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Advice for Women in Business From Other Business Women

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The best advice comes from others who have been in your best business shoes. Women in Business encourages other business women to chime in with their own thoughts and ideas.

Please share your best business tips, advice, and solutions to help other women entrepreneurs. Or, search our "Readers Respond" section to find business advice and support from your female peers in business!

1. Should Employees Be Punished For Staying Out With the Flu?

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The New York Times has reported, "At Wal-Mart, when employees miss one or more days because of illness or other reasons, they generally get a demerit point. Once employees obtain four points over a six-month period, they begin receiving warnings that can lead to dismissal."

Should employees be required to report to work when they have the H1N1 flu or other contagious illnesses or face being penalized?

Shouldn't a doctor's note let them off the hook? Should employers be required to pay sick leave?

Share Your Thoughts About Sick Leave Policies

2. You Know You're A Women Entrepreneur When...

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We have brains, style, poise, dignity, and skills. We are educated, owners of almost half the privately-held companies in the U.S. and holding this economy together. Still, we face inequality in business every single day. I tell my children "when you can't make sense of something, make a joke instead..." So I am calling all funny, witty women in business. Add your humor and let your laughter be heard! (It will confuse the men.) Add your quip!

3. Advice on Balancing Work and Family Life

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From the article: 3 Traps Mompreneurs Should Avoid Falling Into

Many women start businesses so that they can work from home and spend more time with their families. But as the demands of the business grow it is easy to feel pulled between work and family. Do you have tips for other women on how you balance running a business with the needs and demands your family has, too? Submit Your Business / Life Balance Tips

4. Business Advice for Kate Gosselin - Should Kate do the Show Without Jon?

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From the article: Biography of Kate Gosselin

Kate Gosselin, author, mother of eight and co-star of the reality TV show (TLC), "Jon and Kate Plus Eight," is being criticized for suggesting she would continue the show alone if her marriage breaks up. Gosselin said she may push her fame and success even harder now that she may be facing becoming a single mother.

What business advice would you give Kate about how to use her fame to provide for her children without sacrificing their well-being? Have advice for Kate?

5. Business Ideas, Tips, Funding Leads for Business Women From Other Business Women

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From the article: Funding Resources for Small Businesses

Finding funding for a business can be tough - but even tougher for business women who still face discriminatory lending practices more often than business men. Please share your favorite business advice, tips, leads, and links to resources that can help other women business owners find funding.

Share Your Funding Tips with other business women (or read funding advice already posted by other women in business).

6. Business Strategy Tips and Solutions For Women in Business From Other WIB

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From the article: How to Assess Your Business to Develop Better Strategies

How do you assess your business and what do you do with that information? Do you update your business plan only when there is a crisis? How do you develop and implement business strategies? If you have advice to share to help other business women struggling to keep their own businesses going please share your tips, advice, anecdotes, and resources. Share Your Business Strategies

7. How do you use Twitter for Business? Twitter Tips for Business Women

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From the article: Twitter Marketing Strategies: How Subscribing to Tweets Can Help Your Business

Twitter, a micro blogging system is starting to become more popular among businesses who want to keep in touch with their customers and to keep tabs on their competition. Please share your best Twitter tips - or Twitter "no-no's" with other business women. Share your Twitter Tips

8. Should G. Gordon Liddy Get Away With His Rude Comments About Judge Sotomayor?

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G. Gordon Liddy made inexcusable remarks on nationwide radio about Judge Sonia Sotomayor insinuating a woman's menstrual cycle affects her judgment.

Specifically, Liddy stated: "Let's hope that the key conferences aren't when she's menstruating or something, or just before she's going to menstruate. That would really be bad. Lord knows what we would get then."

What do you think of his comments and should he apologize to women?

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