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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 Editorial TeamFeatured, General, Interview, Operations, Virtual Assistants

How Hiring a Virtual Assistant Can Help Your Business

For a small business owner, there's temptation to handle every aspect of your business by yourself. This happens in most cases whether you are starting or have been running the business for a while. Letting go of different aspects of your business is not easy. However, hiring a virtual assistant could be just what...

By Editorial TeameCommerce, Featured, General, Interview, Marketing, Sales

How to Expand Your Business and Go Global with the Largest Cross Border Ecommerce Platform

If you run a profitable business and you're looking to expand, how about going global? The thought might be daunting. How do you start and what if things don’t go according to plan? These are common concerns, however, it might be easier than you think. We talked to Tony Shan, the head of Alibaba’s...

By Morgan GertlerFeatured, General, Interview

How “Small Business Revolution” Show by Deluxe Is Helping Businesses Nationwide

Several small businesses struggle when it comes to picking the best marketing strategies for their businesses. This is especially the case when it comes to the digital space. However, with companies such as Deluxe, you can learn even more about how to be found better online. Amanda Brinkman is the Chief Brand Officer at...

By Morgan GertlerFeatured, General, Interview

Why Customer Experience Matters [According to Former Pinterest Executive]

Most of the big platforms are monetized via advertising. The products are very similar in terms of people who are trying to acquire customers. Whether it's Google or Pinterest, you're trying to acquire customers to some degree, and that acquisition is done through paid advertising. Dutta Satadip is the Chief Customer Officer of ActiveCampaign....

By Jill QuashCommunity Favorites, Featured, General

10 Pillars of a Successful Small Business [Upcoming Akimbo Course]

Do you want to start or grow your business? Let's do a spot check and see if you have these 10 key pillars of a successful business: 10 Small Business Pillars Target audience. Are you getting clients and serving your audience? Business solution. Does your business solve a specific problem? Pricing. Do you have pricing...

By Ramon RayAdvice, Featured, General, Public Speaking, Your Smart Hustle

How to Deliver a Powerful Media Interview for Your Business

Connecting your business, and yourself, with the media is extremely important for exposure. In fact, anytime you are in front of a camera, how you communicate and present yourself is critical. So once you have a media interview lined up, or even a presentation or upcoming video, how do you successfully present yourself? Jane Hanson...

By Sandeep BabuAdvice, Featured, General, Interview, Your Smart Hustle

Adopt Startup Mindset to Grow Your Business (and How eBay VP of Global Payments Got It Right)

Small business owners don't always sail smoothly. Off and on, they find themselves in troubled waters. Recently, COVID-19 affected most small businesses, making it hard for them to stay afloat. If you want to survive and grow your small business, you need to adopt a startup mindset. A startup mindset can help your business become...

By Ramon RayFeatured, General, Interview, Leadership, Money

Leadership in the Midst of Crisis with Lendio’s CEO. Inside a PPP Processing Company.

Brock Blake has a very disciplined life. His family, health, early morning routines, and his faith are a few of his daily habits and what's important to him. Over the past year his company, Lendio, has been thrust into the essential role of processing thousands of transactions for small business owners. In the first...

By Sandeep BabuAdvice, Featured, General, Interview, Marketing

Thinking About In-stream Audio Advertising? Pandora Executive Shares Insights

Music streaming is poised to grow exponentially. According to Statista, user penetration for music streaming is expected to reach 40.1% in the US by 2025. Pandora, a music-streaming company, has around 58.50 million monthly active users. That said, running in-stream audio advertising should be part of your marketing strategy. In-stream audio advertising, if used strategically,...

By Sol DolorAdvice, Covid19, Featured, General, Interview, Operations, Tips, Your Smart Hustle

How One Company Made 11-day Transition to Remote Work Possible

Kate Winkler wasn’t even a year into being CEO when she oversaw the transition to remote work of about 650 people at Ruby. Yet the company completed the task in just 11 days. What’s more, the company didn’t really even have a remote working transition plan set in stone before COVID-19 arrived. How did Ruby...