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5 Finance Secrets to Make Your Small Business More Successful

September 13, 2011 By Melinda Emerson 4 Comments

Being an expert in finance is not usually a top priority for someone starting or running a small business. Here are five tips to make sure you’re handling your finances according to best practices: 1.  Record-Keeping There are two main reasons to keep track of the finances of your business. First, you need to maintain […]

Filed Under: Cash Flow & Finance, Grow Your Business Tagged With: banking relationship, Benchmarking, CFOwise, Customer Payments, handling your finances, Ken Kaufman, Record-Keeping, taxes

Affiliate Marketing the Right Way

October 4, 2011 By Melinda Emerson 3 Comments

Have you been the recipient of communications from affiliate marketers or web-based entrepreneurs? Many of you have created or signed up to participate in affiliate programs.  The government considers your affiliate activities to be a business activity and has a few things to say about what you can and cannot do.  If you’re new to […]

Filed Under: Cash Flow & Finance, Grow Your Business, Guest Articles Tagged With: Affiliate Marketers, Affiliate marketing, Affiliate program, FTC regulation, high commissions, online reputation, Shannon Harmon

How to Negotiate Commercial Real Estate – #SmallBizChat QA with The Square Foot

October 20, 2011 By Melinda Emerson 2 Comments

Every week as SmallBizLady, I conduct interviews with experts on my Twitter talk show #SmallBizChat. The show takes place every Wed on Twitter from 8-9pm ET. This is excerpted from my recent interview with Justin Lee, co-founder of The Square Foot. The Square Foot is a website that connects businesses with local real estate agents who […]

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Filed Under: Grow Your Business, SmallBizChat Tagged With: business planning, commercial real estate, leasing

Time to Start Planning for 2012

September 26, 2011 By Melinda Emerson 9 Comments

The kids are back in school and Halloween is fast approaching.  People it is time to start planning your budget and marketing plan for the coming year.  2012 will be here before you know it and you do not want it to sneak up on you. Just like many of your clients are reaching out […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: accountant, Budget and Sales Projections, Clients, Marketing Plan, melinda emerson, niche target customer, Plan for 2012, relationship selling, small business, smallbizlady, Tax preparer

Are You Ready To Finish the Year With a Bang?

October 31, 2011 By Melinda Emerson 7 Comments

This past weekend I conducted my last BYOB2011 Workshop in my national tour. I held the last one in Philadelphia, my hometown.  The focus of  the tour was  on three things; How to Become Your Own Boss, How to Develop a Killer Marketing Plan and How to build a Social Media Brand.   For the last […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Business Inspiration, Grow Your Business, How to Start Tagged With: Be an Agent of Convenience, Be Your Own Bank, BYOB, byob2011, constantcontact, corpnet, Done is Good Enough, entrepreneurs, melinda emerson, Plan Sales, small business, smallbizlady, Success is Self-confidence, Update Your life plan

How to Generate Revenue for Your Small Business

November 1, 2011 By Melinda Emerson 2 Comments

Most people know they shouldn’t attempt to take on a mortgage without having some way to pay for it.  Yet small business owners do something quite similar every day.  How do they do this? Some small business owners focus on running the business before focusing on generating the leads that fund the business.  Sure, every […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Cash Flow & Finance, Grow Your Business Tagged With: build leads, build leads offline, create a list, lead generation, linkedin, melinda emerson, Morgan Leu Parkhurst, network, sales, sales funnel

How To Go from Idea to Store Shelves QA Interview with Jen Groover

November 3, 2011 By Melinda Emerson 2 Comments

Every week as SmallBizLady, I conduct interviews with experts on my Twitter talk show #SmallBizChat. The show takes place every Wednesday on Twitter from 8-9pm ET. This is excerpted from my recent interview with @Jengroover.  She’s a top business expert and has been tagged by Success Magazine as a “One-Woman Brand” and named a leading “Serial […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, SmallBizChat Tagged With: intellectual property, product development, smallbizlady, strategic branding

Are You on the Path to Reinventing Your Small Business?

November 15, 2011 By Melinda Emerson 1 Comment

Small biz owners are reinventing their businesses all the time, especially in this economy. Old ways of doing business just aren’t working anymore. I’d love to be able to tell you that there are set of linear phases that every small business owner goes through while you’re reinventing your business and marketing models… …but if […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Business Inspiration, Grow Your Business, Women in Business Tagged With: Business reinvention, Finding clarity on goals, Karyn Greetstreet, making a roadmap, managing change, marketing model, new business model, small business

How to optimize search engine traffic on a time budget

November 22, 2011 By Melinda Emerson 3 Comments

Websites can require a considerable amount of time to be optimized. The inclusion of social media into search results means a website will probably go unnoticed without a marketing or social media campaign.  Creating a marketing effort is easy if you have a team. It can be daunting for small business owners that do not […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: compare your keywords, drive traffic, google analytics, keywords, melinda emerson, meta descriptions, meta tags, Optimization, pay per click, Pierre DeBois, PPC, search engine optimization, SEO

Creating a Business You Can Sell – Q&A with John Warrillow

November 23, 2011 By Melinda Emerson 3 Comments

Every week as SmallBizLady, I conduct interviews with experts on my Twitter talk show #SmallBizChat. The show takes place every Wednesday on Twitter from 8-9pm ET. This is excerpted from my recent interview with John Warrillow @JohnWarrillow.    John is the author of Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You. Built to Sell […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, SmallBizChat Tagged With: Built to Sell, exit strategy, John Warrillow, melinda emerson, sell your business, smallbizlady

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