Ramon Ray talks about the intricacies of working with today’s 20 and 30-somethings with Chris Tuff. Chris is the author of the USA Today and LA Times bestselling book, The Millennial Whisperer: The Practical, Profit-Focused Playbook for Working With and Motivating the World’s Largest Generation. Chris shared that he fell into the technology space after...
As a mother and business owner, Deepti Sharma is passionate about policies that support and enhance mothers and entrepreneurs. Her company, Food to Eat specializes in connecting immigrant, women and minority-owned food vendors to opportunities for growth. At the 2019 Smart Hustle Growth Conference Deepti will share her insights on starting, growing and scaling a business. She'll...
I was recently listening to the Social Media Examiner podcast where Mike Stelzner, founder of SME was talking about the launch of his annual report on the state of social media marketing. The nutshell, from what I can remember, is as follows: Facebook use and overall advertising is declining. Sure, it's still being used...
Josh Cohen, founder, and CEO of Junkluggers took a “garbage” idea and turned it into a business that’s booming. Starting a business is challenging, and when it’s a niche business, those intricacies become even more complex. Josh faced this challenge head-on when he took the mainstream offering of hauling junk and made it environmentally...
ReadWrite, Inc., a technology and business publisher, has acquired the small business technology publication smallbiztechnology.com. The two sites will retain separate leadership teams to ensure editorial independence while cooperating to cover trends in the tech and business sectors. Entrepreneur and author Ramon Ray launched smallbiztechnology.com in 1999 as a resource for all things small business. Founded as a paper newsletter for Ray’s...
Communication and collaboration are the keys to success in any business. But, have you wondered how best to communication with your team? And what if your team is remote and you never meet face to face? Who is Ivy Slater? In an interview with Ramon Ray, Ivy Slater of Slater Success Coaching shared her...
Female founders face special challenges that their male counterparts don't. Access to funding, being taken seriously, managing their family and business are just a few of the challenges. Successful entrepreneurs such as Sarah Blakely and Rebecca Minkoff are just two of the many founders who are passionate and focused on empowering women entrepreneurs. At the 2019 Smart...
As I was on the treadmill this morning, I watched the "news" clip from CNN about the time President Trump has on his schedule as executive time. CBS News reports on it here. Setting aside the politics of this, it got me thinking about "executive time". How much time do YOU spending, thinking, reading, learning? As business...
James Arthur Ray, one of the world’s foremost leadership and performance advisors, sat down with Ramon to talk about leadership, failure and how to attain happiness in a culture of disruption. James co-authored and featured in the film documentary “The Secret,” a ground-breaking feature-length film, and New York Times bestseller. He is also author...
Jerry Ross, president of the National Entrepreneur Center (NEC), is a serial entrepreneur who wants to help....everyone. Under his leadership, the Orlando, FL based organization has coordinated the efforts of 14 non-profits who support business, under one roof, to provide face-to-face coaching and training to over 15k entrepreneurs annually. How does an organization with only...
