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How To Get Your Small Business Unstuck

September 1, 2016 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. Barry has discovered the formula to get stuck business owners unstuck and marching forward. Barry’s fifth book  “How […]

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

Who is on #SmallBizChat September 2016

August 30, 2016 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 8-9pm ET.  Here’s how:  follow @SmallBizChat on Twitter and click here for directions on how to join the […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @AskAProTV, @CathyWebSavvyPR, @CheBrownSales, @WeDeliverSocial, small business, SmallBizChat

How to launch a personal brand

August 29, 2016 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

In simpler times, we may have known the names and faces behind small, local businesses we frequented, but the concept of personal branding wasn’t much in evidence until the internet age. Now, not only do you have to define your company brand, but you may need to become the face of the brand of your new enterprise […]

Filed Under: Your Small Business Tagged With: small business info

How to Capture Leads from Facebook for Your Small Business

August 25, 2016 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 Jaime Nacach. He has an extensive background in multiple fields and knows what it takes to take a business forward. […]

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Entrepreneurs

August 23, 2016 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

It takes a special kind of person to be an entrepreneur. Not only do you have to know what you want to do in life, you have to be able to do it well enough to set yourself apart from competition. There’s competition in every industry, and it is exponentially more intense in the entrepreneurial […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, Your Small Business

How To Grow Your Business Using Customer Satisfaction Survey Results

August 22, 2016 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Customer satisfaction is an important element of small business growth for more reasons than the most obvious. But how do you measure customer satisfaction? Conducting a customer survey is not an end in itself. It is only the beginning of a process that should show you actionable ways to improve your business. Surveys that measure customer satisfaction […]

Filed Under: Customer Service

How to Leverage Brand Ambassadors for Your Small Business, @SmallBizWhisper

August 18, 2016 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 Shakira M. Brown. Shakira is a 13-time award winning PR and marketing expert, speaker and CEO of SMB Strategic Media, […]

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How to Use CRM to Really Connect With Your Customers

August 16, 2016 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Sponsored Post Customer relationships are at the core of your business. When you nurture relationships with your customers, you help them connect with your brand. By leveraging a customer relationship management (CRM) solution, you can stay connected with your customers on a deeper level, increasing the chances that you will keep them as customers for […]

Filed Under: Customer Service, Featured Post, Your Small Business Tagged With: @insightlyapp, CRM

The Truth About Hiring Your Friends In Your Small Business

August 15, 2016 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

You probably talked with your friends first when you had early thoughts of starting your own business. In fact, you may have considered hiring friends to help you launch your startup. Then again, perhaps you are wary of mixing business with friendship. That is valid as many business ventures have ruined friendships. If you would rather not risk […]

Filed Under: Your Small Business Tagged With: small business ideas

How to Take Your Selling to the Next Level

August 11, 2016 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 Wendy Y. Bailey. Called a “Force of Nature”, she is an internationally known thought leader and a sought-after coach and […]

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