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Become Your Own Boss Mastermind Group Starts in April

March 3, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 4 Comments

Become Your Own Boss Mastermind Group begins in March 2011 This is for start-up business owners who need help making the transition from corporate to business ownership. If you need a plan to start a profitable and sustainable small business, This is YOUR answer! The Become Your Own Boss Mastermind Group is an 8-week coaching […]

Filed Under: Become Your Own Boss Tips, How to Start, Starting A Small Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: become your own boss, mastermind groups, melinda emerson, small business, small business info, smallbizlady

What Health Care Reform Means for Your Small Business

March 22, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 15 Comments

Last night, Congress led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, succeeded in finally passing legislation that will empower 31 million people with a new right to health insurance and remake the nation’s health care system. Many of those people without healthcare are small business owners, who have been struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Just after […]

Filed Under: Mompreneurs, Pink Slip Entrepreneurs, Solopreneurs, Women in Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: healthcare for small business, healthcare reform, President Obama

Can You Afford to Become An Entrepreneur?

March 29, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 9 Comments

Everyone has good ideas.  Some of them may even be million dollar ideas, but if you live from paycheck to paycheck or way beyond your means, you may never be able to quit your job and start a business. As the Smallbizlady, often I get emails, facebook messages and DM’s on Twitter from people asking me […]

Filed Under: Become Your Own Boss Tips, Cash Flow & Finance, How to Start, Mompreneurs, My Recommendations, Pink Slip Entrepreneurs, Solopreneurs, Starting A Small Business, Women in Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: become your own boss, budgets, business planning, entrepreneur, melinda emerson, planning, small business, small business info, smallbizlady, start a business

How to Win a Business Plan Competition

April 15, 2010 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 Wed on Twitter from 8-9pm ET.  This is excerpted from my recent interview with Lora Kolodny @lorakolodny .  She writes for the You’re the Boss! blog for the New York Times online. She began reporting on […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business, How to Start, SmallBizChat, Social Media, Your Small Business Tagged With: business plan competition, business plan competitions, entrepreneurs, lora kolodny, melinda emerson, New York Times, SmallBizChat, smallbizlady, Sole proprietors, Tim Berry

8 Ways To Use Twitter To Grow Your Small Business

April 26, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 12 Comments

This past week was a big week. First a major review of my new book  came out on the website one of my favorite business magazines Black Enterprise with the title: “Now Read This: Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months, If entrepreneurship is your objective, Melinda Emerson offers a step-by-step road map” which was written […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business, How to Start, Social Media, Starting A Small Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: Alfred Edmond Jr., Black Enterprise, Give to get, melinda emerson, niche customer, small business, SmallBizChat, smallbizlady, twitter, twitterchats

A Woman’s Guide to Being Your Own Boss

May 3, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 4 Comments

Women have so many amazing qualities. We are caretakers. We build communities.  Our generosity is abundant. We are sensitive and, at times, emotional.  We make decisions ultimately on our intuition or, as I like to say – our spidey sense. So why then, do women struggle in business? The very qualities that make us women […]

Filed Under: Become Your Own Boss Tips, Grow Your Business, Mompreneurs, My Recommendations, Women in Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: become your own boss, business planning, entrepreneur, melinda emerson, small business, small business info, smallbizlady

12 Books Every Small Business Owner Should Read

May 17, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 9 Comments

You all know that I believe You Must Grow Yourself to Grow Your Businessâ„¢.  Reading books is a great way to sharpen your own knife and learn new things than can help your business. I often find that books help me see my business from different perspectives. The following is a list of new and […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, My Recommendations, Your Small Business Tagged With: become your own boss, business planning, entrepreneur, melinda emerson, small business, small business success, smallbizlady

Winners of the $25,000 Entrepreneur’s Challenge

May 10, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 3 Comments

In celebration of her first book, Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months: A Month-by-Month Guide to a Business That Works (Adams Media, March 2010), Melinda Emerson is annoucning contest winners featuring a prize of weekly small-business coaching sessions. “The contest brought so many worthy applicants that I found it impossible to choose one winner,” […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business, Melinda Emerson @SmallBizLady, Mompreneurs, Pink Slip Entrepreneurs, Solopreneurs, Women in Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: become your own boss, entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, melinda emerson, small business, small business info, smallbizlady, success tips

5 Common Myths About Starting a Small Business

May 24, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 18 Comments

Starting a small business is not a 9 to 5 job. In the beginning your business owns you—you do not own it or your time.

Filed Under: Become Your Own Boss Tips, Cash Flow & Finance, How to Start, Mompreneurs, Pink Slip Entrepreneurs, Solopreneurs, Starting A Small Business, Women in Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: entrepreneurship, finance, national small business week, starting a business

7 Questions Hobbyists Should Consider When Starting a Small Business

June 14, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 2 Comments

This is the last of a two part series on how to turn a hobby into a small business. Sometimes people with great hobby do not have the right amount of business acumen to run a business. Everyone has good ideas — it is the business of running a business that gets some people in […]

Filed Under: Become Your Own Boss Tips, How to Start, My Recommendations, Starting A Small Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: become your own boss, business planning, entrepreneur, hobby to business, melinda emerson, planning, small business info, smallbizlady, start a business, success tips

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