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The Art of the Email Introduction
I love connecting people in business! I love the moment where someone I meet MUST know someone in my world. I love seeing someone with a need and having a solid and trusted resource for them to connect to for the solution they seek. I pride myself in making powerful and purposeful introductions. It came from a series of experiences early on my entrepreneurial journey where introductions were made for me that left me wondering, “What was the introducer thinking?” Here’s my alw
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Friday's Featured Entrepreneur - Pia Larson - Fingerprint Marketing
Describe yourself – I am the Chief Imagination Officer at Fingerprint Marketing. I help small businesses leave a unique fingerprint online through custom designed websites. I identify what makes you unique and help you increase your leads and clients by cutting through the digital noise. 80% of potential clients are looking for you on their phone and you only have 8 seconds to capture their attention. What I do differently than most digital design studios is bring business an
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Stay In Your Lane
With the Olympics the past couple of weeks, it was hard as a business coach for women not to see all to correlations between athletics and business. It was a recent conversation with a friend that occurred on the night of the Michael Phelps win in the 200 M Butterfly when Chad Le Close is captured looking at him and not the goal that this idea really hit home. And then reinforced when Katie Ledecky at just 19 won her gold by 11 seconds – I was profoundly struck by the image o
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You have the time. You just value something else more.
This past week I attended my 9th eWomenNetwork International Conference. It was a rich experience as always filled with many connections with familiar faces and friends, and met some amazing new women entrepreneurs. The main reason I attend each year is because of the chance to sit at the feet of some of the wisest men and women in business and hear their wisdom through my present place. We all know that we hear the message we need when we are ready to receive it. This year o
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Friday's Featured Entrepreneur - Patricia Wangsness, Real Estate Professional and Founder of Red
Describe yourself – I am a classic overachiever that loves a challenge and coming up with better solutions to problems that I encounter.Being from the east coast, I talk faster, want things to move along faster and have been known to be more “plain spoken,” than many of the folks, here in the Pacific Northwest. My senior year in collage I ran 3 small campus-based businesses, which started the desire to own my own business and for the past 22 years, I have been able to mainta
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