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Mary Foley's Articles in General Business

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  • 10 Easy Ways to Turn Up the Heat on Valentine's Day That Most Guys Miss!
    Hey guys, is your Valentine full of passion and vivaciousness? Is she daring and confident? How about curious and playful in all the ways you want her to be? Well, if you want a woman who is bolder, more passionate, and downright bodacious, then follow my ten easy and fun ways to turn up the heat on Valentine’s Day and beyond. Most guys miss this but, believe me, if you do them she's thank you many times over! Happy Valentine's Day!
  • 10 Things You Want Your Reputation To Say About You
    When it comes to building your business or your career in a company, how people perceive you is often to the difference between more sales, promotions, and certainly your satisfaction. Here are ten things you want your reputation to say about you.
  • 5 Steps To Take Charge Of Your Professional Growth
    Sometimes change in our professional lives comes at us expectedly and unwanted, sometimes we initiate it. Either way, how we respond to changes to our professional lives is what really counts. I like to think of it as "Change is inevitable, growth is optional. Choose to grow".
  • 7 Critical Things Male Business Gurus Don’t Tell You, But Every Woman Wants to Know
    Much of the business advice from male business gurus doesn’t quite cut it for women entrepreneurs. These gurus haven’t figured out how they advice is different for women. Plus, they’ve left out some parts all together!
  • 7 Secrets to Work-Life Sanity
    As a woman you play multiple roles. You’re a daughter, grand daughter, sister, niece, girlfriend, wife, business woman, gal pal, volunteer….and sometimes community leader, politician, or in the ministry. And you’re exhausted! You want to do it all and do it all well. You don’t want to let anyone down, and yet you’re losing it...
  • 7 Steps Any Solopreneur Can Use to Build a Winning Brand
    Your brand is the experience your target customers have while interacting with you. If their experience evokes a strong, positive emotional response, then you’ve got a great brand. Why? Because customers buy from emotion and back it up with their head. If your customers have trouble remembering your name when you’re not actually in the room then you need to work on your brand.
  • A Little Testosterone Goes A Long Way
    What can a Bodacious woman learn from a man and still stay Bodacious? In honor of Father's Day, we'll celebrate some of the men's Bodacious behaviors.
  • Actively Market Your Value
    Marketing your value may feel a little awkward at first, but with a little practice to make it feel authentic, the initial discomfort will melt away. Your reward is others viewing you with greater esteem, which sets you up for even greater success. Because, after all, success isn’t over rated, it feels fabulous!
  • Another Year Hating Your Job or Loving Life?
    So, how satisfied are you with your career on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being extremely satisfied? If your answer is 6 or below, what needs to change for your career to be a 10? Will you spend another year hating your job or will make a change so that you’re loving your life?
  • Create Deliberate Relationships
    Bodacious Career builders know that in today’s business world value lies in relationships. Everything is introduced, evaluated, negotiated, bought, sold, resolved, ended, and enjoyed based on relationships. Even with all this high-tech stuff, it’s still all about people.
  • Create Your Own Happiness by Being Bodacious
    Finding the inspiration and motivation to live your life full out!
  • Don't Take it Personally
    "Don't take it personally" is my absolute number one favorite Bodacious Way because it comes in handy all the time. We can all remember a time when we took it personally, right?
  • Embrace Office Politics
    Let’s be real. Every workplace is political, and the higher up the organizational chart you go, the more political the workplace gets. That’s because there’s more at stake. The higher up you go, the more things get accomplished by virtue of relationships and positioning. Bodacious Women know that the higher up you go in an organization, the more office politics you get. They also know that the question isn’t whether to play, but how.
  • Empowerment Starts With “No”!
    Empowerment begins when we acknowledge that we alone can make the difference between getting what we want and accepting what we get. It's an easy concept but not a natural one for many of us.
  • Feeling Secure in an Insecure World
    We all want security, but my life experience has forced me to come to a conclusion that I resisted for a long time: Security is an illusion. We’ve all heard that life doesn’t come with guarantees, but do we really want to believe it?
  • Five Keys to Job Satisfaction
    If you LOVE your job, this probably isn't for you. However, if things could stand to get a little - or a LOT - better, you MUST read on!
  • How Every Woman Can Celebrate Mother’s Day
    Mother's Day: How it all began.
  • How to Get More Time and More Clients
    If you’re like me, one of the reasons you went into business for yourself was to feel more satisfied and fulfilled. The constant feeling of never getting enough done or not having enough clients for cash flow doesn’t quite meet the satisfaction criteria.
  • How to Quit Your Job Like a Pro
    Knowing when and how to leave a company is an art in today’s economy. With constant change in many companies and in our lives, there’s always a cycle of beginning and ending.
  • How To Tell Within 10 Seconds If A Woman Is Bodacious
    We've all met women who exude self confidence, ones with charisma, ones who are magnetic, etc. But have you ever met a woman and known instantly that she was more than all that - was that Bodacious-ness? Here's how to tell.
  • It’s Time to Get Bodacious About Your Career
    When what you always thought was right isn't exactly so in your career, what do you do? Mary Foley has thoughts on that and yes, they're Bodacious ones!
  • Know How You Want to Be Treated
    Are you clear about how you want people to treat you? Have you experienced your boundaries being crossed or violated? One lesson women typically have a difficult time with is establishing boundaries.
  • Know Your Worth
    If your self-worth is tightly entwined with the company you work for, a single downturn in the market could send you spinning down the drain. You would be tempted to preserve your job there no matter what and possibly loose opportunities in other companies or the direction of your career.
  • Live Like Your Nail Color
    We've all heard that we should "Live Out Loud" or "Live Full Up" but this author thinks "Living Like Your Nail Color" sounds like the way to go. It's certainly Bodacious!
  • Put Some Bounce In Your Spring
    Living bodaciously means making the most aware, informed choice and allowing yourself a "do over" if it's not going as you expected or like. Living bodaciously means we courageously renew ourselves.
  • Rescue Your Dreams!
    In our tumultuous world, it's easy to forget to dream and believe anything is possible, but, it truly is. And, it starts with allowing yourself to dream of what's possible for your career, business, and life.
  • Six Steps for Taking a Stand
    We've all been there. Whether in our career, business, or personal life, we've all encountered situations where someone is being, well, let's say, unpleasant. They are trying to push you to do something you don't want to do or they are questioning your work or they are dismissing your opinion or some other wonderful behavior.
  • Stepping Up To Your Big, Bodacious Moment
    Determining just exactly what it takes for you to be truly successful - as defined by you!
  • Stop Taking it Personally and Start Living Bodaciously
    We can all remember a time when we took it personally, right? We spent all this time, energy, and emotion on processing how we felt when someone slighted us, what we wished we'd said, and what, if anything, we were going to do about it.
  • The Best Piece of Advice I Learned from Katharine Hepburn
    Bodacious Women honor themselves as well as honor others. Explaining or complaining in deliberate measure honors you. Overdoing it doesn’t honor anyone and zaps your bodacious power.
  • The Difference Between “Deal” and “No Deal” Isn’t What You Think
    Branding is the key to unlocking your customer’s emotions because a brand is all about a person’s gut feeling about your company, product or service. Create a strong brand with a strong emotional experience that attracts your target customer and you’re on your way to “deal”, “deal”, “deal”, over and over again.
  • The Marketing Formula That Produces Profits
    Imagine having a faucet – a profit faucet. Whenever you turn it on, money comes pouring out from grateful customers, giving your company and you the profits you need to keep going, to help turn even more customers into raving fans. That’s the power of the Marketing Formula. Use it to grow your business.
  • Think Like an Investor When Job Interviewing
    What's easy to forget when you're looking for a new job is that you are interviewing the company as much as they are interviewing you. It's about match and exchange. Do they have what you want? Do you have what they want?
  • Think Strategically, Act Bodaciously
    Thinking strategically is intentionally thinking about the big picture of your career and life. You have to determine where you want to go before you can get there. Otherwise, it’s all just happen stance.
  • Thrive on Shift & Change
    Shifting and changing may cause you to go through some major culture shocks and climate changes. As with every alteration in your life you create or any alteration that comes you way (let’s face it, some events are out of your hands), you may feel alien to your new circumstances. Don’t worry, you’ll grow into them.
  • Two Simple Things You Can Do Today to Exude Confidence
    Quiet you! Refusing to be our own worst enemy. Don't let self depreciating talk sneak into your vocabulary. Your words are powerful let them reflect the real you!
  • We All Gotta Little Bodaciousness
    Do you want feel more bodacious and wonder how? It’s easier than you may have thought! My personal experience has convinced me that in the journey of becoming a Bodacious Woman, the place to start is on the inside.
  • What Most Employers Don’t Want You to Know When They Talk Salary
    When hiring managers describe a salary and benefits package to you, they have one main objective in mind: To get the best possible talent for the least possible expense. They’re not going to volunteer the fact that they can go higher in salary or negotiate concessions in your benefits package.
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