I think, more about time management, new techniques, and new research and how we are surviving as people in our businesses. There is much to learn about being an entrepreneur, and networks composed of other businesswomen can teach. An Atlanta entrepreneur likened her network to a personal training program with the opportunity to create mutual loyalties. Ethel Cook, also a New England entrepreneur, called one of her networks the strong support system. It provides a fresh viewpoint.
Networks offer a sanity check.
At moments like these, entrepreneurs in our focus groups repeatedly said, it is important to have a network of other business owners with whom they could talk freely about the ups and downs of running a business. We have the opportunity to throw our problems on the table - expansion, bankruptcy, confidential stuff. In Cincinnati, the Women's Business Development Center provides a similar function. Something bad happens and it bothers you. Until I came to the Center I had really no support group in a business sense.