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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, Lifestyle, Your Smart Hustlebusiness interview, Interview, Smart Hustle Interviews

How Irma Cedeno is Finding Success by Helping Entrepreneurs Tap Into the Spanish Market

As an entrepreneur, you’re busy thinking about where that next client will come from and what your next big move will be. So, when an opportunity arises that seems as like it may only be of benefit to you, it’s sometimes difficult to seize upon it. After all, your time is precious and it’s...

By Ramon RayFeatured, Technology, Your Smart Hustledell, Interview

McAfee Insights on Small Business Cyberattacks: How, Why, and What You Can Do

Think hackers are just aiming for the big guys? Think again. Recent statistics indicate that 43 percent of all cyberattacks target small businesses. Moreover, 60 percent of them will go out of business within six months of the attack. To understand why this is, I have a bonus interview to add to my Dell...

By Ramon RayFeatured, Lifestyle, Your Smart Hustlework life balance

Seasoned Entrepreneur Amy Vetter Shares Tips on Achieving a Work Life Balance

One of my favorite things about talking to seasoned entrepreneurs like Amy Vetter is that you never really know what’s going to come out of your discussions. Take Vetter, for example. She’s a CPA who knows her stuff. In fact, she acquired the accounting bug from her grandfather who was a CPA. But it turns...

By Ramon RayFeatured, Operations

Why Having a Process Is Essential For Successful Business Innovation

In 2015, consulting firm Accenture released the results of their 2015 US Innovation Survey: Clear Vision, Cloudy Execution. The study revealed a couple of major findings with regards to how companies think about business innovation and how successful they are when it comes to being innovative: 96 percent of executives said that the long-term success of...

By Ramon RayFeatured, Operations, Social Media, Trendshiring

How Social Media is Changing the Way Businesses Recruit and Hire

Social Media has had a huge impact on many facets of our lives. It's changed the way we connect and socialize with our family and friends. It's also changed the way we buy as consumers and access media. For businesses, there are just as many changes. For most businesses, social media allows them to reach...

By Ramon RayFeatured, Technology, Your Smart Hustledell

Embrace Risk: Michael Dell’s Advice for Small Business Owners

Innovation, risk, and growth – three principles of business that go hand in hand. To show you how it works, let’s take a look at a shining example: Michael Dell, the founder and CEO of Dell Technologies. In the final episode of my Dell EMC World series, I get Michael’s advice for small business...

By Ramon RayFeatured, Technology, Your Smart Hustlewomen

Female Entrepreneurs: Your Time is NOW

The gender gap in startups is well documented, particularly in the area of finance where research shows that female entrepreneurs raise smaller amounts of capital to get their businesses off the ground. Fortunately, the startup environment is starting to change, with more focus on helping women start businesses and scale up quickly. For example, at...

By Ramon RayFeatured, Operations, Your Smart Hustlecrowdfunding, Smart Hustle Interviews

Four Key Lessons on Bringing A Product from Design to Market: August Graube’s Journey with Fort Boards

Remember how much fun it was to play with forts when you were a kid? Regardless of whether you grew up in the city or the suburbs, you no doubt found ways to use the resources around to build your own private little escape. Well, August Graube, founder of Fort Boards, wanted to recreate that...

By Ramon RayFeatured, Technology, Your Smart Hustledell, security

Improving Efficiency While Keeping Data Safe: 3 Data Security Tips for Small Business

Data security is at the forefront of every business owner’s mind, whether they are a single entrepreneur, a small local business, or a billion dollar enterprise. In the fifth episode of my Dell EMC World video series, I spoke with Brett Hansen, the Vice President of Dell Data Security, who shared advice and best...

By Ramon RayFeatured, Sales

Gateway ’17: Alibaba’s Mission to Help Small Business Owners Expand Globally

By 2022, China’s middle-class population is projected to grow to nearly twice the size of the entire U.S. population. That means over 600 million potential customers on the other side of the globe…if only you could access them. Fortunately, the game is changing; these days even small business owners can go global if they...