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How to Get Unstuck in Your Business

September 10, 2015 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 Barry Moltz, @BarryMoltz. Barry is a small business expert, consultant and author with over 20 years of small business experience. […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat, Your Small Business Tagged With: business, unstuck

How Your Parenting Skills Can Help You Run Your Small Business

September 8, 2015 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Running a new business? Don’t put away those parenting books…Yet. We all know raising kids is a full-time job with around-the-clock duties and tasks that never end. While diaper changing, hair braiding and helping with homework are niche skills, parenting requires a set of guiding principles that are helpful to another audience: small business owners. […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, Guest Articles Tagged With: small business

5 Ways to Run Your Business on the Cheap

September 7, 2015 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

When you first start out in business every entrepreneur has two things: limited time and limited resources. So when you are bootstrapping your business, every dollar counts. We’re all looking for ways to cut costs and maximize results for our businesses without breaking our budgets. The key to saving money is being creative and disciplined. […]

Filed Under: Cash Flow & Finance, Featured Post, Grow Your Business Tagged With: marketing, run your business

How to Hire an SEO Firm for Your Small Business

September 3, 2015 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 Cody Jensen, @searchbloom. Cody is the founder of Searchbloom, a Utah-based search engine optimization (SEO).  Cody began his career working for […]

Filed Under: SmallBizChat Live+ Tagged With: SEO, seo firm

Six Reasons Your Business Needs to Be on Social Media

September 1, 2015 By Melinda Emerson 4 Comments

As time rushes past, we are witnessing the world of digital marketing skyrocket into one of the most beneficial assets to a business’s success. The realm of social media has grown exponentially in the last 10 years and is now one of the most fruitful options a business can employ in the marketing world. The […]

Filed Under: Guest Articles, Social Media Tagged With: social media

End of Summer Checklist for Your Small Business

August 31, 2015 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

The end of summer is an ideal time for business owners to take a moment and reassess their business operations.  Hopefully, you got away and took a vacation this past few months but now it’s time to get back to business. As small business owners, we have two key considerations when it comes to purchasing […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business Tagged With: small business, software, technology

Who is On #SmallBizChat September 2015

August 29, 2015 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.   Join me live every Wednesday, 8PM EST for #SmallBizChat on Twitter.  Here’s how: follow @SmallBizChat on Twitter and click here for directions on how to join […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Alex de Carvalho, Anita Campbell, Barry Moltz, Cody Jensen, sulaiman rahman

How to Use Loyalty to Quadruple Your Business

August 27, 2015 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 Misty Young, the @Restaurant_Lady. Misty Young is the owner of Squeeze In, a privately owned Lake Tahoe, California-based restaurant chain known for […]

Filed Under: Women in Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: loyalty, Misty Young

Four Old-School Ways To Boost Your Productivity

August 25, 2015 By Melinda Emerson 2 Comments

Ever wonder how you can boost your productivity? Chances are the answer is yes. Boosting your productivity would make it possible for you to achieve your goals in record-breaking time. The entire idea of record-breaking goal achievement is perfectly encapsulated in The 12 Week Year which introduced the idea of getting goals done in 12 […]

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

Planning Your Exit Strategy

August 24, 2015 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Selling your business, transferring it to your kids or getting acquired by a Fortune 500 company might be the furthest thing from your mind if you only recently started your business, but it’s never too early to think about your exit strategy.  Steven Covey famously wrote, “Begin with the end in mind,” and he was […]

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