Negotiation is one of the key elements in building a successful business. Don’t be fooled into thinking that you need to take anything according to the initial offer. There is ALWAYS room for negotiation.

Here are five steps to negotiate anything.

Five Steps to Negotiate Your Way to Success

One of the key elements in building a successful business is creating a culture that reflects what you stand for and what you feel is important. Your culture is a true reflection of what you, your staff and your clients believe about your organization.

Here are five things to consider in creating your corporate culture.

Five Thoughts on Creating Your Corporate Culture

Since you only have one life to live, you should stop from time to time to analyze that you’re on the right path in growing your business, and that your business synchs up with your life. You may find that you need to tweak your business path or change it dramatically, or you might be right on target. 

Here are five questions to ask yourself to be sure you’re on the path to fulfillment in business and in life. 

Five Questions to Verify You’re on the Right Business Path 

If you're like me, you receive hundreds of e-mails every day. And, if you travel a lot or have insanely busy days, you just want to quickly understand the e-mails you do receive. Well, all of us feel that way. So why not make it easier for your reader by creating emails that help them out while gaining attention.

Here are five things to consider if you want your email to gain attention.

Five Ways to Gain Email Attention

Every woman in business is looking for the magic elixir that will enable her to close more deals. I propose the following five-step process.

Five Steps to Close More Deals

Here are five great questions that I bet you’re not asking on your sales calls.

Five Great Questions to Ask on a Sales Call

If you’re one of the millions of women who use the terms “sales” and “marketing” interchangeably, I’m here to tell you that they are absolutely different things.

I think that sometimes we use the word “marketing” because it threatens us less than the word “sales.” But that doesn’t mean we’re using the correct term. Here are five differences between the two.

Five Differences Between Marketing and Sales

Unless you’re working from a home office and there’s no chance of any business contact coming to see you, you really should shy away from wearing any of the following.

With full disclosure, however, I will tell you that when I was writing my last book my husband was out of town for three days running and I did not change out of my PJs for that entire time. So who am I to give fashion advice?

Five Things Not to Wear to Work

The best way to learn is to ask questions. And who better to ask than wildly successful individuals. So the next time you have the opportunity to spend time with such an individual, don’t focus on impressing or selling her. Focus on learning from her.

Here are five questions to ask successful people.

Five Great Questions to ask Successful People

Now that we’ve sold out of our 2016 Woman’s Advantage® Shared Wisdom Calendar, it’s time for you to submit your idea for next year’s calendar. I hear women say, “But, I don’t have any brilliant ideas.” And I want to tell you that something you might think is standard, ordinary knowledge can be a breakthrough idea for another woman. So just sit down and think of something you tell yourself (or others) on a regular basis and submit it here.

Here are five examples of the kind of tips/advice we’re looking for. Share your wisdom today!

Five Great Thoughts from The Woman’s Advantage® Calendar