Natalie Sisson is a Kiwi entrepreneur and adventurer. She’s passionate about getting more women into business and so founded WomanzWorld.com late last year as ‘The Ultimate Resource for Female Entrepreneurs’. She’s also Co-founder of ConnectionPoint Systems and is a Product Evangelist for FundRazr – a Facebook application that empowers social commerce. Marketing, communications and business development has been her favourite gig for over 8 years. She’s also a tad competitive and holds the World Record in Dragon Boating across the English Channel & is a World Champion Beach Ultimate Frisbee player.
The 6 questions:
1) What’s the one piece of technology that you can’t live without?
These days it seems it’s my sexy iPhone. Once a Crackberry addict I’m now a full convert to the iPhone where I can conduct almost everything I need both personally and professionally.
2) What is your favourite online resource?
Outside of WomanzWorld….Google. The entire suite of Google products and application are just mind blowing and incredibly useful, and powerful. If you’re talking a true resource then I’d say SmartBrief – they provide excellent summaries of all the trending topics, articles and news direct to your email inbox. There’s several categories and I’ve signed up for the Entrepreneurs and Marketing Trends.
3) How many e-mails do you get in a day?
It ranges from 60-150 – lately I’ve been unsubscribing from several newsletters and adding them to my RSS feed or cleverly filing them in a folder called `To Read’. I’m totally transforming the way I deal with email and it’s really helping actually. People are ruled by their inbox and it’s scary how debilitating it can be to being productive.
4) Tomorrow there is no internet. What do you do?
I head to Laos to consume book after book, write a novel and practice yoga daily. I create purposeful Mastermind Groups of super smart and energizing people to meet with weekly and keep me thinking at a higher level.
5) Are you followed or are you a follower?
Tough question. I think I’m pretty unique, but then I gather most people feel the same way about themselves. I definitely like to emulate people I admire and respect, and people who are doing amazing things incredibly well. Outside of that I like to challenge the status quo, and should do it more often. Despite the fact I’m from New Zealand I hate the sheep mentality of following the leader and not questioning.
6) What¹s your favorite magazine?
Success Magazine. It’s just an excellent all round magazine for Entrepreneurs with shining real life examples and inspiring interviews. It’s what I’m wanting WomanzWorld.com to become. The must read magazine for entrepreneurs.
*5 Questions was created by James Wallace from This Is a Collective (http://thisisacollective.com/).
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