Kathy Gambrell - Soapy Success

Kathy Gambrell has turned a hobby of making soaps into a profitable side business. Her handcrafted soaps are sold on her website. Read Sharon McLoone's in-depth article about Kathy's entrepreneurial jouney here.

Brenda Cannon - Sharing Memories Made Easy

Brenda Cannon - Internet Entrepreneur & EBWoman

Brenda Cannon has embarked on a new career that combines two loves. She's created a Web site that uses her computer skills to preserve family memories.

Cannon started familylobby.com as a way to share photos and news after coming back from a family reunion. She hopes churches and other groups start to use the site.

The site's success has caught the attention of Fortune magazine, which recently profiled the "Internet Entrepreneur." Plus, the December issue of Essence magazine mentions her Web site.

Read the full Dallas Morning News article about this EBWoman here.

Prince Georges' Welcomes The Next Mrs. Fields

This EBW has puts a makes healthy fare a choice in usually junk-food-filled vending machines. To read all about how she's turning her love of healthy food into an amazing entrepreneur success story, visit the link here.

Pricing Your Prodcut/Service - Online Video Seminar

You have a great business idea! You are going to offer the perfect product or service. You've done all of your research and you are ready to go forward full steam ahead.

But wait, what will you charge for your product or service? Pricing is one of the areas that often "trips up" entrepreneurs. You don't want to charge too much and you certainly don't want to charge too litte. What is the magic number?

While there is really no magic number, there is a practical number - a price point at which you will make a profit on what you sell. And to make things even easier, there is a formula that will help you reach that practical price point number.

For information on effectively pricing your product or service as well as additional info on launching/managing a small business, take a look at the information - including videos, podcasts and PowerPoint presentations, located at http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/smallbiz/video.html

Minority Women Entrepreneurs Face Uphill Climb

Writing for SmartMoney.com, Colleen DeBaise delivers an in-depth and thought provoking piece about the obstacles preventing minority women entrepreneurs from achieving maximum business success.

Per DeBaise's article, "A research project launched this year by the Center for Women's Business Research and Babson College hopes to pinpoint the challenges that minority women face, particularly when it comes to generating revenues for their firms. While female entrepreneurs in general lag behind men when it comes to sales, minority women further take a back seat to white women.

Read the entire article here.

Valuable Resource: Free SBA Online Courses

So you've decided to take the plunge and launch your dream business. But where to start? There is a long list of websites offering online courses on starting and growing your small business. You can take an online course in everything from marketing on a small start-up budget to finding and leasing space for your new venture.

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) offers entrepreneurs a selection of valuable online courses to help them through every phase of building a successful business.

Visit here to browse the list of online courses being offered by the SBA and choose the ones that will help you take your business to the next level and bring you closer to becoming an EBWoman.

Charmaine Jones - Cakediva, Artist, Entrepreneur

Saying that Charmaine Jones makes cakes would be like saying Picasso put paint on canvas – a flagrant understatement.

Like Picasso, painter extraordinaire, Charmaine Jones has surpassed the “just a...” stage to operate in a hemisphere of excellence that can only be described as superbly masterful.

Known as Cakediva, Jones is an artist, an expert, a skilled, meticulous professional. She, and the masterpieces she creates, are anything but ordinary.

Originally launched in 1990, and currently operating in dual locations out of Hoboken, New Jersey and Manhattan, New York, Jones’ company, Isn’t That Special Outrageous Cakes, is filling a niche, making a profit and satisfying customers by providing cakes designed with ethnic style, great taste and elegant flair

Her elaborate designs consistently elicit sentiments such as “It’s too beautiful, I can’t cut into it!”, or “Is that really a cake? We can really eat it?”

While Jones, whose cakes are indeed completely edible, is honored when customers compliment her on how incredibly, almost indescribably beautiful her creations are, she is equally honored to hear from them about how much they also enjoy the taste of her cakes – there 11 flavors, including pink champagne and 13 fillings, including guava, to choose from!

A savvy businesswoman, Cakediva has a press page on her website that bears testament to just how popular her creations are across a wide spectrum of industries and individuals.

Soap operas, national magazines, famous actors, recording artists, luxury hotels, you name it and Charmaine Jones has probably produced a masterpiece for any of these venues/occasions, and then some.

To read more about this inspiring entrepreneur, take a look at her fantastic creations and maybe order one for your special occasion, visit Cakediva’s website here.