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Small Business Trends Radio is a half hour-long program featuring interviews and open discussions with today's small business experts on a variety of topics. Guests include a mix of influential individuals who speak on issues of the day important to the small business market; and business owners who speak from a "been there, done that" point of view, offering insider tips and advice. Small Business Trends Radio is broadcast LIVE every Tuesday at 1:30 PM EST.
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Six Simple Steps to Keeping the Peace - May 08,2012 | One of the most challenging roles of an effective entrepreneur or small business owner is that of “peacekeeper.” The ability to effectively navigate conflict will ultimately propel you to grow both professionally and personally. Business consultant, licensed mediator and Amazon bestselling author Susan Steinbrecher Anita Campbell in this episode to reveal the “Three Golden Rules” of engagement and the “Six Steps to Conflict Resolution.” Learn the secret to “heart-centered” communication that will, more often than not, make the difference between positive and negative outcomes. | 5/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How To Manage International Payments - Apr 10,2012 | Western Union Business Solutions Senior Corporate Trader, Sherif Gabriel, joins Anita Campbell in this episode to discuss how small businesses can manage international payments. With the rise of globalization, the world is increasingly trading across borders. Small and medium sized companies have the opportunity to do business in new and emerging markets, but they need international payment solutions and customized advice on foreign exchange. Despite advances in technology, cross border payments continue to present challenges for businesses. The major causes of these challenges are hidden fees, a lack of transparency, and inefficient processes. Be sure to tune in for this special episode! | 4/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10 Ways to Qualify Marketing Help - Mar 13,2012 | John Follis, Owner of Follis Inc. was a founding partner of one of Madison Aves most awarded agencies, Follis/DeVito/Verdi. A featured blogger for ADWEEK/AOLs "Fuel the Future" hes also one of the few marketing execs profiled on Wikipedia. Currently, Johns Marketing Therapy program helps small businesses around the US achieve their marketing goals faster, smarter, and more cost-effectively. In this episode, John Follis joins Anita Campbell to share 10 tips that you can apply to your small business to help you qualify marketing help. | 3/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Finance Your Biz Without the Crutch of Real Estate Inflation - Feb 14,2012 | Millions of entrepreneurs have relied on years of real estate inflation to ensure financing in their business. Home equity and commercial property value increases created overnight piggy banks to withdraw capital from to use in operating businesses. Those days are long gone with millions of foreclosed homes and hundreds of closed, crippled banks. Charles H. Green, recovering banker, Executive Director of the Small Business Finance Institute and author of The SBA Loan Book, 3rd Edition and Get Financing Now joins Anita Campbell to explore how a small business can finance growth without collateral and where to turn when the bank is weaker than the borrower. Charles Green began working in his parent’s small business at age 8 and attended many “board meetings” around the dinner table. He founded and served as President/CEO of Sunrise Bank of Atlanta and today, is a recognized small business authority with over 30 years of advising, financing and investing in entrepreneurs. | 2/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Get Your Media Groove On - Jan 31,2012 | “When the going gets tough, the tough use the media.” In these changing times, the need to be seen and heard above the roar of the crowd is far more challenging than ever before. Successful entrepreneurs make sales when they use media to tell the world about who they are…what they’re selling and what’s next? As a small business you want sales too. What you need are the same cost-effective, targeted media tactics and interview techniques that successful businesses use to win in this competitive marketplace. Some of the most valuable business and marketing skills today are navigating the media; getting past the gatekeepers, creating soundbites that go viral and creating pitches that "get the word out" about who you are, what you do…and whats next? Anytime, any place, anywhere. Gayl Murphy, Founder of Interview Tactics joins Anita Campbell for an in-depth discussion on: 1.) How to “tell it to sell it” on TV, radio, print, and online, and what each media wants from you 2.) The 4 QUESTIONS you will always be asked every time you meet the media, or any gatekeeper 3.) SOUNDBITES and PITCHES - why theyre crucial, especially when the clock is ticking 4.) Translating your story into the LANGUAGE OF THE MEDIA 5.) WHAT THE MEDIA WANTS from you…so you can give it to them 6.) BRANDING YOURSELF each and every time you walk out the door, or go online. | 1/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How To Properly Plan For Your Website - Jan 24,2012 | Most people dont understand the spell they invoke when they recite the magic works "I need a website" in the presence of a developer. Sometimes the results are good, sometimes bad, sometimes the results are no where near what they wanted. In this half-hour, Cal Evans, Author of "Avoiding A Goat Rodeo" will be joining Anita Campbell and Brent Leary to look at 8 points that people need to consider before contacting their developer. He will dispel the magic of software development and show small business folks how to be involved in the process, keep control of the process, and get the website they want. | 1/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Create a Marketing Ideas File - Jan 17,2012 | In this special episode, David Langton, Founder of Langton Cherubino Group, joins Anita Campbell for an open discussion regarding techniques for coming up with creative ideas for marketing and the concept of an "Ideas File." They will discuss types of ideas, tips for creating an Ideas File, where to find ideas and tools to create your very own Ideas File. Be sure to tune in! | 1/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tips on How to Protect Your Business When Accepting Payments - Jan 10,2012 | Brian Goudie, senior vice president for First Data, oversees the company’s Small Business Center and focuses on the broad spectrum of payments issues small businesses of all types face, from payment acceptance and processing decisions to emerging data security threats and mobile commerce opportunities. Brian joins Anita to share First Data’s latest "best practices" for ensuring maximum business and customer security when accepting payments. | 1/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Small Business Legislative Outlook for 2012 - Dec 27,2011 | Its an election year, will anything get done on Capitol Hill to help small businesses? SBE Council President & CEO Karen Kerrigan joins Anita Campbell to take a look at key bills before Congress that may have a chance of getting to President Obamas desk for signature. Will they help, or hurt, entrepreneurs? | 12/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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StartUp Cup: A Grass Roots, Community Driven Business Model - Dec 20,2011 | Sean Griffin, CEO of BizXe has spent the last five years creating a business model competition which can be replicated in any community. The approach flies in the face of current startup gospel - kind of. The fundamentals of this program were developed in Silicon Valley during the dot-com era but while all the world is focused on tech, StartUp Cup focuses on the other 98% of business startups. And while bootcamps and weekend challenges are all the rage StartUp Cup understands that businesses need more support - over the long haul. So, is StartUp Cup the answer to our current economic woes? Sean thinks it just might be. | 12/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A 360 Degree View of Successful Entrepreneurs - Dec 13,2011 | Trep Life is an online series of video interviews featuring successful entrepreneurs that provides a unique, behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. Founders, Scotty Cadenhead & Malachi Leopold join Anita Campbell and Brent Leary to discuss how they have taken a “social action” vision with their series seeking to impact one billion people worldwide to be inspired by entrepreneurship and take on risks. | 12/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Art of Business Gift Giving: How It Can Make A Difference - Dec 06,2011 | Join us for this special episode featuring Susan Payton of Egg Marketing and Communications and Ivana Taylor of DIYMarketers as they join Anita Campbell to discuss the art of business gift giving and, particularly, how it can make a difference for your small business. | 12/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Starting or Expanding a Business: Year End Planning Matters - Nov 29,2011 | The final days of 2011 are approaching and with the end of the year comes thoughts of holiday gatherings and shopping trips. For a small business owner, however, it also should come with a list of ‘To-Do’s’ before 2012 hits. Nellie Akalp, the CEO of CorpNet an online legal document filing service, shares some top items that should be on that list and steps you can take to cross them off the list and focus on other holiday festivities. | 11/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shipping Tips For A Painless Holiday Season - Nov 22,2011 | Enjoy a rerun of the timely episode and learn from the masters of shipping, United Parcel Service (UPS) as Tom Langa, UPS Small Business/Occasional Customer Marketing Manager, joins Anita Campbell to offer shipping tips so your Holiday season will be the most painless and successful yet for your small business. | 11/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why Most Businesses Can't Be Sold and 5 Fixes FAST - Nov 15,2011 | After working with hundreds of business owners over the last 10 years, certified business broker Julie Gordon White discovered a pattern of problems when owners contacted her to sell. As founder of BlueKey Business Brokerage M&A and author of "EXIT! 12 Steps to Sell Your Business for the Price You Deserve", Julie knows that these roadblock to selling could have easily been removed had the owner knew they existed and planned in advance for the sale. In this informative discussion, listeners will discover both the problems and the 5 simple, but powerful fixes to ensure their ability to sell their business for the highest market price. | 11/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Power of Content For Marketing - Nov 08,2011 | Join us for a rerun of this popular episode featuring Susan Payton, President of Egg Marketing & Communications. Susan focuses on helping small businesses become experts through their content. In this episode, Susan is joining Anita Campbell to shares tips and tactics for using blogs and article content to sniff out new customers and steadily build increased traffic. | 11/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Procrastination and Disorganization; Two Mistakes That Can C - Nov 01,2011 | Tracking, logging, categorizing, and organizing business expenses throughout the year can be a real hassle. Human nature says, "if its a hassle, put it off." This leads to forgetfulness, which then leads to a mad scramble at the end of the year to get that disorganized shoe box of receipts to the tax professional who then must do his or her best to help you realize the tax deductions your business provides. In the end, it leads to lost deductions and lost dollars due to over-payment of taxes. William Olsen, Founder of Deductr, CPA and tax professional in this industry for more than 16 years, joins Anita Campbell for an in-depth discussion about procrastination and disorganization - two mistakes that can cost you big time at tax time. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shipping Tips For A Painless Holiday Season - Oct 25,2011 | Learn from the masters of shipping, United Parcel Service (UPS), as Tom Langa, UPS Small Business/Occasional CustomerMarketing Manager, joins Anita Campbell to offer shipping tips so your Holiday season will be the most painless and successful yet for your small business. | 10/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google Have Redefined Business - Oct 18,2011 | Phil Simon, Author of "The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business," joins Anita Campbell and Brent Leary for an in-depth discussion of how platforms like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google have redefined how we do business. | 10/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Value of an Online Presence for Businesses - Oct 11,2011 | Karla Hakansson, Director of Global Channel Marketing at Verisign, joins Anita Campbell for an in-depth discussion on on the importance of having an online presence for businesses. Karla will explain the importance of establishing a branded domain and social media profiles for your small business, she will walk you through the steps to establish and register a domain and share interesting stories of different way small businesses are using their web domains to grow their business. Be sure to join us for this special episode! | 10/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Readying Your Small Business for a Better Economy - Oct 04,2011 | Join us for a rerun of this popular episode featuring Kate Reid, CEO of Call of the Wild, the longest running adventure travel company in the world for women since 1978. Kate bought the company from its founder in September of 2008 - as Lehman Brothers was collapsing. She talks about her journey as the new owner and CEO of the prestigious adventure travel company, and what tools shes found effective to help her manage her business and weather the Great Recession. | 10/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Don't Give Employees a Gift Card: Give Them an Experience - Sep 27,2011 | Ety Rybak is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Inside Sports & Entertainment Group, the premier provider of once-in-a lifetime event experiences for a cross section of small business, corporate and individual customers. From tickets to a Broadway show and a backstage meet and greet to 50 yard line seats at the Superbowl, Inside always provides the best seats in the house. Ety, one of the America’s top experts on VIP access to major sports and entertainment events will talk about the consumer spending trend towards experiences (versus “things” or merchandise) and how you can motivate clients, employees and prospects with carefully selected exciting experience-based holiday gifts. | 9/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Legal Tips Entrepreneurs Need to Know to Start a Business - Sep 20,2011 | Join us for a rerun of this popular episode featuring Nellie Akalp, CEO of CorpNet, as she discusses, in detail, the top 5 legal tips that entrepreneurs need to know before they start a business. Some of the topics Nellie will discuss are various forms of legal entities, what business structure goes best with which business and why forming an LLC or an Inc. is necessary. | 9/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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$5,000 to Launch Your Business: Where to Begin? - Sep 13,2011 | Join us for a rerun of this popular episode featuring Bobbye Brooks & Tonilee Adamson, co-founders of Media 4 Women Enterprises (http://media4women.com). Bobbye and Tonilee are entrepreneurs with a desire to help people learn how to start and grow a successful business. Media 4 Women has grown from a small startup company to a nationwide business, servicing every type of industry from the new entrepreneur to the large corporation in the areas of marketing, media, social media strategies, new product development and business plans. Their story inspires and motivates others to step out and get going with any idea or dream. | 9/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Emergence of the Mobile Office - Sep 06,2011 | Today’s smartphones and tablets have influenced a new generation of mobile workers, new ways of doing business and the emergence of a new type of office – the mobile office. The mobile office is about cutting the ties to physical office space and making all the tools and technologies available to employees wherever they may be. Anita Campbell joins guest, Alan Panezic, VP of Research In Motion (RIM), makers of BlackBerry, to discuss the evolution of the mobile office and how your business’ bottom line can benefit by becoming more mobile. | 9/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Unclutter Your Closets: Increasing Profit by Reducing Comple - Aug 30,2011 | John L. Mariotti, President & CEO of The Enterprise Group and Author of the award winning novel, "The Complexity Crisis & The Chinese Conspiracy," knows that most people who have closets find them bulging with unworn clothing, shoes, etc. Companies have exactly the same problem with products, services, customers and suppliers. In the quest for growth in no-growth markets, they confuse proliferation for innovation. They expand adding more products, services and locations hoping to grow revenue. Complexity is created with the best of intentions, but too few people understand how to measure and manage it. There are proven solutions and John is joining Anita Campbell to share them with you. Be sure to tune in! | 8/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Power of Content For Marketing - Aug 23,2011 | Susan Payton, President of Egg Marketing & Communications, focuses on helping small businesses become experts through their content. In this episode, Susan is joining Anita Campbell to shares tips and tactics for using blogs and article content to sniff out new customers and steadily build increased traffic. | 8/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Demystifying Attorney Fees For Small Businesses - Aug 16,2011 | Hiring a lawyer is challenging for small business owners because most know very little about the law and even less about the costs involved. Tim Greene, Co-Founder of FizzLaw, a small business lawyer guide, and Darren Green, Chicago entrepreneurial attorney and Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University School of Law, join Anita Campbell to demystify attorney fees for small businesses. Topics discussed will include what specific legal matters cost, what drives those costs, and what small business owners can do to reduce their legal costs. Be sure not to miss this special episode! | 8/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nine Steps to Failsafe Selling - Aug 09,2011 | Human behavioral specialist, Educator, Author and Founder of The Demartini Institute, Dr. John Demartini, joins Anita Campbell to share his failsafe nine step process that gets sales every time. "Nothing gets done in this world without selling," says Demartini. "Follow this method step-by-step and you will get a yes, but if you miss a step, youll get a no." Join us for this special episode! | 8/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Business Tools for the Human Cloud - Aug 02,2011 | Ray Grainger, CEO of Mavenlink, joins Anita Campbell to speak about the emerging ‘Human Cloud’ segment of the workforce - those that work virtually and operate their businesses in the cloud. Ray delves into how this new way of working requires new types of tools and how you can create and/or identify the systems and processes to help them maintain a competitive advantage. As a former Global Managing Partner at Accenture, he has deep expertise from the client side as well as the business management side - and hes going to share it with you! | 8/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Increase Your Chances of Getting Small Business Loan - Jul 26,2011 | Small Business Finance has been a hot topic this year. While several large banks have boasted about devoting more staff and financial resources to their small business lending programs, in fact, their loans to entrepreneurs have decreased. With capital being harder to secure than before, entrepreneurs need to be diligent about maintaining strong credit scores and in properly filling out their loan applications. Rohit Arora, CEO of Biz2Credit and voted one of Crain’s NY Business “Top Entrepreneur of 2011,” joins Anita Campbell to give tips on improving credit scores, cash flow and securing small business loans. | 7/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Demystifying Attorney Fees For Small Businesses - Jul 19,2011 | Join us for a re-run of this popular episode. Hiring a lawyer is challenging for small business owners because most know very little about the law and even less about the costs involved. Tim Greene, Co-Founder of FizzLaw, a small business lawyer guide, and Darren Green, Chicago entrepreneurial attorney and Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University School of Law, join Anita Campbell to demystify attorney fees for small businesses. Topics discussed will include what specific legal matters cost, what drives those costs, and what small business owners can do to reduce their legal costs. | 7/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SBA Success: A Personal Story of Recovery - Jul 12,2011 | Kevin Hartford and Ed Newell started their business, Alle-Kiski Industries, in 2005 with loans guaranteed by the SBA. A year later, a second SBA loan was granted to buy the building that houses their manufacturing shop. But in 2008, Kevin and Ed saw the economic downturn coming when business at their company took a turn for the worse. Layoffs soon followed along with pay cuts and many sleepless nights. But alas, this story has a happy ending and Ed and Kevin are proud to announce that the first quarter of 2011 was their best ever and the two even received a personal visit from Karen Mills, Administrator of the SBA. Join us for this special episode as Ed shares their personal story of recovery. | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Entrepreneurship: A Viable Solution to Career Transition - Jul 05,2011 | Deborah Shane, Author of Career Transition - Make The Shift, and Founder of Train with Shane, launched her business in 2007, as a solution to a thoughtful, voluntary career transition from a 20 year career in broadcast radio. Deborah shares her story, tips and lessons she has learned about entrepreneurship in a challenging business environment and how exciting and fulfilling it can be. Join us for a rerun of this special episode. | 7/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Drive Growth in Downward Economy - Jun 28,2011 | Dennis Jarrett, Co-founder of Stratus Building Solutions, has driven the growth of the business to make them the #1 Fastest Growing Franchise in the country in less than 10 years. Key factors for this growth include value, quality, reliability and their commitment to environmental stewardship, which continue to drive the company today. Here, get an inside look at how to grow a quality business with staying power. | 6/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Top 5 Questions to Create an Unfair Market Advantage - Jun 21,2011 | Is marketing dead? No, but its definitely changing! Modern marketing is less about convincing and more about educating, and self-employed professionals ae best suited to capitalize on the trend. Listen in as Patrick Schwerdtfeger, Founder of Tactical Execution and Author of "Marketing Shortcuts for the Self-Employed," joins Anita Campbell and Brent Leary to discuss the top 5 questions that create an unfair marketing advantage. | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Business Partnering: Learning the Hard Way - Jun 14,2011 | Susan T. Spencer, Ceo of Briefcase Essentials and S.F. Holding Corporation, was originally the founder of a tennis manufacturing business and a food distribution business. Susan learned the hard way that "you never know the skills and personality of others until you partner with them.Thats when all the warts come out--in business and in love--and then its too late." Susan lost her first business because she fired her partner and had to dissolve the company. Susan learned a thing or two and never made that same mistake again. Join us for this special episode as Susan shares some valuable lessons learned from the trenches. | 6/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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$5,000 to Launch Your Business: Where to Begin? - Jun 07,2011 | Bobbye Brooks & Tonilee Adamson, co-founders of Media 4 Women Enterprises, are entrepreneurs with a desire to help people learn how to start and grow a successful business. Media 4 Women has grown from a small startup company to a nationwide business, servicing every type of industry from the new entrepreneur to the large corporation in the areas of marketing, media, social media strategies, new product development and business plans. Their story inspires and motivates others to step out and get going with any idea or dream. | 6/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Protect Your Startup from Cybercriminals - May 31,2011 | Like all predators, cybercriminals gravitate towards the weakest targets. With an arsenal of easily-distributed malware at their fingertips, hackers can infect your office with malware that will wipe out your machines, steal the financial data of your customers, or worse, hijack bank transactions. For your startup or small business, an incident like this could cause financial ruin. Gary Mullen, Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Kaspersky Lab, will share his five tips to protect your business from cybercrime hackers, malware infestations, accidental loss of data and malicious or inadvertent catastrophes. | 5/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Boosting Clients Revenue Through Mobile and Social Commerce - May 24,2011 | Kristin Intress, CEO of InnLink, is leading the hospitality industry beyond e-commerce and into social and mobile commerce. The hotel market is among the fastest growing segments of online travel and hotels must evolve their strategies in order to build a solid relationship with customers to increase revenue. Listen as Kristin explains how adapting technology to travelers’ needs is impacting the hospitality industry and what principles you can apply for customers in your industry. | 5/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Entrepreneurship: A Viable Solution to Career Transition - May 17,2011 | Deborah Shane,Author of Career Transition - Make The Shift, and Founder of Train with Shane, launched her business in 2007, as a solution to a thoughtful, voluntary career transition from a 20 year career in broadcast radio. Deborah shares her story, tips and lessons she has learned about entrepreneurship in a challenging business environment and how exciting and fulfilling it can be. | 5/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Group Buying: Tips on Growing Sales - May 10,2011 | The Wall Street Journal calls Office Arrow, Robert Balls company, the "Groupon" for business. The group buying phenomenon is here to stay--listen to Robert Ball on why the economics make sense and how your small business can be a part of it. From selling through group buying situations to actually using group buying when it makes sense for your company, learn from an industry leader in this fact-filled episode. | 5/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Compete Without Focusing on Price - May 03,2011 | Join us for a rerun of this popular episode featuring Sarah Petty, Founder of The Joy of Marketing. Sarah opened a boutique photography studio two weeks before 9-11 and within 5 years, was named as one of the most successful in the country by The Professional Photographer of America. Now, Petty teaches small business owners around the world how to compete without focusing on price. | 5/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build an Engaged Facebook Fan Page Base Using Multiple Chann - Apr 26,2011 | Join us for a rerun of this popular episode featuring Victoria Ransom, Founder and CEO of Wildfire Interactive, a platform that enables small businesses to easily and cost-effectively manage their social media marketing needs. Victoria started Wildfire to serve her own need - she needed an affordable way to building an engaged fan base on the Facebook page of her own small business. Seeing no other solutions on the market to easily create compelling social media campaigns, Victoria and her partner created their own. Now, 30,000 campaigns later, Wildfire has a passionate customer base, and Victoria has some great tips to share for building an engaged Fan Base of your own. | 4/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tips to Keep Your Business Afloat During a Personal Crisis - Apr 19,2011 | Tony Cole, President and CEO of the Anthony Cole Training Group, is co-author of "Resurrecting Anthony: A True Story of Courage & Destination". The book discusses the aftermath of their son Anthony’s cardiac arrest at the age 12. Anthony suffered brain damage as a result of a lack of oxygen. Tony joins Anita Campbell to share what it took to keep his family and business together. He offers coping skills, ways to focus on work and hope for anyone going through a personal struggle while trying to keep on top of their game in the business world. | 4/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Demystifying Attorney Fees For Small Businesses - Apr 12,2011 | Hiring a lawyer is challenging for small business owners because most know very little about the law and even less about the costs involved. Tim Greene, Co-Founder of FizzLaw, a small business lawyer guide, and Darren Green, Chicago entrepreneurial attorney and Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University School of Law, join Anita Campbell to demystify attorney fees for small businesses. Topics discussed will include what specific legal matters cost, what drives those costs, and what small business owners can do to reduce their legal costs. Be sure not to miss this special episode! | 4/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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One Womans Journey: Turning Challenges Into Celebrations - Apr 05,2011 | Enjoy a rerun of a popular episode featuring Deb Scott, Author of "The Sky is Green and The Grass is Blue: Turning Your Upside Down World...Right Side Up!". Deb left a successful corporate career in pharmaceutical sales when she realized that she was not happy being a 'gerbil on a wheel.' Shortly after leaving her 20 year career, a series of unfortunate tragedies struck. Deb joins Anita Campbell to share her inspiring story about what kept her motivated, how your dreams are born from loss, and how to recreate your own lanscape to business and personal success. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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It's Never Too Late: But Why Wait? - Mar 29,2011 | Life doesn't always unfold the way you want it to. Lynda Bouchard, Founder of Booking Authors, Ink, a publicity and author concierge service, was happily flying the friendly skies when the events of 9/11 changed everything for her. It forced her to ask herself, "Is this what I want to do with my life?" So at the age of 45, Lynda began her author publicity and concierge business and kicked it into high gear at 52, after she lost her husband. Lynda didn't hit her sweet spot at 25 and has found that there are challenges to changing your life radically, especially when you've already done a bit of living! But it can be the inspiration to follow your true passion and Lynda will share her insights on the challenges and rewards of changing the direction of your life. She will share her thoughts on why now is a great time to start a small business; and why it's never too late to find your passion in life! | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is Your Ego Holding You Back From Millions? - Mar 22,2011 | Enjoy a rerun of this popular episode featuring Jim Kukral. Some small business owners are laughing all the way to the bank. Why? Because they understand that sometimes you have to put your ego about your business in the backseat if you want to truly skyrocket your sales, generate massive amounts of leads and procure publicity you've never dreamed of. Jim Kukral, author of the book "Attention! This Book Will Make You Money" shares stories and strategies from real businesses and brands that have propelled their profits to new heights with attention-getting ideas. | 3/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Determine Your Perfect Customer Lifecycle - Mar 15,2011 | Scott Martineau, Co-founder of Infusionsoft, joins Anita Campbell to discuss how businesses can use the Perfect Customer Lifecycle to create powerful marketing campaigns. Tune in as Scott teaches you how to generate, capture and convert more leads, build trust through educational content and create brand advocates using nurture marketing. | 3/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Top 5 Legal Tips Entrepreneurs Need to Know to Start a Business - Mar 08,2011 | Join us as Nellie Akalp, CEO of CorpNet, discusses in detail, the top 5 legal tips that entrepreneurs need to know before they start a business. Some of the topics Nellie will discuss are various forms of legal entities, what business structure goes best with which business and why forming an LLC or an Inc. is necessary. | 3/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Small Business: How to Navigate 2010 Tax Laws - Mar 01,2011 | Mike D'Avolio, CPA and Senior Tax Analyst at Intuit w, has been a small business tax expert for more than 20 years. As tax season gets into full swing, Mike discusses changes in this year’s taxes that will affect small businesses. From the IRS’ recently enacted payroll tax holiday to writing off up to $10,000 in start-up costs for businesses started in 2010, Mike is a small business champion for the latest must-claim deductions and write-offs. | 3/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Makes Moolala Attractive to Small Businesses? Moola! - Feb 22,2011 | Matt Dale, Co-Founder of Moolala, a daily deal site, is a serial entrepreneur who conceived of the idea of a unique reward system called the Pay Matrix. Pay Matrix offers a daily deal for an early startup. Matt's goal for starting the company was "To give more money away than any company in history!" | 2/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Compete Without Focusing on Price - Feb 15,2011 | Sarah Petty, founder of The Joy of Marketing, opened a boutique photography studio two weeks before 9-11 and within 5 years, was named as one of the most successful in the country by The Professional Photographer of America. Now, Petty teaches small business owners around the world how to compete without focusing on price. | 2/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Selling to Crazy-Busy People - Feb 08,2011 | Are you struggling to capture and the attention of today's frazzled prospects? Never fear! Join us for this special episode as Jill Konrath, author of SNAP Selling, a #1 Amazon bestseller, shares numerous strategies that you can use to set up meetings with super-busy people and get them to change from the status quo -- your biggest competitor. | 2/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SCORE Helps Small Businesses Succeed and Fuel America’s Economic Engine - Feb 01,2011 | Ken Yancey, CEO of SCORE, discusses how SCORE, mentors to America’s small business, can help people dreaming about starting their small business, or those looking to grow. SCORE is already making its mark as a catalyst for economic growth across the country. In 2009 alone, SCORE clients started more than 68,000 new businesses, which resulted in the creation of some 30,000 jobs. | 2/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Readying Your Small Business for a Better Economy - Jan 25,2011 | Kate Reid, CEO of Call of the Wild, the longest running adventure travel company in the world for women since 1978, bought the company from its founder in September of 2008 - as Lehman Brothers was collapsing. Kate talks about her journey as the new owner and CEO of the prestigious adventure travel company, and what tools she's found effective to help her manage her business and weather the Great Recession. | 1/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Highlights on the New SBA.com - Jan 18,2011 | As part of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s mission to ensure that small business owners and entrepreneurs have access to accurate, timely and helpful information, the organization recently unveiled the new SBA.gov. Joe Zepecki, Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Small Business Administration, joins Anita Campbell to discuss the newly unveiled site which features a variety of enhancements including a full re-design, new content, improved navigation, and a centerpiece that is a dynamic new web tool called SBA Direct. SBA Direct allows visitors to personalize their browsing experience according to their business type, geography and needs to access relevant and targeted information on all aspects of running a business such as the steps involved in getting started, business growth strategies, and how to stay compliant with current laws and regulations. Be sure to tune in for this special episode! | 1/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Updating Your Small Business's Network - Jan 11,2011 | When a small business is up and running there are three things they should ultimately focus on: Connecting to a network with switches and routers ; Securing businesses both physically and technically; and Communicating with customers and employees. Small businesses make an array of mistakes when upgrading their networks. Rick Moran, Vice President, Small Business Solutions Marketing at Cisco, shares his ideas to help small businesses and entrepreneurs understand how they can avoid these mistakes and ultimately focus their time and resources on increasing productivity, cutting costs and improving customer service. | 1/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Attach Emotion: Move From Commodity to Experience - Jan 04,2011 | Enjoy a rerun of this popular episode featuring Shane Ketterman, founder of Gorilla-Force.com, and Five Forces Group. Shane started his businesses based on years of experience as an IT professional and his passion for marketing, social media, and being a change agent. Besides getting ready to launch Gorilla-Force, Shane is working on an e-book/conference called "Rewire"; A term and concept for getting businesses and potential entrepreneurs motivated and inspired by rethinking how business is and will be. Today, he will be sharing his insights on how to move from commodity to experience. In other words, how to take a service or product that is viewed as a commodity - and make it an extremely valuable experience. | 1/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Giving Referrals: A Great Way To Do Business - Dec 28,2010 | Enjoy a rerun of a popular episode featuring John Jantsch, Founder of Duct Tape Marketing and author of "Duct Tape Marketing - The World's Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide." John joins Anita Campbell to bring focus to the act of giving referrals. To put it simply, it's a great way to do business. | 12/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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One Womans Journey: Turning Challenges Into Celebrations - Dec 21,2010 | Enjoy a rerun of a recent popular show featuring Deb Scott, Author of "The Sky is Green and The Grass is Blue: Turning your upside down world...right side up!". Deb left a successful corporate career in pharmaceutical sales when she realized that she was not happy being a 'gerbil on a wheel.' Shortly after leaving her 20 year career, a series of unfortunate tragedies struck. Deb joins Anita Campbell to share her inspiring story about what kept her motivated, how your dreams are born from loss, and how to recreate your own lanscape to business and personal success. | 12/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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5 Hidden Ways CRM Can Boost Small Business Sales - Dec 14,2010 | As small businesses are desperately struggling to regain market share from the downturned economy, simple, cost-efficient technologies that help them gain a competitive edge and optimize sales have become must-haves to stay on top of their "A-game". Vivek Thomas, President of Maximizer Software, a SMB-focused CRM solutions provider, offers five hidden ways that small businesses can leverage CRM to boost their sales--from gaining visibility into real-time sales performance and projecting accurate revenues to optimally allocating sales resources and tracking the customer interaction trends to determine opportunities for more bottom line savings. | 12/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How To Mobilize Productivity On iPhone and iPad - Dec 07,2010 | As the iPad and iPhone make inroads into business, FileMaker Inc. recently introduced FileMaker Go for iPhone and iPad which let users work remotely. Ryan Rosenberg, Vice President of Marketing and Services for FileMaker, Inc., joins Anita Campbell to discuss ways to dramatically improve how productive a small business can be. Companies can now accomplish a range of productivity tasks on their smart phone or tablet that include conducting inventory checks while in the warehouse, generateing sales orders at a customer site, tracking shipping and receiving activities, checking in attendees onsite for an event, updating project status while traveling, adding research notes while in the field and more. Be sure to tune in for this informative episode! | 12/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How the Movie Twilight Can Help Your Business - Nov 30,2010 | A rerun of one of our popular episodes about the movie Twilight. Romance is a number one selling genre for a reason - and that reason isn't Fabio. Many of you are familiar with the Twilight phenomenon (i.e. vampire phenomenon), correct? Surprisingly, many romance writers believe its wild success was a public gut reaction to tragic events such as 9/11. Romance taps into human emotions and new product developer Kimber Chin, Founder of Business Romance, uses her career as a romance writer to help clients successfully launch winning products to eager new audiences. Kimber is going to explain how the movie Twilight can actually help your business, why she feels that business marketers should read romance novels, and how you can market stand alone products using novels as an example. | 11/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Double Your Revenue By Mastering Persuasion In Print - Nov 23,2010 | Join us for a re-run of this popular episode with Jonathan Fields. Jonathan is a lawyer turned entrepreneur, author and blogger. His last book, Career Renegade: How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love was an MSNBC Top 5 Small Biz Summer read in 2010. Jonathan has been featured widely in both online and offline media and was named one of the 20 people every entrepreneur needs to follow on twitter by BusinessWeek. Today, Jonathan joins Anita Campbell to discuss how to double your revenue by mastering persuasion in print. | 11/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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One Womans Journey: Turning Challenges Into Celebrations - Nov 16,2010 | Deb Scott, Author of "The Sky is Green and The Grass is Blue: Turning your upside down world...right side up!", left a successful corporate career in pharmaceutical sales when she realized that she was not happy being a gerbil on a wheel. Shortly after leaving her 20 year career, a series of unfortunate tragedies struck. Deb joins Anita Campbell to share her inspiring story about what kept her motivated, how your dreams are born from loss, and how to recreate your own lanscape to business and personal success. | 11/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words: Video Is Even Better! - Nov 09,2010 | 20 million Small and Medium-sized businesses, auction sellers and 10 million classified advertisers need effective, simple, economical ways to reach new and existing customers on mobile devices and the web. Roger Ach, Founder of vADz,joins Anita Campbell to discuss the many ways to solve that problem. | 11/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Technology For Growing Businesses - Nov 02,2010 | Join Anita as she talks with Ramon Ray, Editor & Technology Evangelist for SmallBizTechnology (http://www.smallbiztechnology.com), about some of the hottest technologies for small businesses. You'll want to keep a pen handy as you scribble down a list of web sites of new products and services to help your business! | 11/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tidal Power and America's Energy Future - Oct 26,2010 | Roger Bason, President and Founder of Natural Currents Energy Services (http://www.naturalcurrents.com/), a leading green technology company producing revolutionary systems for emerging renewable energy markets, discusses the future of ocean tidal power generation in the United States. | 10/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Turn Your Standard Presentation into Your Best Sales Tool - Oct 19,2010 | Every business cranks out a lot of presentations – probably more than they can count. But are these slide decks boosting branding, driving customer engagement, and increasing sales? Presentations are second only to email as the most commonly used business tool, yet most are static, one-way communications that often miss the mark. Chuck Dietrich, CEO of SlideRocket, joins Anita Campbell and Brent Leary to discuss a few tips to help turn your presentations into the ultimate weapon in your sales and marketing arsenal. | 10/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Small Businesses Excel Through SCORE’s Mentoring Program - Oct 12,2010 | Ken Yancey, CEO of SCORE, joins Anita Campbell to discuss the benefits of small business mentoring and how it raises the chances for business success. Mr. Yancey will provide an overview of SCORE's small business mentoring program and highlight small businesses that are successful through the program, including those who have recently earned awards from SCORE. | 10/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Double Your Revenue By Mastering Persuasion In Print - Oct 05,2010 | Jonathan Fields is a lawyer turned entrepreneur, author and blogger. He is also the Founder of JonathanFields and his last book, Career Renegade: How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love was an MSNBC Top 5 Small Biz Summer read in 2010. Jonathan has been featured widely in both online and offline media and was named one of the 20 people every entrepreneur needs to follow on twitter by BusinessWeek. Today, Jonathan joins Anita Campbell to discuss how to double your revenue by mastering persuasion in print. | 10/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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6 Tips for Growing Online Traffic and Sales That No One Tells You - Sep 28,2010 | TJ McCue, Founder of Sales Rescue Team, began in 2008 as a pay-it-forward lab giving website owners free advice on how to improve their design, copy, and the sales path that customers took or might take through a website. It has since grown to a few contractors who help small business owners build blogs and create valuable content so people visit your site. TJ shares tips and publicly available tools for improving your website, using social media monitoring tools to refine your copy and content, and analytics to figure out what's working and not working. | 9/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Target Social Media to Reach your Market - Sep 21,2010 | Ethan Bloch, Co-Founder of Flowtown, started his first business at age 13 where he used the social channels of the day (chat rooms and instant messaging) to acquire customers. In college he created a video podcast and used YouTube, Twitter and Facebook to build a global fan base. Today he's the co-founder of Flowtown, a Small Business marketing tool that helps you acquire and retain customers through social media. Ethan shares his tips and personal experiences about using social media for business and how it can boil down into real measurable ROI. | 9/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hot Business Trends to Keep an Eye On - Sep 14,2010 | Rieva Lesonsky, CEO of GrowBiz Media and SmallBizDaily has been covering small business issues and entrepreneurship for nearly 30 years. One of her favorite topics is business trends, uncovering the hot markets today’s entrepreneurs should be focusing on. Today, Rieva will be sharing them with you. | 9/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Social Media Success Stories and How You Can Become One - Sep 07,2010 | Dave Lifson, CEO of Postling, joins Anita Campbell to cover some examples of amazing small businesses that are using social media in impressive ways that drive tangible benefits and help them to grow their businesses. The discussion will cover what tools are being used and how they are tapping into their community of customers. We will also focus on basic ways that small businesses can use social media to grow their own businesses without spending an overwhelming amount of time or money. | 9/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Data Privacy: What Every SMB Should Know to be Compliant - Aug 31,2010 | Christian Renaud, CEO of Palisade Systems, understands that SMBs are strapped for time and resources, and therefore may not realize how serious of a problem that information data leaks can be, or how they can handle this issue affordably. SMBs are governed by the same federal and state regulations and business rules as large enterprises and violating these rules can damage reputation, cost business, and result in massive fines to small businesses. Christian will share important information on how SMBs can prevent data loss and keep confidential information confidential in order to stay compliant with the plethora of rules and laws that govern many organizations. | 8/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Twitter Chats - A Small Business Secret Weapon - Aug 24,2010 | Wonder what those Twitter chats and online parties are all about? Have you thought they might be useful for your business? Cathy Larkin, Founder of Web Savvy PR, also known as @CathyWebSavvyPR, co-host of Melinda Emerson's #SmallBizChat, will share 5 ways to get involved in some of the more than 150 weekly chats, plus effective tips for using them to connect with your audiences and prospects on Twitter. | 8/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SEO Trends: What's New, What's Old? - Aug 17,2010 | Tune in for a rerun of this very special episode with Aaron Wall, Founder of SEOBook as he joins Anita Campbell to disucuss SEO trends. Particularly, what's new, what's old, and what's to come. Aaron's site, SEOBook, has been mentioned in The Wall Street Journal, The London Times, Wired, USA Today, BusinessWeek, Business2.0, Time Magazine, The Register, MSNBC, and The Guardian. If you need to brush up on your SEO education or your SEO tactics, you'll want to tune in and hear what Aaron, an SEO expert, has to say about the matter. | 8/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is Your Ego Holding You Back From Millions? - Aug 10,2010 | Some small business owners are laughing all the way to the bank. Why? Because they understand that sometimes you have to put your ego about your business in the backseat if you want to truly skyrocket your sales, generate massive amounts of leads and procure publicity you've never dreamed of. Jim Kukral, author of the book "Attention! This Book Will Make You Money" shares stories and strategies from real businesses and brands that have propelled their profits to new heights with attention-getting ideas. | 8/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Social Is Your Small Business? - Aug 03,2010 | Shawn Hessinger, Chief Moderator at BizSugar , began his career as a business blogger in 2006 after a decade in the newspaper business. Today Shawn presides over a social media site that crowdsources the finest small business news and tips on the planet from a community of more than 51,000 members globally and growing. How social is your small business and how much do you learn from others? Joining a social network can help you leverage the experience of other small business owners around the corner and around the world to grow your small business smarter today. | 8/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Goodbye Infomercials: How A 30 Year Old Brand Is Keeping With The Times - Jul 27,2010 | Hair Club is a brand with high-visibility from the old-school commercials (Sy Sperling’s “I’m not just the President, I’m also a client.”), but many people still don’t know what the Hair Club is. Keeping the 30 year old brand fresh has become even more of a challenge because of the ever-changing media landscape which is affecting the avenues of word of mouth about the company. Steven Barth, CEO of Hair Club, is a client himself. He joins Anita Campbell and Brent Leary to discuss the organizations current re-branding process and how the 30 year old brand is keeping up with the times and educating the consumer about themselves. | 7/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Save Time & Maximize Customer Data With Integrated Business Applications - Jul 20,2010 | Many have said famed dancer Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, and she did it backwards and in heels. The same concept is true today for small businesses; they need to do everything the big enterprises do, but faster and with fewer resources. Learn from Pamela O’Hara and Michelle Riggen-Ransom, Co-founders of The Small Business Web, how using integrated business applications will save you time and prevent the missteps of siloed information. | 7/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How the Movie Twilight Can Help Your Business - Jul 13,2010 | Romance is a number one selling genre for a reason - and that reason isn't Fabio. Many of you are familiar with the Twilight phenomenon (i.e. vampire phenomenon), correct? Surprisingly, many romance writers believe its wild success was a public gut reaction to tragic events such as 9/11. Romance taps into human emotions and new product developer Kimber Chin, Founder of Business Romance, uses her career as a romance writer to help clients successfully launch winning products to eager new audiences. Kimber is going to explain how the movie Twilight can actually help your business, why she feels that business marketers should read romance novels, and how you can market stand alone products using novels as an example. | 7/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SEO Trends: What's Old? What's New? - Jul 06,2010 | Aaron Wall, Founder of the SEOBook Training Program For SEOs, has graciously offered a slice of his time and joined Anita Campbell and Brent Leary to share his insights into the latest trends in search engine optimization (SEO). SEO is a dynamic field that shifts and changes endlessly. While some things remain constant, other elements of SEO change frequently at will. In this episode, we look at some of the things that are changing the landscape of the virtual world — and what you can do to get better business results within it. | 7/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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5 Tips For Hiring A-Player Employees - Jun 29,2010 | Eric Herrenkohl, recruiting specialist and Author of How to Hire A-Players, provides his top 5 tips and step-by-step instructions on how to find, interview, and hire the “rock star” employees that every business needs. Eric argues that hiring just one “A-Player” can save an executive’s marriage as well as add immeasurable value to his business. Given the current economic situation, he says there is no better time for business owners to build the organizations they deserve. | 6/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Small Business Owners Find New Marketing Vehicles - Jun 22,2010 | Adam Boyden, president of Conduit knows that small business owners wear many hats, including chief marketing officer. And, Application Marketing is beginning to attract these small business owners for many reasons, including affordability, ease of use, and return on investment. These small business owners are using application technology to deliver messages, content, and/or functionality to reach a target audience. Early adopters and neophytes alike stand to benefit as App Marketing pays off with better customer retention, customer acquisition and brand recognition. Adam will speak to the power of App Marketing and provide you with tips on how to do so effectively. | 6/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Build an Engaged Facebook Fan Page Base Using Multiple Channels - Jun 15,2010 | Victoria Ransom, is Founder and CEO of Wildfire Interactive, a platform that enables small businesses to easily and cost-effectively manage their social media marketing needs. Victoria started Wildfire to serve her own need - she needed an affordable way to building an engaged fan base on the Facebook page of her own small business. Seeing no other solutions on the market to easily create compelling social media campaigns, Victoria and her partner created their own. Now, 30,000 campaigns later, Wildfire has a passionate customer base, and Victoria has some great tips to share for building an engaged Fan Base of your own. | 6/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Small Businesses Speak Out About Economy - Jun 08,2010 | Based on the findings from more than 7,000 small businesses, Gail Goodman, CEO of Constant Contact, will speak to trends in the small business marketplace and how small businesses are faring in this turmoiled economy. Gail will give specific counsel on how to cope with a protracted economic recovery, particularly seen through the eyes of small businesses, and will inform small businesses on how to make more - with what they have - and how to navigate today’s tricky business waters. | 6/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Create a Blueprint to Price for Profits and Growth for Your Company - Jun 01,2010 | Rafi Mohammed, Ph.D., Founder of Culture of Profit, joins Anita Campbell to discuss ideas from his new pricing strategy book, The 1% Windfall: How Successful Companies Use Price to Profit and Grow. Rafi shares pricing tips that small businesses can implement which will start reaping new profits almost immediately and just as importantly, set a strong foundation for better pricing at your company. | 6/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Behind the scenes at AMEX OPEN Forum - May 25,2010 | Jason Rudman, Director of American Express OPEN Forum, leads the team responsible for the content strategy and development of American Express OPEN’s online community for small business owners. Jason shares the story behind the growth of OPEN Forum – from its roots an online companion to live events through its evolution into an award-winning educational and networking resource – and how customer feedback has contributed to that evolution. | 5/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10 Creative Topic Ideas for Your Next Online Video - May 18,2010 | Ever thought about videos to help spread the word about your business online and capture more sales, but couldn’t think of a topic? Derrick M. Guest, CEO of Griot's Roll Film Production, shares 10 creative ideas for those who don’t know what kind of video to create. These ideas are designed to captivate prospects and Web visitors, and turn them into customers. | 5/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Congress Claims to Have Our Back – But Are They Really Looking out for Small Businesses? - May 11,2010 | Congress and policymakers tout their support of small businesses at the drop of a hat. But what about all this legislation they propose? Dan Danner, president and CEO of NFIB , joins us to look at the issues impacting small businesses: healthcare, taxes and spending issues, and small business owners' outlook on the economy – with facts and figures of what they will mean to small businesses. | 5/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special Episode: Anita Campbell Covers The Latest in Trends Driving Small Business! - May 04,2010 | Tune in LIVE for this special episode featuring Anita Campbell, the host of Small Business Trends Radio, as she enters into a free-flowing, solo discussion covering the latest trends driving the world of small business. She may even be taking your calls and answering questions, so be sure to jot down any you may have and join us, LIVE at 1:30 PM EST! | 5/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Protect Your Online Reputation - Apr 27,2010 | Today you're going to learn how to monitor what people are saying about you and your company brand, and manage your online reputation with today’s tools. Featuring guest, Michael Fertik, CEO of ReputationDefender, a privacy and online reputation management company. This is an important topic so be sure you don't miss it! | 4/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Giving Referrals: A Great Way To Do Business - Apr 20,2010 | John Jantsch, Founder of Duct Tape Marketing and author of "Duct Tape Marketing - The World's Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide," is joining Anita Campbell to bring focus to the act of giving referrals. To put it simply, it's a great way to do business. | 4/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SEO Trends: What's New, What's Old? - Apr 13,2010 | Aaron Wall, Founder of SEOBook, joins Anita Campbell to disucuss SEO trends. Particularly, what's new, what's old, and what's to come. Aaron's site, SEOBook, has been mentioned in The Wall Street Journal, The London Times, Wired, USA Today, BusinessWeek, Business2.0, Time Magazine, The Register, MSNBC, and The Guardian. If you need to brush up on your SEO education or your SEO tactics, you'll want to tune in and hear what Aaron, an SEO expert, has to say about the matter. | 4/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Future of Small Business: Legislative Outlook - Apr 06,2010 | Karen Kerrigan, President of the SBE Council, an advocacy and research organization dedicated to promoting small business, joins Anita Campbell once again to discuss the future legislative outlook for entrepreneurs. Particularly, whether Congress and President Obama will continue to move forward with policies that will help them grow, create jobs and compete in the challenging economic environment. | 4/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Experience Economy: How to move from commodity to experience - Mar 30,2010 | Shane Ketterman, founder of Gorilla-Force, and Five Forces Group, started his businesses based on years of experience as an IT professional and his passion for marketing, social media, and being a change agent. Besides getting ready to launch Gorilla-Force, Shane is working on an e-book/conference called "Rewire"; A term and concept for getting businesses and potential entrepreneurs motivated and inspired by rethinking how business is and will be. Today, he will be sharing his insights on how to move from commodity to experience. In other words, how to take a service or product that is viewed as a commodity - and make it an extremely valuable experience. | 3/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Deal with Multiple System Chaos - Mar 23,2010 | It seems that today, small business owners and entrepreneurs are faced with a multitude of challenges, one being the fact that they have to deal with piecemeal solutions to keep their company running. Separate tools and applications for email marketing, CRM, e-commerce shopping carts, IT infrastructure, and more keep the company from economizing and growing. In this show, Tyler Garns, VP of marketing at Infusionsoft, will speak to best practices around making your business more efficient and scalable, focusing in on the importance of implementing technology to grow through email marketing and automated outreach. | 3/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Long Tail SEO: Get Fast Traction With Google - Mar 16,2010 | Tom McConnon, Product Manager of LotusJump, delves into the topic of the importance of the "long tail" to small businesses, since many SMB owners don't know what keywords to target or how to effectively target them with link building. Case in point: A used book store owner might aspire to rank on the first page of Google for the keyword phrase "used books." But while this phrase is searched thousands of times each month, it's also massively competitive and won't drive very qualified traffic. Instead, the owner should consider a series of "long tail" keywords that are less competitive and drive very qualified traffic. In this show, Tom will share "long tail" keyword research and SEO tips that every small business owner can benefit from. | 3/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Service: New Marketing For Small Business - Mar 09,2010 | Barry Moltz, Founder of Barry J. Moltz: Crazy About Business, Insane for Your Success, joins Anita Campbell for an in-depth discussion on customer service. More specifically, customer service as a new way of marketing for small business. Barry has founded and run small businesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than 15 years. He has also founded an angel investor group, an angel fund, and is a former advisory member of the board of the Angel Capital Education Foundation. Barry's fourth book, "BAM! Delivering Customer Service in a Self Service World" talks about the how customer service is the new marketing in a social media world. | 3/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Small Business Summit 2010 - Mar 02,2010 | Prime Strategies and Smallbiztechnology.com just announced their Fifth Annual Small Business Summit 2010, taking place on March 16, 2010 in New York City. The theme for this all-day gathering is Business & Technology: Strategies for the New Economy. Since the first Summit 5 years ago, this event has attracted a loyal following of small and medium size businesses, technology providers, sponsors and media. Seth Godin headlines this year’s agenda, sharing his “Insights on Being Indispensable to Your Customers”. Marian Banker and Ramon Ray, Summit Co-Producers, will share more of the details on this exciting upcoming event. | 3/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Twitter Talk And Small Business Success Index Results - Feb 23,2010 | Shashi Bellamkonda, "Social Media Swami" (Director of Social Media) at Network Solutions and Founder of Happenings, Advice and Technology Thoughts, and small business owner, Dr. Alan Glazier, join Anita Campbell for an in-depth discussion on the results of the Small Business Success Index. This special episode will be followed up with a TweetChat at 8:00PM EST including @ShashiB and @smallbiztrends using the hashtag #SBBuzz @SBBuzz. | 2/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tax Tips For Micro-Businesses & The Self-Employed - Feb 16,2010 | Self-employed businesses are often on top of the world…until tax time. Keith Hall is a certified public accountant and the National Tax Advisor for the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE). Each year, the NASE’s Tax Talk program fields more than 10,000 small-business questions, many of which come during tax season. Find out Mr. Hall’s top tax tips for micro-businesses. | 2/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Legislative Outlook for Small Business: Is Washington Listening? - Feb 09,2010 | Karen Kerrigan, President of the SBE Council, an advocacy and research organization dedicated to promoting small business, will discuss the legislative outlook for entrepreneurs and whether Congress and President Obama will move forward with policies that will help them grow, create jobs and compete in the challenging economic environment. | 2/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Virtual IT Department - Feb 02,2010 | Small businesses can leverage the “cloud” and eliminate costs like never before. In today’s economic climate, the cost of setting up, maintaining and growing a business is a capital expense that many entrepreneurs/owners do not have access to or simply cannot afford. Small businesses can now take advantage of saving real money by eliminating unnecessary costs associated with investing in IT hardware and software. Mark Stellini, Founder of Virtual Resources, and John Panico, VP of Sales & Marketing, are here to show you how. | 2/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Every Small Business Should Know About Setting Up an Affiliate Program - Jan 26,2010 | Geno Prussakov, a veteran of the affiliate marketing industry and Founder of AM Navigator, offers his insider tips and "how to" advice on properly setting up a successful affiliate program. Geno will let you know what your expectations should be and how to achieve the results you're looking for. | 1/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Know When to Bring in a General Manager - Jan 19,2010 | The birth of Kristina's twins forced her to stop micromanaging and she hired some good people for key positions - and her company doubled in size in one year! Kristina Bouweiri, President & CEO of Reston Limousine and Travel Service, Inc., started her business with five cars and has over 150 cars today. Originally a micromanager, Kristina always benefited when she added another team member to the payroll. At the time she did not think she could afford another salary but she learned that hiring the right people with the right skills could do a better job then she could. Today Reston Limousine and Travel Service is the 17th largest limousine/bus company in the United States with 300 employees and two locations outside of Washington DC. | 1/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Text Message Marketing: 20x Return on Investment - Jan 12,2010 | Move over Facebook. So long Twitter. 2010 belongs to mobile marketing for the savvy small business owner. Paul Rosenfeld, CEO of Fanminder, explains why text message marketing, in particular, is poised to be your next "must-have" tool to grow your business - and he'll explain exactly how you can take easy steps to drive immediate revenues for your business. | 1/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Spirituality Helps Entrepreneurs - Jan 05,2010 | In October 2007, Akemi Gaines quit her corporate job because she believed she could help more people worldwide with her unique skills. She rented out the house she bought less than a year prior, moved herself from Tennessee to Oregon, and started her service as spiritual coach. Today she has a successful practice, making more than she did in her corporate job. She shares her insights how spirituality helps entrepreneurs especially in the difficult startup phase. She also writes for her blog Yes to Me about spirituality including spiritual entrepreneurship. | 1/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tips For The Self Employed On Health Insurance - Dec 29,2009 | Sam Gibbs, Senior Vice President of eHeathInsurance, has a keen understanding of the shifts in how people search for and buy health insurance and is skilled at explaining the complexities of health insurance to consumers. Sam joins host, Anita Campbell for an in-depth discussion on cost effective, affordable health insurance options for small business owners and the self-employed. | 12/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tapping Into The Most Important 120 Minutes of Your Day - Dec 22,2009 | Aviv Shahar, founder of Aviv Consulting is an international consultant, CEO Coach, author and a world leader in the design of leadership and talent development programs for Fortune 100 companies. Aviv shares how he helps executives and entrepreneurs in Europe, Canada, Israel, Mexico, Brazil and the United States develop their purpose and strategy, realize their potential and create breakthrough results. For more than 25 years, Aviv has specialized in helping leaders and teams improve collaboration, cultivate innovation and accelerate breakthroughs. He brings cutting edge methodologies to help entrepreneurs enhance their creativity, develop clarity of vision and execute an action plan. Aviv's experience in coaching for high-level performance in critical operations was gained as a fighter pilot who was responsible for training other fighter pilots in the Israeli Air Force. | 12/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Charitable Giving - It's Not Just for the Holidays - Dec 15,2009 | Chris Gaba, Co-Founder of Central Bark Doggy Day Care, has taken his passion for pets and service to others and combined them into one powerful philanthropic program for his franchise system. Gaba shares how he integrated his vision for Dog Bless America (places service dogs with wounded veterans returning from war) into Central Bark and gives advice to small business owners on how to successfully develop their own charitable programs. | 12/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rise of the Young Entrepreneurs - Dec 08,2009 | Natalie MacNeil co-founded Garage Entrepreneurs shortly after starting her first business as a student entrepreneur. Garage Entrepreneurs is the community she says she wished she had when she started her first business. Natalie is passionate about encouraging young people to consider entrepreneurship as a career option. She shares her insights on young entrepreneurs, what it takes to build a successful business, and the impact of the recession on new businesses. | 12/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Improve Your Business by Improving Yourself - Dec 01,2009 | Larry Janesky, Founder and CEO of Basement Systems, the largest basement waterproofing and crawl space repair dealer network in the world, shares experiences about his journey from a young man that started a carpentry business right out of high school, to an owner of a multinational company with 27 patents that revolutionized the industry. Larry shares the universal lessons learned along the way, which he has applied to 5 other businesses with the same results. | 12/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Happiness Matters: Following Passion, Not Money - Nov 24,2009 | Dan McComb, Co-founder of Biznik , an online and offline business network of nearly 40,000 members, discusses the findings of a recent survey he conducted in partnership with iStockphoto and the University of Washington. Dan is an entrepreneur himself and he started Biznik "Going it alone, together," four years ago. Dan has also just completed a movie, Shine, profiling entrepreneurs, their challenges and what they lost and gained in their quests for success. Dan will share the insights he's gained, as well as actionable tips and advice, as he discusses how happiness matters . . . therefore, people are following their passions - not money. | 11/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Maximize Productivity On the Go - Nov 17,2009 | It seems that today, the lines between our personal and professional lives are blurring more quickly than ever. Small business owners are working on multiple computers and from mobile phones to keep their business running, but, they may not be maximizing their time when collabroating with colleagues and while working remotely. Drew Garcia, VP of Product Management for SugarSync will share his tips on how to manage our digital lives while living on the go. | 11/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Working for You Isn’t Working for Me: How to Manage Your Boss - Nov 10,2009 | Sooner or later, we all work for someone we can't stand. When that happens, some people quit, some suffer in silence, and others cope by sulking, obsessing, avoiding, or retaliating. Bestselling authors Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster show anyone how to take control by applying the four-step process in their new book, Working for You Isn’t Working for Me. • Detect: Am I crazy or is my boss driving me crazy? • Detach: Accept that you can't change your boss, but you can take back your power. • Depersonalize: Learn to take your supervisor's behavior less personally. • Deal: Devise a plan to get what you need, manage your boss, and move your career forward. | 11/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Number One Reason Why Businesses Underperform - Nov 03,2009 | Rod Johnson, author of Without Warning, speaker and executive business coach through Vistage International recognized how silent problems (problems that are being avoided, neglected or going unnoticed) were impacting small businesses in profound ways. Rod Johnson shares how business owners can significantly improve their organizations performance by simply identifying and then resolving the silent problems that lie within. | 11/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Cherry Pick Ideas to Improve Your Business - Oct 27,2009 | David Kord Murray, former head of innovation at Intuit and author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Borrowing Brilliance, can explain to your audience how all good ideas in business are actually borrowed from other fields, companies, and disciplines, and re-purposed by the company for new uses. He can also explain how a small business owner can start to think creatively to borrow ideas from the world around him or her to create a new product or improve on their existing service. | 10/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Top 10 Publicity Tools For a Dollar or Less - Oct 20,2009 | Margie Zable Fisher, President of Zable Fisher Public Relations, works directly with small businesses and small business owners to assist them in growing their business by using public relations tools. Margie will share her top 10 publicity tools that cost $1 or less and she'll also explain how to maximize your success in using them. | 10/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Unlocking the Cash and Profit Hidden in Your Financial Statements - Oct 13,2009 | In addition to his role as Founder & CEO of CFOwise, a regional Chief Financial Officer (CFO) firm with over two centuries of senior-level executive experience, Ken Kaufman also currently serves as the CFO on a part-time basis for a dozen start-up, emerging, and medium-sized companies in many different industries. Ken will share the insights he has gained from helping entrepreneurs and small business owners use their monthly accurate and timely financial statements to drive cash flow and profitability to new levels. | 10/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Online Surveys Act as a GPS System for Your Small Business - Oct 06,2009 | Mary Crogan, Senior Business Marketing Manager for online survey from Constant Contact, describes surveys as a GPS system for your small business. They help guide you along the most direct and efficient path to your goals. They are cost effective, fast, easy and rewarding mechanisms for gathering customer feedback. Online surveys are easy for customers to use, so they help you get beyond those who are generally more vocal about whether your business is doing very well or not. Online surveys take you inside the mind of the mostly silent majority and can help you chart the right course for your business. | 10/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yelp Helps SMB Owners Manage Their Online Presence - Sep 29,2009 | Time is money - and it's important that you spend YOUR time wisely. But many small business owners soon find themselves at a loss for time. But that can all change. Luther Lowe, Manager of Local Business Outreach for Yelp joins host Anita Cambpell to share the many tools small business owners have at their disposal on Yelp to put your business’s best foot forward - all while managing your time and your online presence wisely. | 9/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Social CRM: Making Critical Business Information Find and Work for You - Sep 22,2009 | Larry Ritter is Senior Vice President and General Manager for Sage CRM Solutions, a family of customer relationship management systems used by over 3 million small and mid-sized businesses worldwide. Larry shares his knowledge of social networking and CRM, discussing how small businesses can make each work together to deliver actionable customer and prospect details that turn leads into sales experiences that customers with return for. | 9/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rural Small Business Innovation: Dairy Cows to Supermarkets - Sep 15,2009 | Cyrus Schwartz, President of Mountainside Farms, is the 5th generation in his family in the dairy industry. As Cyrus became involved in the business, he realized that he needed to be innovative to stay competitive and to increase revenue in the marketplace. From increasing cow’s milk products to soy products and creating such brands as ZenSoy Organic Soy Pudding and Evolve Kefir Probiotic Smoothie, Cyrus shares his experience in securing additional shelf-space in the supermarket dairy business. | 9/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Creative Marketing: Hop Outside the Box with Chocolate Grasshoppers - Sep 08,2009 | David Hauser, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Grasshopper, founded this business with Siamak Taghaddos when they were still undergraduates at Babson College in 2003. Grasshopper was founded under the conviction that the company and service could empower entrepreneurs anywhere to succeed. David shares insider perspective and some personal insight into Grasshopper’s recent successful re-branding / marketing campaign and discusses the chocolate grasshoppers themselves well as how Grasshopper is paying their employees more in a down economy. | 9/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Communicating With Your Users When The Site Goes Down - Sep 01,2009 | Mike Samson co-founded crowdSPRING, an online marketplace for creative services. Since its launch in May 2008, crowdSPRING has grown to host more than 34,000 creatives from 150+ countries with more than 5,000 projects posted to date. They've seen highs like winning a Stevie Award, being a two-time nominee for a Webby and being named Wire Magazine's small business of the year. But with every peak, there are valleys. crowdSPRING discusses the awkward, screw up moments when your online product or service crashes and what to do to keep your community coming back. | 9/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Long Tail SEO: Get Fast Traction With Google - Aug 25,2009 | Tom McConnon, Product Manager of LotusJump, delves into the topic of the importance of the "long tail" to small businesses, since many SMB owners don't know what keywords to target or how to effectively target them with link building. Case in point: A used book store owner might aspire to rank on the first page of Google for the keyword phrase "used books." But while this phrase is searched thousands of times each month, it's also massively competitive and won't drive very qualified traffic. Instead, the owner should consider a series of "long tail" keywords that are less competitive and drive very qualified traffic. In this show, Tom will share "long tail" keyword research and SEO tips that every small business owner can benefit from. | 8/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cutting Through the VoIP Hype - Aug 18,2009 | Voice over IP (or VOIP) telecommunications is usually far too confusing -- filled with jargon and incomprehensible-sounding technology. Brent Thomson, CEO of Jive Communications, joins host Anita Campbell to demystify VOIP and the advantages it offers over standard phones for small businesses with 1 to 40 employees. | 8/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The 12 Twelve Reasons a 504 Loan is Best for Your Business - Aug 11,2009 | Chris Hurn, CEO and Co-Founder of Mercantile Capital Corporation, believes the Small Business Administration (SBA) 504 Loan Program is the best way for owners of small businesses to purchase commercial real estate. The SBA 504 Loan Program enables small business owners to more easily own an appreciable asset and increase their net worth. This wealth-creating, “best kept secret of commercial real estate financing” has several advantages over ordinary, conventional loans and Chris will detail them for you. | 8/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Profitably Using Website Video and Videomail - Aug 04,2009 | Ruth King, Founder and Chief Evangelist of Ribbon, the Internet Broadcasting Network, has been using Internet video to train, communicate, and inform since 1998. Ruth explains how small businesses can use the power of video to attract and retain website visitors as well as communicate company messages through video mail. | 8/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Turn the Story of Your Brand Into a Classic - Jul 28,2009 | The most successful brands know that their simple brand story is their foundation and they build their businesses from the story up. The repeatability, sincerity, delightfulness and relevance of their story is as important as the size of their marketing budget. And for small businesses, story can be even more important than the size of the budget you have to sell it. So why do so many companies skip over the importance of their story? Leah Komaiko, Founder of LeahKomaiko.com and author of 19 books, joins us to discuss how you can turn the story of your brand into a classic. | 7/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tips For The Self Employed On Health Insurance - Jul 21,2009 | Sam Gibbs, Senior Vice President of eHeathInsurance, has a keen understanding of the shifts in how people search for and buy health insurance and is skilled at explaining the complexities of health insurance to consumers. Sam joins host, Anita Campbell for an in-depth discussion on cost effective, affordable health insurance options for small business owners and the self-employed. | 7/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What is Your Web Site Worth? - Jul 14,2009 | Debra Matthews, a Senior Internet Business Broker at Quiet Light Brokerage spends her time helping small online business owners sell their active websites - and you might be surprised by what they're worth. Debra will discuss how sites are currently valued, how the marketplace currently is reacting to web businesses for sale, what things a web business owner can do to increase their value, and the common mistakes web business owners make when its time to sell their business. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Expanding Your Reach: Syndication Solutions - Jul 07,2009 | Adam Boyden, president of Conduit, has more than 180,000 small business customers who speak to the power of free marketing tools in today’s economy. Conduit’s free, downloadable toolbar enables businesses of any size to better reach their customers through content syndication, RSS, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and more. Adam will share this, and other tools, that small businesses can use to thrive in today's climate. | 7/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Cloud-Based Social Content Mgmt Bridges Gap For Small Business - Jun 30,2009 | Traditional knowledge management solutions are built based on top-down process that offers control over who views and who shares content; social solutions grow from the bottom-up where experts emerge based on their contributions, content is shared openly, and people group themselves based on ideas and passions. Jen Grant, Vice President of Marketing at Box.net, will discuss how social content management bridges the gap by offering a way for small businesses to connect employees and inspire ideas while still providing control and structure to how content is stored and managed. | 6/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Facebook: Online Business Marketing, Advanced Tactics - Jun 23,2009 | Back by popular demand, Shama Hyder, Founder of Click To Client, is joining host, Anita Campbell, for an in-depth look at some advanced tactics to market your business online using the popular social media site, Facebook. Originally aired February 3, 2009) | 6/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Small Businesses Thrive in Down Economy by Investing in Green Technology - Jun 16,2009 | Based in Ashland, Oregon, Brammo is the first US company in 50 years to mass produce motorcycles and seem to be doing it in an effortless manner - in spite of this down economy. Craig Bramscher, CEO of Brammojoins us to share his ideas on how, using green technologies, they may have found the secret to a thriving small business and maybe even saving the planet. | 6/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Yelp Helps Small Business Owners Manage Their Online Presence - Jun 09,2009 | Time is money - and it's important that you spend YOUR time wisely. But many small business owners soon find themselves at a loss for time. But that can all change. Luther Lowe, Manager of Local Business Outreach for Yelp joins host Anita Cambpell to share the many tools small business owners have at their disposal on Yelp to put your business’s best foot forward - all while managing your time and your online presence wisely. | 6/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Retarget Your Customers Creatively: Bring Them Back! - Jun 02,2009 | Arjun Dev Arora, Founder of ReTargeter, started his business in San Francisco after leaving the corporate world at Yahoo!. Arjun has helped hundreds of small businesses find creative ways to retarget their customers online, thereby increasing their sales and reinforcing their brands. Today he shares his personal path away from the corporate route, his passion for entrepreneurship and strategies to increase your businesses sales, bolster your brand - and bring your customers back! | 6/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fending off competitor smear campaigns: Why Coke Never Attacks Pepsi - May 26,2009 | If your competitors are making negative attacks, does your small business have the resources to stop the damage? Jay Bean, CEO of OrangeSoda, offers advice for business owners about dealing with negative campaigns by competitors intended to discredit your ability to serve clients. | 5/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How To Realize ROI On Webinars - May 19,2009 | Dr. James Powers, CEO of iLinc, joins host Anita Campbell to explain how Webinars can help small businesses save money and grow their sales. He is also going to share his best practices for promoting and leveraging webinars as part of your marketing mix. | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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5 Common Mistakes When Creating a Sweepstakes - May 12,2009 | After finder herself unemployed, Carolyn Wilman, Founder of The Contest Queen, combined her extensive marketing background with her hobby and wrote You Can’t Win If You Don’t Enter. Her goals are to help people to add more fun, excitement and even prizes into their everyday lives and help companies learn how to increase their marketing ROI, also using fun and excitement, to enhance their brand, products or services. | 5/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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5 Little Known Things You Can Do With Zoho - May 05,2009 | Zoho is a suite of online collaboration tools and applications that you can use to run your business and collaborate online with others. With the recent addition of Zoho Gadgets and Zoho on Mobile, there's even more you can do. Raju Vegesna, co-founder of Zoho, joins Anita Campbell with co-host Joel Libava to share 5 little known things you can do with Zoho. | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How To Use PayPal To Drive Sales - Apr 28,2009 | Small businesses are consistently looking for opportunities to monetize their business and grow sales. Just by adding PayPal, many small businesses are realizing incremental revenue from higher conversion rates up to 14%. With PayPal, small businesses can accept payments instantly and gain access to millions of online shoppers all while making the checkout experience easier for the consumer. Eddie Davis, senior director of SMB Merchant Services at PayPal, joins us to talk about the benefits of using PayPal and how small businesses are successfully driving sales with it. | 4/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writing Your First Business Book - Apr 21,2009 | Many dream about writing a business book based on their experience and expertise. Marc Kramer, faculty at the Wharton School of Business, columnist for TheStreet.com and The Bulletin, serial entrepreneur and author of five books shows you how to take your expertise to print with a book pubisher. | 4/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How To Collect From Dying Elephants - Apr 14,2009 | When small businesses have to chase after large dying elephants like Circuit City that owe them money, small businesses want to know what rights they have, if any. Rob Bovarnick, columnist for Forbes and managing partner of Bovarnick and Associates, will advise small business owners of their rights to collect a debt in this downturned economy. | 4/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Microsoft Office Live: Spring Clean Your Office - Apr 07,2009 | Clean up and streamline your office with the cost-saving products and services Microsoft Office Live has to offer. Microsoft Office Live has developed into a one-stop online toolkit for developing a robust presence online for your small business. Michael Schultz of Microsoft joins us with tips for making the most of Office Live, including how to get the biggest bang for your Web presence for the smallest buck. | 4/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Inventory Source for Flea Markets, eBay And More - Mar 31,2009 | Joining us is Rob Caskey, VP of Liquidation. Rob will will discuss how the major department store retail crisis is providing entrepreneurs and small business growth opportunities through affordable sales of multi-inventory lots. He will share the many online selling sites beyond eBay and how to bid for best price, how to split up bulk lots and sell individually, etc. This also applies to flea market vendors, professional estate and yard sales coordinators, etc. | 3/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Barcodes are NOT Just for Manufacturing Companies - Mar 24,2009 | Barcodes can drive out cost and save labor, in business ranging from law offices to clinics to security companies - and for companies as small as only a few employees. Grant Wickes, Vice President of Marketing, WASP Barcode Technologies, can help you make 2009 the year you automate your business to make it more profitable. | 3/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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WordPress: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - Mar 17,2009 | Tim Grahl, CSS/XHTML expert, joins us to discuss all things WordPress, ranging from plugins that aren't ready for primetime, to templates that don't render correctly in certain browsers, to the constant upgrading necessary. There's plenty of good to talk about as well and WordPress gives "power to the people" by offering a platform to voice from. | 3/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Business Chassis: How to Build a High-Performance Business - Mar 10,2009 | Many cars are built on a universal chassis. Some are built for high-performance and some are built for economy. Businesses are much the same. ALL businesses are built on a universal chassis but some are built for high-performance and others are - well, NOT. Understanding the business chassis is critical to growing profits. Its a powerful concept that can grow business profits by more than 50% with focused strategies and Rich Allen of ActionCOACH Business Coaching, will show you how. | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Teen Business Ideas For The 20 Something Generation - Mar 03,2009 | Joining us is Gregg Blanchard, Creator and Host of the TeenBiz Podcast. Gregg is here to help you gain a new perspective into the world of student entrepreneurship. Since starting his own business as a college freshman, Gregg has helped dozens of other students with their startup ventures. Now, as a college graduate, he'll share some of the unique insights and ideas that today's student entrepreneurs have to offer. | 3/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Control Spending, Expenses And Reimbursement Paperwork: PEX Card - Feb 24,2009 | Toffer Grant, CEO and Founder of the PEX Visa Prepaid Card program will discuss the benefit of using cards to make expense management more efficient to monitor and administer. As credit is becoming more limited to access, Toffer will discuss how his card can provide the utility businesses need without the disruptions many are facing right now. | 2/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Business Partnering: Earn Money Without Wasting Everyone's Time - Feb 17,2009 | Kare Anderson, Author of SmartPartnering, Obama campaign staffer and Emmy-winning former Wall Street Journal reporter has found the fastest way to grow her business - and that of her clients was to forge alliances that attract more customers without spending more. In this bad economy, partnering in smart ways will become wildly popular. Kare shares the most successful methods, steps, success stories and pitfalls to avoid. | 2/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Women and Start-ups: Surviving the Emotional Roller Coaster - Feb 10,2009 | Karin Abarbanel, owner of a marketing firm and co-author of Birthing the Elephant,a new start-up guide, knows firsthand what a wild ride the emotional roller coaster of giving "birth" to a new venture can be. She shares front-line advice from successful women entrepreneurs on finding the emotional staying power to weather the first 22 months of a launch -- and how to avoid costly pitfalls that can derail your dream. | 2/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Facebook: Online Business Marketing, Advanced Tactics - Feb 03,2009 | Back by popular demand! Shama Hyder, Founder of Click To Client, is joining host, Anita Campbell, for an in depth look at some advanced tactics for marketing your business online using the popular social media site, Facebook. Be sure to join us for this special "Part 2" episode tutorial on advanced Facebook marketing tactics. | 2/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Small Business Summit 2009 : The Value of Customer Service - Jan 27,2009 | It's that time again! A sneak peek of the Fourth Annual Small Business Summit 2009 in New York on February 3rd. It's the most happening small biz event around! Who will be there? What you can learn? There will be exciting products and services to help you run your business and some informative discussions. Anita will be focusing on this year's theme "The Value of Customer Service" with Ramon Ray and Marian Banker, co-founders of the Small Business Summit Summit. | 1/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The 3 Sheet Strategy For Business - Jan 20,2009 | What do entrepreneurs and 3 sheets of toilet paper have in common? The possibility to clean up in business, without a full roll (of cash). Michael Michalowicz, author of Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, will take you through the 3 sheets that you’ll need to make every year a banner year, regardless of the current economy. | 1/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Online Video Advertising: Easy And Affordable - Jan 13,2009 | Diaz Nesamoney, CEO of Jivox, is a three-time successful entrepreneur who has spent most of his career making big-ticket technology accessible for small companies. Diaz joins host, Anita Campbell, to discuss how the Internet has made video advertising an affordable and effective tool for the smallest of businesses and to provide tips on getting started for as little as $500. | 1/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Online Video Advertising: Easy And Affordable - Jan 09,2009 | Diaz Nesamoney, CEO of Jivox, is a three-time successful entrepreneur who has spent most of his career making big-ticket technology accessible for small companies. Diaz joins host, Anita Campbell, to discuss how the Internet has made video advertising an affordable and effective tool for the smallest of businesses and to provide tips on getting started for as little as $500. | 1/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Thinking For Challenging Times: Best Year Ever - Jan 06,2009 | In 1996, Kevin Kelly, Internationally Acclaimed Motivational speaker, set the goal of writing a best selling book though he had consistently received poor grades in English, had no publisher and indeed "no hope" according to some influencers. He passionately believes that the thinking behind his goals is what is required to survive the current environment. As he says, "We need to not just think differently but do differently to build our business for the long term." Kevin will provide us with a "how to" of thinking and doing differently. | 1/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10 Ways To Take Your Business Global - Dec 30,2008 | Laurel Delaney, President and Founder of GlobeTrade.com and creator of The Global Small Business Blog, is joining us to discuss 10 ways to take your business global. Laurel will share best-kept secrets (hint: how using Web 2.0 as a platform raises your chance of being discovered by potential customers worldwide) and strategies she used to take her own business across borders. | 12/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Advanced Blog Tactics Used By Professional Bloggers - Dec 23,2008 | Stephane Grenier is the author of Blog Blazers and Founder of LandlordMax Software Inc. He is also the person behind the blog FollowSteph. Stephane has written the ebook "How to Generate Traffic to Your Website" and has been a speaker on the topic of website promotion and traffic generation. Stephane will share with us all the lessons he's learned through both his own experience as well as what he's learned interviewing the 40 successful bloggers from his book "Blog Blazers." | 12/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ten Key Tools A Small Business Needs To Succeed - Dec 16,2008 | Jim Tracy, President and Founder of America's Best Companies, goes over the necessary strategies to help a small businesses achieve success - especially during these hard economic times. Jim reveals simple ways to help your business remain competitive in today's marketplace from his article, "10 Simple Strategies to Make More Money." | 12/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Manufacturing Startups: What You Need To Know - Dec 09,2008 | Our featured guest is, David Crain, Director of Entrepreneurial Services, Magnet. With ever-advancing technology, cheap outsourced labor, and globalized logistics providers it should be easy to startup a manufacturing company. But the challenges have become greater. Manufacturing requires a highly skilled workforce; capital intensive equipment; customers demanding ever-changing products and focus on internal procedures to stay competitive. Dave discusses the challenges, several ways to increase your odds for success and one shortcut many entrepreneurs are using to avoid startup issues all together. | 12/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Building A Successful Business Community Giving Program - Dec 02,2008 | Larry Goldberg, Founder and president of, Storage Village, opened his first location in Landover, Maryland in 1988. Twenty years later, Larry shares with other small business leaders the strategy, planning process and metrics he has used to establish and sustain a successful community giving program including how to create clear standards, verification processes and measure the effectiveness of small business philanthropy efforts. | 12/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10 Traps That Keep you From an Awesome Business Plan - Nov 25,2008 | Our featured guest, Author and Business Coach, Greg Balanko-Dickson, has a unique perspective on the challenges business owners, CEO's, and entrepreneurs face when writing a business plan. Greg shares tip and traps from his recent book, Tips and Traps for Writing an Effective Business Plan. | 11/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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7 Ways To Get More Done In Less Time - Nov 11,2008 | Bill Baren, Founder of Bill Baren Coaching and the Time Experts Telesummit, will share 7 time management practices that you can use immediately to help you prioritize your work, increase your productivity, minimize distractions and decrease your stress level. | 11/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tips For Growth In A Slow Economy - Nov 04,2008 | John Arnold, author of "Email Marketing for Dummies" and Director of Constant Contact University, is joining us to provide tips for small businesses looking to grow in today’s risky business economy. Everyone is talking about the ‘R’ word and what a recession means for marketers. There is no question that budgets are shrinking and more pressure is on the horizon. Small businesses, which operate with small budgets and resources, are asking themselves this, "What do I do to thrive in the midst of a recession?" | 11/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10 Ways To Take Your Business Global - Oct 28,2008 | Laurel Delaney, President and Founder of GlobeTrade.com and creator of The Global Small Business Blog, is joining us to discuss 10 ways to take your business global. Laurel will share best-kept secrets (hint: how using Web 2.0 as a platform raises your chance of being discovered by potential customers worldwide) and strategies she used to take her own business across borders. | 10/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Difference Between Thriving And Surviving - Oct 21,2008 | Too many entrepreneurs and small business owners get caught up working IN their business rather than ON their business. Clate Mask, President of Infusionsoft, will be joining us to discuss the difference between thriving and surviving. Clate will reveal the strategies that thriving businesses know and surviving businesses NEED to grow quickly and profitably. | 10/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Thought Management: The Path To Entrepreneurial Success - Oct 14,2008 | Join us as we speak to Kim Ades, the designer of Frame of Mind Coaching, a program that teaches a powerful skill set she calls “thought management.” The greatest obstacle to reaching your goals and performing at your professional peak is your thinking; it’s your biggest competitor and it stands in the way of your success. Kim will reveal her 7 strategies for entrepreneurial success which will allow you to reach new levels of peak performance previously thought unattainable. | 10/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nine Levels Of Professional Growth For Women - Oct 07,2008 | Renee Amoore, CEO of The Amoore Group and author of "The Elevator of Achievement: Determination Requires a Choice," joins us to share tips on how ordinary women can move up in the corporate world by shaping their own attitudes about success, prejudice, oppression, equality, business and leadership. Using an elevator as a metaphor, Amoore examines nine levels of personal and professional growth that create stand out leaders and lasting careers. | 10/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Attract Angel Investors With These 5 Tips - Sep 30,2008 | Join us when we will be speaking to Jim Talerico, Principal at Alternative Capital & Management Resources Company, located in Plano, TX. As a consultant, Jim not only helps businesses across the country secure financing, but also improve their performance, so they are more attractive to both lenders and investors. Jim will be joining us to discuss who angel investors are, what they look for, and how to attract them to grow your business. | 9/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Flaunt Your Small Business To Wholesale Buyers - Sep 23,2008 | Stephanie Cartwright, Co-Founder of MyWares couldn't find what they needed for their own businesses and after years of blowing big money - decided enough was enough. Stephanie is here to provide tips and advice on how to promote your small business to the world of wholesale buyers. | 9/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Trigger A "Yes" Decision - From Anyone - Sep 16,2008 | Russell H. Granger, Author of "The 7 Triggers to Yes" and President of ProEd Corp., will be joining us to discuss the activation of emotional triggers to get the results you want. You can have anything you want. All you have to do is persuade someone to give it to you. | 9/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sub-Contracting For Small Business Makes You Money - Sep 09,2008 | Ben Jones, Founder of One World Trading, walks us through the endless opportunities of sub-contracting. Instead of resigning your business to fight for pennies, learn to use the strengths of other businesses to propel yours to the next level. Or, if you're really saavy, you could use the strengths of other businesses as your primary business. | 9/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Best Practices For Working With An Outside Consultant - Sep 02,2008 | Cathy Siciliano, Senior Director of Marketing at Elance, shares tips on the best practices for working with an outside consultant. From defining the project scope to finding the right person all the way to setting up the engagement and managing the work. Cathy will provide practical tips to make sure your remote project is set up for success. | 9/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Garbage to Gold: Organic, Eco-Friendly Business - Aug 26,2008 | Tom Szaky, Founder of TerraCycle TerraCycle, started his business while a student at Princeton University. Tom had a vision. What if you took waste such as plastic soda bottles, saved them from landfills and reused them? Tom answered his own question when he left Princeton in 2002 to follow his dream and TerraCycle, affectionately referred to as The Worm Poop Company, was born. Tom will share some the tips and strategies he used to turn garbage into gold. | 8/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Failure and Resiliency Can Build Business Confidence - Aug 19,2008 | Barry Moltz, Entrepreneur, Author and Motivational Speaker, has been starting businesses for the last 15 years with a lot of success and failure. Barry will explain how to thrive through the cycle of success and failure and he'll show you how to gain the skill of true business confidence that determines which of us succeed in the long run. | 8/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How To Revolutionize Your Logo And Develop Your Brand - Aug 12,2008 | Holding a Design Contest to get your new logo created can be very different than using a conventional Design Firm. Some of the one on one interaction of working with an individual designer is sometimes sacrificed for the variety you receive with a Design Contest. George Ryan, Founder of eLogoContest, is our featured guest. George outlines the differences and explains how to run a successful design contest. | 8/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Avoid These Common Pitfalls When Starting A Business - Aug 05,2008 | John Holsen, entrepreneur, marketing consultant and Founder of BizSugar, shares lessons he’s learned from over 17 years of helping small business owners and from starting his own business ventures. John will identify common mistakes that even experienced business owners make and offer tips to help put your business back on track to success. | 8/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Small Companies Can Negotiate with Big Players - Jul 29,2008 | David Wanetick, Managing Director of IncreMental Advantage, will discuss dozens of tips and traps associated with small business owners entering into negotiations. David will discuss when you should decline entering into negotiations as well as how to defeat common negotiating strategies used by big players to win concessions from small business owners. | 7/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Crisis Communication - Before, During and After It Hits The Fan - Jul 22,2008 | Glenn Ebersole, Chief Executive of the Renaissance Group, is our featured guest. Glenn will share examples of successful responses and unsuccessful responses to crisis when dealing with the media and will help you to develop a crisis management plan for your business. | 7/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Garbage to Gold: Organic, Eco-Friendly Business - Jul 15,2008 | Tom Szaky, Founder of TerraCycle TerraCycle, started his business while a student at Princeton University. Tom had a vision. What if you took waste such as plastic soda bottles, saved them from landfills and reused them? Tom answered his own question when he left Princeton in 2002 to follow his dream and TerraCycle, affectionately referred to as The Worm Poop Company, was born. Tom will share some the tips and strategies he used to turn garbage into gold. | 7/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Optimize Your Landing Page For Sales Conversions Online - Jul 08,2008 | Khalid Saleh, Co-Founder and President of Invesp Consulting, is going to provide basic practices and easy tips to implement on your site's landing pages to significantly increase sales and conversions. | 7/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Everyone's Twittering But Are You Plurking Yet? - Jul 01,2008 | Brian Wallace, Founder of NowSourcing, is going to discuss the many benefits of Plurk, a new social media site. Brian will explain the ins and outs, the benefits and everything you need to know to get started plurking - and get you and your brand noticed on this new microblogging sensation. | 7/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How To Get Your Invention To The Market - Jun 24,2008 | Prior to founding The CJB Group, Ronald Balla, worked for a local municipality and his brother was employed as a police officer. Together, they had many discussions about his brothers line of work. From those discussions sprang Ron's inspiration for the invention of The Balla Base, a safety product designed to protect law enforcers. Ron is here to share his personal story of invention - from idea, to prototype, to field tests, to market. | 6/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Uncover Hidden Profits Through Better Pricing - Jun 17,2008 | Rafi Mohammed Ph.D., Author of The Art of Pricing, will show you how to create and implement the right pricing strategies for your products and services. With Rafi’s pricing for profit and growth insights, you’ll be ready to start uncovering your hidden profits immediately after the show. | 6/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Strategies to Survive During a Recession - Jun 03,2008 | David Rudofsky, President and Founder of Rudofsky Associates, developed global business strategy for Kraft Foods International, as it contemplated expanding in various countries around the world, with good, bad and in-between economies. Now in his fifth year advising small businesses on financial and business strategy, David shares his perspectives on the best strategies to survive during a U.S. recession. | 6/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Astrology In Business - Who Uses It? - May 27,2008 | Renowned astrology expert, horoscope writer for Tarot.com and Founder of StarIQ, Rick Levine is going to explain how astrology can be a useful tool for insight into the rhythms of business. Astrology is the study of cycles and increasing numbers of businessmen and women all over the world rely on understanding planetary cycles to better understand rhythms of business. | 5/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Turning Your Creative Hobby Into A Business - May 20,2008 | Mark Anderson, Founder of Andertoons, tells his story: how he took his love of drawing cartoons and turned it into a business, including: harnessing creativity; working on a schedule; growing a business online on a shoestring; business models for cartoonists and other creative people. | 5/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How A Mompreneur Created A Franchise From Home - May 13,2008 | Lisa Druxman, Founder of Stroller Strides, started her business out of her home and at one time had 8 employees coming in, each with their own keys and their children in tow, and eventually franchised the business. Lisa shares her personal experiences and tips to find a little bit of peace in the wonderful chaos of a busy mompreneur. | 5/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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WordPress 101: Using Plugins and Themes - May 06,2008 | Cal Evans, host of the Sixty Second Tech, joins us to discuss all things WordPress. He'll address when to use WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org, how to use it to build a website and not just a blog, popular plugins (and the ones nobody knows about), how to use themes, commissioning custom plugins and more. | 5/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How To Become A Recognized Expert - Apr 29,2008 | Positioning yourself as the expert in your field can reap endless rewards. But the task of actually becoming recognized as an expert can be somewhat daunting. Bob Sommers, host of the Recognized Expert Marketing Show is joining us today as our featured guest to teach you how to position yourself as an expert in your field. | 4/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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If Your Intuition Is Talking, Listen! - Apr 22,2008 | Lynn Robinson, Author of "Trust Your Gut: How The Power of Intuition Can Grow Your Business," is going to teach you to identify the ways which intuition communicates, learn to make successful decisions (when you don't have all the facts), learn to recognize "power hunches" and more. | 4/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The #1 Way to Fail in Business: Ignore Your Market - Apr 15,2008 | In business, one of the biggest ways to fail is to ignore your customers and your markets. Today we’ll talk about now NOT to fail – by listening closely to your customers and what’s going on around you - with Gary G. Schoeniger, Founder and CEO, The Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative. | 4/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Attract More Sales Using The Law Of Attraction - Apr 08,2008 | The Law of Attraction states that what you think about the most you ultimately attract. But you need to do more than THINK. Attraction comes from ACTION. But most sales professionals and entrepreneurs don’t know what actions to take. Jimmy Vee & Travis Miller of Gravitational Marketing have been called the Penn & Teller of marketing and they're going to discuss the power of ACTION and give you a 5 step plan to attract customers now. | 4/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How To Set Up A Virtual Office - Assistants And All - Apr 01,2008 | Businesses are sprouting up everywhere on the Internet. And many are doing well and even growing. So, how does a small but growing business owner avoid renting brick-and-mortar office space? With a virtual office. But if you have no physical office space, how do you staff your vitual office? With virtual assistants. Gayle Buske, Founder and CEO of Team Double-Click will explain how to set up, and staff, your virtual office. | 4/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Get Paid Sooner By Cashing In Your Receivables - Mar 25,2008 | Need cash? Are receivables down? Tom Nort, CEO of Facteon, an Atlanta based factor. Tom will show you how to get paid sooner by cashing in your receivables. Selling invoices to a factoring firm gets you paid faster, streamlines your receivables process, and gets you the funds you need for business growth. | 3/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10 Things Your Credit Card Processor Doesn't Want You To Know - Mar 18,2008 | For small businesses, accepting electronic payments, including credit and debit cards, as well as additional forms such as electronic checks and gift and loyalty cards is no longer an option, it is becoming a necessity. Kevin Scott Rizer, of Trade Days Processing, explains the ins and outs of processing in a way the average person will be able to understand. | 3/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Unified Communications: What's In It For Small Businesses? - Mar 11,2008 | Geoffrey Baird, Vice President and General Manager of Avaya, discusses unified communications. A technology that brings your phone, calendar, conferencing and messaging capabilities together to control them from any device, anywhere. | 3/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ford & Dewalt Contractor Control Centers: Smart Trucks & Tools - Mar 04,2008 | Bringing new meaning to the term "remote office," Ford Motor Company and DeWALT have announced a set of high-tech features for 2009 Ford F series trucks and E series vans called Ford Work Solutions. Bill Frykman, Product Manager, Ford Work Solutions and Chris Allen, Vice President, Security Products Group, DeWALT discuss the loads of features, some of which can even make sure your tools are on board before leaving the job site. | 3/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Buy A Business At A Bargain - Feb 26,2008 | Their loss is your gain! Our featured guest is, John L. Herman Jr. of Hermanisms.com. John will describe how to find and deliver an offer on a business, pay a fraction of the cost of a start-up and explains why sellers must take your offer. | 2/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How To Use Facebook To Market Your Business - Feb 19,2008 | Not familiar with Facebook? Shama Hyder, Chief Marketing Expert and Founder of After The Launch, joins us to show us exactly how to leverage Facebook to market your business. Don't miss it! | 2/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Confessions of an Embezzler - Is Your Business At Risk? - Feb 12,2008 | Is your business at risk? Yes, it's very likely that it could be. And our guest, Barry Webne, likens it to addiction - which must be true. Because one week prior to being interviewed on this show, unbeknownst to us, he was brought up on an entirely new set of charges that are pending in Federal Court in Toledo, Ohio as of February 2008. | 2/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Men Can Achieve A Fulfilling Work Life Balance - Feb 05,2008 | Our featured guest in this episode of Small Business Trends Radio is Matthew Scott, Founder & Head Coach, The Life's Work Group, Inc. Many executive men desire to live a more significant personal life, but men inherently do not know how to take pause in work or life. Many men desire to make the transition to a more fulfilling personal life but it can be a tricky one. | 2/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Etiquette Tips For Workplace Technology And Business Entertaining - Jan 29,2008 | Anna Post, etiquette guru and great-great-granddaughter of Emily Post joins us to discuss etiquette tips on using workplace technology, as well as entertaining for business. | 1/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Small Business Summit to Rock New York - Jan 28,2008 | There hasn’t been a hotter event in New York since New Year’s Eve than this year’s Small Business Summit. The who’s who of the small business community will be there -- will you? Join us as this special edition of Small Business Trends Radio previews this must-attend New York event. With Ramon Ray, and Marian Banker, co-founders of the SB Summit. | 1/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Are You Making These 5 Local Marketing Mistakes? - Jan 22,2008 | Our featured guest in this episode of Small Business Trends Radio is Court Cunningham, CEO of Yodle, Inc., a leading player in the local online marketing space. Court will guide you through the "do's and dont's" of online local marketing. | 1/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beating the Odds: How to Start a Profitable, Long-Lived Business - Jan 16,2008 | 55% of startups fail in five years. Discover which industries, funding sources and strategies are most likely to lead to a successful, rewarding business. Featuring Scott Shane, Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. | 1/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Increase Sales Through The Power Of Video - Jan 15,2008 | Feeling like your methods of advertising and marketing are missing their mark? Print ads, commericals and direct mail may not be getting your customers attention, but what about Video content? Our featured guest in this episode of The Small | 1/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Do You Really Know Who You Just Hired? - Jan 08,2008 | So you've just finished conducting interviews and feel that you have found the ideal candidate for the job. But do you really know who you just hired? Will they work well with others in the office? Will they perform efficiently during the day or will they spend the bulk of it taking personal phone calls. | 1/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Technology You NEED in 2008 (and the stuff to avoid) - Dec 18,2007 | Tech gurus Ramon Ray, Editor of Small Biz Technology, and Brent Leary, Host of Business Technology Radio, outline the hottest trends in technology for your small business in 2008. They explain which technology to spend your precious time and money on – and what to avoid. | 12/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Internet Phone Calls - VoIP's Impact On Small Business - Dec 18,2007 | Ever asked yourself, what is VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol)? How are businesses using it? And what are the cost advantages of switching to VoIP? Our featured guest in this episode of The Small Business Trends Radio Show is, Ginny Hutchinson, CMO of Speakeasy. Ginny will discuss the advantages of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) versus a regular phone line and its applications for small business and take away some of the mystery of VOIP and i | 12/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How To Find Positive Cash Flow When Prices Drop 70% - Dec 11,2007 | What do you do if your industry’s prices drop over 70% for new and existing customers? Find out how one company survived and grew with positive cash flows and zero debt in the conferencing and collaboration industry - where prices have dropped over 70% in the past 7 years! Our featured guest in this episode of The Small Business Trends Radio is, Zane Safrit ConferenceCallsUnlimited. | 12/11/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How To Maximize Your Corporate Gifts Impact - Dec 04,2007 | Christmas is near and it's that time of year again. Time to say 'thank you' to your business associates for all their support. Our featured guest today is, Lee Eldridge, President of Absorbent, Ink. Lee will share tips on choosing your gifts, when to deliver your gifts, creating a buzz and how a useful item generates more impressions. | 12/4/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Small Business Health Care Update - Nov 27,2007 | Last year, Dawn Rivers Baker, Editor and Publisher of The MicroEnterprise Journal joined us to discuss the unhealthy state of small business health care. Quite a lot has changed on Capitol Hill since then and the political landscape is very different now. Are small business owners any closer to getting relief from escalating costs health care costs than they were then? Tune in as Dawn gives us an update on p | 11/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10 Things CEOs Should Know about Web Design - Nov 20,2007 | The CEO of Bizzuka, explains ten things that every business owner CEO should know to avoid overpaying and to achieve a better Web presence. | 11/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Start a Print Magazine With No Money - Nov 13,2007 | Cd Vann started Soho Business Magazine in 2005 with little money in her pocket and a 3-year old Mac computer. Everyone said she was nuts and a few of her competitors wish she would fail. But she's here to prove she is out to survive and be successful with Magazine Soho. | 11/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Plan As You Go Business Planning - Nov 06,2007 | Our featured guest today is Tim Berry, the President of Palo Alto Software. Eisenhower said "The plan is useless. Planning is essential." It's about creating a new kind of planning process that's flexible, recursive, and alive. It's not just planning, it's management. Start anywhere, get going, and recognize that your plan is wrong, but vital; it's never done but it's always there and it takes you from planning to management. | 11/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Eliminate Hassles And Expenses Sending Large Files - Oct 30,2007 | Small businesses of all types have to send large files such as digital images and audio files on a regular basis. Founder of YouSendIt, Ranjith Kumaran, will provide insight into how to cut costs and avoid email bounce-backs and the use of FTP sites and overnight courier services. | 10/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Are You a Natural Entrepreneur – Take the Test - Oct 23,2007 | Our Featured guest in this episode is Tim Knox of The Tim Knox Show. Tim is going to help you determine if your a natural entrepreneur. Are you ready to find out? | 10/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Small Business Owners Want - Oct 16,2007 | While many vendors and service providers are still struggling to figure out what business owners want, some have made progress on what it takes to market and sell to the 26 million small businesses in the United States. Using real marketplace examples, our featured guest in this episode of The Small Business Trends Radio is, Steve King, of the Institute for the Future, highlights some best practices for marketing to and selling to today's small businesses. | 10/16/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Avoid Being a Clueless Manager - Oct 09,2007 | Our featured guest in this episode of The Small Business Trends Radio is Wayne Hurlbert, an online business commentator at Blog Busines World. Wayne uses a light-hearted approach to deliver ten ultra-practical management tips for business owners. | 10/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Small Business Forecast For 2008 - Oct 02,2007 | Do you know about the "tax gap" and how it affects entrepreneurs and small businesses? Or that there's an energy bill out there Congress is determined to pass that seeks to promote alternative fuels and boost energy efficiency that may affect the same? Our featured guest today is Matthew Mogul, Associate Editor of Kiplinger Business Forecast. Tune in to hear the answers to those questions and more and find out what's in store for 200 | 10/2/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stop Spreadsheet Anarchy - Sep 26,2007 | Ever get frustrated emailing spreadsheets back and forth, only to find you are working on the wrong version? Find out how to collaborate with others in multiple locations over a single Excel spreadsheet – and always have the most up-to-date version online. With George Langan, CEO of Expresso. | 9/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How A Mompreneur Took A Product Global - Sep 18,2007 | One driven woman took a great idea, turned it into a product launched from her "kitchen table" and took it global to 60 countries. Lisa Jarrett, CEO of BabyPlus shares her story. | 9/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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