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The Weekly Giggle
UNDERSTANDING WOMEN - (A MAN'S PERSPECTIVE)
I know I'm not going to understand women. I'll never understand how you can take boiling hot wax, pour it onto your upper thigh, rip the hair out by the root, and STILL be afraid of a spider.
National News
What Can We Do?
What Can We Do to Keep Our Children Safe From Predators
As parents, our children's health and safety is our number one concern. But what can a working parent do when it seems as though the amount of predators and violence against children is increasing? Even school, once a safe haven for kids, is now a place to be aware of the dangers lurking around them.
The Challenge
There are currently 566,782 registered sex offenders in the United States. Sex offenders pose an enormous challenge for policy makers: they evoke unparalleled fear; their offenses are associated with a great risk of psychological harm; and most of their victims are children and youth. As policy makers address the issue of sex offenders, they are confronted with some basic realities.
Most sex offenders are not in prison, and those who are tend to serve limited sentences
Most sex offenders are largely unknown to people in the community.
Sex offenders have a high risk of re-offending
While community supervision and oversight is widely recognized as essential, the system for providing such supervision is overwhelmed
Loopholes in Current State Programs
The increased mobility of our society has led to “lost” sex offenders, those who fail to comply with registration duties yet remain undetected due to law enforcement’s inability to track their whereabouts. A conservative estimate of the number of “lost” sex offenders is at least 100,000 nationwide. The wide disparity among the state programs in both registration and notification procedures permits sex offenders to “forum-shop,” research which states have the least stringent laws, in order to live in communities with relative anonymity.
Moms In Business Network and The International Association of Working Mothers is committed to doing something about this situation. We are now working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to help give you the resources available to protect your children. In addition, they will be the beneficiary of the 2007 Cre ate Your Dreams Awards Gala.
For parents and kids, the Center has developed a program called Net Smartz - a free resource for your kids to learn to use the Internet safely.
Contact Your Representatives Click here to connect with your state representatives and tell them that you want federally enforced standards for child predators.
Featured MIBN Benefit
Personal Assistance
MIBN Is Making It Easier
We understand that as a business woman and mother you are continually pressed for time.
We also understand that one of the main reasons many members join Moms In Business Network is to grow their business.
Taking the time to access all your business building benefits that MIBN offers can be a challenge, and now we are providing a solution to that challenge.
Each member of MIBN will now have her own Personal Membership Assistant. Your Personal Membership Assistant will activate your marketing and business benefits for you. That's right...for you.
After you sign up for membership, your Personal Membership Assistant will call you to introduce herself and to get the information needed to activate your business building benefits within the first weeks of your sign up or renewal. You will be able to call her with questions, and she will also contact you quarterly to help you with any questions you may have.
Our focus is to always find better ways to bring value to your MIBN membership. The entire organization is absolutely committed to helping mom business owners find both balance and success, and we are very proud that the organization is going the extra mile to make sure we do that.
If you would like to be on featured in the listing of new members in October then you must join MIBN today to qualify for the new member announcements for the month of November.
Women business owners with fast-growing firms are less likely than their men counterparts to have had an entrepreneurial role model nearby when they were young (43% vs. 59%).
Who is responsible for calling back the other person when disconnected on a telephone?
When there is poor telephone connection or when you are disconnected, the individual who originated/initiated the call is responsible for calling back the other party.
1. Not listening. Do not just listen to what the customer is asking for; look past that to find out what they need. Too often salespeople sing the praises of a product without hearing what the customer wants. You cannot sell to someone if you do not know what they want. Listen to your customers, identify the need, and fill it.
2. Overselling. A nonstop sales pitch leaves your potential customer with no room to make an intelligent decision. There is a fine line between being a good salesperson and being pushy or obnoxious. Know when to stop selling.
Getting government and private contracts can bring in millions of dollars for your business. This tip will give you great weekly tips to resources and information on how minority procurement works.
Business owners seeking to sell to the federal government can register in the Business Partner Network and their data will be linked to the CCR. The website address is www.bpn.gov. There is a users' guide that explains the database and how it works. Also, the website http://www 2.eps.gov/index.html (FedBizopps) provides all Federal government contracts/RFP, both local and national level.
Originally Posted: Oct 10, 2006 at 4:00 PM Last Updated: Jul 2, 2007 at 5:08 PM
