Reluctant business owners are my favorite. They didn't wake up one day with a plan and take 6 months perfecting and planning things. Nope. Circumstances, often outside of their control caused them to decide to start a business. Michelle Spurlock, founder of Upside Aerial Arts and Fitness is one such business owner, where she teaches...
Austin Rolling's energy and can do attitude explode through the phone. Today he's the co-founder of Outfield, a sales team management app which help companies discover valuable insights about their market, track and verify team activity, and communicate across all their devices. Outfield is Austin's fourth startup. His first three start ups failed. Austin...
David Neagle shares with Ramon Ray that as a young adult without even complete high school education, who was married with a few children, he realized that he had “created a situation where [he] had way more responsibility than the ability to fulfill that responsibility.” He wasn’t being the husband, father, or provider he...
To celebrate National Women’s Small Business Month, Mastercard continued its commitment to spotlighting women entrepreneurs by bringing together their Women’s Business Advisory Council for a retreat and kicking off the first ever Small Business Summit in partnership with Create & Cultivate in New York City. “Small Businesses are the heart of the nation. During a...
Mailchimp is one of the leading brands enabling businesses to get more customers and keep the ones they have. Mailchimp is best known as an email marketing company, but it now does so much more, including websites, marketing automation, CRM, advertising and more. Darcy Kurtz, VP of Product Marketing at Mailchimp shared with Ramon Ray...
Ramon Ray caught up with Cheryl Guerin, Mastercard's Executive Vice President of Integrated Marketing and Communications for North America at Mastercard’s Small Business Summit in partnership with Create and Cultivate in New York City. The summit was held in celebration of National Women’s Small Business Month and Cheryl was there as part of Mastercard’s...
Seth Godin has one of the biggest email newsletters in the world. However, Seth Godin doesn’t have much of a social media presence. What social networking activity he does has seemed to be mostly automated, reposting directly from his blog, and there wasn’t much custom content for social media platforms. Until one day, there...
“Why books, Jodi?” “Why not books, Ramon?” There is money to be made in books! Jodi Rosenbaum, Founder and Executive Director of More Than Words, says they are selling them to the tune of $3.7 million a year. She says every book that they receive is in the hands of young people that they’re giving jobs...
Selling online is not easy, it's hard work. However, thousands of businesses, every day are finding success in selling online. One of the leaders in helping businesses sell online is Yahoo Small Business and I just had a powerful discussion with Maria Melo, of Yahoo Small Business about how to increase holiday sales, this...
Ramon Ray caught up with Niraj Ranjan Rout, the co-founder, and CEO of Hiver, a company dedicated to making email better for business. Niraj started out as an electrical engineer and worked as a programmer writing code for 6-7 years. “That’s when the startup bug basically bit me,” he laughed. He started his first business...
