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How to Create a Stand Out Brand for Your Small Business

May 4, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Every week as SmallBizLady, I conduct interviews with experts on my Twitter talk show #SmallBizChat. This week, we recorded a special TV broadcast, #SmallBizChat Live from NYC on Facebook LIVE sponsored FedEx.  We had several live studio guests answering questions on small business growth. This post is excerpted from my live interview with branding expert […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @dorieclark, Create a brand, SmallBizChat

How to Build a Legacy Brand in Your Small Business

May 2, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Article “This is why I love her!!! Beautiful advice!!!! “I love Super Soul Sunday.” “I want a bracelet that says WWOD…as in What Would Oprah Do.” “She has her life together.” “I don’t think for a moment Apple will make bad products.” “My iPhone has never failed me.” “I do like Apple products. They’re […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Guest Articles Tagged With: Build Brand, innovation, Legacy Brand

Understanding Facebook Ad Campaigns

April 25, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Article If you’re reading this right now, it likely means that you’ve fully embraced mobile marketing for your business (if not, then it’s time to start migrating to the online marketplace). Hopefully, you’ve already seen the dividends that reaching out to digital customers offers, so what’s next? It’s time to make the move to […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Guest Articles, Social Media Tagged With: Facebook ads, marketing with ads

How to Stay Relevant and Successful in Today’s Changing Market

April 20, 2017 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 Susan Solovic @susansolovic. Susan Solovic is an award-winning serial entrepreneur, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com top 100 and […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @susansolovic, innovation, SmallBizChat, staying relevant

How to Keep an Audience Engaged Online

April 17, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

I’m thrilled to say that we are celebrating the 8th anniversary of #SmallBizChat this month. Every week for the past eight years, we have picked the brains of some of the smartest and most successful entrepreneurs out there, across dozens of industries. We have held over 380 tweetchats and branded the hashtag #Smallbizchat, of which […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Your Small Business Tagged With: engaged audience, online audience

Startup Marketing for New Entrepreneurs

March 21, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Article Starting a new business is an exciting and exhilarating affair, but it comes packed with a lot of risks and challenges. The ‘newcomer’s luck’ won’t play in favor as one believes, and the overnight success stories you may have heard about were actually of those who were there behind the scenes for years […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Guest Articles Tagged With: small business marketing, small business startup

How To Create Big-Bucks Content Without Breaking the Budget

February 28, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Sponsored Post Many small businesses believe creating high quality content is too expensive and time consuming. Only big companies have the budget to employ someone just to write up pages for a website, right? It’s true that many big companies spend the big bucks on hiring staff with the sole purpose of keeping their websites […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Featured Post, Grow Your Business Tagged With: @insightlyapp, content marketing

7 Biggest Mistakes People Make in Crowdfunding Campaigns

February 20, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

As the SmallBizLady, I get a few emails a week from eager business owners who have launched a crowdfunding campaign with the hopes that I would write a story about them to boost their campaign.  Well, I’m not going to do that.  Here’s why:  9 out of 10 of them that I look at have […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Cash Flow & Finance Tagged With: crowdfunding, investing

The Best Tools to Promote Online Video in 2017

January 16, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Video is slated to be the best communications and marketing tool of 2017, but you need to be strategic to get it right. Taking a video isn’t all that hard — though quality should be your top objective — but once you have your videos created, where do you upload them and promote them to […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Technology Tagged With: online video, video marketing

Top Marketing Mistakes in the Tech World

December 27, 2016 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Post Technological innovation has significantly expanded marketing technique and reach. However, misconceptions about how tech has changed traditional marketing can limit the effectiveness of your campaign. Too often, tech marketers get swept up in trends and buzzwords without stopping to think about what actually works. Avoiding some of the most common tech marketing mistakes […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Guest Articles Tagged With: @searchbloom, digital marketing, technology mistakes

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