personal pitch, all of which come together to make you stand out.
Teresa Densmore is a Team Brazen Member and the director of Art Restart, a social enterprise which provides opportunities for women experiencing poverty to transform their lives through the sales of their art.
As an entrepreneur, you’ve heard about the importance of networking. But how do you actually do it?
A woman-owned business certification is a great support for your business, but only if you leverage it smartly.
What’s your superpower? What’s the magic that you bring to the table that makes your customers come back again and again? It turns out that your business superpower is your value proposition.
SMART marketing strategies allow you to gain more time, freedom, leads and clients without having to do extra work.
When running your own business and representing your own brand, it’s important to tell an origin story.
Tamara Keefe once thought she would open a single ice cream shop, but today her innovations are changing the ice cream game at Clementine’s Naughty & Nice Creamery
LinkedIn offers the opportunity for you to make the most of your personal network and take advantage of your connections for the benefit of your business.
Women only represent 20% of the manufacturing workforce, but many entrepreneurs face manufacturing, supply chain and distribution challenges. The latest Brazen roundtable brought together experts to share what they’ve learned along the way.
Tech CEO, Joy Kirven, tells us how the decision to attend one event changed her career path and kickstarted her entrepreneurial journey.
Looking for tools to help your business run more efficiently and successfully scale? These options could help.
At an inspiring and engaging Roundtable, we heard relatable struggles AND success stories from two powerful and influential women entrepreneurs in the retail industry.
Tenacity and daring to do things differently. KT Speetzen, of Mother Cluckers Comedy, LLC, tells us how she used these two “superpowers” to go from stay-at-home mom to CEO.
The business plan is a living thing open for adjustment.
The entire competition process kept me on the edge with just the right amount of stress (the healthy kind that kicks you into action) and humbleness.
Marketing expert, Sarah Abboreno Corbin, tells us what every business owner needs to know about data collection.
Ask the hard questions. And then listen to the answers…we guarantee you will feel more confident taking the next steps to pursue that market in earnest and grow this wonderful business of yours.
A strength of mine is “Ideation” (or, as I sometimes self-deprecatingly refer to it, “Daydreaming”). I’m energized by developing and pursuing new ideas.
You may have convinced yourself that you don’t need to complete market research for a variety of reasons, and we’re here today to debunk them all and prove that investing some time into market research is a worthwhile investment in the success of your business.
We checked in with a few bad ass boss ladies to find out the inspiration behind their business ideas.
Entrepreneurs can get stuck in an “I can do it all” mentality, but we all need outside opinions to help us grow, and this goes double for entrepreneurs.
I am self-driven. You have to be able to push yourself to get things done because no one is coming around to make sure you get them done.
Today, so many connections were made between women of varying nationalities, ethnicities, color, and creed. But most importantly, black and brown women were heard and seen.
Daylight Savings Time starts this weekend, which means we lose an extra hour of our day on Sunday. But what if we could all be given an extra hour in the day, every day?
Knowing your pitch and setting goals for the interaction will make you more comfortable and confident as you engage people in your idea.
Katy Thomas is the founder of GiG{a}BiT Rocks, a tour planning platform for independent artists. It can be utilized for a “power weekend”, national, and even world-wide tours.
Why listen to feedback from others? They might know something you don’t. Never stop seeking feedback on your business.
Brazen St. Louis hosted a member roundtable to discuss best practices for managing finances in the new year to meet financial and business goals.
Maybe you already follow some of these pieces of advice, maybe you’ve heard some of them before, or maybe some are brand new, but we think learning from a network of other women entrepreneurs is invaluable in growing your own business.
Just as there is a difference between an idea and a product, there is a difference between an innovation and a scalable business. Something might be interesting, and even needed, but that doesn’t mean you’ve got a business.
Entrepreneurs often have so many ideas that it’s difficult to pick one and get started. But the upside of that entrepreneurial spirit is that you are tenacious and driven towards your goal. So go for it!
Perfectly Placed provides professional organizing services that eliminate clutter and find the perfect place for everything in your home so you can focus on what matters most.
From the start, I am going to be more mindful of cash flow. I also am utilizing real metric systems to capture data – instead of just assuming things that may not be entirely accurate.
Determining Spend to Market a Women-Owned Business
I have been treated differently because I am a Black woman….It was hard at first to ignore, but now I use it as my power to move forward and be a role model to others.
Accounting expert Lynnae Robinson weighs in with some habits to adapt and tips to remembers that make your end of year accounting (and tax season!) so much easier.
Sometimes we’re just too busy to digest more than tweet-sized news! Who are 10 women entrepreneurs we love to follow?
If a new candidate can communicate with me with confidence and vulnerability at the same time, that’s a great sign. This is more important to me than their hard skills in a lot of cases.
This is the only way to do business and build a business that is sustainable. If we cannot create a win-win-win, then we are not interested.
The reality is that you might go and see ten potential investors and nine of them might not like your idea at all, but all you need is one. I believe that just about any idea can be sold with the right amount of confidence.
So you think you’re not “tech?” Think again! Brazen Members has the opportunity to meet and speak with Lisa Nichols of Technology Partners, who debunked some tech myths and demystified some intimidating aspects of technology.
Jessica Bennett, author of Feminist Fight Club, and New York Times contributing writer, was recently in St. Louis for the Women’s Foundation’s annual Making a
It felt scary at the time, but looking back I am excited to think about it because I was actually living my dream.
It didn’t feel like work. I was building a brand and an organization exactly how I envisioned it. I took the best of the three organizations I had worked for and left the rest.