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Getting Your Business in the News

May 17, 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 Nikki Woods.  Nikki is a media expert, best-selling author and motivational speaker as well as the former senior producer of […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @NWoodsMedia, media coverage, press, SmallBizChat

How to Get Your Small Business Ready for Mobile First Indexing

May 15, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Article More than half of all internet searches take place on mobile devices. Now, Google has decided that they are going to adapt their search engine to this trend by prioritizing mobile first indexing. Google has already started testing mobile-first indexing with a small number of websites and expects to fully roll out the […]

Filed Under: Guest Articles, Technology Tagged With: mobile devices, mobile first indexing

7 Ways to Improve Your Work Environment in Your Small Business

May 14, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Do you have a formal workplace? Do people laugh in your workplace? Do you see lots of collaboration in your office?  If you are not sure how to answer these questions, chances are you might not have a work environment that is optimized for people to do their best work.  Work can be stressful, and […]

Filed Under: Leadership, Teams, Your Small Business Tagged With: communication in a team, leading a team, teams, work environment

How to Implement Your Startup Business Ideas

May 10, 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 Brian T. Church.  He is a business relationship expert who has spent more than 20 years in the global marketplace […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @BrianTChurch, SmallBizChat, startup

How To Become a Best-Selling Author in 90 Days

May 8, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Article These days, “best-selling” is a term that people throw around pretty loosely. But bottom-line, there has to be a lot of sales somewhere for the title to hold true. So how many sales does it take? My answer is 10,000. That is a respectable number, no matter what your angle. Some argue that […]

Filed Under: Guest Articles, How to Start Tagged With: authors, become an author, write a book

How to Hire Your First Salesperson

May 7, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Sales is the fuel of a business. If you are the only person who is thinking about how your business makes money, you are in trouble. It’s one thing to have product or service, but you must have an organized way to generate leads, follow-up on them, close business and manage the relationship after the […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: hiring staff, sales, salesperson

How to Run a Successful Business in 2018

May 3, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

If you’re a fan of #SmallBizChat, now in it’s 9th year, you know that every Wednesday from 8-9 pm ET,  on Twitter we invite authors and small business experts on to discuss the unique challenges and opportunities that small business owners face. As this is National Small Business Week, so we decided to switch things […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @AlfredEdmondJr, @dawnbrolin, Business reinvention, Garrett White, small business taxes, SmallBizChat, sustainable business

Who’s on #Smallbizchat May 2018

May 1, 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: @AlfredEdmondJr, @BrianTChurch, @dawnbrolin, @neenjames, @NWoodsMedia, business in the news, Business reinvention, Garrett White, Productivity, small business profitability, small business taxes, SmallBizChat, smallbizlady, startup business, sustainable business

It’s National Small Business Week 2018!

April 30, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

This week marks the annual kickoff of National Small Business Week. It’s the biggest celebration of small businesses in the U.S.  This year the Small Business Administration (SBA) has decided to offer a virtual 3 day conference to launch National Small Business Week! If you are trying to build your brand online with Google, transition […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Grow Your Business, SmallBizChat Live+, Starting A Small Business Tagged With: national small business week, SmallBizChat LIVE

Why You Need to Stop Talking to Start Leading

April 26, 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 Rebecca Teasdale.  She is a founding partner of The Trispective Group.  She has expertise in executive coaching, team development, human […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Leadership, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @trispective, leadership, listening skills, SmallBizChat

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