Women`s Venture Fund

START A GREAT BUSINESS

Start your business with confidence and a clear path to success with the help of the Women’s Venture Fund. Start a Great Business is designed to help women create the kind of businesses they dream of, so that they can have a meaningful life and enjoy the lifestyle they value. Starting a business in today’s economic climate can be difficult and expensive if you don’t take the necessary steps to build a strong foundation. Today’s economy is even more challenging than ever for young businesses everywhere. Women business failure rates have been tracked to lack of skills, planning, resources and limited vision.

A critical difference for women’s success is learning to develop effective strategies that support your values. Women are motivated differently when they start businesses as compared to men. For example, women focus on how they are contributing to their communities when they start a business, whereas men tend to simply focus on the bottom line. These differences in motivation mean that women need different techniques and strategies to achieve success. Success in today’s economy takes more knowledge, skills and creativity than ever before.  Become a successful entrepreneur by learning the habits and practices of successful entrepreneurs. The first and most important habit is to make sure you have the skills, knowledge and resources you need BEFORE you need them.

MARKETING BASICS

Need a foundation on which to build great marketing skills? Then Marketing Basics is right for you. Don’t let yourself become a failure statistic ……Don’t struggle for years trying to make your business a success ……

In our 4 hour long Marketing Basics course we cover:

• Basic concepts of gaining target customer knowledge
• Market research,
• The 3 “M’s”
• Developing your “Elevator Speech”
• Networking.

By joining our network of women business owners you have access to successful business owners today. Successful networking is the first skill you will want to focus on developing. Develop a clear roadmap to avoid the pitfalls and detours that first time entrepreneurs typically take and which cause 60% to fail in four years.