I don't know about you, but I always feel like hunkering down this time of the year. (As I blog this, I'm wrapped up in my new blue velour robe! Thanks, honey!)

R&R is a good thing for us busy entrepreneurial women...but not too much of it.

We need to GET OUT THERE to achieve wild success!

In the usual quietness between Christmas and the New Year, it's the perfect time to plan your calendar for 2009.

On The RebelWoman Show this week, Rebecca Johnson of GetNetworkingNow.com shows us how to power partner and connect for cash!

Watch the Show Sneak Peak at www.TheRebelWomanBlog.com and visit www.TheRebelWomanShow.TV starting at 10 a.m. this Wednesday to watch the entire webisode.

Watch The RebelWoman Show with Jann Taber every Wedesnday at 10 a.m. at www.TheRebelWomanShow.TV.

Elinor Stutz says she was "horrified by her treatment in the male-dominated sales office" where she first landed after spending 15 years as a stay-at-home mom and wife.

"The men did everything they could to force me out," she said. So, did she give up and go home?  NO!  She dug in her heals and set out to prove she could succeed in sales.

She was given no training and no one in the office would speak to her. She had never been in sales before and she was going door-to-door trying to sell an unknown brand of copier.

It was lonely going those first few months, then Elinor discovered that if you build relationships before trying to make the sale, it will bring in larger sales and more repeat business... much different than "ego-driven" sales approach that was prevalent at the time.

Within four months of this discovery, Elinor was the top producer and held that title throughout most of her corporate sales career.
 
Now she's the wildly successful CEO of her own sales training corporation!

She founded Smooth Sale to help aspiring business and salespeople avoid the difficult learning curve by sharing her proven relationship selling techniques.
  
Elinor shares everything she learned in her 11-year corporate sales career in her book  "Nice Girls DO Get The Sale," which was featured in TIME magazine and is selling world-wide in multiple languages.Here's an excerpt of the Oct. 29, 2006 TIME article "Nice Girls Get Even" by Andrea Sachs:

At first, Stutz says, "I was always looked at as weak because I cared too much about the client." By the fourth month, she was the top rep. One of her male colleagues grilled her about the secret of her success. "I said, 'I do one thing none of you do. I'm actually nice to my clients.'" The boys were busy backslapping themselves about how they were ripping off their clients. "That must come across to the client. I used to get to know the person behind the title and get to know them well," says Stutz, although perhaps that's properly filed under "great customer service" rather than "nice."

Click here to read the whole article.

I know you'll be as inspired by Elinor as I was! 

Jann Taber - The RebelWoman

The RebelWoman Show is a RebelPR production.

My friend, Debbie LaChusa (the 6-figure Work-at-Home Mom) recently published a new book called The Career-at-Home Mom: Secrets for Earning a Six-Figure Income While Having Time for Your Family.

This book is awe-inspiring and intensely informative!  It debunks the myth that women can't have it all.  Of course we can be wildly successful mommypreneurs! 

Are you ready to escape the money traps of scarcity, superstition and survival mode? 

Do you want to transport every aspect of your consciousness and cash flow from mundane to masterful? 

How could the answer be anything but YES!

Karen Russo, author of The Money Keys have developed principles and tools to help you unlock peace, freedom and real financial power.  In this segment of The RebelWoman Show, she shares with us the way to:

• permanently eliminate worry about your finances;
• release resentments about money; and
• immediately step into the flow of your prosperity!

Karen Russo is a powerful and intelligent teacher who weaves together an unusual blend of business education with timeless spiritual truths."

~ Bob Proctor, featured in The Secret  and author of  You Were Born Rich (free download)

Karen Russo is your angel of affluence in conscious wealth building, your spiritual advisor in personal finance, and your guide in taking your money life from mundane to masterful. 

Karen delivers keynote speeches, leads coaching groups and offers numerous self-study programs showing conscious wealth builders how to achieve spiritual money mastery.

With her unusual blend of experience as an MBA from Columbia University, an accomplished corporate trainer, an award winning sales person, and an ordained minister with the United Centers for Spiritual Living, Karen shares insights from over 20 years of success in secular and spiritual realms.

Karen has been featured on TV's Good Morning Arizona, Sonoran Living, and WABC-TV in New York City. She's appeared in the Arizona Republic, is a contributor to the Phoenix Woman Magazine, and a favorite guest on radio's Inside Wealth, LuAn Mitchell's Millionaire Mentor, and The Dr. Pat Show. Karen's clients and conference venues include Bank of America, Humanity Unites Brilliance, Worldwide Success Network, Banner Hospital, Visa, Inc., Living Luminaries, Voice for Change, Mile Hi Church, Agape International, Kaiser Permanente, Institute for Management Consultants, Microsoft, and many more.    She is also the creator of Your Beautiful Spirit, inspirational programs for women.

A late-in-life first time newlywed, Karen lives in Arizona with her beloved Bill.

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The RebelWoman Show is brought to you by RebelPR.

Find out how this Wednesday at 10 a.m. on The RebelWoman Show. Part 3 of a 5-part Women On The Move series.

Here's a sneak peak:

I interviewed Karen at the 2^nd annual Women On The Move conference. Go "Behind the Scenes" with WOTM founder Lisa Marston:

Can you hear my REBEL YELL all the way around the world?

The RebelWoman Show (RWS) is in negotiations to tape the show before a LIVE audience at the amazing Guild Theater.

Let me put this into perspective...

 My husband, Tony Estigoy, and I launched RWS in June of this year.  We first produced the show live on the web with a home video camera and a laptop computer. 

Our studio was set up in the conference room of our office building with a table, couple of chairs and curtains hung from the ceiling. 

In October, after taking Jody Colvard's course - How to be a Show Host - we took the show to the next level and began taping it in High Definition with sophisticated studio lights.

This exquisitely-renovated, historical gem will allow us the flexibility to change up the format of the show.  We aren't limited to one guest...Watch out Oprah, The View and The Big Idea!.

And a live audience will bring an added effervescent energy to the show!

ABOUT THE GUILD

Mission

The historic Guild Theater is an urban center for performing arts and cinema. Our mission is to educate the greater Sacramento community through diverse programming, and we are committed to providing a quality, cultural experience in the arts.

History

The Guild Theater is a nonprofit theater managed by St. HOPE Academy, a nonprofit community development corporation whose mission is to revitalize inner-city communities through public education, civic leadership, economic development and the arts. Established in 1989 by NBA All-Star and Oak Park native Kevin Johnson, St. HOPE educates, trains and empowers citizens to change the landscaped of low-income areas, beginning with the Oak Park neighborhood in Sacramento, California.

The Guild Theater is the only remaining theater of the numerous early 20th century motion picture houses for which Oak Park was once known. Designed and financed by Joseph Lewis and completed in 1915, it was the largest of three theaters on 35th Street in Oak Park at that time. Originally called the Victor Theater, the building's structure reflected the influence of the Moorish Revival on theaters of that era. 

For many decades, the Guild Theater was a premiere entertainment destination and in its earliest days played host to vaudeville shows. The theater eventually fell into a state of disrepair and remained vacant for many years. St. HOPE has updated and restored the Guild Theater and currently showcases film, lectures and live performances. Over the past year, the Guild has played host to a wide variety of events. From a town Hall meeting with former Governor Gray Davis to a concert featuring hip hop icon KRS-ONE, the Guild Theater is committed to making every event an educational experience.

The Guild Theater is located in the 40 Acres Art Gallery and Cultural Center. Opened in May 2003, 40 Acres is St. HOPE's catalytic economic development project. 40 Acres is comprised of the Guild Theater, Uncle Jed's Cut Hut (barber shop), underground books (bookstore), the Upper Rooms Apartments, Starbucks Coffee and the 40 Acres Art Gallery. The complex is located in the heart of Sacramento's inner-city.

Amenities

• 200 seating capacity
• Film projection equipment
• Stage (20'x 40')
• Load in capacity (6'x 11')
• Dressing rooms
• Lobby and concession area
• Lighting and state of the art acoustics
• On-site parking adjacent to theater
• 12- Shure unidirectional dynamic microphones
• 1 - Model 515SDX Soundcraft Spirit LX7 soundboard
• 1 - Elation Professional DMX 1 Operator Pro light controller
• 1 - Sanyo PLC-XC10 LCD projector
• 8 - Par 56 lights with 500W bulbs
• 4 - 250W Intimidator Spots

In this RWS webisode, SPEAKtacular CEO Kathleen Ronald wants to help you adjust your limiting beliefs and give you the tools necessary to be successful.

"There is always a way if you are committed.  Beliefs drive behaviors," she says.  "Adopt this critical belief and nothing will stop you!"

As a "mind chiropractor," Kathleen adjusts your limiting beliefs and gives you the tools necessary to be successful. Kathleen is on a mission to inspire you to find or create a way up, over, under, or around to reach your goals.

 Kathleen Ronald, "the Queen of Business Networking," is an unparalleled networker, an internationally renowned speaker-trainer, and the founder of Speaktacular. Kathleen has more than 25 years of experience providing custom, inspirational keynotes and training seminars to Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and professional associations. Author of the soon-to-be-released Networking Bible, Queen Kathleen excels at helping people shed the cookie-cutter approach to prospecting and develop personal, authentic strategies that "build their net worth by building their network." 

"You network computers, but you connect with people," Kathleen asserts. With a lifelong reputation for uniting people and building communities, she has founded two successful groups, Fortune 10/10 (a women's investment group) and WOW (Women of Wealth) Ventures, and co-founded WIN (Women in Networking).

Learn more at www.speaktacular.com.

I had the privilege to interview the extraordinary speakers at this conference who are helping fan the flames of the women's business REBELution!

This Wednesday at 10 a.m. on The RebelWoman Show meet the SPEAKtacular Kathleen Ronald and learn the "5 Keys to Evict Negative Thinking." 

Here's a sneak peak: 

"Behind the Scenes" with Women on The Move Founder Lisa Marston:

www.TheRebelWomanShow.TV   In-Deman.  On-Demand.  24/7/365

I had the honor and privilege of being the emcee and moderator for a panel for GEW Sacramento called "No Fear.  No Box.  Let's Go!

It was so exciting to be connected to tens of thousands of people in 78 countries around the world all participating in GEW! 

A panel of extraordinary entrepreneurs and strategists shared with us their perspective on successful entrepreneurship in the 21^st Century. 

Here are questions I asked the panel and some of the take-aways I found fascinating:

No Fear.

Q. How can you be an entrepreneur in the 21^st Century - where rapid change is the norm - without fear?

A. There will always be fear.  The key is how you respond to it.  "Feel the fear and do it anyway" was the consensus of the group.  If you aren't feeling any fear, you are stuck in your comfort zone.  I belive a good degree of fear is crucial wild success.

No Box.

Q. So how do you blow up the box?  What are some of the innovative trends you think are vital to entrepreneurial success in the 21^st Century.

A. The Internet has blown up the box!  Think instant global business with no boundaries!  The panel emphasized the importance of participating in social networking (facebook, twitter, etc) for entrepreneurial success.

Let's Go!

Q. What's the one piece of advice you'd give an aspiring entrepreneur to get their business going?

A.

• don't be afraid to ask for help
• get started now - don't wait for perfect
• talk to customers - is your product/service in-demand
• create a Master Mind group of like-minded entrepreneurs

The panelists were:

Jessica Chapman - Room to Breathe

Ricardo Robles  - Capsity Offices

and several generous business sponsors linked here!

That's my "Rave" for the week!

Jann Taber (a.k.a. The RebelWoman!)

Host / The RebelWoman Show

President / Rebel Public Relations

Naomi Tickle is an international face reading expert, career consultant and author of You Can Read A Face Like A Book: How Reading Faces Helps You Succeed in Business and Relationships.

She says the relationship between facial structure and behavior has been well established since the time of Aristotle. The subject has been well researched over the last 80 years and found to be impressively (92%) accurate. Learning how to recognize key traits will help you immediately recognize how to best approach and work with clients. 

Learning how to read faces helps you:

·         Immediately identify your client's preferred buying style

·         Build a stronger customer relationship

·         Build a successful team

·         Avoid much of the miscommunication and smooth out the rough spots

Naomi says no other tool offers such immediate and accurate insight as to what makes people tick and why.

She has appeared on CNN, NBC, BBC, Good Morning America and numerous television and radio interviews around the world.  Articles about her work have been published in the Sunday Times, Cosmopolitan, and The Los Angeles Times.

Naomi's clients include CNN, IBM marketing division, AT&T, National Semiconductor, New York College Administration Conference, Macys and FAMA. She offers workshops and lectures throughout the United States, Canada, Australia and England.

Learn more at www.naomitickle.com.