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Become Your Own Boss Mastermind Group Starts in April

March 3, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 4 Comments

Become Your Own Boss Mastermind Group begins in March 2011 This is for start-up business owners who need help making the transition from corporate to business ownership. If you need a plan to start a profitable and sustainable small business, This is YOUR answer! The Become Your Own Boss Mastermind Group is an 8-week coaching […]

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Your GPS To Start a Small Business

March 15, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 5 Comments

Most people dream about owning a small business. You may have had a “notion” for years that someday you would be CEO of a company, successful beyond your wildest dreams. Turning that dream into reality is an evolutionary process, involving not only having a solid business idea, but also understanding the “business of running a business.” Then […]

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Starting a Small Business in This Economy

March 18, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 5 Comments

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 @Colleendebaise She is the author of The Wall Street Journal Complete Small Business Guidebook is small business editor at The Wall Street […]

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Can You Afford to Become An Entrepreneur?

March 29, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 9 Comments

Everyone has good ideas.  Some of them may even be million dollar ideas, but if you live from paycheck to paycheck or way beyond your means, you may never be able to quit your job and start a business. As the Smallbizlady, often I get emails, facebook messages and DM’s on Twitter from people asking me […]

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8 Ways To Use Twitter To Grow Your Small Business

April 26, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 12 Comments

This past week was a big week. First a major review of my new book  came out on the website one of my favorite business magazines Black Enterprise with the title: “Now Read This: Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months, If entrepreneurship is your objective, Melinda Emerson offers a step-by-step road map” which was written […]

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5 Common Myths About Starting a Small Business

May 24, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 18 Comments

Starting a small business is not a 9 to 5 job. In the beginning your business owns you—you do not own it or your time.

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7 Questions Hobbyists Should Consider When Starting a Small Business

June 14, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 2 Comments

This is the last of a two part series on how to turn a hobby into a small business. Sometimes people with great hobby do not have the right amount of business acumen to run a business. Everyone has good ideas — it is the business of running a business that gets some people in […]

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8 Tips to Become Your Own Boss

June 28, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 2 Comments

It’s more than a notion to launch your own business. Nowadays it’s common for folks to leave a job via layoff or early retirement and jump right into starting a small business.

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The 5 Most Important Entrepreneurial Lessons I’ve Learned in Business

July 19, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 10 Comments

One of the great things about having a small business is that you get the opportunity to learn every day.  Hopefully you are not learning too many expensive lessons. I thought it would be helpful to share a few important lessons that I have learned over my years in business so that you can benefit […]

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How to Get Your Book Done Now

August 2, 2010 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

I had such overwhelming response to my recent radio interview with Shelley Lieber @wordywoman on my monthly Smallbizradio show on #BlogTalkRadio – that I had to turn it into a blog post so that more of you could reap the benefit of this valuable information. The intention of Smallbizradio is to create a place for entrepreneurs to […]

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