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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 […]

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It’s National Small Business Week 2018!

April 30, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

This week marks the annual kickoff of National Small Business Week. It’s the biggest celebration of small businesses in the U.S.  This year the Small Business Administration (SBA) has decided to offer a virtual 3 day conference to launch National Small Business Week! If you are trying to build your brand online with Google, transition […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Grow Your Business, SmallBizChat Live+, Starting A Small Business Tagged With: national small business week, SmallBizChat LIVE

Success Secrets from America’s Top Business Experts Part 2

April 9, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

My new book Fix Your Business, features top business experts at the end of each of the chapters. Each expert was selected based on the advice they could share based on my 12 Ps of Running a Successful Business: Preparation, Purpose, People, Profit, Processes, Productivity, Performance, Product, Presence, Prospects, Planning and Perseverance. They are all […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Fix Your Business, Grow Your Business, Uncategorized Tagged With: fix your business, small business experts, small business success tips, success secrets

Success Secrets from America’s Top Business Experts Part 1

April 2, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

In my new book Fix Your Business, one of the coolest things about pulling this book together was interviewing top business experts at the end of each of the chapters. The book is based on my 12Ps of Running a Successful Business: Preparation, Purpose, People, Profit, Processes, Productivity, Performance, Product, Presence, Prospects, Planning and Perserverance. […]

Filed Under: Become Your Own Boss Tips, Business Inspiration Tagged With: business expertise, success secrets

How to Manifest Your Full Potential

March 22, 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 Marshawn Evans.  She is known as a Reinvention Strategist, Influence Expert and Best-Selling Author known as The Godfidence® Coach. For […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @marshawnevans, Manifest Potential, purpose map, reinvention, SmallBizChat

7 Best Business Books for Boss Chicks

March 19, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

March is women’s history month. Many people are highlighting successful women from history and some modern day superwomen doing amazing things. I believe leaders are readers, so my approach to women’s history month is to offer you 7 books all written by women to guide you to a better life and business as a Boss […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Grow Your Business Tagged With: Boss Chicks, business books

Top Strategies to Make 2018 Your Most Productive Year Yet

January 9, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Article The New Year brings fresh hopes, a clean slate, and a renewed commitment to increase our impact. It is also a time to look back on the past year and think about what habits, practices, attitudes, and relationships are serving us and which ones are holding us back. Ready to make 2018 the […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Grow Your Business, Guest Articles Tagged With: flow of business, mindset, Productivity, time is money

Are You Ready To Start Your Dream Business in 2018?

January 1, 2018 By Melinda Emerson 1 Comment

Have you been dreaming about starting a business in 2018? Are you over your paycheck job and ready to invest in your own idea? January is a perfect time to start moving towards becoming a business owner.  If you think you are ready, I’ve developed the perfect system to plan your dream business. I remember […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Starting A Small Business Tagged With: business dreams, get started, starting a business

The Importance of Vision for Your Business

December 26, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Article What if for a few minutes you were living your mountaintop experience? You envisioned a time when everything was going great. A time you left all your limiting thoughts behind; about not having enough money, time or not enough experience. Imagine yourself at the end of the journey celebrating your success. Coming from […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Guest Articles Tagged With: business vision, vision

Best of SucceedAsYourOwnBoss.com for 2017

December 25, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Since 2009, I have been a small business blogger. My mission with my writing is to end small business failure.  I wanted to be a journalist since I was in eighth grade. I started out my career as a TV producer, but then I started a business in 1999. And after 8 years in business […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Melinda Emerson @SmallBizLady Tagged With: best of, Best of 2017

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