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Starting a Small Business in This Economy

March 18, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 5 Comments

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 @Colleendebaise She is the author of The Wall Street Journal Complete Small Business Guidebook is small business editor at The Wall Street […]

Filed Under: SmallBizChat, Social Media, Starting A Small Business Tagged With: Colleen debaise, entrepreneurs, melinda emerson, small business, small business editor, Small Business Guidebook, smallbizlady, starting a business, The Wall Street Journal Complete Small Business Guidebook, Wall Street journal

Can You Afford to Become An Entrepreneur?

March 29, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 9 Comments

Everyone has good ideas.  Some of them may even be million dollar ideas, but if you live from paycheck to paycheck or way beyond your means, you may never be able to quit your job and start a business. As the Smallbizlady, often I get emails, facebook messages and DM’s on Twitter from people asking me […]

Filed Under: Become Your Own Boss Tips, Cash Flow & Finance, How to Start, Mompreneurs, My Recommendations, Pink Slip Entrepreneurs, Solopreneurs, Starting A Small Business, Women in Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: become your own boss, budgets, business planning, entrepreneur, melinda emerson, planning, small business, small business info, smallbizlady, start a business

It’s All About The Sales Call Prep

April 12, 2010 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

In business, we all sell something. Some sell products, some sell services. However, we all need to be about selling solutions. When you go on a sales call, it’s never about what you do. Sometimes as small business owners, we are so passionate about our businesses that we forget to focus on the customer’s pain […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: become your own boss, melinda emerson, perspective customer, sales meeting, sell products, sell services, slaes call prep, small business, smallbizlady

8 Ways To Use Twitter To Grow Your Small Business

April 26, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 12 Comments

This past week was a big week. First a major review of my new book  came out on the website one of my favorite business magazines Black Enterprise with the title: “Now Read This: Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months, If entrepreneurship is your objective, Melinda Emerson offers a step-by-step road map” which was written […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business, How to Start, Social Media, Starting A Small Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: Alfred Edmond Jr., Black Enterprise, Give to get, melinda emerson, niche customer, small business, SmallBizChat, smallbizlady, twitter, twitterchats

A Woman’s Guide to Being Your Own Boss

May 3, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 4 Comments

Women have so many amazing qualities. We are caretakers. We build communities.  Our generosity is abundant. We are sensitive and, at times, emotional.  We make decisions ultimately on our intuition or, as I like to say – our spidey sense. So why then, do women struggle in business? The very qualities that make us women […]

Filed Under: Become Your Own Boss Tips, Grow Your Business, Mompreneurs, My Recommendations, Women in Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: become your own boss, business planning, entrepreneur, melinda emerson, small business, small business info, smallbizlady

12 Books Every Small Business Owner Should Read

May 17, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 9 Comments

You all know that I believe You Must Grow Yourself to Grow Your Businessâ„¢.  Reading books is a great way to sharpen your own knife and learn new things than can help your business. I often find that books help me see my business from different perspectives. The following is a list of new and […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, My Recommendations, Your Small Business Tagged With: become your own boss, business planning, entrepreneur, melinda emerson, small business, small business success, smallbizlady

Winners of the $25,000 Entrepreneur’s Challenge

May 10, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 3 Comments

In celebration of her first book, Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months: A Month-by-Month Guide to a Business That Works (Adams Media, March 2010), Melinda Emerson is annoucning contest winners featuring a prize of weekly small-business coaching sessions. “The contest brought so many worthy applicants that I found it impossible to choose one winner,” […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business, Melinda Emerson @SmallBizLady, Mompreneurs, Pink Slip Entrepreneurs, Solopreneurs, Women in Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: become your own boss, entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, melinda emerson, small business, small business info, smallbizlady, success tips

How to Dream BIG in Your Small Business

June 10, 2010 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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 Paul Wilson Jr @pwilsonjr.  Paul is the founder and Chief Inspiration Officer of Biznovations, LLC. The company inspires […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, SmallBizChat Tagged With: become your own boss, business planning, business vision, dream big, entrepreneur, Paul Wilson Jr, small business, start a business

Getting Started on LinkedIn

June 21, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 4 Comments

Developing a LinkedIn profile is a great step towards building your social media footprint. LinkedIn is a professional social networking application.  LinkedIn users tend to be more affluent and very well educated.  57% of users are men and 43% are women with 72% of users over the age 35.  According to a May 2009 survey, […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, How to Start, Social Media Tagged With: linkedin, melinda emerson, small business, small business info, social media, success tips

How To Do Business With The Federal Government

July 5, 2010 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

As Smallbizlady, I recently interviewed Gloria Larkin, President of http://www.targetgov.com/ on SmallBizradio, my monthly Blogtalkradio Show, on How to Do Business with the Federal Government. Her company Targetgov, a national company, provides government procurement, business development, and marketing services. She’s a federal procurement expert who authored “The Veterans Business Guide: How to Build a Successful Government […]

Filed Under: SmallBizRadio, Your Small Business Tagged With: doing business with the government, entrepreneur, government contracts, government procurement, melinda emerson, small business, small business info, smallbizlady

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