CNBC’s The Profit has long been recognized as one of those shows that every entrepreneur should watch. The reality TV series has been going strong for four years now, and with about half a million viewers per episode, chances are you’ve seen it. If not, let’s bring you up to speed. Each episode features a...
Small business owners can use all the help they can get to be more productive. That's why Adobe created Adobe Scan: The free scan app that's making the lives of small business owners everywhere easier! Want to learn more about Adobe Scan? In partnership with Adobe, join Smart Hustle Magazine's publisher Ramon Ray on August 2nd...
Quite often when you toss out the term “CRM” to large groups of small business owners, their eyes glaze over, and they get a questionable look on their face. What the heck is a CRM? CRM, or Customer Relationship Management refers to the practice, strategies, and technologies that businesses use to manage their customer information...
Growing a small business does not have to cost big bucks. In fact, the secret to exponential sales growth is simple and free, yet extremely effective. I’m talking about referrals, which was the topic of a recent video in my Facebook tips series. Of course, you probably don’t think of referrals as a ‘secret’ formula...
LinkedIn is powerful. It's now extending it's power to your web site. Knowing who is visiting your web site, what they're doing on it, what they're reading on it, and other details is critical to understand how your web site is (or is not) serving your customers. Just about every digital publisher has Google Analytics...
I recently built YourSizzleVideo.com. To build the service I hired an amazing web development team and spent a few weeks building the front end (design) and backend (programming). Using WixCode it looks like I could have done a lot of the work myself, or relied on a web developer but had it built faster...
When you went into business for yourself, you probably didn’t envision how difficult it would be to maintain productivity throughout the workday. Let’s face it: without a bunch of corporate bigwigs breathing down your neck, what sort of fire is there to spur you on to work at 100% every day when you are...
Last week I spoke with Raju Vegesna, Chief Evangelist for Zoho about the new and revamped Zoho. Zoho has upgraded it's entire suite of applications and is introducing Zoho One. I'll tell you about Zoho One - but that is NOT the secret sauce to Zoho's mojo. According to the press release, Zoho One is an all-in- one...
For large multinational companies and enterprises, issues in creating high-quality content and interactive media are rare. But for the small business entrepreneur, it’s a different story. I spoke recently with Josh Koppel, the founder of Scrollmotion, about this very disconnect between small and large business capabilities and how his company’s iPad app is trying to...
Over the past few years, there seems to have been an increased entrepreneurial focus that's just about MONEY, GREED and OVERALL NASTINESS. Of course everyone is not like this, many executives have a heart and want to do good. However the image portrayed in much of the main stream media is a "dog eat dog" world....
