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The Best Resources for Budding Book Authors

December 20, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 5 Comments

Since my book, Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months was published by Adams Media earlier this year; many people have reached out for advice. Some wanted to know how to get a book deal or how to promote a book, while others wanted to learn how to get a book excerpt in a major […]

Filed Under: My Recommendations, Starting A Small Business Tagged With: children's books publishing, entrepreneur, John Kremer, marketing, Paul B. Brown, small business, small business info, smallbizlady, Stephanie Chandler

Effective Email Marketing For Small Businesses

December 16, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 3 Comments

Each week as @Smallbizlady, I conduct interviews with small business experts on my weekly Twitter talk show #SmallBizChat. This is excerpted from my #SmallBizChat interview with James Tayo @eblogr (on Twitter). James is a software developer who provides software for bloggers and Internet entrepreneurs. He helps entrepreneurs achieve a maximum effectiveness by developing software that automates the work […]

Filed Under: SmallBizChat Tagged With: email marketing, entrepreneur, Melinda Emmerson, small business info, SmallBizChat

Best Start-up Business Resources For 2010

December 13, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 4 Comments

At the end of each year, I like to supply a list to the best small business book resources I have found on how to start a business.  2010 was a great year for entrepreneurship and next year will be even better.  I have found some terrific authors whose books and e-books will help would-be […]

Filed Under: How to Start, My Recommendations, Starting A Small Business Tagged With: business planning, entrepreneur, melinda emerson, Pete Savage, Sandy Abrams, small business, small business info, smallbizlady, Tim Berry

Year-End Tax Planning for Your Small Business

December 9, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 1 Comment

Every week as @SmallBizLady, I conduct interviews with experts on my Twitter talk show #SmallBizChat.  The show takes place every Wed on Twitter from 8-9pm ET.  This is excerpted from my recent interview with Ebere Okoye @WBCPA (on Twitter). Her company Wealth Building CPA, is a complete accounting and financial firm which helps companies handle and […]

Filed Under: SmallBizChat Tagged With: melinda emerson, small business, small business taxes, SmallBizChat, smallbizlady, taxes

SmallBizLady’s Business Checklist: 10 Important Tasks To Do Before 2011

December 6, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 37 Comments

At this time of year, we all have a lot of pressures. We have our families, the holidays, parties, shopping, and our travel plans. Then there’s how we make our living. We are small business owners, we do not get lots of time off. It is important for us to stay organized to manage all […]

Filed Under: 10 Things Lists, Business Inspiration, My Recommendations, Your Small Business Tagged With: become your own boss, business planning, melinda emerson, planning, small business, small business info, smallbizlady

How To Monetize Your Blog

December 2, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 4 Comments

Each week as Smallbizlady, I conduct interviews with small business experts on my weekly Twitter talk show #SmallBizChat. This is excerpted from my #SmallBizChat interview with @kingsleymaunder. Kingsley is a serial entrepreneur who launched his first start-up in 2001 and his current business, Konector, is his third. Konector helps small businesses ‘konect’ with influential bloggers […]

Filed Under: SmallBizChat Tagged With: blogging, melinda emerson, SmallBizChat, smallbizlady

Confessions of a Small Business Coach

November 29, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 15 Comments

As a business consultant, I believe our biggest concern is to get our clients to understand that the planning before starting the business is more important than how they actually run the businesses.  Everyone has good ideas, but the business of running a business is what gets most entrepreneurs in trouble. Making the leap from […]

Filed Under: Become Your Own Boss Tips, How to Start, Starting A Small Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: become your own boss, business planning, entrepreneur, melinda emerson, small business, small business info, smallbizlady

Now Read This: Raising Eyebrows by Dal LaMagna

November 24, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 4 Comments

It is Thanksgiving week, which is my favorite holiday of the year. Every Wednesday as @Smallbizlady I host #Smallbizchat on Twitter from 8-9pm.  In honor of the holiday, I’m off this week, but I wanted to share some information about a great new book that just crossed my desk Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, How to Start, Q & A Interview, Your Small Business Tagged With: become your own boss, Dal LaMagna, entrepreneur, small business, smallbizlady, start a business, Tweezerman

Ready To Become Your Own Boss in 2011? (Part 2)

November 22, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 1 Comment

In Part 1 of this article, I ask the question:  Have you had it with the daily grind?  When I realized being a small business owner would be my next career, I set out on a path to ditch the job that gave me headaches on the way to work every day.  I knew I was […]

Filed Under: Become Your Own Boss Tips, How to Start, Starting A Small Business Tagged With: become your own boss, business planning, entrepreneur, melinda emerson, small business, small business info, smallbizlady, start a business

Small Business Writers Wanted

November 19, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 12 Comments

After two years of being the only voice on www.succeedasyourownboss.com, I have decided to bring some new voices on small business to the world to help people end small business failure. As of 2011, this blog will now become a daily blog on small business success. My mission is to end small business failure and […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Your Small Business

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