Small Business Start Up Coach & Online Accidental Pren-her™ Providing Value, Inspiration and Direction to Entrepreneurial Women Starting Up and Launching Small Businesses As a coach, consultant, and soon-to-be author of The Accidental Prenher: Discovering Your Inner Samurai, Susan provides clients with intuitive small business solutions, fresh start perspectives, and powerful attraction marketing tools to help them transform their start up woes into start up goes.

• How to Thrive Through This Recession, Jack Canfield Style
  17/04/2008 | Small Business
  We're hearing a lot about the economy lately. Just this week, Alan Greenspan actually said "the r word" by announcing that the United States is in a recession. The good news is that a recession is not a depression. To be successful, you need to become informed about what a recession is and what steps you can take to thrive in the midst of one. Here are 5 Simple Steps for Thriving through a Recession. Read
  
• Ladies . . . Start Your Engines!
  02/04/2008 | Marketing
  Have you ever watched the Indy 500? The beginning is always dramatic. The audience cheers when it hears, “Gentlemen . . . start your engines!” These 4 words announce the start of something big. Writing a promotion plan is the start of something big, too. So why aren’t more women-owned businesses taking the time to write one? Read the Top 5 Reasons Women Business Owners Put Off Writing Promotion Plans & 7 Affordable Things You Can Do to Jump-start Your Promotion Plan. Read
  
• What is a Nice Green Business Like You Doing Without a Plan?
  18/03/2008 | Strategic Planning
  Are you the owner of a green business? Or are you thinking of starting one? If so, there's something you know you need. You know how important it is to your business success. Unfortunately, you've also heard how complex, time consuming, boring, and, quite frankly, not very green it is. What am I talking about? A business plan. Most people would rather have a root canal than write a business plan. That is, until now... Read
  
• The Coup De Grâce for Sustainable Long-term Success
  02/03/2008 | Strategic Planning
  Goals. We’ve all set them. We all know the sting of defeat when we don’t reach them. So why do we sometimes fail to reach our most cherished goals? The number one reason goals fail is because we start out by identifying our goals. Determining what our goals are is actually the second step. There is an all-important “step number one” we often leave out. What is this all-important first step? Here are the Five Steps to Align Yourself with Success. Read
  
• Is Midlife Entrepreneurship for You?
  19/02/2008 | Entrepreneurship
  Do you think entrepreneurship is just for the young? That anyone past 50 is too old to start up a business? That midlife is when you should be thinking about retiring and preparing to live on less? If you do, then midlife entrepreneurship isn't for you. However, if you like to call the shots and live life on your own terms, then midlife entrepreneurship may be right for you. Here are 10 Reasons for Becoming a Midlife Entrepreneur. Read
  
• Help! I Am Having a Career Transition Crisis!
  01/02/2008 | Career Management
  Have you been waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, panicked about your future, wondering if you’re going to be able to make things work out? Is your mind racing as you contemplate options, unsure about what to do and where to go from here? If so, you are in the midst of a career transition crisis. Transitions are rough. They’re hard on your body, spirit, and emotions. Here are the top 10 things you can do to stabilize your transition. Read
  
• Recession-proof your Small Business in 2008
  18/01/2008 | Small Business
  How safe is your business if the U.S. experiences a recession this year? Will it do well, continuing along its productivity and growth projectory? Or will it dissolve into ruin, going belly-up as consumers hunker down by reducing spending? What if there were a simple solution to ensure your business productivity and growth, no matter what the economy does? Here are 7 sure-fire ways to increase productivity — not just a little, but by 20 percent! Read
  
• Don’t Set Any Goals This New Year . . . Without Applying the 60-40 Rule
  03/01/2008 | Goal Setting
  It’s the New Year — when people traditionally set resolutions. Ever notice, though, that setting long-term goals doesn’t work? The problem is goals are made in the present, for the future. But the present is always changing. So if you’ve set a static goal for a future time in an ever changing present, it’s almost impossible to meet that goal. Not all is lost, though! Here's a new way to accomplish all you've set out to achieve - the 60-40 Rule. Read
  
• Why Aren’t Women Making the Big Bucks?
  16/12/2007 | Entrepreneurship
  Women continue to open businesses in the US at twice the rate of men. The Center for Women's Research states there are 10.4 million women-owned US businesses. What's not talked about is that those businesses aren’t doing all that well. According to The Women Presidents' Organization, 43% of all women-owned businesses have annual revenue of $10,000 or less. Why aren’t women-owned businesses more successful? Often the barriers to business success for women are self-imposed. Read
  
• What’s Holding you Back From your Business Success?
  02/12/2007 | Business
  Many business owners are struggling with their success and don't know why. Are you one of them? You've tweaked here, nipped there, and still something's not right. What could it be? Have you checked your thoughts lately? Many factors can contribute to a lack of business success, but the one most often overlooked is what you're thinking about. Here's how to align your inner thoughts with your outer business success. Read