by Diane Bertolin Many businesses try to compete with one another on the size of their Facebook followings. Everyone knows, though, that competing on numbers isn’t as important as competing on quality. A business with a small but engaged following almost always has it better than a business that has a large, but uncaring one. The more your Facebook followers

History books are thick with pages about the founding fathers who blazed new trails to the free world, leading to our independence on July 4, 1776. I remember learning about the early innovators and entrepreneurs including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, John D Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, but where are the stories about women entrepreneurs in our history books? Young girls need to learn that an entrepreneur named Coco Chanel was

I was so excited to be named Visionista of the Week by speaker, writer, mentor and founder of Million Dollar Party Girl, Lynn Bardowski.  Lynn defines Visionista as ‘a woman who knows who she is, where she’s going and guides her tribe of leading ladies to the top’.  Wow…this title is definitely an honor!  I was even more excited to

Interview: The Million$ Party Girl Talks on Succeeding In Business, Lighting Candles & Empowering Your Inner Visionista republished with permission from Consumption Conversations There is only one Million$ Party Girl…and it’s Lynn Bardowski! You can meet Lynn, if you do not know her already (shocking!) at her site, www.milliondollarpartygirl.com. Lynn is an energized person who literally shines! One of Lynn’s sayings

As my husband and I perused the on-demand movie offerings last weekend, one of the titles caught my attention – Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.  The movie, starring two Golden Globe nominated actors (Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor), looked worthy of watching; even if salmon fishing did not particularly excite me.  I clicked purchase and found myself immersed in a

With a name like Million Dollar Party Girl it was destined to happen. I’ve become famous. In South Jersey. Or, at least in my own backyard. Everywhere I go, people have heard of the M$PG. They don’t even know my real name, and that’s OK with me. It all happened because I’m a proud self-promoter. You see, one of my key