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5 Fantastic Ways To Tell People How Fabulous You Are …Without having To Actually Say a Word By Jenny Garrett

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  I recently attended a fantastic women’s networking event, it was an intimate setting where we dined together and shared our achievements and goals. As we moved around the table introducing ourselves, I was a little surprised when one of the attendees introduced herself as follows: ‘I am a brilliant stylist, I know I am, people have told me so.’  I thought this was great because as women I don’t think we sing our own praises enough.  There could be many reasons for this, such as:   Messages you were told as a little girl about being good and not standing out   It could be just that you don’t recognise your unique qualities and skills and take them for granted   You think people will know how good you are without you telling them Your potential: clients, colleagues, suppliers, bosses are unlikely to recognise how good you are without you bringing it to their attention.  However perhaps you’re not quite at the point of being able to speak about yourself in such bold

Respect: BOSS Ladies Rule! By Reneé Lowe

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The word respect gets thrown around loosely and often trampled over. This has always been a concern for me as a BOSS Lady. In my past 9-5 life, it was often hard to get the respect that I felt I was due. I was also very careful about what my reputation was in the boardroom. In Public Relations, these things are key, to keep your brand moving and shaking like a well-oiled machine! I have had clients who needed extreme crisis management to repair their reputation and some who needed to re-vamp their image, to gain more respect for their brand. In either situation, you have to remember to be diligent and press towards your goal, despite the roadblocks. There are always those that will lurk in the background only to tear you down on previous mistakes or failures and this can be very dangerous when building respect for a brand. Personally, I don’t believe that anyone’s past should dictate their future and that is why people like me, do the job that we do. We can take a battered bran

How To Stay Engaged With Your Virtual Network In three Easy Steps By Malla Haridat

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If you are a member of the BOSS network, I’m sure you know already the value of networking.  But how do you continue to engage people after meeting them?  I know I’ve come home from events with a ton of business cards - excited to have met so many great people and wondering how I’m going to stay in contact with allllll of them.  When you factor in networking with all of the other things going on in your business, it can be overwhelming! So here are three things I do that help me stay engaged.  Each of them is manageable - 15 min max.  And they really help me stay in touch with contacts outside of the first meeting. Email a LinkedIn contact I’m sure most of you have a LinkedIn network.  But how many people have you emailed/messaged your network in the past month? Especially someone that you haven’t spoken to in the past six-nine months. I started doing this recently.  I made a commitment of contacting two people each month.  People that I haven’t heard from in th

FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE-OWNED TV/FILM STUDIO FACILITY OPENS IN GEORGIA

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-- Open Rivers Pictures, Inc. launches Open Rivers Studios, a 16,000 sq. ft. facility in Fayetteville, Georgia. -- Tammy Williams Founder/CEO of Open Rivers Pictures  Atlanta, GA   (BlackNews.com) -- Open Rivers Pictures makes history today with the launch of Open Rivers Studios, the first African American female-owned television and film studio, and post-production facility in the state of Georgia. The focus of Open Rivers Studios is creating, developing and producing original content including; documentaries, comedy series, children's programming and sitcoms. "With aggressive growth across the digital platform, and the launch of several cable channels targeted to the African-American community, it makes great business sense to grow Open Rivers Pictures in the direction of developing more original content within our own facility, to service these individual distribution outlets," says CEO and founder, Tammy Williams. In addition, Open Rivers Studios is avai