When you first enter Selena Soo’s S2 Groupe website, you are greeted with the opportunity to discover how she went from $0 to $157K in her first year as a coach. Ask any entrepreneur or small business owner and they will agree – that is a pretty impressive feat! What’s really impressive is how she took...
Larry Kim, the visionary leader and founder of WordStream, fully admits being a business owner isn't always what you expect. WordStream is one of the largest software companies in the world to focus on search engine marketing. The organization manages over a billion dollars a year in advertising, with approximately 10,000 clients worldwide. In a...
Dr. Thomas O’Grady is a business expert with a Ph.D. who has also cracked the Soviet code three times. He is the author of the book, The Mechanics of Breakthrough Success and the podcast, Life Unsettled. I spoke with Dr. O’Grady recently, and he gave me some very valuable tips to share with Smart Hustle...
Keeping data secure is a must for every small business. While many small businesses feel that they are safe, or immune, from today’s cyber criminals, they are not. New threats arise every day, and savvy hackers are finding new ways of taking advantage of those who are not protected. Imagine this scenario: you are super...
This article is published in partnership with Insightly, providing CRM and project management solutions for small business owners. Anyone who runs a small business knows that there are many different components that need to be kept straight in order for it to run smoothly. One of those top priorities is customer management. In a recent...
I'm not a sports fan. However, I've been mesmerized at how the Cleveland Cavaliers were down 3 to 1, in the NBA Championship 2016 and Lebron James, in large part, brought them back to WIN the Championship - a feat never done before. A major play in this comeback was the perseverance and grit of the...
Established in 2002, Neat is a company that helps businesses run more efficiently by assisting them with the management of financial information. Originally known for their hardware and scanners, Neat has had to keep up with changing technology in the last several years. In a recent interview, I spoke with Jenn Choi, the CMO...
For every movie-worthy startup success story (think Facebook), there are plenty more stories of unachieved dreams that we will never get to hear about. And that shouldn’t be surprising at all. Not when statistics show that about 50 percent of new businesses fail within the first five years. Sometimes, those numbers can be much...
There are at least 28 million small businesses in the US which account for about 54 percent of all sales. There are also 900,000 franchise businesses across 300 business sectors of the economy. And yet, despite these numbers, it’s not often that you will come across small business brands that are also franchises. This is where...
It’s not easy for anyone who has a crazy business idea to get to the point of implementing it. And yet, we frequently meet people who run businesses that make us think, “Hmmm. Why didn’t I think of doing that myself?” One such person who had a business idea and decided to just go for...
