Looking for a place to list your small business or home based business?

In this video, Miriam Buhr shares a business directory that is designed to help you be found by people who are looking for your services or product.

Trova Business Directory can list your business at various membership levels from free member to an elite paid member. Your business can be found at a local and national level and as a business owner you can engage in networking, mastermind sessions and as part of this online advertising tool.

Listen to a Private Mastermind Call with Miriam Buhr and Jacqui Gates where they discuss what is the process of becoming iconic and how that can mean boost of sales for your small or home business.

Stay tuned for some juicy calls in the works with the team of The Home And Small Business Network.

In this video Miriam Buhr shares a resource used by bloggers to research websites, news sites, for content ideas to spark or generate blog posts, forum discussions, and article topics.

Check out this free topic generator resource at Topix.

How To Give A Testimonial From A Leader Position

Join Miriam Buhr as she shares 3 important factors to keep in mind when creating a testimonial for a product, service or person. When you engage in this activity, It is important to take into account what Stephen Covey calls a Win/Win interaction.

Watch Miriam Buhr discuss the latest trend that is paving the road for mobile payment.

Currently you are able to pay using your mobile phone just for virtual goods online.

However Zong is giving Visa and Paypal a run for their money when it comes to their current settings of merchant’s accounts.

With about 30 million happy customers setting up Zong accounts, it’s no wonder that Facebook is getting in on the action early in the game.

Join Miriam Buhr in this video as she shares a business resource that can help you with your business accounting issues. Would you like to know your daily real time business cash flow status? Then take a look at this business resource at http://www.indinero.com and see if it will suit your business resource repertoire.

by Miriam Buhr

Are you interested in finding money to fund your business? I came across The Amber Foundation Grants that WomensNet.Net started in 1998.

WomensNet.Net is a community of entrepreneurial women who seek to help other women who are attempting to start their small, home, or online business. This group of women felt it honorable to set up a grant to remember a 19-year-old young woman who died in 1981.

According to their site, “the purpose of the Amber Grants is to help other women achieve the dreams that Amber could not in her short time with us.”

The small $500 grants are awarded quarterly and require a $5 application processing fee along with the completion of an online application. The monies given are encouraged to be used for the upgrade of equipment, pay for a web site, etc. They consider that often these “small but essential expenses can make the difference between getting started or being forever stalled.

No repayment is required or expected, although it is hoped that you will pass on the kindness by mentoring & helping others along the way.

Although the grant program is run as a foundation to the extent that [they] accept applications and award grants, all grants come from private not government or solicited donations or funds.”

Take a look at this funding source and this resource and community of women. According to the WomenNet.net site, they boast that award-winning and nationally-renowned business author Marcia Layton-Turner has joined this group of entrepreneurs. So there is lots to explore on this site.

by Miriam Buhr

If you are an entrepreneur, you know that you can never have enough resources. The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) happens to be another resource that offers a myriad of benefits for women entrepreneurs. It is an application based and paid membership organization where certification may be granted if your organization meets their requirement.

This organization offers Women Business Enterprises (WBE), who have obtained their certification, a series of national training sessions, which include graduate level Executive Education programs, and resources to assist entrepreneurs better operate their businesses, to engage at a corporate level and better understand how to position their enterprise to compete in diverse settings.

According to their website, “The WBENC, founded in 1997, is the largest third-party certifier of businesses owned controlled, and operated by women in the United States. The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, a national 501(c)(3) non-profit, partners with 14 Regional Partner Organizations to provide its national standard of certification to women-owned businesses throughout the country. WBENC is also the nation’s leading advocate of women-owned businesses as suppliers to America’s corporations.”

The mission over at WBENC is dedicated to advancing the success of Corporate Members, certified women’s business enterprises, and government entities in partnership with its Regional Partner Organizations (RPOs). It also offers a range of training and tools to advance business and provide professional development.”

As always comment and share this information with other entrepreneurs, both women and men.

by Miriam Buhr

The Power of a Network of Women is evident in the Hispanic Business Women’s Alliance which was founded wiith the expressed purpose to HELP each other Be, Do, & Have more.

The alliance was borne out of a need observed in the industry. Observations pointed to the fact that few women had all the resources to make things happen in their businesses whether it was starting, maintaining or plain expanding a business.

By connecting with other women it was believed that the disparity could be reduced and success would likely be experienced by more women entrepreneurs.

“The Hispanic Business Women’s Alliance is an online community of Hispanic women entrepreneurs, professionals, consultants, executives, inventors, and investors located throughout North America, Latin America, and Spain [that] is interested in doing business and collaborating with each other.”

Their Mission is:

“To help Hispanic women entrepreneurs, professionals, consultants, executives, inventors, and investors–throughout North America, Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain–utilize our international portal to do business directly, communicate effectively, and collaborate with each other for their mutual benefit.”

In addition to their network the HBWA also has a US Directory of Latina Owned Businesses where you can register your business or organization, search other Latina owned business by city or state, or subscribe to their no cost Newsletter for Latina Business Owners.

Check out this community and see whether it is a resource that can help you soar in your business.

Be sure to comment, rate and especially share with all entrepreneurs.

Staying current in the current mobile marketing world today is critical if you want to capitalize on its benefits and gain an edge in your industry.

Join Miriam Buhr as she discusses the acquisition of CardStar by mobile giant Verizon. This business acquisition has been discussed in different media sources like the Wall Street Journal and CNN Money.

This mobile app has many uses for customers as well as merchants.
You can access company info such as customer support, company webpage, and login to your account in case you want to keep track of your points.

This mobile app also has a store locator to help find nearest location and has a deal section to keep you informed of latest promotions, discount coupons or incentives. As you have noticed, this mobile app offers many uses from airline miles, pet stores, hair salons…lots of areas.