Email marketing company Constant Contact is offering a free e-book for small businesses called “All Stars in Action,” marketing ideas from winners of Constant Contact’s All Star 2012 competition. You don’t have to be a Constant Contact customer to access this book; it’s available here and is loaded with pithy advice from other business owners.

You might think LinkedIn is just for job seekers. But LinkedIn can be another important venue to get the word out about your company. Create a profile for yourself as the owner and then add your company as a company. Here are more tips from Make Use Of for making your LinkedIn profile a winner: How to Make Your LinkedIn Profile Irresistible.

As we get closer to August 10, we’ll be teasing you with a few details about the third annual Blaze Your Own Trail conference. For instance, our morning breakout sessions—right after the keynote address by Shelley Menduni—will include a terrific workshop on Writing a Dynamic Sales Script by local sales guru Barb Girson! (Click on Barb’s name to download her e-book “My Award-Winning Sales Strategies.”)

Get a head start on Women’s Business Enterprise certification at this free workshop at the Columbus Small Business Development Center. You’ll bring all your paperwork and facilitators will walk you through the online application process. Click here for more information at the SBDC site.

We are so excited you came and we look forward to bringing an even better conference next year.  Women from all over Ohio attended.  We want to give a great big  “hurah!!” to the group that came up from South Carolina and Georgia.  We are looking forward to helping you expand your businesses and enthusiasm to others. Don’t forget that Women Educating Women, Inc. would