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 […]
Top 12 Podcasts for Small Business Owners
Listening to podcasts is a great way to learn something when you are on the go. I’m a big fan of going for a long walk or drive and checking out a new episode from some of my favorite business experts. If you are trying to pick up some new skills, or develop a new […]
Who’s on #Smallbizchat December 2018
#Smallbizchat is a weekly conversation where small business owners can get answers to their questions. The focus of #Smallbizchat is to end small business failure by helping participants succeed as your own boss. Please join us live on Twitter every Wednesday from 8-9 pm ET. Here’s how: follow @SmallBizChat on Twitter and follow the hashtag […]
How to Gain Control of Your Free Time as a Small Business Owner
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 Laura Vanderkam @lvanderkam. Laura is the author of several time management books including Off the Clock and 168 Hours. Her […]
How to Price a Product or Service
Pricing is one of the biggest challenges for small business owners. When people decided to do business with you it’s typically based on six factors: like, know and trust and is your product or service cheaper, better or faster. If you ask people to pay too much for your product or service and they could […]
How To Win and Keep Customers with 4 Easy Communication Tips
Guest Article I want you to think about the last time you patronized a small business. Maybe you bought a cup of coffee at the corner coffee shop. Perhaps you used a local moving company, or went food shopping at your favorite food co-op. Now, I want you to think about it: why did you […]
Ask Smallbizlady: What Departments Have Corporate Sponsorship Budgets?
Corporate sponsorship is a mutual business proposition that offers something in exchange for financial support from a corporation. Sponsorship is very lucrative if you are a small business with something of value to offer. So how can your small business tap into this market? If you want to can get corporate sponsorship from a Fortune 500 company, […]
How to Find the Silver Lining in Any Crisis
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 […]
SmallBizLady’s Best Small Business Advice from 2018
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 […]
Why Link Diversity Should Be Your Primary SEO Concern
Guest Article Every discussion about Google rankings and SEO involves backlinks someway. Why? Because these are one of the major ranking factors in most of the search engines, Google specifically. If we look at SEO Power Suite, Search Metrics, and Backlinko’s research insights, inbound links are there in the ranking factors list besides content and […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- …
- 27
- Next Page »