The Tech Valley Symposium for Empowering Women is a half-day afternoon event of strategies, and solutions, focused on education, enlightenment, and empowerment to achieve success. From the strategic to the tactical, Annmarie presents on developing solutions to ongoing challenges specific to women who own their own businesses, and build a network of support with other entrepreneurial women.

1. PERSEVERE
From strategic to tactical, running your own WOB
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48. STRATEGY & TACTICS
From strategic to tactical, running your own WOB

49. STRATEGY
EVERY INDUSTRY and BUSINESS is UNIQUE
BUT…• Perseverance
• Embrace failure
• Be prepared for long hours
• Understand you are hopping on an
emotional rollercoaster
• Run toward your fears

50. TACTICS
• Network, Network, Network (on and off-line)
• Seek Mentors (Beth’s panel/example)
• Develop relationships at many levels
• Seek WBE certification if it will help your business
• Never stop learning
• Work on the business, not in the business
•HELP OTHERS BE SUCCESSFUL!

51. READING
• Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi
• Good to Great by Jim Collins
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale
Carnegie
• How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale
Carnegie
• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to create uncontested market space
and make competition irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and
Renée Mauborgne

52. RESOURCES
http://www.score.org/
http://www.sba.gov/
http://www.sba.gov/content/women-owned-businesses
http://www.esd.ny.gov/MWBE.html
http://www.nawbo.org/
http://www.nwbc.gov/
http://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/women-entrepreneurs
http://www.renscochamber.com/resourc
es/redp/entrepreneur-training