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By Sandeep RathoreYour Smart Hustleemployee engagement, employee happiness, employee retention

How The Streaming Network Created Powerful Employee Experience to Boost Employee Productivity

Your employees are your most valuable asset. This is because your company's performance largely depends on your employee experience. If you successfully create a powerful employee experience (EX) that fosters productivity, creativity, collaboration, and engagement, your business will undoubtedly flourish. What's more, a powerful employee experience instills a culture where employees try to challenge their...

By Sandeep RathoreArticles, Featured, General, Interview, Your Smart HustleMilitary Spouse Business Owners, Military Spouse Entrepreneurs

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...

By Sandeep RathoreAdvice, Interview, Smart Women, Your Smart Hustleawkward business ideas, business growth, smart hustle, smart women smart hustle, women entrepreneurs

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...

By Ramon RayAdvice, Featured, General, Media, 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 RathoreAdvice, Featured, General, Interview, Your Smart Hustlesmall business success, startup mindset

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 Sol DolorAdvice, Covid19, Featured, General, Interview, Operations, Tips, Your Smart Hustledata, empowerment, financing, Kate Winkler, open communication, Ruby, small business, Transition to remote work

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...

By Morgan GertlerAdvice, Featured, General, Sales, Tips, Your Smart Hustlebusiness advice, entrepreneur, Smart Hustle Interviews

Tips and Tricks You Need to Know About Selling a Business

Selling is tough work. If you're selling a house, that's also tough. Selling a business — that may be the toughest sale there is. It’s a topic not often talked about, and therefore business owners don’t always know where to turn. John Warrilow has been involved in a few startup businesses and claims that he’s...

By Morgan GertlerAdvice, Featured, General, Interview, Marketing, Tips, Your Smart Hustlebusiness advice, business interview, entrepreneur, small business

A Conversation with Lori Greinger from Shark Tank: Ramon Hosts the Verizon Small Business Webinar Series

Ramon Ray got to host the Verizon Small Business Webinar Series with special guest Lori Greinger. You may know her as the warm-blooded shark from the Emmy-winning ABC series, Shark Tank. She's also an inventor with 120 patents and the author of the bestselling book Invent It, Sell It, Bank It! Her passion is...

By Jill QuashTips, Your Smart Hustle

4 Business Tips From a Successful CEO and HGTV Contractor

Natalya Cappellini’s journey to becoming a successful project manager, HGTV contractor, and CEO began with a love from being in the field and guiding a project to fruition. To her, it’s all about watching plans on a page become actual structures standing in real life. The woman powering CURATO Design/Build, Natalya has shepherded the company...

By Jill QuashCovid19, Interview, Money, Tips, Your Smart HustleAccenture, Accenture Ventures, Black Entrepreneurs, Black Founders, funding, funding round, venture capital

Accenture Ventures Leader Says Time Is Now for Black Entrepreneurs

Accenture Ventures leader Kathryn Ross has advice for black founders that could be initially deemed counter-intuitive. In the middle of the pandemic, Ross says it’s time to actually buckle in and accelerate. And she tells Ramon Ray exactly why she thinks that and how that should be done. Kathryn is well-placed to shares insights about...