Considering Ecommerce as a Side Hustle? Here’s How to Nail Your Niche
Many people have been able to accomplish full-time results while just working part-time hours, but if you want to join them, you must first nail your niche.
Hannah’s Journey – How To Conquer Roadblocks In Your Business (and Life)
How to conquer roadblocks on your journey to business success (and a better life)? What to do when the going gets tough? Questions like these are a challenge for most business owners at some time or other. In this ongoing series of the Smart Hustle Podcast, "Hannah's Journey", Ramon Ray speaks with Hannah Perry, owner...
How One Thriving Veteran Supports Women Business Owners
When you have a global team of 9,000 and two successful businesses, people will ask about your secret sauce. Two big factors in this female entrepreneur’s story: incredible leadership and a heart of service. We sat down with Jen Griswold, an Air Force veteran and founder of Team G.i.v.e. and Mission Entrepreneur. She shared...
How Engagify Improved Customer Experience with Magic and CRMs
A positive customer experience is advantageous to your business; a happy customer is a loyal customer. Anders Boulanger, the founder of Engagify, has mastered the art of marketing and improved customer experience. He started doing magic shows when he was five years old and performing at birthday parties at 12. After college, Anders began...
Diana Lee – Bootstrapping a Multi-Million Dollar Agency
Diana Lee is the CEO and co-founder of Constellation Agency, an amazing digital platform that helps dealers who sell cars...sell them better. She's going to share her story of growth and how she scaled growing her business in a tough, competitive market. When Constellation Agency first started it was a digital media agency that was...
This Entrepreneur Is Helping Military Spouses Become Successful Business Owners
No entrepreneurial journey is ever easy. But for military spouses, starting a business and making it a success is an uphill battle. From moving around different parts of the world to finding tools and resources to succeed, military spouses have to overcome some additional challenges to establish their businesses. And most often, military spouse...
Hesitating to Implement an Awkward Business Idea? This Founder’s Story Will Inspire You [Plus 3 Growth Tips]
Not all business ideas receive a beam from the audience. Some business ideas sometimes get a frown from some people, too. Well, there is nothing wrong with such awkward business ideas. It is just some people don't get unusual business ideas at first. Later, the same people whose faces wore disapproval at first often become...
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...
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...
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...
