10 Tips to Negotiate Anything
by Alexandra Timbas
One of the best skills a woman can have is the talent to negotiate—be it the price of eggs, the price of a car, or the price of your work—your salary. Being a good negotiator is a great skill both in business and at home. Women especially need to be good negotiators in order to create their own economic power. The art of negotiation takes practice and skill. Click on this article to read 10 tips to ask for anything.
Rosa Parks (1913-2005): A Woman With Moxie
by Alexandra Timbas
In December 1955, Rosa Parks made headlines when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white man. In addition to being arrested for violating the segregation laws, convicted of the same, and ordered to pay a fine, Mrs. Parks’ actions that day started something far greater. Her refusal to adhere to the vastly unfair segregation laws started the legendary bus boycott in Montgomery, one of the most important events at the start of the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1950s and the 1960s. Rosa Parks lived her life with moxie, and as a result, impacted the world.
Catapult Your Career or Business – Hire a Maven!
by Alexandra Timbas
Young women professionals are always given this advice: “If you want to succeed, you need a mentor.” A mentor--an older and more experienced person who guides a younger or less experienced person throughout career challenges--it seems is the key to a successful career. Women stand to benefit greatly from having a mentor to help advance their careers, transitions, and relationships and, in doing so, to gain economic power. But mentors do not just magically appear in a cloud of fairy dust to save the day, and women need to stop waiting around to be “chosen” by a role model who wants to be her mentor. What if instead women hired a professional mentor, a Maven, to guide them in any area of their career, business or life? A Maven is not a coach or a therapist; a Maven is an expert hired to share skills, knowledge, and expertise.
A Look at this Summer’s Impact on Your Economic Power
by Alexandra Timbas
Summer 2005 was not only a summer of hurricanes, runaway brides, and the legendary Deep Throat--it was also a summer that saw many important changes in the United States and abroad that affect women’s economic power: Norway legislation impacting women’s participation on boards of directors; the resignation of Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor; and the new bankruptcy laws. What do these mean for women’s economic power?
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Purchasing Power vs. Economic Power
by Alexandra Timbas
There is a common market statistic floating around that women buy 80-85% of consumer goods. This statistic indicates that women hold an incredible amount of influence over the consumer market with their extremely prevalent purchasing power. But does purchasing power suggest that women know how to make their money work for them? Is influence over the paper towel market really the only type of influence that women want to have in the economy? The answer is a very emphatic no. Women need to understand that buying the groceries or balancing the household checkbook does not equal the power in investing their money for future gain.
Achieving Work/Life Balance - Tips for Women
by Alexandra Timbas
Can we really do it all? For some, being successful means having a challenging and rewarding career. For others, being successful means having a family and perhaps raising children. For many women, however, they want to do both, and so success becomes a workable merging of the two. For all, it is the balance of work and home life that is crucial to finding happiness.
Money Strategies for Couples
by Alexandra Timbas
It’s no secret that the roles that men and women have played in marriage have changed drastically over the last fifty years or so. Men are no longer expected just to “bring home the bacon”, and women are no longer expected just to cook it. One reason is that women are getting married later in life. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, most women in 1963 were getting married around age 20, in 1983 around age 22, in 1993 around age 25, and in 2003 around age 27. This trend suggests that older, more mature, and more established women are heading to the altar overall. These women have had more time to earn higher incomes, acquire savings, and invest in stocks or property, thus making an already sticky subject even stickier. Money is a point of stress in most relationships, and can cause even greater stress when both people are used to their independence. So, what can couples do to avoid fighting about money?
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