Mama Coco founder Megan Skeath built her business from a real-life motherhood challenge and made a smart decision many founders overlook: protect the core product before expanding. Her story offers valuable lessons for women entrepreneurs about focus, intentional growth, and building a brand around a genuine problem.
Key Takeaways
Some of the best business ideas come from real-life frustrations founders understand deeply.
Megan Skeath built Mama Coco...
Learn how women entrepreneurs can use public speaking to build credibility, inspire action, and drive business growth through confident, strategic communication.
There’s really no single winning formula that can guarantee the success of your business. You just need to find the right business idea, and execute your strategies flawlessly. Of course, that's easier said than done.
From Dr. Randal Pinkett, the first and only African American to win NBC network's hit reality TV show The Apprentice, here's an inspiring article that provides a strategic roadmap to help African Americans succeed. It presents a trailblazing path for leveraging ethnic and cultural assets to not only win the game of success in any arena, but to reshape America and leave a powerful legacy.
What inspires successful entrepreneurs? What words of wisdom guide their actions and thinking? Paul Thornton in his new book “Leadership – Off the Wall” looks at the quotes leaders and successful women entrepreneurs post on their office walls and keep on their desks.
Habits and attitudes can make you or break you. Many a hapless business has been broken by the habits and attitudes of its owners. As you think about starting your own business, avoid the mistake of adopting the following attitudes that are sure to drive customers away and hamper the growth of your business.
Are you going to achieve your most important targets for the coming year? Your answer to that question can reveal a lot about where you are on what I call "the Ladder of Commitment ", and is generally highly predictive of how far you'll go in your pursuit of success. Here's a quick look at that ladder from the bottom up, along with what may be a surprising conclusion about what it really takes to reach your targets, in business and in life ...
From the book "The Risk Takers," learn the common traits that bind successful entrepreneurs. These shared traits are not merely a coincidence; they are the keys to their success. Use these 10 strategies in your business to achieve success.
The inspiration to start a business can come from a variety of sources. For most people, the idea to start their business comes after seeing a problem that they want to address. They then look for the root cause of the problem, and identify how the problem can be solved – which then serves as the basis of their business. Learn how some women entrepreneurs found the inspiration to start their businesses.
What are the first steps you need to take when starting a business? I have outlined some crucial steps that will help guide you in the right direction.
What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? This is a question that every business owner wants to know, with many trying to understand if there’s some magic formula to achieving success.
An increasing number of people are thinking of quitting their day jobs to start their own businesses, preferably at home. A home business is seen as their path towards achieving their dreams of economic security, more free time, a healthier or more productive lifestyle, and a chance to be closer to family and friends. If you are presently working as a full-time employee, and planning to start your very own home business, here are several ways to ease yourself from full time employee to entrepreneur.
Starting an online store, and achieving success on the Web, is not easy. here are a number of things that you need to consider when you are planning to sell on the Web. If you are starting -- or already have an ecommerce site -- get some tips on how you can sell more on the Web.
Risks are a constant in entrepreneurship. There are always risks in every step of starting and running a business. The key is anticipating these risks, and trying to find ways to reduce (if not totally eliminate) risks.
