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10 Keys to Achieving Small Business Success

August 3, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Having spent the last two decades fully engulfed in the small business environment, I tend to see some of the same factors that play a part in the ability to achieve small business success. While some of these are personality traits, many are just simply ways of doing things. Here are the ten common keys […]

How to Stay Sane When Working From Home

July 28, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

The workplace has changed dramatically in recent months, with most of the world learning how to juggle work and home life together. Even for the most organized people, isolation and lockdowns can play havoc with a normal work routine. At Biteable, we’re a remote-first company, so we’ve had years of experience learning how to keep […]

The 5 Things Your Online Business Needs to Focus on During the Coronavirus Pandemic

July 7, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

If you worked from home before this novel coronavirus hit the world hard, a lot of people assume you got off lucky. After all, you are just doing what you did before, right? With blogs and online businesses being lucrative money-makers for thousands of people, no one seems to notice that we are being affected […]

5 Powerful Tips to Help You Become a Successful Freelancer

June 29, 2020 By Melinda Emerson 1 Comment

Most small businesses start today as a side hustle first. While some Americans have shifted to independent temporarily, more have shifted to make it their full-time careers. According to the Freelancing in America Survey, 35 % of U.S. workers are now freelancing. In 2019, 57 million people worked as freelancers. We can see this number […]

5 Challenges for Women in Business in 2020

June 23, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

It’s good to appreciate just how much cultural progress has been made since the turn of the millennium because make no mistake: things are markedly better than they were. Sexual harassment in the workplace, for instance, has gone from something to be discussed only in back rooms under non-disclosure agreements to issue companies are expected […]

Blogging for Small Business Part III – How to Monetize Your Blog

June 15, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

If you treat your blog like a business, you could one day blog for money. This is Part III of my series on blogging for small businesses. In Part I, we talked about how to develop a content strategy. In Part II, we discussed how to promote your small business blog. This blog is focused […]

How to Enjoy a Vacation When You’re a Freelancer

June 16, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

When you freelance, there’s no one you can immediately delegate to. And it’s not like you can inform your boss of your intention to take a couple of weeks off, and get paid for the privilege either. This is not a gripe at the unfairness of it all when you are a freelancer; obviously there […]

Blogging for Small Business Part I – How to Develop a Content Strategy

June 1, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

I’ve been blogging for 12 years, and I will tell you that it’s no small thing to build a brand online using content. To develop a blog, you need to define the purpose for your blog, a specific target audience, an engaging content strategy, and build up a significant following in social media, if you […]

How to Qualify for PPP Loan Forgiveness

May 25, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

If you were one of the fortunate small businesses that we’re able to secure a Paycheck Protection Program loan (PPP loan), I know you want to make sure that you don’t need to pay it back. I’ve been doing some digging on this, and I hope this post will provide guidance and a better understanding […]