Best books for small business owners

Top 13 Best Small Business Books: Learn to Start, Run & Grow Your Business

There are thousands of great business books. These are the top 10 small business books that I've read over the years that have been most helpful for me. These books will help ground you in mindset, marketing and finances. MINDSET of business, being a better leader and inspiring your team. MARKETING your business to get more...

vcita business management software

Tech Review: vcita – A Business Management Platform for Service-Based Hustles

With so many software products available on the market nowadays, it feels like small business entrepreneurs have gotten used to working with multiple apps to take care of things like scheduling appointments, getting paid by customers, relationship management, and nurturing leads. Using a diverse array of apps to run your business comes with many disadvantages....

Remote Work

How to Determine if Remote Work Is a Good Option for Your Team

Remote work is a method of working that allows employees to function outside a regular office setting. It is founded on the idea that work does not have to be completed in a certain location to be successful.  The COVID-19 pandemic upset the world’s economy causing major unprecedented changes. With that, employers and businesses had...

Grow your customer base

Three Uncommon, Yet Effective, Ways to Grow Your Customer Base

Customers write your paychecks.  Assuming your products are priced profitably, the more customers you have, the more revenue and profit you earn. Here are three ways to grow your customer base: Reactivate inactive customers. An inactive customer is a customer who has bought from your company in the past but not in the past 18 months. Go through...

Ramon Ray Black Enterprise

My 20 Year Journey to Overnight Success. Ramon Ray’s Black Enterprise Interview.

Often times we see "success" and think that it was "overnight". We forget that most of the business success we see, was a slow and steady progression of mistakes, of learning. Three or more steps forward and 1 step backward. We forget it was many lonely nights of tears and misery until the breakthrough...

Rebecca Minkoff

Rebecca Minkoff – Reinvent The Rules and Face Your Fears.

Rebecca Minkoff, fashion designer and entrepreneur, shared her story, tips for success and answered questions in the Likeable Business club, on Clubhouse.  Hosted by Dave Kerpen and Randi Zuckerberg, Rebecca shared insights from her upcoming book, Fearless: The New Rules for Unlocking Creativity, Courage, and Success Here's a quick summary of the discussion. Like many emerging...

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...