In this week’s show I interview Maren Kate from Escaping the 9 to 5 and one of Forbes top women entrepreneurs to follow.  We talk about how she got started as an entrepreneur online, her various businesses, and some of the challenges in building a new business.  She also talks extensively about her two new businesses where she is connecting entrepreneurs with virtual assistants.

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Topics and Questions Mentioned in this Podcast Episode: (21:34 )

• Reminder – watch the blog for my three part series on SEO


• Feature interview: Maren Kate from EscapingThe9To5.com


• How she got started with eBay


• Her consulting business and freedom as an entrepreneur


• Starting the blog: Escaping the 9 to 5


• How she uses virtual assistants to grow her business


• Her new virtual assistant businesses Virtual Zeta.com and Zirtual.com


• Moving from online entrepreneur to an incubator


• Some tips for first time entrepreneurs


• Next episode I have an interview with Pat Flynn – look for it


• A few seconds about my consulting services and what I can do for you

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