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New Year, New Resolve

January 4, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

The New Year is a great opportunity to have a new start in your business. If you were thrilled to see 2018 come to a close, now is the time to build a plan to execute your best year ever in 2019. Instead of focusing on personal resolutions like losing weight or learning a foreign […]

Filed Under: 10 Things Lists, Business Inspiration, Featured Post, Grow Your Business, How to Start, Your Small Business Tagged With: biz tips, building your business, business tips, fix your business, New Year, new year resolution, small business growth, small business tips

How to Find the Silver Lining in Any Crisis

December 18, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Article Should you celebrate a mistake or a loss? My answer is a big yes. Through my work as a sales expert, I often meet managers who find making mistakes very difficult to accept. However, they are not aware that they can learn a lot from their mistakes. A long career in business without […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Featured Post, Guest Articles, Leadership Tagged With: discouragement, leadership, learn from mistakes, silver linings

SmallBizLady’s Best Small Business Advice from 2018

December 24, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

I’m often asked, “Where do you get the ideas to blog about?” Honestly, I get them from you all—my loyal readers and followers.  Your questions, comments, emails, and voice mail messages give me great ideas for blog posts. If YOU are wondering about a specific topic, then I know that OTHERS are looking for this small […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Featured Post, Grow Your Business, SmallBizLady Recommends Tagged With: best blogs of 2018, best of 2018, best of small business blogs 2018, best small business advice, small business advice, small business blog

It’s Time for SmallBizLady’s 5 Days of Giveaways

December 3, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

This year I’m celebrating the Holidays by giving back to America’s small business owners. My “SmallBizLady’s 5 Days of Giveaways Contest launches today and I want you to be a part of it. As we celebrate my 10th anniversary of the SmallBizLady brand, we are excited to rally entrepreneurs around products and services that really […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Grow Your Business, Melinda Emerson @SmallBizLady, Solopreneurs, Your Small Business Tagged With: 5 days of giveaways, avery, giveaways, godaddy, holiday giveaway, mixmax, visa

Thanks and Giving, It’s what we do everyday as small business owners

November 22, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

As it’s Thanksgiving Day, it struck me that Thanks and Giving is an everyday thing in the life of business owners. We are thankful for the opportunity to serve customers and we give jobs to our employees. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year. It’s not just the food, spending time with relatives or […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Melinda Emerson @SmallBizLady, Your Small Business Tagged With: Giving thanks, Thanksgiving

How to Package Your Genius

October 4, 2018 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 Amanda Miller Littlejohn @amandamogul. Amanda Miller Littlejohn is a personal branding coach who helps high achievers make their ideas and their work […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Business Inspiration, Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @amandamogul, get intentional, package your genius, personal brand, SmallBizChat

Get the map to quit your corporate job and build a business and life you love

September 27, 2018 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 Lori Hildebrand @mycoachlori.  Lori is the authority in helping female entrepreneurs turn their side hustle into their full-time gig. She teaches motivated […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, How to Start, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat, Starting A Small Business Tagged With: @mycoachlori, build a business, leaving corporate, love your work, SmallBizChat

How to Get Through the Holidays and Fire Up Your Business for 2013

December 6, 2012 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 Wednesday on Twitter from 8-9 pm ET. This is excerpted from my recent interview with Aliza Sherman @alizasherman.  As a web pioneer Aliza helps people find sensible, practical and manageable ways to use digital technology to […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat, Technology Tagged With: @alizasherman, Aliza Sherman, business planning, entrepreneur, Time management

How to Maintain Creativity as a Small Business

June 12, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Article How to be creative and stay competitive is a universal problem for Fortune 500 companies and small businesses. Everyone needs help wrangling the creative process. At Modernist Studio, we work with large companies, but we enjoy working smaller and medium sized businesses, who have fewer resources to help them strategically integrate creativity into […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Guest Articles Tagged With: creative process, creativity, creativity in business

SmallBizLady’s Summer Reading List 2018

June 11, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

As you know by now, summertime is when I catch up on my business book reading. Every year, I take a look at all the books I’ve been sent in the last six months to see what’s worth a good read. There are some gems that have been released this year in entrepreneurship, marketing, and […]

Filed Under: 10 Things Lists, Business Inspiration Tagged With: summer reading, summer reading list

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