Christy Pruitt-Haynes is a speaker, coach and consultant who has been a featured speaker at numerous Women’s Business Center events and a mentor for Cohort graduates and Ignite 360 program participants. After attending a few events, she knew she wanted to apart of Pathway WBC. What is your career and business? I am a
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Pathway WBC Welcomes New Members to Board of Advisors
Get to know Jacqui Hayes, Kenya Nelson Stevens, and Christy Pruitt-Haynes – three strong new additions to the Pathway Women’s Business Center 2019 Advisory Board. This year, we’re welcoming three new members to our Board of Advisors. Jacqui Hayes, Kenya Nelson Stevens, and Christy Pruitt-Haynes join seven other accomplished advisors whose distinct entrepreneurial journeys collectively
Read more »Strength In Numbers: Partnerships, Being Bold and Women In Business
The Current State Of Women And Minority Business Owners Women in business continue to make gains year after year. As of 2017, women owned more than 11.6 million firms nationwide and generated $1.7 trillion in sales. That’s more than a 50 percent increase since 2007! The gains extend to minority entrepreneurs and women of color,
Read more »Grow Your Business and Reach Customers Online With Google: A Recap In 7 Simple Steps
Now more than ever, customers need to find your business online. Promoting your brand using Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and online advertising will drive more traffic to your business and website. We hosted a full house last summer for our sold-out Grow With Google workshop. Dave Delaney, who leads Google workshops all over the world,
Read more »Pathway Lending 101: Financing Businesses, Strengthening Communities
Our Women’s Business Center is a non-profit powered by the Small Business Administration that offers educational programming for entrepreneurs at all stages of business. We’re part of Pathway Lending, a mission-driven Community Development Financial Institution that finances businesses and strengthens communities. We’re a solutions provider and we want to help. Many of you know us
Read more »What is SEO? How to Use Google to Grow Your Business
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a powerful way for businesses to make sure they’re showing up on search engines like Google and Bing. Google has grown to become the dominant tool for businesses online. A good SEO strategy could make the difference between your business tapping into new markets or falling behind competitors. We recently
Read more »Women-Owned In Middle Tennessee: Resources for Your Business or Startup
Entrepreneurs and small business owners in Nashville, the Middle Tennessee region and across the state can choose from a wealth of resources to help start and grow their businesses. That’s likely one reason Tennessee ranked 10th in the U.S. in Kauffman’s Growth Entrepreneurship Index for the two-year period 2105-2017, according to LaunchTN’s 2018 analysis of
Read more »Are you ready to make the federal government your client?
4 simple steps for getting started Government contracts are a big opportunity for small businesses. The federal government allocates at least $5 of every $100 contract dollars to women and minority-owned small businesses each year, according to the Small Business Administration. State and local entities are following suit so that minority and women-owned businesses get
Read more »Building Business Relationships: Top Tips To Start Strong In Your New Mentorship
Last week in our series on building business relationships, Taneka and Ashlee’s mentorship story showed us the power of a great mentorship. This week we’re covering the steps you can take to ensure the same success with your mentor by getting off to a strong start. We recently matched our Discover Cohort graduate Kristin Mejia
Read more »Building Business Relationships Series: Successful Businesses Have Mentors
Taneka Cole credits her mentor’s motivation and advice with opening the doors to her body-positive bridal shop. Research from the Small Business Administration proves a link between mentoring and small business success. This week, in our third installment of our series on building business relationships, we turn to Taneka’s mentorship story. Taneka Cole wanted
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Ignite: Sustainability and Resiliency for your BusinessFri Apr 3 2020, 03:00pm CDT - 04:00pm CDT
Roadmap to ResiliencyWed Apr 8 2020, 11:00am CDT - 01:00pm CDT
Ignite: Sustainability and Resiliency for your Business
Roadmap to ResiliencyTrigger’s Marketing Triangle: A Model For Putting Your Best Foot Forward Online (Guest Post)
The Trigger team presented this concept as part of Pathway WBC’s first Marketing Bootcamp Feb 11, 2020, and it was so well received we invited them to share it on our blogs. The following post originally appeared on the Trigger blog. We are running it here with permission. Shop, Search, Social: the three points
Be Bold: First Year Highlights + Second Year Lineup
Year 1 Highlights Take a listen to the Nashville Entrepreneur Center‘s Navigate Podcast, Navigate 009: Be Bold w/ Pathway Women’s Business Center to hear highlights from the first annual Be Bold last year, in 2019. Brynn Plummer and Clark Buckner, hosts of the podcast, interviewed several of the inspirational leaders, businesswomen and innovators who headlined
Be Bold 2020: The Women Who are Bold for Equality
Now in its 2nd year, Pathway WBC’s Be Bold is an annual event celebrating women’s achievements in business on International Women’s Day, Friday, March 6th. Women and men from across Middle Tennessee are invited to attend this event, which seeks to raise awareness that an equal world is an enabled world. Held at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center