Guest Opinion: To grow your business, collaborate – don't compete

Monday, July 24, 2017  By Becky Fluegge | Vice president and SBA lending specialist, Bankers Trust Co. Women business owners often experience the same challenges when they’re getting started, regardless of the industry. Unfortunately, this sometimes drives women...

Female Financial Advisors Find Their Way

By Lou Carlozo, Contributor  | July 12, 2017 Many women in the field are simply better listeners, and the industry is starting to pay attention.  U.S. Census Bureau figures for 2016 put the percentage of women slightly ahead of men, 51 to 49 percent. But the numbers...

Congress Weighs Tax Reforms for Small Businesses

Michael Cohn   July 13 2017 The House Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee held a hearing Thursday to discuss how tax reform will affect small businesses, while a Senate Democrat introduced legislation to give new tax breaks to small businesses. “In the Ways and...

Supporting Women in Business

Posted on July 17, 2017 by The Growth Coach Team Small business owners are the backbone of the American economy and, according to a report from the Institute of Women’s Policy Research, about 29 percent of those businesses are owned by women. That’s up from 26 percent...
28 years ago, you couldn't get a loan without a man

28 years ago, you couldn't get a loan without a man

Melissa Wylie, Bizwomen reporter  Oct 25, 2016, 11:48am EDT  The early days of NAWBO, an organization founded to help women business owners around the country at a time when they couldn’t get a loan with a male cosigner. Less than 30 years ago, women who wanted...

The Important Role of Female Small Business Owners (CNBC.com)

Let’s take a look at the numbers: There are more than 10 million businesses owned by women, employing more than 13 million people and generating $1.9 trillion in sales. Not only that, women-led businesses are one of the fastest growing types of the small...

Why the Sales Force Needs More Women

June 30, 2017 – Media Planet: Future of Business & Tech KATHY WARNICK, NATIONAL BOARD CHAIR, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS (NAWBO) Shopping Around Data from the Federal Reserve Board reveals that women control slightly more than half (51.3...

NAWBO National Hosts Advocacy Day In Washington, D.C.

Distributed by Public on 06/19/2017 (Washington, D.C. June 19, 2017)- The National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) recently hosted their National Advocacy Day in Washington D.C. Attended this year by more than 70 women business owners from across the...
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