Research has shown over and over again that the 2 greatest obstacles women entrepreneurs face with in starting up a business and succeeding to the 43rd month of existence when they reached the coveted position of sustainable “women business owners” are:
1. Lack of confidence, and
2. Lack of mentors (BTW, I do not find this to be true…mentors are plentiful and willingly able)

In my recent interview with Folksonomy, I continue to share my perplexing dilemma of Why women entrepreneurs are skeptical, and/or not willing to make critical business decisions at a moments noticed, or not willing to share good offers that they themselves participate in with their fellow lists, subscribers or colleagues. Why!? I continue to ask…

And, because I still have yet to find any answers (none in the comments to this post, while men answered other calls within…)

I realized that my own experiences with the PRWeb.com offer and the data derived from it, shows me more now then ever, WHY Chapter 6: The Empowerment Equation of Success from my best-selling “Empowering Women to Power Network” IS the most popular chapter in my book. Women entrepreneurs are actively seeking a “Success Equation”.

You can get a free sample of this chapter, as well as Step 1 in claiming your PRWeb.com $200 free press release, by signing up for the “Empower ME Now Tips” ezine here.

I’ve been compiling this list of Top 10 Women Entrepreneur Blogs for weeks now, since I wanted to give detailed descriptions why each one ranked in their present position, and even though a dear colleague Vlad posted a great post last Saturday, I still spent at least another 4.5 hours on this post since then.

Criteria for the Top 10 Women Entrepreneur Blogs

Ranking for this list is the ability each blog addresses the top 2 obstacles women entrepreneurs faces (described above), and the ability of the blog author/s give advice, counsel, and share resources to mentor, network, and/or offer their expertise to all of our targeted market: Women Entrepreneurs.

Regardless of the age of the blog, the ranking is based on today’s ability and/or potential to address these issues, based on the author(s) present posts.

I subscribe and/or frequent all these blogs (some don’t have a ‘RSS feed’ available. Hint: get one!)

I encourage YOU to do the same. We offer all different resources, and share advice and/or resources with a different tone, voice and spark that I’m proud to Empower You see us all as colleagues and *not* competitors.

Note: No one knows I’m compiling this list, so those who are listed, I hope you will empower your readers to value all the resources provided as well.

Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs Blogs

10. Babson College Women’s Business Blog. This is the official blog of The Babson College Center for Women’s Leadership (CWL) which is dedicated to the accomplishment of women at all stages of their careers and to the advantages for the organizations that are committed to leveraging the talent and market power of women.

The Babson Women’s Business Blog is dedicated to a cause about which we are very passionate: the advancement of women and business. While our backgrounds and expertise are varied, we work together at Babson College and share a commitment to building opportunities based on the competitive advantage of women. We look forward to sharing our insights and exploring opportunities with you for how women can achieve their professional goals and how organizations can best leverage their talent and market power. Here is their mission statement.

This blog is research-based, and obviously holds an academic voice and tone, but their perspectives are critical to the life of a woman entrepreneur. Myself, coming from an academic background its critical to see how and where goverment money goes to fund critical resaerch necessary for our growth. A great article that was critiqued by many academics and main stream media can be found here.

9. Women2.0 - A new Silicon Valley, technology-based blog is authored by the women from Entrepreneur27 . They are extremely resourceful, highly-intellegent young (under 27 years of age) women entrepreneurs offering a unique perspective of empowering women entrepreneurs to utilize technology to catapult their business endeavors for future growth. I anticipate great things to come from this blog, as they have a powerful network of organizations, and individuals with big-purses (look at their Sponsors–very impressive!) who are equally interested in promoting young women to design, start-up, and succeed in business, as they invest their time and resource to contests such as Napkin 2.0–Congrats to the winners!

8. REAL Women -

an online community of Rising Entrepreneurs And Like-minded Women. Zena Hockely, the founder and author is a British nationale living in the Netherland, shares “I have passion and drive to succeed, but also the empathy and desire to help other women entrepreneurs. The essence of a REAL Woman!”.

A very new blog, she interviews REAL women , shares great tidbits of wisdom , and offers great practical advice , and working hard to share valuable resource lists . Zena shares her upbeat tone–a woman with experience and a passion to help you succeed.

7. BodaciousBlog.com - Electrifying Branding!

Caution: This blog is full of bodacious opinions, commentary & advice. You’ve been warned!

We All Gotta Little Bodaciousness

“Bodacious, is that even a word?” I’ve been asked. Sure is, and it means being bold, outstanding, audacious. I love it because it captures a positive spirit of freedom, choice and being all you can be. My personal journey to bodaciousness has convinced me of at least two things about becoming a Bodacious Woman. The first is that bodaciousness starts on the inside. The second is that everyone already has some bodaciousness inside them.

Mary Foley, author, speaker and club founder is electrifying and knows her stuff about “branding”. She has spirit, spunk and every woman entrepreneur can learn a thing or two from her firing red exclamation points to life, personally and as a business owner. She shares quick tips and leads all her posts into new news, articles, a newsletter edition and much more actionable tips, tools or resources.

Mary lives life bodaciously and empowers all women entrepreneurs to do the same!

6. “Escape from Corporate America” , named after her book, Laurel Delaney

offers a comprehensive look at why women are leaving BIG companies for entrepreneurship. Hint: They want freedom, flexibility, recognition, more money, and opportunities to leave a legacy — all the things they once thought they would find within corporations.

Laurel writes very quick, concise posts in the form or book reviews, opinions and commentary to news trends. Basically, everything important that comes to my “women entrepreneurs” Google Alerts, Laurel comments on. Rather than have me re-hash my opinrions on what’s going on in the world related to women and entrepreneurialism, I turn to Laurel’s blog. Her opinions are straight-to-the-point, and most, if not all her, posts offer different perspectives on the issue discussed or futher reading material if you chose to dive into the topic more. A contributor to Entrepeneur.com for your Global column, Laurel exceeds all boundaries.

5. re:invention -

Chicago marketing and PR firm, helps corporations market their products and services to working women. Explore re:invention’s blog, a toolbox for and about working women, and learn how women-targeted public relations and marketing can boost your company’s sales and profits.

Kristen writes though-provoking posts, shares US policies in regards to women business ownership, shares opinions and opportunities related to venture capital. Undoubtedly, she’s a successful business owner and writes with that authority. She speaks often about assisting 1 million women entrepreneurs become millionaires in the United States and there’s no doubt she’ll reach that goal (if she hasn’t herself already). In terms of mentoring her 10 Tips program allows expert women entrepreneurs to share actionable-steps readers can take to apply to their businesses today–I hope this aspect of her blog picks up again for women entrepreneurs to gain from.

4. TheWildWE Blog -A membership-based community, this blog mostly shares press releases relating to new local networking groups popping up throughout the country, new podcasts, and opportunities for its members.

Especially for extraordinary women, the Wild WE is an exciting international community that helps you achieve your full potential in business and life by providing valuable insights through mentoring, networking and new learning, in a fun way.

You can get their weekly ezine for free, and listen for free to great informative podcasts hosted by the founder, JanNae Duane. To learn more about membership here.

3. StartUpPrincess.com -

Start Up Princess is an international network for women entrepreneurs to learn and support one another. Currently we have members all over the USA, Canada, and Australia.

Free of charge, Start Up Princess (SUP) offers mentoring via Fairy Godmother posts, Start Up Princess share their success in invitation-only guest posts, networking occurs via blog commenting, teleseminars, confidence issues, many how-to posts, publicity opportunities are posted, and local networking tea parties are available in Utah where the Founder, Start Up Princess crowned Head Fairy Godmother resides. Profile pages are offered to SUPs.
Objectives.

2. EmpowerWomenNow.com

is the Top International Women Entrepreneur’s Online Resource Center [Blog], where W.E. (women entrepreneurs) Learn, Share, and Succeed Together. W.E. offer free help, tips, tools, resources, mentoring, networking and much more.

Ponn M. Sabra, a best-selling author, syndicated columnist (WomenEntrepreneur.com Columnist), women’s empowerment advocate, freelance writer (seoptimzied online press release specialty), public speaker, and internet marketer; the majority of her resources for women are in the “written word” and free of charge.

EmpowerWomenNow.com draws readers from over 59 countries throughout the world, to date as she offers mentoring through free articles, eReports, eCourse, eNewsletter, products, services, blogposts, and much more. Presently the top projects include: creating an open source for women entrepreneurs, open an international women entrepreneur fund, and has been building an information product line that caters to women entrepreneurs Networking occurs at WomenEntrepreneur.com message boards, and new Link Directory.

1. Entrepreneur.com Blog Network
With experts in each of the following fields: Legal, Baby Boomer, Weekender, Inspiration, Serenity, Savvy Start, Small Business Growth, Comic Entrepreneur’s philoSophie’s.

How-to’s, columnist and experts serve as mentors through their Free monthly columns. Free message board. Free ezine with great ebooks, free podcast, with best-selling authors, and internationally-renowned public speakers.

The sister-site to the ever-popular Enterpeneur.com, read the history of how this site came to be. Undoubtedly, this blog network will be the forerunner for women entrepreneurs hands down.

I’ m humbled to be apart of this cutting-edge writing opportunity. It’s literally “History in the making for Women Entrepreneurs”!

Side Note: This list is not ranked by Google PageRank, alexa ranking, or traffic size. Nontheless, it is not surprising to find that, more or less each blog falls generally in that order due to the very nature of what each blog offers Women Entrepreneurs across the World for free and for a fee.

W.E. (women entrepreneurs) at EmpowerWomenNow.com greatly appreciate your feedback, suggestions, and comments regarding this list. Have a blog to recommend for next upcoming lists? Have more resources from your blog that you want to draw to our attention? Please comment below.

But, most of all–let’s continue our forward charge together to help one another succeed in our businesses–let’s network and mentor one another!

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Posted on May 20th, 2007 by Ponn Sabra
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