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Are You Ready to Grow Your Small Business?

March 20, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Lately, your business has felt like those too-tight skinny jeans at the back of your closet. You feel like you’re going to bust at the seams, or that you might not be able to breathe if you start walking around. That what your business feels like too when it isn’t quite big enough to accommodate […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business Tagged With: funding a small business, grow your business, small business processes

How to Develop a Sales Process for Your Small Business

March 16, 2017 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 Dianna Geairn. Dianna is The Irreverent Sales Girl. She and her team provide a transformational sales message to your sales […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @isalesgirl, Sales management, sales process, SmallBizChat

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Multi-Level Marketing

March 14, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Post From its humble beginnings, multi-level marketing has grown to become a multi-billion dollar industry. Once considered to be no more than a pyramid scheme, this industry has evolved into one consisting of reputable companies with shares bought and sold on the New York Stock Exchange. There is a lot more to multi-level marketing […]

Filed Under: Guest Articles, Starting A Small Business Tagged With: Business Opportunities, Multi Level Marketing

What I’ve learned after 18 years in business

March 13, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

To my true amazement, this week marks my 18th year in business, and I must say it’s been a wild ride. In 1999, I was scared to death, I had a laptop, a fax machine and a dream and set up shop in the basement of my house. My neighbor, who was a contractor, came […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Grow Your Business, How to Start Tagged With: advice from smallbizlady, business advice, business freedom

How to Make More Sales in Less Time

March 9, 2017 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 Jill Konrath. Jill is an internationally recognized sales acceleration strategist and bestselling author. As a consultant, she’s worked with companies […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @jillkonrath, Make sales in less time, making sales, SmallBizChat

5 Key Things To Check When Choosing Your Outsourcing Partner

March 7, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Post Outsourcing is a great way to delegate and get focused on your most high valued activities in your small business. But the decision to trust someone outside your company with a part of your work is definitely not an easy one, and you need to do a lot of thinking and checking. To […]

Filed Under: Guest Articles, Your Small Business Tagged With: Outsourcing

How to Maintain Your Company Culture with Rapid Growth

March 6, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

In theory, scaling your business is a good thing. You increase revenues, grow your client base, and probably expand your staff. But with rapid growth, there are often growing pains within your company. Some areas of your business might suffer, such as your company culture. When your business is small, you may have found it […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: company culture, small business growth

How to Build a Seven Figure Income

March 2, 2017 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 Shari Levitin.  Shari Levitin is an internationally known sales strategist, writer, speaker, entrepreneur, and author of Heart and Sell: 10 […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @sharilevitin, build income, small business growth, SmallBizChat

Who’s on #Smallbizchat March 2017

March 1, 2017 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: @insightlyapp, @isalesgirl, @jillkonrath, @sharilevitin, @Sol_Marketing, @TiannaManon, SmallBizChat

How To Create Big-Bucks Content Without Breaking the Budget

February 28, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Sponsored Post Many small businesses believe creating high quality content is too expensive and time consuming. Only big companies have the budget to employ someone just to write up pages for a website, right? It’s true that many big companies spend the big bucks on hiring staff with the sole purpose of keeping their websites […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Featured Post, Grow Your Business Tagged With: @insightlyapp, content marketing

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