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Upcoming Teleconferences
Thursday, August 14, 2008 Doing Business with the US Department of Health and Human Services
Thursday, August 28, 2008
How to Create a Powerful Capability Statement
Attend this teleconference at NO COST
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Are you a sheep or an eagle?
There are two ways to look at the economy in relation to your business. I call them the Sheep and Eagle approaches to business development.
If you want to buy into the "woe is me, business is bad" mindset, feel free to because you have a lot of company. You can hear the call of this group all over the land: "Business is baaaadddddd."
There are great herds of these commiserating sheep milling around with no clear plan. Instead, these folks stop business development, stop marketing themselves and their business, cut costs to the core, and wait it out. They may or may not make it, but if they do, they better be sure-footed sheep, because they will have a huge mountain to climb to regain their business foothold and rebuild their market share.
The eagles, on the other hand, invest the energy and time to soar even higher and take a wider look at the entire market, assess where their efforts will give them the best results and then zero in on the most likely targets.
The eagles then commit themselves with certainty knowing that their efforts have an excellent chance of resulting in business. They take the plunge, snag the business, reinvest in more targeted marketing and business development and proactively grow their market share.
A wonderful thing about this is that, right now, you can choose to be either an eagle or a sheep. Contact us today, we'd like to show you how much better the view is from the eagle's perspective!
Here's to your success!
Gloria Berthold Larkin
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WIPP News & Updates
We Decide
To BusinessWomen and BusinessMen,
Do you need a really good reason to even consider joining another organization? How about seven? WIPP has made an incredibly positive impact for women (and men) business owners - and now is YOUR time to join and BE HEARD, just in time for the presidential election. Check out these seven reasons to join WIPP - I'd love to have YOU on my team!
Gloria
Legislative Updates
WIPP Works in Washington, by Ann Sullivan, WIPP Government Relations.
Take Action!
� The Retirement Security for Life Act (H.R.2205/S.1010)
� The SmallBusiness Health Options (SHOP) Act S.2795/H.R.6210
Click here to learn more
News
Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), the nation's largest bi-partisan group of women in business, applauds strong action taken by the Senate Appropriations Committee to halt implementation of the Small Business Administration's (SBA) proposed rule on women's procurement programs. The Committee, which appropriates funding for federal agencies, included a prohibition on funding the proposed rule's implementation in the Financial Services Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2009.
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U.S. Innovation is Strong - with Federal Help
Today's innovation is not your father's-or your grandfather's---innovation. The way that new products, services, and technologies emerge has changed. A new study sponsored by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation analyzes decades of data with interesting results. One major finding is that the role of Federal investments in supporting innovations has grown rapidly.
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Summer Book Recommendations
Need a few great business books to read for the rest of the summer? Here's a sampler of those recommended by the National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship.
Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
Awakening the Entrepreneur Within: How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
Who's Your City? How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
Birthing the Elephant: A Woman's Go-For-It Guide to Overcoming the Big Challenges of Launching a Business
The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By
Click here for more information on the top 14 recommended summer reading (and business savvy) books | |
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The 9 Secrets of Winning Proposal Graphics
Have you considered graphics to accompany your government proposals? Are your graphics communicating effectively?
"There are nine secrets that, if followed, increase your chances of success by 43%...Graphics, if used properly, are powerful tools in your business development aersenal...The graphics need to be meaningful and rendered well to be great."
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Baseball Meets Math and Science
Local Baseball Team Teaches Math and Science during Summer Home Games --- Testing fans' knowledge via their mobile phones.
This summer a minor league baseball team in Maryland, the Frederick Keys, is changing the way fans learn about baseball. The Keys have teamed up with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Hot Lava Software, Inc. to bring fans a new way to learn the science behind sports. The Sports Bytes Competition tests fans' knowledge of the science behind sports via their mobile phones. Throughout August the Keys will encourage fans attending the games to use their mobile phones in new and exciting ways to learn the science behind the baseball game as it unfolds before their eyes.
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