LinkedIn is important! 75% of all professionals in the US have a LinkedIn profile, which means if you want to do business you must have one too. LinkedIn is powerful tool that you can use to promote yourself if you are an individual consultant or a company with 2 or more employees. Here are […]
Blogging, & Handling Corporate Inquires & Monetizing your Online Brand.
Check out this quick video from the Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Conference. Fellow blogger Jewel Figueras of http://www.JewelsFabLife.com was interviewed by LaShanda Henry creator of SistaSense blogs for entrepreneurs and the Black Business Women Online Social Network. http://www.sistasense.tv/smallbizlady-and-jewelsfablife-talk-blogging-and-working-with-brands-part1/ We discussed blogging, handling corporate inquires and monetizing your online brand. Enjoy! I’m always here as a resource. […]
The Minority Entrepreneur Accelerator Program Could Be Your Answer
Comcast Interactive Capital, the venture capital affiliate of Comcast Corporation, one of the world’s leading media, entertainment and communications companies, today announced that is has partnered with DreamIt Ventures (“DreamIt”), the leading technology accelerator for entrepreneurs, to provide seed funding, training, mentoring and other benefits to five minority-led startups through DreamIt’s accelerator program. The partnership […]
How to Be a Small Business Success Q&A interview with Jay Goltz
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 Jay Goltz @Jaysmallbiz Jay has started five “old school” businesses over the last 33 years, and wrote “The Street Smart Entrepreneur”. He […]
Pros and Cons of Running a Small Business with Your Spouse
What can be better than having your most trusted ally working with you while you are trying to navigate the challenging route to small business ownership? You can rely on him / her to face whatever challenge comes along the way. Your spouse also understands your strengths and weaknesses better than anyone else and can […]
Are You Focused on the What’s New Part of Your Business?
The ads have been run, the banners placed (either at your brick-and mortar store or online), the emails have been sent and the tweets have been written, it’s now time to launch your business. All the months of preparation, anxiety, and expectations have coalesced around this pivotal point – creating an enterprise to sell something. […]
Could Your Small Business Benefit from Cloud Computing?
‘Cloud computing’ is quickly becoming the new buzzword in business. At a basic level, you no longer need to fear the blue screen of death on your computer and losing all your data; you can rent space online to store and share your files from services such as dropbox.You also no longer need to keep […]
SmallBizLady: How Do I Set Pricing?
Dear SmallBizLady, I just purchased a daycare center. Should I offer the returning customers the existing price or my higher pricing? Tomika Robertson A Giants Preschool LLC One of the great things about buying a daycare or any existing business is that you already have cash flow. If you are taking over a daycare center, […]
What Business Expenses Can You Claim for Your Small Business?
Small businesses, start-ups in particular, often miss out on the substantial savings that can be made by claiming business expenses. Whether a business owner simply doesn’t know what to claim for or doesn’t want to risk handing in an incorrect return; many small businesses miss out until they seek professional accounting advice. But this needn’t […]
Do You Run Your Business as if it’s For Sale?
Even if you have absolutely no plans to sell in the near or far future, you should keep your business in sale-ready shape. For one thing, running a business so attractive and competitive that someone would want to buy it is more rewarding – personally and financially – than running a business that’s in constant […]
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