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To support and inspire women committed to achieving personal and financial freedom
by building businesses around their passions.

Welcome to our first issue of Venus, a magazine launched to inspire and celebrate New Zealand women who have ventured in to the world of business ownership.

This magazine has been a dream of mine for almost two years. Ever since I can remember I have known deep inside that I was here for a reason. A reason that was greater than me and that would make a difference in the world. In the past four years since launching the Venus Network I have had the pleasure of meeting and sharing this journey of business with women throughout New Zealand who have this same inner drive and motivation to live life on purpose.

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Five Strategies To Minimize Risk

Tessa Stowe
Five Strategies To Minimize Risk
©Tessa Stowe, Sales Conversation, 2009

Is it risky to buy from you? This is the question your prospects will be asking themselves before they buy from you.

They want to know that you are capable of delivering the results they want and that you will actually deliver them. No matter how good your product is, if you are perceived as risky, your prospect will not buy from you. [Read more...]

Women in business, New Zealand – 6 Simple tips for building trust

trustBuilding trust between you and your potential client is a very important step that needs to occur first or else they won’t buy from you. In fact, building trust is a prerequisite to selling. So how do you go about building this trust? Following are 6 tips…

  • Tip #1 When having a sales conversation, explore whether you can help the person get what they want. Forget about selling because as soon as someone feels you’re trying to sell something, they’ll instinctively not trust you. That’s just human nature. If, however, someone feels you are genuinely trying to help them, then they’ll be more likely to trust you and buy from you. [Read more...]

RSS, subscribe, feedreader explained simply

rssThis is a great post written by Sheryl Mangold, www.huiadesign.co.nz
Definitely worth reading….

“What on earth is RSS?” – I hear you say, “and those pretty little icons like the ones on the left (very often orange) that I see on alot of websites and blogs”. Well in actual fact RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is no deep mystery it’s a very useful tool and you’re about to learn why.

Basically RSS is internet technology that allows you to stay up to date with the changing content of a website or blog without actually having to visit that particular website or blog.
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What are your top 5 passions?

I believe to create a happy life it is essential to check in with what your top passions are every 3 or 6 months.

This helps you stay on track with your purpose and keep your enthusiasm and interest high in life.

At the start of each season, its feeling like spring today, I spend some time sitting and asking myself the following questions:

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