If you are a woman following your dream to create your own business and your own financial independence, you should consider joining the race at Make Mine a Million $ Business.

For the $100 entry fee, you can have access to a number of business advisors, a network of fellow entrepreneurs, events and teleseminars designed to encourage and inspire you. You could even win $100,000. Join the race here.

This is the brain child of Nell Merlino,and Count Me In.

Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence is the leading national not-for-profit provider of resources, business education, and community for women entrepreneurs.   We believe in you, and we believe in the ability of women entrepreneurs to create jobs for our communities and provide thriving environments for their families and future generations by achieving and surpassing their goals for business growth.  We also believe that to grow your business, you have to grow yourself.  Count Me In is dedicated to providing inspiration, resources, and the community support women entrepreneurs need to scale their businesses to a million dollars in revenue and beyond.

Count Me In was founded by Nell Merlino, the creative force behind the groundbreaking “Take Your Daughters to Work Day” initiative.

Women are growing businesses at a remarkable rate. Small businesses are the key job creation engine in the US economy. Stories abound of women in developing countries taking control of their lives and their children’s lives through entrepreneurship. We can change the future of the world.

If you can help other women reach their goals, consider being a sponsor for Make Mine a Million $ Business. Other ways to make a difference are through micro lending with KIVA, and donations to foundations like SEVA and Heifer International. Women empowered will change the future for us all.

Finally – a SaaS CRM Program with Class

Managing your contacts, customers, sales force and pipeline are an important piece of any business, online or offline. The choices are overwhelming, the costs are high and the learning curve off-putting. Now there is a good alternative for the solo-prenuer who wants a CRM (customer relationship management) system with some SFA (sales force automation.) Take a look at Tactile.

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Google Voice coming soon to a phone near you

A year or so ago I heard about a service from google called Grand Central. A number of my clients used it. But when I looked – it was closed. Google was beta testing the service which they have now renamed Google Voice and have invited their Grand Central clients to start using.

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Evernote and Clarifi

I have been using Evernote for a while now. If you haven’t tried it, you really should take a look. You can use it on your desktop and your iPhone. Their moto: Capture. Sync. Find.
Evernote lets you capture just about anything, a web clip, a photo, a business card, a napkin doodle and save it, [...]

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Recording on the iPhone

I’m giving a little talk to a community college class on entrepreneurship and I created a Keynote (Mac speak for PowerPoint) and needed to time my talk. I discovered a cool new app for the iPhone (I love my iPhone) called iTalk from Griffin Technologies. There is a free version or a premium version, without [...]

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