Carrie Green - She Means Business

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Text Carrie Green, 2017

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ISBN 978-1-78180-740-8 in print
ISBN 978-1-78180-887-0 in ePub format
ISBN 978-1-78180-888-7 in Kindle format

To everyone that has supported me throughout
my entrepreneurial journey, this is for you.

Mum and Dad, thank you for opening my mind and
making me believe that anything is possible. My siblings,
Sam, James, and Nick, thank you for cheering me on and
making the adventure fun. My husband, Kelin, thank you
for your pep talks, theyre the best! To all of my friends, FEA
members and followers thank you for believing in me.

I love you all.

CONTENTS

Who is she?

She is brave, courageous, a real go-getter.

She knows what she wants and she knows that shell make it happen.

She stays positive even when times are hard.

She surrounds herself with like-minded people who want her to succeed.

She learns all she can to help her strive forward.

Nothing is going to stop her from making her dreams come true.

SHE MEANS BUSINESS.

Hello lovely, Im so delighted that my book has made its way into your hands. Its pretty crazy to think that in this huge world, with its seven-billion-plus people, our paths have crossed.

Maybe the book jumped out at you from the bookstore shelf, or maybe a friend gave it to you, or perhaps you already know of me through the Female Entrepreneur Association (FEA) and wanted to find out more.

However it happened, I dont believe that youre reading this book by accident the universe just doesnt work that way.

I reckon youre here because youve got something wonderful to offer the world and maybe want some inspiration to help you rise up, get your message out there, and build a successful business. Maybe its because you want to live a life doing something you love, doing something that means something to you and to others, or creating something that will give you the freedom to work from where you want, when you want.

Am I right? If so, you have everything you need in your hands and were going to dream big together, get inspired, and bond over the crazy entrepreneurial journey!

In the following pages, Im going to challenge you to up-level your business and life, get your ideas and messages out into the world, and make amazing things happen. Ill share with you all the advice that I wish Id had when I started out on this journey, lots of ideas to help you take action, and a few stories of other women who are doing some amazing things on their entrepreneurial journey.

Youll hear about my incredible sister, Samantha Costello founder of The Little Green Studio, a luxury wedding stationery range; my best friend from university, Ailish Lucas creator of the organic beauty blog, The Glow Getter; my amazing FEA teammate, Michelle Rohr founder of The Secret O.W.L. Society, who sells her printables on Etsy; my good friend all the way from Hawaii, Nikki Elledge Brown founder of A Course About Copy; and the amazing Kimra Luna the creator of Be True, Brand You and the founder of Freedom Hackers.

All of these women come from a different background and run different businesses, but their stories show whats possible. This book is not just one person leveraging the Internet to get her message and business out there, this is a movement with millions of women involved, and the opportunities are yours for the taking too.

At the end of the book youll find my 28-Day She Means Business Challenge to help you get your ideas out into the world. Theres also a workbook and free online course that accompanies this book to help you take action; you can access it at http://bit.ly/SMB-Resources

While I dont know what stage of business youre at, I am 100 percent sure that you can build a successful one.

How can I be so certain?

If other people can build a successful business, despite the fact that they once felt confused and overwhelmed by the seemingly mammoth tasks that lay ahead, you can too, right?

Right.

And Im going to show you how you can do it.

Use this book however you feel guided to use it. Read through it in one go, open the book at a random page and see what message comes your way, write in it, mark the pages, take pictures of your favorite sections do whatever you like.

This is yours, so squeeze as much out of it as you can :-)

Id like to pause before we set off and thank the Internet for being so magnificent in allowing so many more people to take their genius ideas and messages and turn them into successful businesses.

Thanks to the Internet, you can live anywhere you want and if you have a computer and an Internet connection you can build a successful business, and impact millions of people from around the world. That is pretty incredible.

I see people doing this every single day, and its something Ive experienced firsthand too.

I started my first business in 2005 at the age of 19, when Id run out of money after my first year of university! A very random opportunity came up for me to start an online phone unlocking business (which was legal, I checked!).

I had absolutely zero knowledge of how to build a business (and no money!), but within four years Id learned how to make it a success. We had 100,000+ visits to the website every month, 500,000+ views on our YouTube channel, and were generating revenue of $50,000 a month.