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10 Keys to Achieving Small Business Success

August 3, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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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 […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: achieving small business success, grow your business, set deadlines, small business environment, successful business owners

How to Grow Your Expert Empire

October 17, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Oginga Carr @ogingacarr is an author, national seminar leader, organizational structure expert, and consultant. He brings 18 years of experience in Sales, Management, and Human Resources. His passion is in the dynamic of change; dealing with it, working through it, and preparing for it. Oginga focuses on productivity through structure and human capital development.  For […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, SmallBizChat Tagged With: business expertise, coaching program, expert, expert model, grow your business, online course, Successful Business

SmallBizLady’s Holiday Gift Guide 2018

November 19, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Once a year, I provide a list of my favorite products and apps for anyone looking for gifts for small business owners. If you are in business and ready to make an investment in your business or yourself, I have a great selection of products that will help increase your productivity and grow your business.  […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, SmallBizLady Recommends, Your Small Business Tagged With: grow your business, holiday gifts, Productivity

How to Take Your Startup from Idea to Empire

March 1, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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 recent interview with Colleen DeBaise.  She is known as the is a contributing editor at Inc. and author of Start a Successful Business. […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Grow Your Business, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @colleendebaise, grow your business, small business startup, SmallBizChat

Are You Ready to Grow Your Small Business?

March 20, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Lately, your business has felt like those too-tight skinny jeans at the back of your closet. You feel like you’re going to bust at the seams, or that you might not be able to breathe if you start walking around. That what your business feels like too when it isn’t quite big enough to accommodate […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business Tagged With: funding a small business, grow your business, small business processes

How To Move Your Small Business From Idea To Implementation

January 5, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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 recent interview with Andrena Sawyer. Andrena is an entrepreneur, author and consultant committed to helping women entrepreneurs succeed. She is the president of […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @andrena_sawyer, grow your business, Implementation

10 Ways to Grow Your Small Business With Instagram

August 18, 2014 By Melinda Emerson 2 Comments

10 Ways to Grow Your Small Business With Instagram

If you’ve been successful at setting up an Instagram account for your small business and using it to find new followers – and customers — you might be looking for additional strategies to ramp up your efforts on this visual social media platform. And since engagement on Instagram is 15 times higher than it is on Facebook, it’s […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: grow your business, instagram, small business marketing

How to Grow Your Small Business

March 26, 2012 By Melinda Emerson 6 Comments

For those small business owners who survived the startup phase and are now ready to grow your business, there are numerous possibilities. Keep in mind, growing your business will depend on what business you are in and how much money, time and sweat equity you’re willing to invest all over again. Here are four ways to […]

Filed Under: Melinda Emerson @SmallBizLady Tagged With: another location, expand globally, expand on the internet, franchise, grow your business, melinda emerson, small business, smallbizlady

SmallBizLady Q&A How to Build a Powerful Online Brand

January 30, 2012 By Melinda Emerson 6 Comments

  How to become a powerful social media brand is a major factor in small business success these days. Beyond having a website, you need to make sure that you are out there demonstrating your expertise at every opportunity. There are those who believe that if they can’t find you or your business online, you […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing Tagged With: branding, grow your business, marketing, melinda emerson, online brand, small business, smallbizlady, social media

How to Grow a Small Business

September 16, 2013 By Melinda Emerson 2 Comments

This summer, I have been really getting back into working out; in fact I’ve been trying to turn myself into a runner. My entire life I’ve had a limiting belief that I could not run. I actually have convinced myself that I am a situational asthmatic at the mere attempt to run. Let’s just say, […]

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