Category: Women in Business

A Prayer for The New Year

Gratefully Welcoming 2020 With Open Minds And Grateful Hearts

 

A Prayer for the New Year

 
Happy New Year Women of Virtue,
 
It is my hope and sincerest prayer that each one of you had a prosperous and blessed Christmas. I pray that your New Year has you enjoying every second of working to propel your businesses beyond infinity.
 
I lovingly and gratefully penned a prayer for the new year.
 
As I was writing this prayer for the new year, I prayed that you will be blessed beyond belief in this new year as you work to implement new, but relevant things for your businesses. With God guiding you with His eye, I know that success has your name written on it. I hope you enjoy using, to the fullest, all that God has gifted you for Christmas.
 
Women of Excellence, may your new year be one of pure joy and may your wishes be fulfilled all the days of your lives.
 
 
Let us pray,
 
Dear God,
 
In the powerful name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth we come before Your presence to bless You. Lord God, we love You and we thank You for this brand new year of 2020.
 
Father, we lift up our voices to sing Your praise and to give You thanks for letting us live to see another new second, minute, hour and day.
 
We exalt You, O God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. There is no one like You Father. You are a great God and Your greatness is unsearchable. We shall rejoice in Your goodness and salvation always and forever.
 
We thank You for blessing our businesses Lord God. Father, every day that You load us with benefits and breathe air into our lungs, we rejoice. Thank You for giving us richly all things to enjoy, Gracious Father.
 
Our Most High God, we are deeply grateful that when Your hands touch our hands we prosper in all that we do. We glorify You, Lord God and thank You for Your rich and abundant land that encircles us reminding us that we are wealthy, wonderful creative beings and entrepreneurs. 
 
We bless and thank You that we get to experience peace, love, joy and harmony in our empires and in our homes. And now Lord, we lift You up giving You the glory You alone deserve.
 
Merciful God, we thank You for our individual businesses that have collectively become a praise report because of You, Your faithfulness, Your grace and mercy Lord.
 
From our gifts to our skill sets, You have given us everything we need to be successful entrepreneurs. You have blessed our hands and make everything we touch to prosper. We thank You Lord.
 
As we enter into this decade, we pray and ask You, Lord, in the name of Jesus if You will continue to guide us with Your eye, Lord God.
 
Please bless every aspect of our businesses and help us to be a blessing to those who need our help in more ways than one.
 
O Lord, in the wonderful name of Jesus, we bless Your holy name forevermore giving You all the honor and all the praise for You, Lord, are worthy.
 
In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Being Thankful

It Is An Amazing Way To Live Your Life!

Being thankful

Being thankful. It should be a normal and natural way to live your life!

Thanksgiving is right there in your heart. Every. Single. Day. It shares space where your wealth, abundance and prosperity dwell.

During this wonderful heartwarming season of love and good cheer, it is important that we give thanks for all of the abundant things in our lives.

As we continue to move forward in business let us give thanks for all of the ideas, dreams, visions and concepts that have been graciously presented to us along our journey this year.

These unique and brilliant light bulb moments and opportunities have given us the boost our businesses needed as we forged and soared along the way in our quest to achieve our goals and live out some of our vibrant dream.

All of these golden door opportunities have helped to structure our business. We have wisely incorporated these exclusive business building principles into our empires to steadily grow our incomes.

Blessed, gifted and phenomenally skilled, there lies within you a wealthy reservoir of tools and resources and with thanksgiving flowing from your heart you vow to share your blessings with others.

May I make a suggestion. During the Thanksgiving and Christmas Season give a free gift to someone in need.

Please stop for a moment to think about something that you once needed in your life. Now think about how that need was met and then take time to gift-box the very thing that someone you know or perhaps someone you don’t know and do the same. Oh the feeling that will clothe you will be life and business changing.

You see when you sow seeds in the life of someone else your harvest becomes even more bountiful and abundant with prosperity overflowing.

Being thankful is an incredible feeling that changes everything!

Being thankful

With this said, I’d love to give someone a gift box this Christmas. I think you will love and appreciate its contents.

The first person who reads and then responds to this post will receive a free Christmas gift box from me and Beauty and the Face.  Please send an email to cyndisdesignz@gmail.com

Be blessed,

Cynthia

www.beautyandtheface.com

www.everywomanslifelovingjourney.com

Gratefulness

Let Gratefulness Be The Attitude That You Adopt For Abundance and Prosperity!

Gratefulness Women of Excellence,

Gratefulness is an attitude women entrepreneurs should display daily. Being grateful for all the seeds that have been planted and watered for growth is a great way to build business, empower and encourage yourself everyday! It is an remarkable lifestyle that can change the way you think and prosper all your paths all the days of your life.

Listed below please find your daily affirmations that speak to the heart of God. Let God know how happy and grateful you are for His blessings upon your life and your business.

Dear Heavenly Father,

I am grateful for the plans You have for me and everything that is included in Your plans for my life. 

I am grateful for a life filled with a reservoir of everlasting blessings. 

I am grateful for the joy and peace in my life. 

I am grateful for being clothed with faith and trust in You Father God. 

I am grateful for the strength You give me Lord God. 

I am grateful for my harvest of gifts and pearls of prosperity. 

I am grateful for the shelter You provide for my family and all of my friends and acquaintances and my enemies. 

I am grateful for good health

I am grateful for the infinite possibilities and ideas that have helped me to have a flourishing conglomerate. 

I am grateful for cleansing my sins and washing all gunk from my mind body soul and spirit with the precious blood of Jesus. 

I am grateful for Your Holy Spirit who gives me guidance and wisdom throughout all the days of my life. I thank You for His wise counsel. 

I am grateful to You Lord God for removing all those obstacles and hindrances of sin and evil messages that were once coded in my DNA and for cleansing and allowing me to receive all the blessings You have waiting to release unto me. 

I am grateful for my dreams and goals that are real and alive. 

I am grateful for all of the infinite tools and resources You make available to me on a daily basis for my success O Lord. 

I am grateful for my gifts of creativity. 

I am grateful for restoration, inspiration, instruction and Your guidance in my life and all of my endeavors. 

I am grateful for blessing the works of my hands and for my prosperity abundance riches and wealth. 

I am grateful for my financial wealth. 

I am grateful for Your favor upon my life O Lord. 

I am grateful for the seeds of wisdom knowledge and understanding You have planted deep within the rich soil in the garden of my heart. 

I am grateful for the growth in my life. 

I am deeply grateful for my wealth of knowledge You have given me O Lord. 

I am grateful for Your love O Lord. 

I am grateful for the precious and rare gemstones You have placed in my trresure chest of hope. 

I am thankful for the path You have placed before my feet and for leading and guiding me to the place You want me to be and where You have Your name, O Lord.

 

Written by Cynthia G. Boyer

www.beautyandtheface.com

How I Built a Dropshipping Store That Made $6,667 in Under 8 Weeks

How I Built a Dropshipping Store That Made $6,667 in Under 8 Weeks

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” – Les Brown 

I believe that everybody has the potential to become a successful entrepreneur, and I set out to illustrate this for you.

I wanted to document my entire process of building, launching, and running a dropshipping business, so you can follow every decision that I made, and use my journey to fuel your own success.

In 8 weeks I built and launched my store. During those 8 weeks I made $6,666.73 in revenue.

Let me be clear, I’m no genius. I’m just an ambitious entrepreneur, like you, with a huge drive to succeed.

I was running this business in addition to my 9 to 5 job (which isn’t related to ecommerce at all), so I had to work on my store after work, or on the weekends – just like many of you.

Even with all the obstacles in my way, I did it, and if I can, you can too.

So, follow along with my journey to find out how I chose my products, which marketing tactics worked best for me, how I made my first sale, and learn the challenges that I faced as an entrepreneur.

Let’s get started! 

Finding a Niche

When I start a new business, I always like to think about what I’m going to sell first.

Even though there are amazing online tools which can help me find a profitable business idea, I usually start by brainstorming on a piece of paper.

Why did I use paper? I’m a huge fan of keeping it simple, so I just wrote down everything that came to mind for 10 minutes.

I don’t want to overthink the ideation process. There were good ideas in my head, just like there are in yours, and all I had to do was put them to paper. 

I used the following criteria when I was picking my products:

  • No food. (I didn’t know about the quality of food from overseas)
  • No electronics (easy to break which can lead to a lot of returns)
  • No heavy goods (high shipping costs)
  • Low-priced items (if a refund was necessary I wouldn’t lose that much money)

Now, these were just my criteria for a product. There isn’t an exact science behind this, but I’ve found success using these criteria in the past, and successful entrepreneurs double down on what works. 

I came up with nine solid product ideas (as shown above in green) with some further thoughts (circled in yellow).

I already had some rough ideas for what I should sell, but I still wanted to check the bestselling lists from:

I’ve found success in the past with products that can be found in at least two of these marketplaces.

After checking these marketplaces, I settled on three product ideas.

1. Pineapple Bracelets

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Both Amazon and Etsy had the same products in their bestselling listings, which was a good sign that there was demand for this product.

2. Steel Strap Watches

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Watches with a steel strap also proved to be popular. Seemed like these products could be a good option.

3. Pineapple Hats

And again; both Amazon and Etsy listed similar products in their bestsellers list. I found it very interesting that both platforms had pineapple hats.

I had three ideas, so it was now time to validate them.

Niche Validation

Validation is one of the most important steps when you’re starting your own online business. 

This process will allow you to understand if there is demand for your idea (product) or not.

If you skip the validation process your business can end up being a waste of both time and money.

Niche Validation #1

As I had three ideas, I had to find the one which had the most potential to become a success. The easiest way to do this was to use Google Trends.

All of these product ideas seemed great. There weren’t any crazy trends, but there were definitely signs of an increasing interest across the board.

With this graph I had the confidence to continue moving forward with these product ideas.

Even though “steel watch strap” had a higher search volume on Google, my intuition told me that I should look more into the pineapple products because:

  • The search volume for both pineapple products was on the rise,
  • These products fall under a specific niche,
  • There is a wide variety of possible products to sell.

I already mentioned that spending too much time on finding products to sell isn’t ideal for me. 

Then it hit me. I thought to myself: “why not build a huge pineapple dropshipping store?”

I wanted to stick with my gut feeling, and move forward with this idea. So, it was decided: I was going to launch a pineapple store.

Finding Products to Sell

Now that I’d decided on the niche for my store, it was time to start researching some products.

I started by checking Amazon to gauge if the pineapple products were available. 

I made a point to take advantage of the drop-down suggestions (as shown in the images below) after I had entered my search term.

This was a very important step. These suggestions are based on the activity from buyers who use these websites, and their algorithms have learnt which products I might be interested in.

Ultimately, these algorithms are meant to coax me into purchasing more from the platforms. And if they work for me, they’ll also work for my audience.

So, I simply searched for the term “pineapple” without pressing enter, and made a note of the results.

Amazon’s suggestions:

I cherrypicked these results for the products which looked most interesting and, combined with the results from my research, I compiled a list of 10 ideas:

  • Pineapple corer
  • Pineapple decor
  • Pineapple backpack
  • Pineapple float
  • Pineapple popsocket
  • Pineapple necklace
  • Pineapple earrings
  • Pineapple dress
  • Pineapple bikini
  • Pineapple hats

I was very happy with these results, but I still took the time to dig a little deeper and explore some more products.

After all, the more product research you do, the more likely you are to find products which will be successful for your business.

I spent around one hour reviewing these products, and I came up with a couple more solid ideas for my inventory.

I now had 17 product ideas in total. Bare in mind that each product also has dozens of different variants and color options, so my store’s inventory was looking good so far.

Read the full article here:

https://www.oberlo.com/blog/how-i-built-a-dropshipping-store-that-made-6667-in-under-8-weeks

https://www.godsvirtuouswomenentrepreneurs.com

Goal Setting

The Key To Success

 

Goal setting

Philippians 3:7-14

What three goals would you set for your life if you knew that you could achieve them? Would any of them be spiritual in nature? The apostle Paul was a goal-oriented person (even before he became a Christian), and he understood which pursuits were the most important. His chief ambition was to know Christ and His resurrection power, along with the fellowship of His suffering (Phil. 3:10).

We’d all do well to adopt these goals, but they sound so broad. How do we put them into practice? First, it’s important to comprehend that a goal is a purpose or direction toward which we work. This concept is fairly easy to understand when we’re talking about specific objectives like going to bed earlier or washing dishes every day, but what steps would you need to take in order to achieve spiritual goals like Paul’s?

Success requires choosing steps that are specific, reasonable, and measurable. For example, if you want to know Christ more intimately, you might start by spending 15 minutes each day praying and reading His Word. After developing your plan and the steps to accomplish it, put your desire into action. If you don’t take the necessary steps, it will simply remain a wish. No one develops intimacy with Christ through good intentions; it takes commitment, diligence, and perseverance.

If you feel as if your faith is lacking vitality, it may be that you’ve lost sight of your goal. No one intends to slip into complacency. But unless you set some specific goals and work to achieve them, you’ll drift through life and miss the reward—knowing Christ intimately.

Bible in One Year: Job 22-25

https://www.intouch.org/read/magazine/daily-devotions/goal-setting-the-key-to-success