Women in business can benefit from the following practices. Remember to give respect to everyone you come in contact with, even those who rub you the wrong way. There are the customers who we naturally show respect and give a listening ear to. Smile and try to be helpful even if you do not offer what they want or need.

Over 12 years ago if someone would have told me I would be living in a 2100 square foot home across the street from the Pacific Ocean, with mango trees in my yard, and a surf board in my garage in Panama, I would have told them to go stick their head in the sand, pardon the pun.

You’ll have to judge for yourself whether Lorette C. Luzajic takes the confessional art form a little too far. But here, you CAN judge a book by its cover. The cover, a painting of the author by Iaian Greenson, is cool and colourful, laden with pop art symbolism, and has the longest book title I’ve ever heard: Weird Monologues for a Rainy Life (irreverent ramblings from the end of the world.)

As a business owner, your data can be a critical element to doing business. If you're without it even for a day, how would that affect you? Consider the loss of precious photos or home movies, as well as personal journals or other files.

Not sure if you've noticed but more and more information on the internet is either in the form of audio or video. I believe this is because reading the written word on a computer screen is very hard on the eyes, time consuming and just plain boring.

Here are my reasons why every business woman should have one.

Evelyn Hannon leveraged her fear of traveling alone and used it to build a successful online business with over 66,000 other traveling women also facing their fears and traveling the world.