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How to Avoid a Holiday Disaster

September 11, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Sponsored Post We’re just a few weeks away from putting up the Halloween decorations, now is the ideal time to make sure your small business is set up for holiday sales. If you make the bulk of your revenue during the biggest shopping season of the year, it’s time to get started with what you […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, Guest Articles, Starting A Small Business Tagged With: @AveryProducts, Holiday preparation, holiday sales, planning

How to Develop a Business Strategy – Part II

September 10, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Your business strategy is your roadmap to business success, but it needs to be adjusted annually. You and your team should take a look at your business strategy every fall to plot out your sales objectives and goals for the new year. 2019 is just around the corner, and you should start your planning process […]

Filed Under: Become Your Own Boss Tips, Fix Your Business, Grow Your Business, Solopreneurs, Your Small Business Tagged With: business strategy, develop strategy, failed business strategy

How to Increase Engagement on Social Media

September 6, 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 Dr. Aikyna Finch, @DrADFinch. Dr. Aikyna Finch is a ​Forbes Coaches Council Member, coaching in the areas of Empowerment, Life and Social […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Grow Your Business, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat, Social Media, Starting A Small Business Tagged With: @DrADFinch, SmallBizChat, social media, social media engagement

How to Survive the First Year of Small Business Ownership

September 4, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Article You’ve taken the leap into the rough waters of small business ownership, beaming with the excitement of a new chapter in your life and the possible success of your idea. However, getting started is only the beginning. The first year of running a small business can be the hardest times any owner will […]

Filed Under: Guest Articles, How to Start, Starting A Small Business Tagged With: business plan, small business success, small business survival

How to Develop a Business Strategy – Part 1

September 3, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

September is the perfect time to start looking ahead to first quarter 2019. The fall is right time to start thinking about your business goals and then engage your team in developing a new business strategy. Winging it is NOT a strategy, yet too often business owners venture into new markets without a specific target […]

Filed Under: Become Your Own Boss Tips, Fix Your Business, Grow Your Business Tagged With: business growth, business strategy, mission, vision

Who’s on #Smallbizchat September 2018

August 31, 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 and click here for directions […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @BurtonKelso, @DrADFinch, @MichaelEGerber, @mycoachlori, @tompcurran, @wealthybaglady, SmallBizChat, smallbizlady

What No One Tells You About Starting a Small Business

August 30, 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 Keenya Kelly @keenyakelly. Keenya is the CEO of Keenyakelly.com and ifyoubrandit.com where she strategically helps individuals determine who they are […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Grow Your Business, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat, Starting A Small Business Tagged With: @keenyakelly, SmallBizChat, start a business

How to provide multilingual customer service

August 28, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Article When you think of customer support, is having customer service agents who speak English enough for international success? Of course, not! If you want your products to be known worldwide, you need to make yourself understood by different nationalities. English might be the most used language right now, but it is not enough […]

Filed Under: Customer Service, Guest Articles Tagged With: Customer Service, multilingual customer service

How to Look Great on Facebook Live Video

August 27, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Everyone is doing live video these days. I understand that people want to be authentic and share organic moments of brilliance from anywhere, but unless you want to look like some reporter on 60 Minutes is trying to conceal your identity, I suggest that you set up a professional mini studio, with audio and lighting you […]

Filed Under: Become Your Own Boss Tips, Branding & Marketing, My Recommendations, Technology Tagged With: audio tools, facebook live video, lighting tools

How to Address #MeToo Issues in Your Small Business

August 23, 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 Deb Muller @hracuity Deb Muller is the founder and CEO of HR Acuity,  the employee relations case management solution that […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Grow Your Business, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @hracuity, #metoo, SmallBizChat

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