Month: February 2017
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Linda McMahon Confirmed as SBA Administrator
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate confirmed Linda E. McMahon as the 25th Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). McMahon is the sixth and third consecutive woman to lead the federal agency.
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NAWRB Women’s Snapshot Program – Submit Your Photo Today!
Dear NAWRB Members, The NAWRB Team would like to remind you to submit to our Women’s Snapshot Program! We launched Women’s Snapshot with the goal of showcasing real women working in the housing ecosystem and we want to feature you. We are looking for high resolution (300 dpi or 1500 x 2100 pixels or greater)…
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NAWRB Roaring Thirty Award Nominations Now Open!
The NAWRB Roaring Thirty Awards honor the women leaders in the housing ecosystem making a difference with a seat at the table for women. These are trailblazers succeeding through unprecedented obstacles and demonstrating women’s power as influencers in business.
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NAWRB CEO Shares Shopping Secrets with Leading Women
In preparation for NAWRB’s first Certified Delegate Spokeswoman Training Event, I hit the town last night with the attendees to share my lifelong secrets of collecting clothes at pennies on the dollar to look like a rockstar! Thank you mother for saving me money by never allowing us to buy anything at full price.…
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The Opportunity Cost of a Bad Website
How much is your outdated website or lack of social media presence hurting your business? The recently released Small Business Digital Trends Report from Web.com and Dr. David Ricketts—an Innovation Fellow in the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard—reveals an alarming amount of small business owners fail to optimize their website and leverage the…
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Community College is Now Free in San Francisco
The City College of San Francisco—a two-year public community college—is expected to offer San Francisco residents free tuition beginning Fall 2017. This incredible success for public education would make San Francisco the first city in the United States to provide free community college to its residents regardless of income.
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Considering Doing Business with the Federal Government?
Here is an opportunity for advice from Joyce Cofield, Ex-ecutive Director of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s Office of Minority and Women Inclusion. Joyce, what is the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency? The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency [OCC] is the federal agency that charters, regulates, and supervises…
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Even When an Obese Person Loses Weight, Health Problems Could Persist Due to Epigenetics
When an obese person loses weight, he or she immediately starts to feel better. Blood pressure improves, cholesterol levels diminish and energy levels rise. Because that person is no longer obese, the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, as well as liver, colon and breast cancers and other diseases linked to obesity, diminishes, right? That…
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Women and Minorities Stalled on Fortune 500 Boards
A new study from the Alliance for Board Diversity and Deloitte, Missing Pieces Report: The 2016 Board Diversity Census of Women and Minorities on Fortune 500 Boards, reveals that women and minorities hold 31 percent of board seats at Fortune 500 companies, representing a mere increase over the past four years.
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Maintaining a Personal Connection With Your Clients
One lesson I’ve encountered in my tenure as a realtor is that learning to stay away from the shiny object syndrome is a big challenge. I’ve always admired technology and what it has done for my business and industry. I admit I am the agent who downloads every new application I can find and I…