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A prime function of Sheville.org is the promotion, support and affordable advertising offered to small businesses in Asheville and Western North Carolina that focus on the interests of women. In this section we intend to provide helpful information for growing a business and financial self-sufficiency. Sheville.org offers opportunities for business owners to advertise their business and to write educational information about their product(s) or services. In The Sheville Mall you’ll have the opportunity to rent a storefront to sell your goods and services online, worldwide.
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Womens Media Center
The debate rages - are newspapers really dead? Is this a disaster for democracy? The Women's Media Center has published an essay by Mary Kay Blakely that examines this question from a completely different angle: the fact that women's journalism has always been a marginalized form of publishing by the very types who are now feeling marginalized themselves. So is this just crocodile tears? Or the inability to compete for ideas except as a privileged majority.
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News or Press Release
Mountain BizWorks, a designated Women’s Business Center of the U.S. Small Business Administration, will hold its sixth annual conference designed specifically for female entrepreneurs... more...
Womens Media Center
A Time magazine cover story and a week of programming on NBC immediately followed the release of The Shriver Report.
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News or Press Release
Buncombe and Madison counties have been impacted in various ways by the loss of revenue previously generated by tobacco farming. Losses include: finances for land taxes, incidental expenditures, capital improvemtne, as well as investment in additional crops... more...
The Mancession
News or Press Release
The New York Times had recently published an article entitled "The Mancession," which points out that the current recession is hitting men's employment more severely than womens.
Obama celebrates Women's History Month. But what about their economic futures?
Sheville Staff
President Obama's stimulus package has been the centerpiece of his administration's legislative efforts. But will his plan end up hurting women economically?
Flanked by a cadre of beaming, successful women, President Barack Obama signed an executive order creating the White House Council on Women and Girls yesterday. But the president may have to reconcile that with the fact that the centerpiece of his administration so far—the passage of the economic stimulus package—may in fact end up hurting women economically? Click here
Eleven Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees (1943)
Sheville Staff
In the category of unsure whether this is depressing or educational, we present
this piece of advice from our herstory:
Eleven Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees (1943). While
the Women's History Month page on which this occurs dubs this piece "hilarious,"
in light of the 2008 election, we are not so sure.
Different, but equally Successful
News or Press Release
The Advocacy funded paper "Are Male and Female Entrepreneurs Really That
Different?," by Erin Kepler and Scott Shane finds that gender does not
affect new venture performance when other factors are controlled for. However,
several factors--differing expectations, reasons for starting a business, motivations,
opportunities sought and types of businesses--vary
between the genders, and these result in differing outcomes. Such observations
should be taken into account when comparing the outcomes of ventures across
genders.
The data used for the study was from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics
(PSED) focusing on businesses started in 1998 and 1999.
A full copy of this report is available at: http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs309tot.pdf,
and the research summary can be found at: http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs309.pdf.
 Did You Know?
Center for Women's Business Research
According to the Center for Women's Business Research 10.6 million privately held companies are now at least 50%-owned by women. And from 1997 to 2004, the estimated growth rate in the number of female-owned companies reached 17%, nearly twice that of all businesses, at 9%.
Sharon Oxendine
Q. I am in process of starting up a new business. I have had my business idea for a long time and have thought some time about how I want to organize it. Why should I need to write up a business plan if I already know what I want to do?
A. It is important to have a business plan if you plan to get a loan or have investors to fund your business. more...
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Sharon's Sheville Business Forum