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3 Strategies to Boost Small Business Growth

April 12, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

3 strategies to boost small business growth

Starting and growing a small business requires a lot of hard work and a lot of knowledge. Many entrepreneurs who take the leap to start their own business fail to recognize that not only do they need to be a master in their own expertise of what they are offering as a product or service, […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Featured Post, Grow Your Business, Social Media Tagged With: email marketing, grow your small business, online sales, online sales strategies, selling online, small business growth, social media marketing

5 Marketing Ideas to Drive Post-Pandemic Retail Sales

April 20, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

5 Marketing Ideas to Drive Post-Pandemic Retail Sales OG

With pandemic updates still taking up quite a bit of the news machine’s time, sometimes it’s still hard to even imagine a world that’s different from the one COVID-19 has created today. But businesses and retailers will one day be moving to a new normal that is similar to that old normal we all crave. […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: boost in online sales, online marketing, online shopping, post-pandemic plan, retail business, retail business marketing plan

5-Steps to Getting Your Small Business Finances in Order

April 5, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

5-Steps to Getting Your Small Business Finances in Order OG

Small business finances are always a tough subject to tackle, as small businesses typically work on shoe-string budgets. The pandemic put a spotlight on how many small businesses don’t have a solid grasp on their finances or solid business finance processes in place. So, let’s look at the five steps you can take to get […]

Filed Under: Cash Flow & Finance, Grow Your Business Tagged With: hire a bookkeeper, revenue streams, small business budget, small business financial success, solid business finance processes

Overcoming Impostor Syndrome as a Small Business Owner

April 13, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Overcoming Impostor Syndrome as a Small Business Owner Open Graph

Impostor syndrome is REAL, and everybody has it. Yes, even you.  Impostor syndrome (also known as impostor phenomenon, impostorism, fraud syndrome, or the impostor experience ) is a psychological pattern in which an individual doubt their skills, talents, or achievements and has a persistent inbuilt fear of being exposed as a “fraud.”  Did you catch […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: career-making opportunities, celebrate your small wins, impostor phenomenon, inner perfectionist, mental and emotional well-being

How To Use Blogging To Grow Your Business

April 6, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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As a business, you know that the more you get your message out, the higher the chances of doing more business. Unsure of the best way to reach customers, businesses often try many different methods to ensure that anyone hears their message.  Businesses choose a large variety of ways to accomplish this. From billboards, radio […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: blog topics for your small business, blogging for business, grow your small business, leveraging your blog, types of keywords

Ask SmallBizLady: Does a Sole Proprietor Need Workers’ Compensation Insurance?

March 22, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Ask SmallBizLady: Does a Sole Proprietor Need Workers' Compensation Insurance? OG

The short answer to the question of whether sole proprietors need workers’ compensation insurance is No and Yes. Sole proprietors or freelancers with no employees are typically not required to purchase workers’ compensation insurance. However, it may be beneficial for your business to do so when you’re a sole proprietor, and you do work that […]

Filed Under: Ask Smallbizlady, Grow Your Business Tagged With: employees, hiring any contractors, injured doing business, penalties for hiring subcontractors, subcontractors, workers' compensation insurance

4 Common SEO Mistakes to Avoid

March 30, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

4 Common SEO Mistakes to Avoid Open Graph

Not all of us are search engine savvy and being a small business, it is often too expensive to hire a third party to help with your business Search Engine Optimization (SEO) needs. But regardless of how big your small business is, there are four common SEO mistakes to avoid! It can be a daunting […]

Filed Under: Fix Your Business, Grow Your Business Tagged With: keyword strategy, planning your seo strategy, seo campaign, seo strategies, SEO strategy

5 Ways TikTok Can Help Your Small Business

March 23, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

5 Ways TikTok Can Help Your Small Business OG

TikTok has been around for quite a few years, and it has reached an unprecedented level of success and popularity. Based on publicly available data up to 25 January 2021, TikTok has 689 million monthly active users. But how can TikTok help your small business? Reactions, challenges, tutorials, lip-syncing videos, pet videos – you choose! […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: Brand Awareness, online marketing strategy, small business brand awareness, TikTok Marketing Strategy, TikTok videos

18 Things You Should Know Before Starting An Ecommerce Business

March 15, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

18 Things You Should Know Before Starting An Ecommerce Business OG

It’s exciting to start a new business online, but there are a few things that you need to know before diving in. You must identify a target customer, do market research, write a business plan, create a brand and develop descriptions of your products and services. It takes money, motivation, consistent effort, and technical know-how […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: ecommerce business, ecommerce business owner, ecommerce store, online store, start a new business online

How to Structure a Podcast in 10 Easy Steps

March 9, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

How to Structure a Podcast in 10 Easy Steps Open Graph

Structuring a podcast episode is like any different artistic process: the unique elements must be accurate and flow to influence your audience.  Podcast structure attributes your show’s composition, the course of its segments, and how you systematize each component to match collectively.  So how do you structure a podcast in a system that holds people […]

Filed Under: 10 Things Lists, Grow Your Business Tagged With: podcast, podcast interview, podcast script, recording a podcast, small business podcast, structuring a podcast

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