Women in business

Pauline Nguyen grew up watching her parents work too hard at running their own business.

It’s always been easy to blame your failed efforts at recreating favourite dishes from restaurants or TV chefs on your lack of an industrial kitchen – until now.

Conversations are the new black; at least when it comes to marketing to mothers.

Today 150 female entrepreneurs from 14 countries have converged on Istanbul in Turkey for the annual global Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network (DWEN) conference.

Dynamic Business recently sat down for breakfast with the League of Extraordinary Women at Sydney’s VIVO Cafe.

Win one of ten tickets to the Australian Businesswomen’s Network’s online course helping small business owners make the most of the online and social media world.

Over 95 of workers believe women need greater flexibility with hours and location in order to return to work, new research has revealed.

A popular Australian dog grooming business knows how to keep its franchisees happy, recently welcoming back a member of the team after ten years absence.

According to The Westpac Women and Technology Report, women are three times more likely than their male peers to use a smartphone to do their online banking.

This week six successful female entrepreneurs got together to discuss business, women in business, networking and everything in between. This is what they talked about.

Female entrepreneurs from a variety of industries are sharing their knowledge and opinions at a roundtable this week presented by BlueChip Communications and Dynamic Business.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard, in a surprise announcement, has released the date of the next Federal election.

As the founder of a life-coaching business, Geraldine Moran knows how to motivate people to achieve their goals. But while she was helping others move forward, she also had her own challenges to overcome.

The Australian Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AWCCI) is organising a marketing workshop for female entrepreneurs as a response to new findings revealing women struggle the most with marketing.

Stereotypes about the sexes are as old as the hills, and have little proof. If men and women acknowledge their strengths and weaknesses then leaders of any sex will get ahead.

More than 50 percent of female business owners are unable to pay themselves a wage after they start up, according to new research, which has led an industry body to call for female entrepreneurs to be given better access to government contracts.

Many female entrepreneurs are limited because they underestimate their potential to grow a solo business. In an effort to inspire and empower solo entrepreneurs, the international telesummit ‘Startup Small—Dream Big—Grow Fast’ will provide women with strategies to reach solo success.

Your Friday Entrepreneur Fix this week features Emma Isaacs, the owner of the country’s most loved and successful networking businesses, Business Chicks.

Dynamic Business has learned that NSW Trade & Investment has today confirmed it is cutting all of its small business event programs. These include Small Business September, MicroBiz Week, the Young Entrepreneurs program and, ironically on International Women’s Day, the Women in Business mentoring program.

One year on, we check to see how the recovery process is going among Queensland small businesses affected by last year’s floods.