Search Results for: business

How Women are Contributing to the Not-Com Movement

How Women are Contributing to the Not-Com Movement

Thank you, Name.Kitchen  for sponsoring this post. For more information about Name.Kitchen and inspiring domain name advice, go to Name.Kitchen. A few months ago I wrote about the process on deciding a name for your business and ways to think about a new name. There is an art to choosing a name and your reasoning behind your name…

LaTisha Styles

Finance #LikeaGirl: Interview with LaTisha Styles

“Step outside of your comfort zone and try new work that is challenging and makes you a bit uncomfortable. Learning does not stop after college. If you’re unsure what you want to do after you graduate, seek out a mentor that can help guide you.” -LaTisha Styles Like many of us, LaTisha Styles was confronted…

How to Streamline Your Presentations and Stand Out at Work

How to Streamline Your Presentations and Stand Out at Work

At 26, I was responsible for many marketing materials and presentations for a mid-sized fixed-income hedge fund. As is typical for many financial and consulting firms, these presentations contained phenomenal content with little consideration for aesthetics or brand consistency. I took great interest in streamlining these materials and creating a more uniform brand message with…

servers in a restaurant

Why Restaurant Jobs Make for Successful Careers

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. Pop Quiz: What do Lady Gaga, Michael Dell (of Dell Computers), Donald Trump, and Jennifer Aniston all have in common? Aside from being pretty successful in their careers, they all worked in…

male-dominated

How to get Ahead in a Male-Dominated Industry

Although women make up about 47% of the workforce in America, certain industries leave women drastically unrepresented. STEM industries, in particular engineering and computer science,  have so few women that programs such as National Girls Collaborative Project and Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls Campaign have made it their initiative to promote female involvement in these fields….