Success Tips from Teri Hawkins

Teri Hawkins, best-selling author, Money magazine Top 100 Female Entrepreneur and coach to such leaders as Lee Iacocca and Liz Claiborne, engaged and captivated attendees at Comerica's first quarter Women's Business Symposium. This incredibly savvy entrepreneur challenged us to be ourselves to achieve maximum success. Women, as a group, are extremely good at developing personal relationships. However, many women, relying on male role models fail to capture the value of relationship building in business. She thinks that relationships are more important than ever with the epidemic need to be understood.

Some of Teri's additional success tips include:

• Let go of the need to always get things right.
• Make mistakes quickly and learn from them. Some of Teri's best ideas have come from messing up. The cost of seeking perfection is extremely high.
• The most successful entrepreneurs spend 95% of their time selling.
• Seize moments to interact, learn and be heard.
• Be sincere.
• To overcome event anxiety, Introverts should arrive early and volunteer to help.
• Be engaging when meeting new people. An engaging talker and engaged listener both have power.
• 98% of communication is nonverbal.
• Dress for who you are.