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How to Handle Difficult Customers in Your Small Business

May 20, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Difficult Customers

There are times in the life of every small business owner when you come across a customer that lets you know that you made a mistake. We are all human, mistakes happen, but it’s how you respond that makes the difference between whether you get an angry review on Yelp or Tripadvisor or if you […]

Filed Under: Fix Your Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: dealing with customers, difficult customers, handling customers, problematic customers, small business

What is an Alexa Flash Briefing and Why Do Small Business Owners Need to Know About Them?

May 16, 2019 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 8-9pm ET.  This is excerpted from my recent interview with Jen Lehner, @jenrgy. Jen is a digital marketing strategist specializing in helping business owners create an effective marketing strategy using social media and […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, SmallBizChat Tagged With: Alexa flash briefing, flash briefings, small businesses

4 Hiring Tips for Finding the Best Talent for Your Small Business

May 14, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

There are few things that are more stressful than being short-staffed. Every hire you make feels like a desperate bid to keep your business up and running. That’s when recruiting makes the biggest difference in your business. You need to attract the best talent and not just whatever is available on the market. There are […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, Guest Articles, Teams Tagged With: Hiring, hiring employees, hiring practices, hiring staff, hiring tips, hiring tips for small business

Top 10 Small Business Experts to Follow Online

May 13, 2019 By Melinda Emerson 1 Comment

Small Business Experts

If you are looking for advice and information to grow your small business, there are people who have made this their life’s work. I am proud to say that most of them are people whose books and blogs I read often. Like me, they are on a mission to end small business failure. Here are […]

Filed Under: 10 Things Lists, Your Small Business Tagged With: business tips, small business, small business experts, small business success

Perfecting Your Small Business Sales: Hiring Salespeople, Writing Sales Copy, and Building a Business You Can Sell

May 9, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

small business sales.

This week on #Smallbizchat LIVE, our show featured three guests: How to Hire Your First Salesperson with Suzanne Paling, @suzannepaling, How to Write Copy That Sells with SaDon Long, @LongSaDon, and How to Build a Business You Can Sell with Ash Shukla, @Ashshuklabiz. I pulled three of the best questions from each of them to […]

Filed Under: SmallBizChat Live+, Your Small Business Tagged With: improve sales, sales, salesperson, sell, selling, small biz chat, small business owners, small business sales

#Smallbizchat is LIVE on Facebook May 8th for #SmallBusinessWeek

May 7, 2019 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 from 8-9 pm ET. Here’s how: follow @SmallBizChat on Twitter and follow the hashtag […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Grow Your Business, Leadership, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat, Social Media, Solopreneurs, Teams Tagged With: building a business to sell, sales, selling unique items, selling your business, small business sales, SmallBizChat, smallbizlady, writing copy

Taking Care of Your Mental Health as a Business Owner

May 7, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

mental health

Running a business is a mental and physical marathon in itself. You need to constantly be at the top of your game in order to best serve your clients, your employees, and yourself. New challenges and opportunities each day can be exhausting if you are not taking the best possible care of yourself. If you […]

Filed Under: Guest Articles, Your Small Business Tagged With: Entrepreneurial Stress, mental health, mental wellness, stress, stress in business, wellness

7 Ways to Celebrate National Small Business Week 2019

May 6, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

national small business week 2019

This week marks a high holiday on the small business calendar. From May 5th – May 11th, it is National Small Business Week 2019. For more than 50 years, National Small Business Week has recognized the critical contributions of America’s entrepreneurs and small business owners. More than half of Americans either own or work for […]

Filed Under: Your Small Business Tagged With: business, national small business week, small business week, small business week 2019

How to Develop a Clear Business Strategy for Your Small Business

May 2, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

business strategy

Every week as SmallBizLady, I conduct interviews with experts on my Twitter talk show #SmallBizChat. The show takes place every Wednesday on Twitter from 8-9pm ET.  This is excerpted from my recent interview with Janneh Wright, @primusbus.  Janneh is an entrepreneur, author, advocate for better business practices within Black communities, and owner of PRIMUS Business Management. He has […]

Filed Under: SmallBizChat, Your Small Business Tagged With: benefits of business strategy, business strategy, importance of business strategy, small business

3 Ways Being Reachable Improves Customer Trust

April 30, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

customer trust

In this hyper-connected and competitive environment, keeping your customers satisfied is non-negotiable. According to a Walker study, by the year 2020 providing great customer experience and building long-term relationships will be the major differentiators for your business, overtaking price and product features as the key differentiating factors. A relationship becomes strong only with trust and […]

Filed Under: Customer Service, Guest Articles Tagged With: customer relationships, customer retention, Customer Service, customer trust, loyalty, reachability, reachable, small business

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