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Smart Hustle Magazine’s must-read in-depth feature articles focus on small business entrepreneurs and small businesses that have mastered the art of the smart hustle for overcoming challenges, making the most of scarce resources, finding resources and essentially finding success when it didn’t seem possible. We welcome your story ideas and nominations for featured entrepreneurs and companies.

By Ramon RayFeatured, Operationshiring

Ryan Deiss of Digital Marketer Shares 3 Fatal Hiring Mistakes Almost Every Small Business Makes

Today we are speaking to small business owners who have been in the hustle for a while now and are looking to get to the next level. The key to accelerated growth at this stage? Hiring the right people. That certainly doesn’t sound like earth shattering advice, but hear me out. While hiring the right team...

By Ramon RayFeatured, Tipsinfusionsoft

Marcus Lemonis Shares Small Business Wisdom With Smart Hustle

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...

By Ramon RayFeatured, MarketingCRM

What is a CRM? GetuWired Co-founder Dobbin Buck Breaks it Down for Us

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...

By Ramon RayFeatured, Marketing

Referrals: A Small Business’s Secret Sales Weapon

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...

By Ramon RayFeatured, Operations, Technologyproductivity

Small Business Productivity: 7 Reasons Why It No Longer Needs to Be a Problem

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...

By Ramon RayFeatured, Technology, Your Smart Hustlevideo

Josh Koppel Talks About Bringing Old Media to Life With Ingage

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...

By Ramon RayFeatured, Lifestyle, Your Smart HustleInterview, Smart Hustle Interviews

How an Entrepreneurial Doctor’s Product is Helping Babies Take Medicine

There’s nothing that says you need to come from a certain field or background in order to become an entrepreneur, and my latest podcast guest is proof of that. Dr. Agnes Scoville, the creator of the Pacidose, spoke with me recently about how her 15 years of experience as an ER doctor and recent...

By Ramon RayFeatured, Lifestyle, Your Smart Hustle

Bedros Keuilian Used the Immigrant Edge to Build His Successful Franchise Business

Every entrepreneur has a story about where they got their hustle from. Bedros Keuilian’s story is not the typical journey you’d expect from the owner of an Inc. 5000 franchise, and that’s exactly why I want to share it with you today. Defining the Immigrant Edge Bedros Keuilian’s family immigrated here back in 1980 in order...

By Ramon RayFeatured, Marketing, Technology

6 Keys to Developing a Stand-Out App

Today’s mobile market is booming with over one million apps available at App stores. They are not all for games and social networking either. Businesses have come to realize the power of apps for connecting with customers and boosting profit. In fact, 91 percent of top brands now have an app, and small businesses...

Making CRM and Integral Part of Your Small Business Team

By Ramon RayFeatured, Marketing, Your Smart HustleCRM

Making CRM an Integral Part of Your Small Business Team

Want to build a better small business? Then it is time to build your TEAM! A team, however, doesn’t just consist of the employees, subcontractors, and freelancers you hire who can help you with the things you don’t know how to do, don’t have time to do, or just plain don’t want to do....