Every business starts out from an idea. No matter where you are in the stage of solidifying your business idea or executing your business plan, intellectual property is a substantial part of the plan and you want to timely and correctly protect this valuable asset, especially as you try to get your endeavor off the […]
How to Arbitrate Small Claim Disputes
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 interview with @ArbiClaims. Stephen Kane is a start up and small business attorney who got tired of getting calls from people he couldn’t help, i.e. […]
Best of Melinda Emerson™’s #SmallBizChat Interviews in 2009
My interview with Sherri Garrity on how to quit a job to start a business: Sherri is the founder of Corporate Fugitive. Her company provides business coaching to aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners who want to go from overwhelmed to extraordinary. In 2007, she walked away from a successful marketing career to start her own […]
10 Leading Factors of Small Business Success
While every entrepreneur has a different success story, I tend to see some of the same factors affecting most business’s results. Now, not all of these are personality traits. Many are simply ways of doing things, so no matter who you are, changing your actions can have major results. The bottom line is you can […]
Developing a Blog vs. Website Strategy
This is the second of a three part series on blogging for business. It is such an essential issue for small businesses today that I felt it important to dedicate some real time to the topic. The first article focused on building a small business blog. Today’s piece investigates the decision to have a separate […]
10 Ways to Get Your Blog to Shine
This is the last post of a three part series on blogging for business. We started out with how to get started blogging. Then we tackled the strategy for setting up your blog as your only website or having two separate websites. Now we are finally talking about what to do to get your blog […]
How to Fix Back Office Dysfunction in Your Small Business
If you’re like many small business owners, managing a team may not be your strong suit. You may be passionate about your business or industry, but may lack the necessary leadership skills to keep your staff in line and productive. If you’re busy running your company, you may not notice serious issues in the office […]
#SmallBizChat Celebrates 1 Year of Ending Small Business Failure
This week marks the one-year anniversary of #SmallBizChat. For the past year, every Wednesday at 8pm ET, I have had a standing appointment on Twitter with small business owners — to answer their small business questions. The focus of #Smallbizchat is to end small business failure by helping business owners with issues and challenges as […]
On The Road To Oprah’s Own Network
Many of you may not know this but Oprah Winfrey is who inspired me to become an entrepreneur. When I was in college she opened Harpo Studios. That planted the seed and really gave me the confidence that one day I could own my own production company. I will never forget that time. I was […]
6 Things Oprah Winfrey Taught Us About Business
Oprah Winfrey is my hero. I never thought about being an entrepreneur until she got on my radar when I was in college in the early 90’s. It was around that time that she opened Harpo Studios in Chicago, making her the third woman in the American entertainment industry (after Mary Pickford and Lucille Ball) […]
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