The Agile Women Entrepreneurs

According to an Inc.Com article (reference link at the bottom), women-owned businesses have been growing at a much faster rate than other demographics (to be precise 2.5 times). More than 850 women start their own businesses in the US every day. In the past 20 years, women-owned businesses have increased by 114%.

In this week’s Agile Entrepreneur podcast series, I am excited to feature three women agile entrepreneurs who are brave enough to share their journey with me and of course all of you. Each story is unique but the connecting thread is their determination, drive, and disciplined approach to making their businesses work.

Janet Elie started Launch4Life with her sister Gillian Whitney to help small businesses learn to do Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for themselves. After working for over 30 years in the Financial Services Industry in marketing and management, Janet decided to forge a new chapter in her life and spent 5 years of intensive dedication to online marketing and social media applications. Launch4Life is an interesting twist in SEO as most other companies do the SEO for business owners whereas Launch4Life trains them to do SEO for themselves and save some money in the process. So why did Janet decide to start a company at the end of her professional career? How is she navigating in competitive SEO industry? Listen to her fascinating story or read about it.

Listen to Janet Elie’s podcast on iTunes Or read the transcript here.

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Kenzi Wood, on the other hand, started her content writing business, Kenziwrites.com, in the early stages of her career. Kenzi is a former marketer turned blogger and she writes content for marketing agencies, SEO agencies, Fortune 200 enterprises, as well as small mom-and-pop shops. She started the business as a side gig and once she realized that her side gig potential is much more than her full-time job, she quit her job and made her side hustle her main business. Kenzi seems to be doing all the right things by actively soliciting testimonials to build customer pipeline, applying her large company experience to help small businesses, and planning to productize her service business. But was it all hunky dory from get go? What mistakes did she make and how did she learn from them?

Listen to Kenzi Wood’s podcast on iTunes Or read the transcript here.

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Nicole Landau, the owner of Landau Consulting Solutions, specializes in helping construction business owners gain control over their finances by increasing profit margins and streamlining their accounting function. She also provides financial coaching to small businesses who want to gain clarity on their financial situation. Nicole walks us through her motivation for starting a business while working full-time and as a mother of a newborn. She gives tips on getting first paid customers, expanding her business into newer areas and the importance of getting the right business coach.

Listen to Nicole Landau’s podcast on iTunes Or read the transcript here.

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You can read the prior articles in The Agile Entrepreneur series here.

https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/agile-entrepreneurs-marc-andre-susan-petang-alina-trigub-dontha/

https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/agile-entrepreneurs-tara-langdale-schmidt-jason-patel-ramesh-dontha/

https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/agile-entrepreneur-podcast-ramesh-dontha/

References:

https://www.inc.com/business-insider/more-women-entrepreneurs-today-than-20-years-ago-its-troubling.html