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Get It Developed: Design the Business of Your Dreams by Sorana Blackfoot

March 22, 2020 Melanie Hawken
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Book Review

Entrepreneur Sorana Blackfoot’s new book Get It Developed: Design the Business of Your Dreams brings experience and insights from eight experienced entrepreneurs who pool their collective knowledge and share their best personal tips with you, so you too can benefit from their journeys to success. 

In Get It Developed: Design the Business of Your Dreams, successful entrepreneur and author Sorana Blackfoot and her guest entrepreneur writers show you how to claim or reclaim your Inner Gutsy Gal by changing your mindset and clearing your mind of negative thoughts. In this great new book, which was the collective output of eight entrepreneurs who spoke at the recent BRIL Conference which Sorana founded, you will learn the five most important steps to running a successful business, making more money and growing your profit. You will learn the art of the elevator pitch and building real and effective relationships in business. You will learn how to set up an effective social media plan that gets results and gets people engaging with your business. You will learn what it takes to be an effective entrepreneur and a powerful leader. You will get some practical tips on how to market your business to customers and establish yourself as an expert in your field. And finally, you will get some great advice and tips on how to manage your money and your business bottom line. 

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As you read the insights in this book, think about how each example could be applied to your everyday business practices. 

You may find that in a short time, you can make significant changes in the many areas of your business that can make a huge difference.

About the author

Sorana Blackfoot is a prosperity mentor; women business owners hire her to ignite a love affair with their money, because most are bad with numbers, afraid to look bad and too embarrassed to ask for help. So, she helps them create, preserve and transfer their wealth. Originally from Romania, Sorana has been living in Richmond, VA, since 2002. Coming to a new country, she built a successful career to make it worth the sacrifice of uprooting herself. During her 10+ years career in finances, she learned that a lot of women are uncomfortable with their finances and therefore, are left in a very precarious situation if/when they are alone due to divorce or widowhood. Sorana has co-authored 4 books in the last 3 years: “Remarkable Results”, “Goal for it!”, “Get It Done!” and “Get It Designed”, and has published her own book in January 2018 – “New World, New Dreams: My Money Story” – where she shares her life story and the money lessons she has learned by living on 2 continents, through 3 different regimes. Sorana believes in empowering women to achieve financial serenity by building better relationships with their money. Through her company, Un-Broke Women, she founded BRIL Conference – Business Resources for Inspiring Leaders – a business conference for women, which happens annually in March, in Richmond, VA. The mission of the conference is to empower women to design the business of their dreams. By applying the knowledge shared by the expert speakers, the participants can build their business to the size of their dreams, and impact their community.

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Why LoA loves it….

As women entrepreneurs, we never stop learning when building our businesses, and one of the best places to learn is from other successful entrepreneurs. And it doesn’t matter how long you have been in business, you are never too old or too experienced to learn something new. Sorana Blackfoot in her new book Get It Developed, has brought together a group of highly experienced entrepreneurial minds to share their insights, their expertise and their ideas on what it takes to build a great, sustainable business. This is a wealth of knowledge in one place, and presented in an easy to read format, will be a go-to source of information and inspiration for all women entrepreneurs. — Melanie Hawken, founder & ceo of Lionesses of Africa

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