My 12 year old Daughter, Rhiannon has been selected as one of two Under 16 year old entrepreneurs to be featured in a book written by Business Writer Peter Economy.

Rhiannon receives this honour through a competition run by Jenny Ford from Cash Smart Kids and will be featured in Peter’s 2008 Charity Book Project.  The Charity Book Project was developed by Peter Economy as a way to use his passion – writing – to give something back, and hopefully to make the world a better place.

His plan? To write a book each year, with a co-author, and donate the proceeds to charity. In the first year, 2008, he has chosen to work with Jenny Ford and write a book to empower parents to teach their kids the money and business skills they need to be self-sufficient in the modern economy.

Jenny devised a competition where the kids had to develop a 2 minute YouTube Video or write a Hubpage about their business. Two winners would be chosen.

Rhiannon will be profiled alongside big names like Ben Casnocha, who started a software business at 13, and was CEO of a Silicon Valley start-up by seventeen.

Jenny’s announcement was made on her blog today – Raising Entrepreneurs.

Rhiannons website helps people Learn To Be Psychic and the blog helps her share experiences and lessons she is learning.

We sold our two stores back to head office and walked out in a world of debt.  I mean serious debt with no way of moving it off!

Here we are today, 13 and a little bit months on, living with my parents selling the last of our property to survive.  It looks pretty grim…. or does it really?

Sure, things are tough… we often wonder where the money to buy the weekly groceries is going to come from but I am now tapping into the skillset I have developed over 20 years to generate a lifestyle that I and the family are happy with.

I have had to dig deep to reconstruct my finances to support my family.

As anyone who knows me will attest, I am very passionate about Women In Business succeeding. For Women to be able to reach their goals and aspirations and still be human in the process.  I have decided to do something about it! Carol Deckert, a friend and business associate from Lancaster in the US, and I have teamed up to bring a series of hard hitting, in depth interviews with successful businesswomen.  This is so close to my heart – and I am so pleased to be able to help other women by providing practical and real life examples of how you can be successful.

My friend Carol and I will be interviewing 8 women over a 5 week period…. get more information at Ladies In Business Today…. you won’t regret it.

When I first decided to build my Internet business, I was shocked at the charges for some of the services and being aware that a good business person manages their expenses to ensure the success of their business, I really didn’t feel that I could justify the expense for many of the things I was seeing. So I decided to do a lot of things for myself and, as a result, I have found a number of free and inexpensive services that any business person can take advantage to develop their business. All you have to know is what those services are and how to put them together.

During my presentation, I recommended a series of Plug-Ins that all blogs should have at a minimum. To help you out, here they are:

1. All In One SEO
2. Backup WordPress
3. Comment Luv
4. Exec-PHP
5. Google Analytics
6. Google Sitemaps
7. OneClick Installer

Other resources that I have found extremely helpful in my journey to build my business are:

AWeber as my autoresponder service

Google Analytics to track and measure

Hitslink is another excellent Analytics service that has a free option

If you’re looking for a great, supportive group to network with and learn from try:

Wonderful Web Women with Janet Beckers

Internet Success System with Mark Hendricks

Now, as part of the presentation, Connie asked 3 questions. The first three people to answer these questions correctly will receive a FREE 30 minute consultation with me. You can use that consultation to address ‘challenges’ that you’re having, get that work done that you’ve been meaning to have done or to have some training on a particular issue…… To be in the chance to get one of these consultations, all you have to do is be one of the first three people to answer the following questions correctly! I will put the names (and websites) of those who are quick enough to respond correctly on this page…… I’ve also included an area for you to comment, so please let me know if you have anything in particular that you want to discuss or what you thought of the presentation. When you submit the quiz, you will receive an email asking you to confirm whether you would like to receive updates on my services – I have a special gift for those who confirm that request….

The Summer Speaker series runs all August 2008 and features 42 speakers in 30 days!