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How
NOT to Spring Clean
Trust me, it isn’t just you. Most of us go a little crazy this time of year. Our thoughts turn to airing out the house, whisking away the dust of dark winter days and letting in the wholesome cool breezes. We picture spotless, gleaming surfaces. We feel energetic.
So,
we wake on a Saturday
morning, don our grungy clothes, pull out the yellow cleaning gloves,
and dive
into the business at hand with a song in our heart and spring in the
air. ...
Articles
"Clean Like A Pro" HousekeepingChannel.com
"The Eight-to-Three Empty Nest" The WAHM Magazine, July/August 2008
"Clean Sweep For Kids" Women's Focus, November 2007
Essays
"Mom Science" Women's Focus, July 2008
"Romance versus Reality" Women's Focus, February 2008
"The Housewife is Back" Women's Focus, January 2008
Award-winning Advertorials
Riding High (View pdf) Laredo Business Connection, January 2006
Don
Dunford, owner of Chaparral Ford in Devine, TX, pulled himself up by
his own bootstraps. He’s maintained his success by good horse sense and
country values. His is a true story of the American dream.
By
Carolyn Erickson
If you ask Don Dunford what
he’s proud of, he’ll tell you it’s the fact that his dealership is paid
for and he has no business or personal debt.
If
you ask him how he got that way, he’ll tell you that it was hard work,
common sense, and treating people the way you like to be treated.
That
business strategy may not be so common in the car business, but at
Chaparral Ford it’s working quite nicely. The dealership is a 7-time
winner of Ford Motor Company’s President’s Award for customer
satisfaction. It also has an award-winning service department and one
of the highest levels of employee retention in the area.
What
brought Dunford that success wasn’t learned in business school. ...
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2006 All Rights Reserved
One Woman's Work (View pdf) El Paso Business Connection, August 2006
Women entrepreneurs in the 1950s were
scarce, and the ones
who dared to try often faced serious obstacles to making their
businesses
succeed. One
By Carolyn Erickson
It has never been easy to be a mother and a businesswoman – not even now, in the 21st century, when over half of small businesses are owned by women. But in 1951, when Charlotte Williams Korth opened a small home furnishings store next to her husband’s golf cart shop, it was practically unheard of.
Aside from her husband, she received little support from the business world. The owner of a big local furniture retailer dismissed her, saying she wouldn’t last five years. Her male business partner - who had been brought in to provide financial backing – refused her request for a raise to the small salary she drew, attesting that “no woman was worth that much.”
And yet, a drive down North
Mesa today confirms that Charlotte’s still stands as one of El Paso’s
premier home furnishings stores. That other big furniture retailer
folded in the seventies, and her faithless partner is long gone.
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