Keeping Your Head Above Water: Tips For the Novice Female Entrepreneur

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Women Business_Chispa Magazine
Starting up your own business can be stressful and time-consuming, especially with all the other things going on in your life. As a newcomer on the business scene, it may be a challenge juggling your new priorities as an entrepreneur while still trying to make time for yourself. Finding a balance between the two is vital for the success of your business as well as your personal life. Oftentimes, the two even go hand in hand.

Valerie Jennings, CEO and founder of Jennings Social Media Marketing (JSMM) and Viral Bolt Media, offers her top seven survival tips for staying relevant in the business world while still taking care of yourself.

  1. Start a blog about your career, business strategies, or tips for others to learn from you.
  2. Remember to network with two to three power women a week.
  3. Get to the gym.
  4. Set two or three major career goals and then break them up into pieces.
  5. Call two or three business colleagues and ask them to set up appointments for you to network with a few powerhouses.
  6. Make sure you can spend two to three hours a week thinking about yourself and what you want to create in your life.
  7. Try to create one new business objective to build a new vision or break into a new market.

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Tanasia Kenney

Tanasia Kenney

Tanasia Kenney is a senior studying Journalism and Citizen Media at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Ga. She currently serves as chief copy editor of The Sentinel, KSU's campus newspaper. Regularly contributes articles and social media content CHISPA, Kenney's forte is writing hard news stories, but she has extensive experience with writing features as well. She will graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Communication and a certificate in multi-platform reporting from KSU in December 2015. Kenney hopes to continue perfecting her craft as a journalist through hands-on experience in the field. Her dream job is to be a news correspondent for E! News.

Tanasia Kenney

Tanasia Kenney is a senior studying Journalism and Citizen Media at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Ga. She currently serves as chief copy editor of The Sentinel, KSU's campus newspaper. Regularly contributes articles and social media content CHISPA, Kenney's forte is writing hard news stories, but she has extensive experience with writing features as well. She will graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Communication and a certificate in multi-platform reporting from KSU in December 2015. Kenney hopes to continue perfecting her craft as a journalist through hands-on experience in the field. Her dream job is to be a news correspondent for E! News.