mentors. the survey that we did, 72% of the women that responded said that they knew the value of mentorship. but i think sometimes we re not mixing it up. sometimes we think we have to have a mentor that s a woman as opposed to a mentor that s a man. again, you need at least five people but you have to make the right ask. you cannot waste these people s time and you can t ask them something that s obvious. you need to be very specific about the kind of help you need, but you also need to make sure that the mentoring relationship is mutually beneficial. and there s a value that you can add as well. and i think that there are certain type of mentors that seek that out from the people they re developing. melinda emerson, sally cr sally craw check, kathryn minshew. let s do it again. big victory for gop establishment. huge loss for wing nuts, bloomberg and obama care. check it out.
area the ballot raises the minimum wage 63% to $15 an hour for airport-related workers. but with women often dominating lower paid jobs and still earning 77 cents on the dollar compared to men, how do they get ahead? let me bring in sallie krawch k krawcheck. melinda emerson is an american express open adviser and kathryn minshew. good to see awe all of you. sallie, you ve held a lot of pogs positions. you were a woman in a man s world. correct. big believer in mentoring. how key is it? how important was it for you? oh, it matters, it matters, it matters. it is the difference in keeping a job and getting a promotion and moving up and losing a job to my mind. it can take years off of a career trajectory. kathryn, sallie was one of your mentors.
hi, there, everyone. i m j.j. ramberg and welcome to your business where we give you tips and advice to help your business grow. it s hard enough to manage a staff and a brand when you re all in the same city. what if you were trying to manage everything from 3,000 miles away? today we meet a woman whose kids publishing business is doing just that. when anna barber opened her first scribble press store in 2008, she already had a plan for the second. the smartest thing you can do as a retailer is to open a store very close to your existing store so they can help each other, so you can market the stores together, so you can take advantage of having the staff go back and forth between one store and the other store. this strategy made perfect sense. scribble press was a new concept. it s a place where kids, or anyone for that matter, can go to turn their art and writing into books. to prove the idea had legs anna found a spot in the brentwood neighborhood of los angeles t
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comments. the address is yourbusiness@msnbc.com. melinda and dena has helpful advice about how to improve your business. let s get great ideas from small business owners like you. i believe our great success at the protocol school is mainly based in our ability to never say no. you never think no. you never act no. and you never talk no to a client. too oftentimes we grill too fast without servicing the niche market which started our business and is the key nugget we can grow from. if we focus on wowing that niche market you will see your business grow. a lot of people find themselves with mixed goals. they want to grow their business, they want to go to the next level. they have dreams and they are passionate about it but they want to think until 12.