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How to Drive Profitability, Productivity, and Accountability in your Small Business

May 24, 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 Neen James, who is the author of nine books including Folding Time and her most recent, Attention Pays.  In 2017 […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat, Your Small Business Tagged With: @neenjames, accountability, Productivity, profitability, SmallBizChat

Who’s on #Smallbizchat May 2018

May 1, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

#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.   Please join us live on Twitter every Wednesday 8-9 pm ET. Here’s how: follow @SmallBizChat on Twitter and follow the hashtag #Smallbizchat and click here for directions […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @AlfredEdmondJr, @BrianTChurch, @dawnbrolin, @neenjames, @NWoodsMedia, business in the news, Business reinvention, Garrett White, Productivity, small business profitability, small business taxes, SmallBizChat, smallbizlady, startup business, sustainable business

Top Strategies to Make 2018 Your Most Productive Year Yet

January 9, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Article The New Year brings fresh hopes, a clean slate, and a renewed commitment to increase our impact. It is also a time to look back on the past year and think about what habits, practices, attitudes, and relationships are serving us and which ones are holding us back. Ready to make 2018 the […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Grow Your Business, Guest Articles Tagged With: flow of business, mindset, Productivity, time is money

Four Old-School Ways To Boost Your Productivity

August 25, 2015 By Melinda Emerson 2 Comments

Ever wonder how you can boost your productivity? Chances are the answer is yes. Boosting your productivity would make it possible for you to achieve your goals in record-breaking time. The entire idea of record-breaking goal achievement is perfectly encapsulated in The 12 Week Year which introduced the idea of getting goals done in 12 […]

Filed Under: Guest Articles, Your Small Business Tagged With: Productivity

4 Ways Business Owners Can Use Time Tracking Software

June 16, 2015 By Melinda Emerson 2 Comments

Guest Article Keeping track of time is an important element of success for a company of any size. Without proper time tracking it is impossible to know how employees use their work time and allocate areas of workflow that need improvement. In order to benefit from time tracking, you have to find the tool that […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, Guest Articles Tagged With: @Yaware_com, Anastasiya Savelyeva, Productivity, time tracking

SmallBizLady’s Summer Reading List 2015: 11 Must-Read Books to Grow Your Business

June 1, 2015 By Melinda Emerson 1 Comment

It’s just about summertime, and vacation is fast approaching with the kids just about out of school. There’s no time I enjoy reading a good book — business or otherwise, than in the summer. I love that I can bone up on how to run my business under the shade of a tree in my […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration Tagged With: finance, marketing, Productivity, starting a business, summer reading list

How to Increase Productivity and Get More Out of Your Day

October 21, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 2 Comments

I’m Melinda Emerson and 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 Allyson Lewis @allyson7minutes.  Allyson is a professional speaker and productivity coach and the author of The Seven […]

Filed Under: SmallBizChat Tagged With: Allyson Lewis, melinda emerson, Productivity, small business, small business productivity, smallbizlady, Time management, tweetchat

Email Productivity Tips: How to Manage Your Inbox

February 3, 2011 By Melinda Emerson 6 Comments

Each week as Smallbizlady, I conduct interviews with small business experts on my weekly Twitter talk show #SmallBizChat. This is excerpted from my #SmallBizChat interview with Marsha Egan (CPCU, PCC)  @marshaegan.  Marsha is CEO of The Egan Group, Inc., a Reading, Pennsylvania based workplace productivity coaching firm. She is author of Inbox Detox and the Habit of E-mail Excellence. She […]

Filed Under: Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: email, how to, marsha egan, Productivity, SmallBizChat, Time management

How to Get More Stuff Done Every Day In Your Small Business

September 27, 2012 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 8-9pm ET. This is excerpted from my recent interview with Chris Daniel, @consultnjeans.  Chris is the Consultant in Jeans, a consultant, coach and author based in the DC area. His new book, […]

Filed Under: Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat, Your Small Business Tagged With: @consultnjeans, business planning, Chris Daniel, Productivity, Time management

How to Manage Your Time Better in Your Small Business

July 7, 2011 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 8-9pm ET. This is excerpted from my recent interview with Christine Giri @thetimetamer. She founded Time Tamer Consulting with the belief that time spent effectively is not about Daytimers and Blackberries, but […]

Filed Under: SmallBizChat Tagged With: Productivity, SmallBizChat, Time management

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