#SmallBizChat is a weekly conversation where small business owners can get answers to their questions. The focus of #SmallBizChat is to end small business failure by helping participants succeed as your own boss. 

Join me live every Wednesday, 8PM EST for #SmallBizChat on Twitter. 

Here’s how: follow @SmallBizChat on Twitter and click here for directions on how to join the conversation. 

Here is a list of who is on #SmallBizChat in August:

August 6: Never Be Closing @Tim_Hurson, Tim Hurson – Tim is founding partner of ThinkX, an international speaker and author of new book Never Be Closing. He creates innovative strategies for Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 organizations worldwide. For more information, visit thinkxic.com.

August 13: Profit First @MikeMichalowicz, Mike Michalowicz – By his 35^th birthday Mike Michalowicz had founded and sold two multi-million dollar companies.  Confident that he had the formula to success, he became an angel investor… and proceeded to lose his entire fortune.  Then he started all over again, with a new “profit first” formula.  Michalowicz now operates his third million dollar venture, is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal; the former MSNBC  business make-over expert; is a keynote speaker on entrepreneurship; and is the author of Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, which BusinessWeek deemed  “the entrepreneur’s cult classic.” For more info, visit mikemichalowicz.com

August 20: Debunking the Branding Myth, @bizbuild, Karen Carr-Crawford – Karen is an entrepreneurial driven professional with 18 years of documented success and experience in marketing management, marketing plan development, and marketing campaign execution and implementation, having successfully generated $22.5 million in revenues in B2B space by consulting with owners and senior staff on relevant business growth strategies utilizing marketing skills, branding concepts, and business process improvement tools. Additionally, Karen delivers goal setting, coaching, relationship building, and training to create quantifiable outcomes for 500+ businesses across industry sectors throughout tenure. For more info, visit thesmallbusinessbuilders.com

August 27: How to Survive in Modern Retail @shopseen, Adeel Ahmad – Adeel is the founder and CEO of Shopseen, a platform that simplifies running a small retail business. On Shopseen you can manage all products on all online stores, all social and email, and even shipping. Also a retail store owner, a vintage clothing shop in San Francisco, Adeel is familiar with the gamut of experiences a small business owner faces.  For more info, visit shopseen.com