As social media has become increasingly popular, we are exposed to people’s dirty laundry more than ever.  For my liking there is too much detail on line about break ups, the bad day, week or month that people are having and more. The posts that say: “I’m sad today”, (“please ask me why so I [...]

I don’t even like to say this word.  As much as I try to keep it out of my vocabulary it seems to be everywhere.  I recently received two separate referrals from friends who have family members who have cancer.  I was pleased that what I have been saying to people around me has been [...]

Procrastination – How to Avoid it If you don’t already know it and live it… all those piles around you are only piles of delayed actions… you know, the things that you will get around to doing later… BUT, we all know that ‘later’ never seems to get here. The following quick tips will kick-start [...]

Safeguard Your Data If you’re like me, you love technology when it works right and hate it when it doesn’t. Data backups are boring, but your data is one of the most valuable elements of your business. Imagine waking up one morning to find it gone. Of course, disasters happen to other people, not you, [...]

Have A Game Plan For Better Time Management Interruptions are a fact of life and work. It has been proven that every time we are interrupted, it takes us 15 to 20 minutes to get back into prime focus. That’s just one interruption. Imagine if the average employee in your organization loses 20 minutes a [...]

“You Are Better Than That” “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” – Marianne Williamson Just like you, I am just a human being. Just like you, I have my own weaknesses. No, I am not perfect; but I am striving to be [...]

Are Your Friends Hindering Your Entrepreneurial Success? So we all have heard of the saying ‘Birds of a feather flock together’. Now in my life, I don’t know how much more truth that saying has for me; and I am indeed sure that I do not need to explain this saying. So the question to [...]

Ladies Power Hour is honored to feature Sharon Lechter, a CPA, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Educator, International Speaker and Mom.  She is a member of the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, founder of  Pay Your Family First and YOUTHpreneur.  Her newest book, Three Feet from Gold is a bestseller, the money and life reality board game, ThriveTime for Teens, is [...]

Femininity is magic. Believe in yourself. Build your self-esteem. Be all that you can be. It is wonderful to be a woman. My admiration for women comes from knowing my mother. She was my role model, a beautiful, intelligent and courageous woman. She was also a singer and a true entrepreneur. Today, she is 84 [...]

What does it mean to be “rich”? It means money, luxury, mansions and fancy lifestyles. Or it can mean in another way — LOVE, Family, Financial Freedom and away from the 9 to 5 schedule.  Can we have it both ways?  Is it too late to be rich? We already know that to become wealthy [...]

Modernization today is rapidly increasing Women’s opportunities to make a choice between a job, a career and a business — changing their lifestyle and positions. In the field of Entrepreneurship and Business, there is an increase of business opportunities for women to own and put up their own business, to indulge themselves in a free [...]

Launch your Success! Ladies Power Hour honors “The Successful Woman in YOU”. We all have and CAN do what it takes to reach the TOP  and to live our passions everyday in business and in life.  Many of us are already successful — being able to wake up each day, to get to do our [...]

Starting and going back to basics are needed strategies to take your expertise and business to the next level.  There are new, innovative ways that you can use to improve and propel your business to new heights.  You can blend the power of social media, blog writing and email marketing (just to name a few), [...]

Today, Women are still going through challenges in advancing and getting ahead in business, today.  Women who still lack the full confidence to ask for a career promotion, salary promotion and in Self-Promotion itself. Being a woman, competing in business and getting the sales can be a real challenge that are usually tucked under the [...]

There are so many women who do not consider themselves “successful” … yet.  The usual mindset — we are not successful unless we have a lot of money, on top of the career position, a bigger house or a mansion and living a luxury lifestyle.  As a woman of today, we often forget that being [...]

With cell phones, laptops and even Facebook to name a few — our lives have changed.  It is convenient for us to have in order to function daily with balancing personal and professional business.  However, it can be a big headache and can cause a problem with your spouse, children and take away the essence [...]

Ladies Power Hour presents Irene Natividad of Global Summit of Women.  It is an honor to feature this conversation and learn from her experience as a Woman Leader who is all for women empowerment and women success! Irene Natividad, a recognized leader for women in the United States, wears many hats.  She is President of [...]

Ladies Power Hour presents Bonnie Marcus of Head over Heels Radio Show Host and Women’s Success Coaching. She personifies a remarkable blend of business success and coaching talent. Bonnie’s father raised her to believe that she could achieve anything she wanted to achieve and be anything she wanted to be – and he was right. [...]

Many Vancouver Business Professionals and companies will be at the f5 Expo on April 7th, 2010.  Ladies Power Hour is representing at the Media Open House to meet and interview many of the exhibitors and Speakers at the big event.  As featured in the Podcast, Lindsay Smith who is the Producer of the big event [...]

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Increase Customer Loyalty

When you consider the effort to acquire a new customer, it only makes sense to take care of that customer after the sale. No matter how many new customers you bring in the front door, if they’re walking out the back door your business will never truly grow.
Following up after a sale is [...]

Ladies Power Hour is delighted to share this Conversation with Mary Cantando, Author & Leading Business Growth Expert. She has authored The Woman’s Advantage – life changing book that you do not want to miss out on!

Mary Cantando is sharing a collaboration with Ladies Power Hour to expand her reach and impact many more [...]

Creating an Advisory Board to Grow Your Business

An Advisory Board is one of the most powerful, yet overlooked, tools for growing a business. Developed properly, your Advisory Board can provide valuable input as well as accountability for your decision making.
And a good Advisory Board can also enable you to evolve personally from a day-to-day manager [...]

Reset your Business as the Economy recovers.
7 Ways to come out ahead of this mess!
This has been a rough year for many of us, but as the economy begins to recover, don’t just go back to business as usual. You can use the experience of this recession year to create a stronger, more profitable business [...]

Eliminate Selling by Expanding Your Influence
Are you one of the millions of women entrepreneurs who dread selling? If so, you can sidestep many aspects of this critical function by expanding your influence.  I’m not talking about traditional networking—it’s much more deliberate than that. I’m talking about developing a strategic “Influence Plan” and then moving forward [...]

The bottom line is about helping you grow your business – whether you are a start-up, self-employed professional or a big business. Mary Cantando has valuable information and strategies that will help you get on the path to success!
Ladies Power Hour is sharing a collaboration with Mary Cantando – a rare event that will [...]

Starting a business is simple and can be easy. But does it mean, we don’t make mistakes? It’s often overlooked and underestimated because we are so busy thinking about so many things at once!
Learning from Mary Cantando’s book The Woman’s Advantage and recently, had the previlige to interview her about Entrepreneurship – simply, [...]

What is a blog? How do you create a blog? When do you use a blog?
So many questions…. so many answers!
To create a blog, to write a blog and to use a blog – ALL IMPORTANT for your business. There are many women professionals and start-up businesses who are still not aware [...]

The VISION is a key element in growing your business. Many of us want to maximize the opportunities, thinking that we will take on as many different projects and offers to reach the overall goal of growing our company, our business and for bigger revenue. However, this can be a big mistake! [...]

We have so many activities and issues happening at one time that it gets challenging to make any more time for anything else! Or maybe, most of us just make the EXCUSE not to take action or do anything? This is a very complext subject to explore but one main characteristic of “excuse” [...]

The 411 on Business: We are committed to helping you grow your business, starting TODAY!
Women helping women win! We will do our very best to bring you the latest information, insights and topics that will help YOU start a business, stay in business and compete in this world of [...]

Unheard of these days!?!
We can debate about this topic but most imporantly, we can all agree how important QUALITY is in product, service and human relationship. How do we achieve that quality result? Quality service? Quality product? Quality in management, in teams and in companies? Whether big or small business, [...]

Pay it forward.
Simply helping others or contributing back to the world without any expectation of return or exchange. There are so many of us out here in the real world, holding high titles and expertise, on top of our careers and making 6 figures income – of course, it keeps us very busy too! [...]

Upclose Conversation with Amanda Vega will be featured on this month’s Issue of Power Hour Events!
Ladies Power Hour is previliged to do a blog and an interview clip of Amanda Vega. She is one of the pioneers of Social Media and Public Relations. Amanda started working at 15 years old, worked as a [...]

Start a JOURNAL.

Writing down your thoughts, putting them in a notepad, diary, post it notes – you name it, it will help you visualize what you are wanting to do! Setting goals, writing them down and getting on the habit of keeping a journal will keep you focused turning each goal into action, one [...]

Set Important Goals

Most of us get into the lazy mode, almost impossible to write anything down. Some prefer to use journals, diaries or notepads – whatever it is, this is one way to set goals. From small notes to SELF, to a list of TO DO or pour your heart out in a diary – [...]

Detach from Negativity
It is New Year, 2010!!!  We are reflecting and realizing that it is possible to make improvements in our life.  Afterall, we get one life to live and MUST live it well.  Women for SUCCESS is all about finding a path for choices and decisions to be made, that can bring us POSITIVE [...]

So many of us out there in search of “something better” whether it’s for financial, career, friendships and health – the truth is we want more out of life!  There are so many things to balance and juggle as a career woman, as a mom, as a student and in general – too many activities [...]

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