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How to Run a Successful Business

March 8, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Melinda Emerson, @SmallBizLady offers advice and encouragement to more than three million entrepreneurs every week online. She is the publisher of succeedasyourowboss.com. Forbes magazine named her the #1 woman for entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter. She has a 20-year track record as a successful businesswoman as CEO of Quintessence Group, an award winning marketing consulting […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Fix Your Business, Grow Your Business, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: fix your business, SmallBizChat, smallbizlady, Successful Business

Who’s on #Smallbizchat March 2018

March 7, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

#Smallbizchat is a weekly conversation where small business owners can get answers to their questions. The focus of #Smallbizchat is to end small business failure by helping participants succeed as your own boss. Please join us live on Twitter every Wednesday 8-9 pm ET. Here’s how: follow @SmallBizChat on Twitter and follow the hashtag #Smallbizchat […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @b_mcclelland, @marshawnevans, @TomJackobs, SmallBizChat, smallbizlady

Ready to Build a 90-Day Turnaround Plan Your Small Business?

March 6, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

If you want to get back control of your business, while drastically improving your quality of life and bottom line you need to grab a copy of my new book Fix Your Business: 90-Day Plan to Get Back Your Life and Reduce Chaos In Your Business. In it, I walk readers through my 12 Ps […]

Filed Under: Fix Your Business, Melinda Emerson @SmallBizLady, Your Small Business Tagged With: 90-Day Plan, fix your business, melinda emerson, smallbizlady

32 Ways to Fix Your Business

March 5, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

When I released Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months, back in 2010, my focus was on helping entrepreneurs launch a business. But over the last few years, I’ve talked to dozens of business owners who seem to be struggling to stay in business. Some of the consistent issues I heard were about constant cash […]

Filed Under: Become Your Own Boss Tips, Fix Your Business Tagged With: entrepreneurs, fix your business

How to Take Your Startup from Idea to Empire

March 1, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Every week as SmallBizLady, I conduct interviews with experts on my Twitter talk show #SmallBizChat. The show takes place every Wednesday on Twitter from 8-9 pm ET.  This is excerpted from my recent interview with Colleen DeBaise.  She is known as the is a contributing editor at Inc. and author of Start a Successful Business. […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Grow Your Business, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @colleendebaise, grow your business, small business startup, SmallBizChat

How to Build a Culture that Matters

February 27, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Article When psychologist Abraham Maslow explained his hierarchy of needs, he didn’t mention the modern-day workplace. Still, as humans, every employee is subject to the needs explained in Maslow’s hierarchy. We all need something from our jobs. At its core, the Maslow’s hierarchy is simple to understand. Applying it in the workplace can be […]

Filed Under: Guest Articles, Leadership, Teams Tagged With: leadership, tribe, work culture

How to Fix Your Business? Part 3

February 26, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Does running your business make you feel like you don’t have a life? If so, you can change things. My new book, Fix Your Business; 90-day Plan to Get Back Your Life and Reduce Chaos in Your Business. shows you how to set things up so that you can enjoy your business again. In it, […]

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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and How it Affects Your Business in 2018

February 22, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Every week as SmallBizLady, I conduct interviews with experts on my Twitter talk show #SmallBizChat. The show takes place every Wednesday on Twitter from 8-9 pm ET.  This is excerpted from my recent interview with Eva Rosenberg, EA, CTC, the founder of TaxMama.com. She is an award-winning tax author, blogger, columnist and instructor. TaxMama® has […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @taxmama, small business taxes, SmallBizChat, tax planning

Five Tips to Hire a Great Team Player

February 20, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Article I was recently talking with a client who was agitated that she had just made a bad hire. It wasn’t that this new person was inexperienced or unskilled; he was smart and capable, just as had shown up in the interview. But he was quickly proving to be a lousy teammate – ego-driven, […]

Filed Under: Guest Articles, Teams Tagged With: Hiring, hiring tips for small business, team player

How to Fix Your Business? Part 2

February 19, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Last week, we talked about the first four concepts in my new book, Fix Your Business; 90-Day Plan to Get Back Your Life and Reduce Chaos in Your Business. Last week, we looked at Preparation, Purpose, People, and Profit. This week, we’ll go deeper into SmallBizLady’s 12 Ps of Running a Successful Business looking at […]

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