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What is a Business Microloan and How Can it Boost Your Start-up

January 8, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Business Microloan

With more and more small businesses launching every day, many entrepreneurs and business owners are finding it increasingly hard to secure financing. This is where microloans come in handy; they are typically provided by non-profits and CDFIs (Community Development Financial Institutions) to provide an efficient, flexible, and fast source of capital to help you get […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Cash Flow & Finance, Featured Post, Grow Your Business, Guest Articles, Starting A Small Business Tagged With: business loan, Business Microloan, loans, microloan, small business loans, startup loan

How to Come Up With Small Business Ideas

January 7, 2019 By Melinda Emerson 1 Comment

small business idea

When you are trying to come up with small business ideas, it can be tough. Maybe there is an idea burning inside you, or maybe you have so many ideas that you are unsure about which one to pursue. But if you have nothing but a strong desire to leave corporate America, there are lots […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, How to Start, Starting A Small Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: business ideas, how to start a business, how to start a small business, small business ideas, small business startup

New Year, New Resolve

January 4, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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The New Year is a great opportunity to have a new start in your business. If you were thrilled to see 2018 come to a close, now is the time to build a plan to execute your best year ever in 2019. Instead of focusing on personal resolutions like losing weight or learning a foreign […]

Filed Under: 10 Things Lists, Business Inspiration, Featured Post, Grow Your Business, How to Start, Your Small Business Tagged With: biz tips, building your business, business tips, fix your business, New Year, new year resolution, small business growth, small business tips

Who’s on #Smallbizchat January 2019

January 2, 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: @blakesnow, @fitzspeak, @Hyken, @sanespaces, @startup_station, @WDSPRMaven, business funding, disrupt competition, Facebook ads, industry disruptor, leadership, Productivity, SmallBizChat, smallbizlady, social connection, social media plan, Time management

The Top 5 Things You HAVE to Do Before You Hire a Salesperson

January 1, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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As a business owner, my guess is that you spend too much time working in the business and not doing the strategic, thoughtful, meaningful things you thought you would do when you started your business. Maybe you’ve outsourced small things: hired an assistant to help with the day-to-day, hired someone to help with social media, […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Grow Your Business, Guest Articles, Starting A Small Business, Teams Tagged With: hire a salesperson, Hiring, hiring a salesperson, hiring practices, hiring staff, hiring tips for small business

Best Small Business Guest Bloggers for 2018

December 31, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Every Tuesday on succeedasyourownboss.com, we feature guest bloggers from all over the world who share valuable insight about how to start and grow a small business. This is all in support of our mission to End Small Business Failure, and I appreciate that these small business guest bloggers take the time to share advice from […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Grow Your Business, My Recommendations, SmallBizLady Recommends, Your Small Business Tagged With: blogging, guest blogger, guest blogging, melinda emerson, small business blog, small business tips

#SmallBizChat Interviews: Best of 2018

December 27, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

SmallBizChat interview

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. Then, every Thursday we publish the complete interviews from our amazing authors and guests. I hope that you have enjoyed the #SmallBizChat interviews we’ve done this year! In case you […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Grow Your Business, My Recommendations, SmallBizLady Recommends, Your Small Business Tagged With: interview, melinda emerson, small business, small business tips, SmallBizChat, smallbizlady

Why Link Diversity Should Be Your Primary SEO Concern

December 25, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Article Every discussion about Google rankings and SEO involves backlinks someway. Why? Because these are one of the major ranking factors in most of the search engines, Google specifically. If we look at SEO Power Suite, Search Metrics, and Backlinko’s research insights, inbound links are there in the ranking factors list besides content and […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Featured Post, Guest Articles, Technology Tagged With: link diversity, search engine optimization, SEO

SmallBizLady’s Best Small Business Advice from 2018

December 24, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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I’m often asked, “Where do you get the ideas to blog about?” Honestly, I get them from you all—my loyal readers and followers.  Your questions, comments, emails, and voice mail messages give me great ideas for blog posts. If YOU are wondering about a specific topic, then I know that OTHERS are looking for this small […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Featured Post, Grow Your Business, SmallBizLady Recommends Tagged With: best blogs of 2018, best of 2018, best of small business blogs 2018, best small business advice, small business advice, small business blog

Top 12 Podcasts for Small Business Owners

December 20, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

12 Podcasts for Small Business Owners

Listening to podcasts is a great way to learn something when you are on the go. I’m a big fan of going for a long walk or drive and checking out a new episode from some of my favorite business experts. If you are trying to pick up some new skills, or develop a new […]

Filed Under: 12 Things, Branding & Marketing, Featured Post, Grow Your Business, How to Start, My Recommendations, Your Small Business

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