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Who’s on #Smallbizchat March 2019

March 12, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

#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 […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Grow Your Business, Leadership, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat, Social Media, Solopreneurs, Teams Tagged With: building a lifestyle business, business finance, business numbers, protecting your small business, sales techniques, selling unique items, small business fraud, SmallBizChat, smallbizlady, social media, social media platforms

Who’s on #Smallbizchat February 2019

January 31, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

#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 […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Grow Your Business, Leadership, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat, Social Media, Solopreneurs, Teams Tagged With: Facebook ads, leadership, millenials, Productivity, SmallBizChat, smallbizlady, social connection, social media plan, speaking business, Time management

How to Get Funded Faster!

January 24, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

get funded

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 Victoria Yampolsky, CFA, @startup_station. Victoria is the President of the Startup Station, a comprehensive financial resource for early-stage startups. She specializes in […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, SmallBizChat, SmallBizChat Live+ Tagged With: fund raise, fund raising, small biz chat, Victoria Yampolsky

How to Stand Out in 2019: Business Awards, Facebook Ads, and Market Disruption

January 17, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Business Awards

This week on #Smallbizchat LIVE our show featured three guests: Enhance the Visibility, Reputation and Branding of Your Business via Awards Programs with Becky Wilson, @WDSPRMaven, 3 Questions About Facebook Ads with A. Fitzgerald Hardnett, @FitzSpeak, and How Can You Disrupt Your Competition—and Maybe Even an Entire Industry with Shep Hyken, @hyken. I pulled three of […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat, SmallBizChat Live+ Tagged With: business awards, Facebook ads, small business, SmallBizChat, SmallBizChat LIVE

Who’s on #Smallbizchat January 2019

January 2, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

#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 […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Grow Your Business, Leadership, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat, Social Media, Solopreneurs, Teams Tagged With: @blakesnow, @fitzspeak, @Hyken, @sanespaces, @startup_station, @WDSPRMaven, business funding, disrupt competition, Facebook ads, industry disruptor, leadership, Productivity, SmallBizChat, smallbizlady, social connection, social media plan, Time management

4 Ways Your Inbox is Inhibiting Business Growth (& How to Fix It)

January 8, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

gain control of your email inbox

Sponsored Post The email inbox. It’s still one of the most important tools in your sales process, especially for your sales team’s toolbox. That being said, inefficient use of email and the inbox can cause costly bottlenecks and inhibit long-term business growth. What’s worse, many business owners don’t even realize that they have a problem. […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Business Inspiration, Featured Post, Fix Your Business, Grow Your Business, How to Start, Technology Tagged With: CRM, email, inbox management, mixmax, Productivity

10 E-commerce Best Practices for Small Businesses

January 29, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

E-commerce Best Practices

You have a small business now, and you know you want it to grow. Growth means more customers, more revenue, more inventory, and more success. Before you can get to this space, however, you have to set some practices in motion that will foster natural and lasting growth. Check out these 10 e-commerce best practices […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Featured Post, Guest Articles, Uncategorized, Your Small Business Tagged With: best small business websites, e-commerce, E-commerce Best Practices, small business, small business website

7 Signs It’s Time to Relocate Your Business

January 22, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

relocate your business

Whether an old or new business, it can be easy for companies to think that relocating to a new base can solve the majority of their business problems. However, the probable causes of the problems first need to be assessed to determine if relocating is the solution. It’s important to know what problems can be […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Featured Post, Grow Your Business, Guest Articles, Your Small Business Tagged With: business decisions, business relocation, jamie costello, relocate your business, relocation

Balancing a Business and Single Parenthood

January 15, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

balancing a business and single parenthood

Mom guilt. It’s what many single working mothers carry with them when they head out the door in the morning. This guilt blooms from thinking that they are not raising their children in the best way possible, perhaps even berating themselves for running a business full-time instead of being a stay-at-home mom. But for single […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Featured Post, Guest Articles, Mompreneurs, Solopreneurs, Women in Business Tagged With: Balancing a Business, business and parenting, parenting tips, Single Parenthood, work and life balance

What is a Business Microloan and How Can it Boost Your Start-up

January 8, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Business Microloan

With more and more small businesses launching every day, many entrepreneurs and business owners are finding it increasingly hard to secure financing. This is where microloans come in handy; they are typically provided by non-profits and CDFIs (Community Development Financial Institutions) to provide an efficient, flexible, and fast source of capital to help you get […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Cash Flow & Finance, Featured Post, Grow Your Business, Guest Articles, Starting A Small Business Tagged With: business loan, Business Microloan, loans, microloan, small business loans, startup loan

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