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The Solution Is at Hand: The Dottie Walters Story
Follow the rise of a determined young woman along her journey to become one of the most legendary speakers of our time. From her famous start at the soda fountain to her meetings with Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Napoleon Hill, John Harricharan and others, you will read Dottie talking about her life and the lessons she has learned from living it. *Over a dozen of Dottie's best Life Lessons *What is one critical thing you MUST do for success? *What is the best way to create something? *What Dottie has learned from some of the world's greatest minds? *What are some secrets of how she connects with her audiences? A "MUST" read for all who want to achieve success in any field!
176 pages, Paperback
First published February 5, 2007
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February 28, 2008
Highley motivational biography about an independently successful woman in the 50s through the 90s. A good read for any young woman in the business world today so she can understand where her opportunity came from and how to break that glass ceiling and deal artfully with condescending men and competitive women.
Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup for the Soul series and The Success Principals wrote the forward andused many of her articles for his "Soul" books
Walters started as a young mother with two toddlers; she and her husband were on the verge of losing their home to foreclosure. Her husband’s post WWII dry cleaning business was a bust so she piled her two children in a stroller and walked into town to get a job. She had been a high school journalist and convinced the local paper to pay her for writing a column if she could get advertisers to sponsor her column. That was the beginning of sponsored journalism and her quest to get difficult businesses to invest in a woman. She was successfulbut cleverly overcame lots of obstacles.
Next, she convinced businesses that they needed to know how to market products to "the lady of the house" so she started speaking engagements to local service clubs like the Rotary, Lions, Chamber of Commerce. Imagine in the 50’s a woman getting paid to address these all men groups. Her topic: The Seven Secrets of Selling to a Woman
Next she started the “Welcome Wagon” services for local communities which grew into a huge business that her husband ran.
She also began IASB (International Assoc. of Speakers Bureaus) who book speakers and are responsible for training them and getting them the large speaking fees. She taught them co-operation rather than cutthroat competition and that is why ex-Pres and Mayors and Sports figures are earning huge speaking fees these days.
She wrote:
Speak and Grow Rich
Never Underestimate the Selling Power of a Woman
The Greatest Speakers I’ve Ever Known
101 Simple Things to Grow Your Business and Yourself
Essay Ideas to Improve Sales, Productivity and Service
Chicken Soup for the Soul, 2nd Helpings (featured author)
She read voraciously at the library and especially liked Benjamin Franklin, Einstein, Edison and Shakespeare…who she insists “trained her.”
She spoke before Tupperware, Avon and generally encouraged the home sales format and women is sales and business.
Truely a revolutionary before the womens revolution.
Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup for the Soul series and The Success Principals wrote the forward andused many of her articles for his "Soul" books
Walters started as a young mother with two toddlers; she and her husband were on the verge of losing their home to foreclosure. Her husband’s post WWII dry cleaning business was a bust so she piled her two children in a stroller and walked into town to get a job. She had been a high school journalist and convinced the local paper to pay her for writing a column if she could get advertisers to sponsor her column. That was the beginning of sponsored journalism and her quest to get difficult businesses to invest in a woman. She was successfulbut cleverly overcame lots of obstacles.
Next, she convinced businesses that they needed to know how to market products to "the lady of the house" so she started speaking engagements to local service clubs like the Rotary, Lions, Chamber of Commerce. Imagine in the 50’s a woman getting paid to address these all men groups. Her topic: The Seven Secrets of Selling to a Woman
Next she started the “Welcome Wagon” services for local communities which grew into a huge business that her husband ran.
She also began IASB (International Assoc. of Speakers Bureaus) who book speakers and are responsible for training them and getting them the large speaking fees. She taught them co-operation rather than cutthroat competition and that is why ex-Pres and Mayors and Sports figures are earning huge speaking fees these days.
She wrote:
Speak and Grow Rich
Never Underestimate the Selling Power of a Woman
The Greatest Speakers I’ve Ever Known
101 Simple Things to Grow Your Business and Yourself
Essay Ideas to Improve Sales, Productivity and Service
Chicken Soup for the Soul, 2nd Helpings (featured author)
She read voraciously at the library and especially liked Benjamin Franklin, Einstein, Edison and Shakespeare…who she insists “trained her.”
She spoke before Tupperware, Avon and generally encouraged the home sales format and women is sales and business.
Truely a revolutionary before the womens revolution.
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