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New Amazon Business Website Offers Low Price and Perks to Small Businesses

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Amazon recently announced that they will be expanding their offerings to business owners through a separate website called Amazon Business. The new site will offer hundreds of millions of products with a setup very similar to the regular Amazon, but there are also several features that make it more ideal for...

How To Make Entrepreneurship Work For You

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Entrepreneurship is challenging but it isn’t impossible. It isn’t always the omnipresent ticket to bail you out of your problems. In fact, as a small business owner, you are asking for the impossible and the surety of drained emotional reserves, as Clate Mask wrote earlier on Smart Hustle. But, for most entrepreneurs...

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Matt Gottesman on What it Takes to Become a Better a ‘Smart Hustler’

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Matt Gottesman knows a thing or two about what it takes to hustle your way to success.  As the Editor and Founder of Hustle & Deal Flow Magazine, Matt uses the magazine to tell the behind the scenes story of entrepreneurship.  Through candid interviews of entrepreneurs around the world, Matt is able to...

Dr. Nadia Brown on Networking for Introverts

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Networking can be a double edged sword for entrepreneurs and small business owners.  On the one hand, it can be a great way to make connections and open new doors for your business. However, on the other hand it can be extremely frustrating and intimidating, especially for individuals who are more introverted...

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[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]   If you're a busy networker you know the drill. You attend countless events hoping to make new contacts and reconnect with old friends as well. The routine is pretty much always the same. But how you execute the steps is what makes you a successful networker. Successful networkers know that networking is...

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31 of the Best Podcasts For Creating the Well-Rounded Entrepreneur

As small business entrepreneurs we know two things for certain: 1) If we stop learning we will stop growing and 2) Time is our enemy. For those looking for a way to utilize 'idol' time - time spent driving, trudging on the treadmill or cleaning the house (yes...that's when I listen!!) - podcasts provide the...

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[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Working in a windowless basement alongside David Byttow, Chrys Bader-Wechseler didn’t realize someday they’d form a $100 million startup together. But that was exactly what the co-founders of Secret did. Together, the two co-founded Secret, an app that allows its users to see anonymous items posted by people nearby. Like any entrepreneur,...