6 Strategies for Boosting Your Network Security and Keeping Your Business Safe

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]Security is on everyone's mind these days, especially with so many high-profile hacks happening to companies such as Sony, Microsoft, JPMorgan, Target and more. In 2014, more than 145 million email addresses, physical addresses and login credentials were absconded during an attack on eBay. The prospect that your business could one day...

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Bicycle Helmets Maker Making Them Cool and Fun to Wear

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] I recently had the opportunity to speak with Danielle Baskin, CEO & Founder of Inkwell Helmets, a company customizing and individualizing an everyday ordinary item...the bicycle helmet. Danielle shared the interesting story of how Inkwell Helmets came to be out of her attempt to create an "invisible" helmet - one that she hand-painted to...

Small Businesses Embracing MADE IN THE USA

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Having recently celebrated another birthday of our great country, I was spurred to think back to a time, in the 1970’s when I was just a little girl, and the 4th of July and American Pride seemed to have such a different tone and meaning. Perhaps it’s just my changing of age...

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Adrian Miller on How to Get Your Business Out of a Sales Slump

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]Is your business in a sales slump? This week on Ignition, Sales trainer, Adrian Miller shares her tips and advice on how to get your business out of a sales slump. This is box titleQuestion of the Week: I have been running my printing business for 15 years. I have a team of...

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How Hustle Made a Valuable Difference For Canvs.co to be Successful

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]I recently caught up with Arjun Rai, CEO and Founder of Canvs.co at his office in the entrepreneur center at NYIT (New York Institute of Technology). Arjun shares with me his no nonsense strategies on how he has hustled to build his business and what it takes to find continual growth and success. The young entrepreneur...

Three Trends Shaping the Modern Small Business Office

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Today’s business landscape is more challenging than ever before – technology is changing the way that customers want to engage with small businesses, the internet is bringing new customers into reach, and businesses need to be leaner and more innovative than ever to stay relevant amidst emerging competition. For many small business...

Ishita Gupta on Leveraging Your Story to Improve Sales

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] This week on Ignition, Ishita Gupta, Founder of Ishita Gupta Consulting & Media joins Ramon and Ellis to share how small businesses can use their "why" to help improve their sales. As an entrepreneur, Ishita has gone from ground zero and back in business and is excited to share how small business owners and entrepreneurs can become...

Instagram Adds Advertising Options for Small Business

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Social media has come a long way from where it once began. What was originally built as a social networking service between friends and family, is now one of the largest marketing tools for businesses around the world. With Facebook being the powerhouse of the group, followed by Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and more, each...

Samantha Bennett on How to Stop Procrastinating

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]To become a successful entrepreneur, it's important to have self-discipline and drive along with many other things.  Without these, we often find ourselves stuck with one of our biggest enemies: procrastination.  So, this week on Ignition, Samantha Bennett, author of "Get it Done", shares how entrepreneurs who find themselves procrastinating can get can unstuck....

12 New Business Rules for the New Economy

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] When the economy changes, businesses - especially small businesses - really feel the effects. This could be for the better (during the good times) or the worse (during the bad times). What's most crucial is a businesses ability to see where the biggest impact of the changing economy hits them and...