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Top 10 Self-Care Tips for Small Business Owners

December 14, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Top 10 Self-Care Tips for Small Business Owners OG

Are you ignoring your self-care? Most small business owners are notoriously bad at self-care. All those long hours bent over a laptop, barely sipping a glass a water, and forgetting to have lunch is a road to bad health. Neglectful behavior will catch up to even the most successful entrepreneur, so today, I’m sharing self-care […]

Filed Under: 10 Things Lists, Your Small Business Tagged With: mental health day, prioritize your health, self-care activity, self-care tips, self-care tips for entrepeneurs

Top 10 Small Business Experts to Follow Online

May 13, 2019 By Melinda Emerson 1 Comment

Small Business Experts

If you are looking for advice and information to grow your small business, there are people who have made this their life’s work. I am proud to say that most of them are people whose books and blogs I read often. Like me, they are on a mission to end small business failure. Here are […]

Filed Under: 10 Things Lists, Your Small Business Tagged With: business tips, small business, small business experts, small business success

10 Important Questions for the Struggling Business Owner

March 30, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

10 Important Questions for the Struggling Business Owner OG

When your business is struggling, and especially if it’s been struggling for a while, there are some hard questions that you need to ask yourself to figure out what to do next. Have you taken a hard look at your business? Have you looked at your customer lists? Or your Google analytics? The answers for […]

Filed Under: 10 Things Lists, Your Small Business Tagged With: business is struggling, generating sales leads, new customer profile, pricing strategy, running your business

Ways to Manage Your Cash Flow as Your Small Business Grows

August 24, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

One of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets, and income statements are fiction and that cash flow is reality. It would be best if you learned quickly that metrics like profits, sales, or net worth don’t impact the day-to-day operations of a small business as actively as cash flow. But […]

Filed Under: 10 Things Lists, Cash Flow & Finance Tagged With: account receivable, cash flow goals, cash flow in my business, expense payments, small business cash flow

How to Launch Revenue Revolution in Your Small Business Today

August 17, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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The COVID-19 virus has shaken the world of small business owners. In a recent study of SHRM, 42% of small business owners have to close their businesses due to the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile,  6 out of ten small businesses reported a decrease in revenue since the beginning of COVID-19. This report sounds really disturbing, but […]

Filed Under: 10 Things Lists, Branding & Marketing Tagged With: COVID-19 marketing efforts, new content strategy, revenue revolution, search engine optimization, social media activities

Developing the Optimal Sales Mindset

July 6, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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In order to be effective at selling anything, you need to know what you are selling, have a focused target, and a heart for your customer. But what really separates the best salespeople from the pack? Their sales mindset. They are motivated to sell. They fundamentally identify with the product or service they are selling, […]

Filed Under: 10 Things Lists, Branding & Marketing Tagged With: clients best interest, optimal sales mindset, qualify your customers, salespeople, scarcity mindset

10 Extremely Important Things Every Business Owner Should Know Before Starting Up

March 17, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

10 Extremely Important Things Every Business Owner Should Know Before Starting Up OG

Thinking about starting a business? There’s something you need to know! In fact, there are dozens of super important lessons that every business owner needs to know before they get started, and no post could include them all. Still, we’ve done our best, so here are just ten of the most important lessons for you […]

Filed Under: 10 Things Lists, How to Start Tagged With: directory listing sites, insurance, invest in the future, laws and regulations, small business owners

10 Tips To Not Let Email Overwhelm Your Sales Efforts

January 8, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

10 Tips To Not Let Email Overwhelm Your Sales Efforts - Melinda Emerson

Are you letting email overwhelm your sales efforts? Here are 10 tips to break free from email overwhelm and turn your email process into a selling machine!

Filed Under: 10 Things Lists, Branding & Marketing Tagged With: business processes, business solutions, email, email marketing, email software, email system, mix max

10 Web Tools for End-to-End Proposal Management

December 3, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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You likely spend hours upon hours crafting proposals for your sales prospects- emailing different departments for assets, locating images, outlining project scope, creating timelines, and estimates while defining strategic recommendations.  Then you send it off to the prospective client and move onto the next like you’re Jay Z. If you find yourself thinking, “there’s got […]

Filed Under: 10 Things Lists, Your Small Business Tagged With: contracts, project management, proposal software, proposals, RFP, solopreneur tools, Technology tools

How to Promote Your Brand in 10 Different Ways

November 12, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

how to promote your brand

When you have a product or service business you are also a brand and you must promote your brand to stay top of mind with existing and potential customers to increase your sales.  There are lots of ways to promote your brand before and after the sale.  Here are the 10 best Ideas that I […]

Filed Under: 10 Things Lists, Branding & Marketing Tagged With: branding, marketing, promote your brand

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