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Mastering the Art of Being An Amazing Podcast Guest: A Comprehensive Guide

February 26, 2024 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Podcasts have emerged as a powerful platform for becoming a brand in demand. By sharing knowledge, insights, and stories with a global audience, you can position yourself as a national brand. As a guest on a podcast, you have the opportunity to showcase your expertise, connect with new audiences, and amplify your personal brand. However, […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business, Uncategorized Tagged With: guest appearances, podcast appearances, podcast branding, podcast content repurposing, podcast directories, podcast engagement, podcast guests, podcast metrics tracking, podcast outreach, podcast pitching, podcast platforms, podcast promotions, podcast research, podcasting, podcasts, social media networking, virtual assistant

The SmallBizChat Podcast: Traditional and Self-Publishing 101 with Stephanie Chandler

June 16, 2022 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

The SmallBizChat Podcast: Traditional and Self-Publishing 101 with Stephanie Chandler

Stephanie Chandler is a small business influencer and the CEO of Authority Publishing, a specialist in custom book publishing for business, self-help, memoir, and other non-fiction books. Stephanie is also the Founder and CEO of the Nonfiction Authors Association—a vibrant community for writers—and the Nonfiction Writers Conference. A professionally-trained speaker, Stephanie has been featured in […]

Filed Under: The SmallBizChat Podcast Tagged With: custom book publishing, marketing a book, podcasting, self-publishing, traditional book publishing

How to Create Content that Fuels Your Business Growth

November 29, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

This week on #Smallbizchat LIVE our show featured three guests: How to get growth that lands you on the Inc. 5000 list with Rod Brown, @RoderickLBrown, The Business of Storytelling with Sue Young, @sueyoungmedia, and Profiting From Podcasts: How to leverage the power of podcasts to build your business with Steve Olsher, @steveolsher. I pulled three […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Grow Your Business, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat, SmallBizChat Live+, Social Media, Technology, Your Small Business Tagged With: @RoderickLBrown, @steveolsher, @sueyoungmedia, business growth, podcasting, SmallBizChat, storytelling

How to Leverage Podcast Interviews to Grow Your Small Business!

July 12, 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 Millette Jones.  She is a coach, speaker, and host of the Unstoppable Coach podcast.  She guides entrepreneurs to be recognized […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Grow Your Business, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @millettejones, podcasting, SmallBizChat

How to Get Started with a Podcast

June 18, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

If you are going to start doing a podcast to create content to promote your business, there are a few things that you need to know. Doing a podcast is hard work, so in order to leverage it to drive brand awareness and sales in your business you need a refined topic, a regular schedule, […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, How to Start, Technology Tagged With: getting started with podcast, podcast, podcasting

How To Use Podcasts To Grow Your Small Business

January 26, 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 Barb Giamanco heads up Social Centered Selling. She’s the co-author of The New Handshake: Sales Meets Social Media and authored […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @barbaragiamanco, podcasting, podcasting for small business

Podcasting for Your Small Business

July 23, 2009 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

From time to time as SmallBizLady, I conduct interviews with small business experts that could benefit my audience. This is excerpts from my #smallbizchat interview on Twitter with @podcaststeve. Steven L. Lubetkin, operates Professional Podcasts LLC, an award-winning producer of radio, TV and other multimedia content distributed over the Internet as podcasts. Steve is a Senior Fellow of the Society […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat, Social Media Tagged With: how to create a podcast, podcast, podcasting, podcasting for small business, Skype, word press

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