http://isleofmanbizwomen.com Supporting women’s enterprise & professional development in the Isle of Man Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:36:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en February Tuesday Club is being hosted at Tracey Bell's Superclinic, 6pm Tuesday 16th Feb . . . For info and to RSVP, visit the event page by clicking here.  Tour the fabulous clinic and hear the story of Tracey Bell as a successful expanding Isle of Man business & brand....Free mini ... http://isleofmanbizwomen.com/2010/02/women-in-business-february-tuesday-club/ Women in Business learned about a major UK business support network at January's Third Tuesday event (19th Jan 2010 at The Courthouse) which was sponsored by Paragon. Over 40 attendees heard about the development of Forward Ladies from founder Etta Cohen. Nine years ago, Forward Ladies started as a couple of ladies meeting every 6 months ... http://isleofmanbizwomen.com/2010/01/onward-forward-ladies/ We are very lucky to welcome Etta Cohen, founder of women's networking club Forward Ladies as our speaker to the first Tuesday Club get together of 2010.  Forward Ladies was founded in  2000, and much like our own Women in Business group, it began as a small group of professional ... http://isleofmanbizwomen.com/2010/01/wib-talking-tuesday-club-january-2010/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] The Daily Telegraph has picked up on the debate about so called 'lipstick entrepreneurs.  Read on: “Lipstick entrepreneurs” are emerging from their beauty parlours and sleep deprived “mumpreneurs” are finally cleaning all that baby puke from their hair to become fully fledged “domestecutives”. Simply being ... http://isleofmanbizwomen.com/2010/01/lipstick-entrepreneur-debate-continues/ The recession is helping to kick-start a home-based business economy. A third of those questioned in the latest Home Business Survey said they started their home-based business within the last year, highlighting the entrepreneurial spirit that has emerged from the downturn. The increase of 300,000 home-based businesses means there are now ... http://isleofmanbizwomen.com/2010/01/home-businesses-are-booming-check-out-the-home-business-report-by-enterprise-nation/ This article is from www.enterprisenation.co.uk . In the last 25 years Dee Blick has witnessed more than her fair share of good, bad and indifferent adverts. ‘I would like to think that I’ve been responsible for writing more good adverts than bad’ says Dee ‘but in my early years ... http://isleofmanbizwomen.com/2010/01/it-can-pay-to-advertise/ Image via Wikipedia Budge over, boys. The next decade will be women’s, if a recent forecast is to be believed. “A tenfold increase in the number of female CEOs in FTSE 100 companies!”, “Double the number of female MPs!”, “100% growth in women-owned start-ups!” — these predictions come from the trendspotter Jeremy ... http://isleofmanbizwomen.com/2010/01/meet-the-lipstick-entrepreneurs/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="135" caption="Image by Getty Images via Daylife"][/caption] Rebel Cole and Hamid Mehran studied data from the Federal Reserve’s Surveys of Small Business Finances (SSBFs) for the years 1987 - 2003 and published their findings in an August 2009 study titled, "Gender and the Availability of Credit to Privately ... http://isleofmanbizwomen.com/2009/12/are-business-women-getting-the-credit-they-deserve/ Image via Wikipedia Norway and France are bringing in legislation forcing companies to welcome women into the boardroom. The HR Zone blog has an excellent post giving the details and arguing for something similar in the UK. According to the blog, just over one in ten (11%) of the FTSE 100 company ... http://isleofmanbizwomen.com/2009/12/legislating-women-into-the-boardroom/ Tonight was Women In Business's Tuesday Club meeting and the focus was on 'speed networking'. Think line dancing meets speeds dating meets networking.  Fifty business women showed up and we each got a chance to chat to ten individuals one on one.  Here's some video clips of some of the ... http://isleofmanbizwomen.com/2009/11/speed-networking-in-the-isle-of-man/