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We all know that there is nothing easy about being an entrepreneur. Regardless of how much schooling or experience you have, additional learning and coaching can always help to boost performance and start you toward business success. [Tweet "#Entrepreneurs, @daasKnowledge shares his secret for #business success."] In today’s Smart Hustle interview, I’m joined by Henry Daas,...
Precious Williams Shares How Coaching and Hustlenomics Helped Her Business
How do you rise up from eating out of garbage cans and wearing Salvation Army clothing as a child to getting a full-ride to Spellman College and Rutgers School of Law where you graduate magna cum laude and then run two successful businesses, which ultimately leads to appearing in a Hollywood movie? If you...
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When we started planning this edition of Smart Hustle Magazine, we knew that we wanted to concentrate on the power of networking, an area that many Smart Hustlers should be focused on. It was only natural that, when choosing an entrepreneur who epitomized everything that is “relentless networking,” we chose BJ Dowlen, Founder and...
Social Entrepreneur Shel Horowitz on Why Businesses Need to Be More Than Green
In my most recent Smart Hustle interview, I had the opportunity to chat with the award-winning author, International Speaker, Consultant, and Ethical Marketing Expert Shel Horowitz. For more than a decade, Shel, also known as “The Transformpreneur,” has been showing business owners how to be more profitable by simply being more green and ethical. A...
How a Michigan Company is Using Insightly CRM to Increase Communications and Sales
This article is published in partnership with Insightly, providing CRM and project management solutions for small business owners. Customer Relationship Management, or CRM, is an integral part of any small business looking to optimize their ability to manage prospects or leads through a sales funnel to becoming a customer. A strong well-managed CRM then allows...
Women’s Equality Is More Than Equal Pay: A Discussion with Carol Sankar
Executive Leadership Consultant and Business Advisor Carol Sankar is a woman you want on your side. She is the founder of The Confidence Factor for Women in Leadership, a global executive firm helping women achieve c-level positions; and she lives this mission. She has also recently started the site I Deserve Equal Pay and devotes...
Family Business: How A Daughter’s Partnership Helped Her Dad’s Plumbing Business
Everyone has an opinion about working with their relatives, and many people like to heartily declare "I could NEVER work with my family!" but Michelle Poniewozik begs to differ. Customer Experience Coordinator, marketing, admin, sales—you name it; Michelle wears many hats at her family owned and operated HVAC business, Iceberg's One Hour Heating &...
NYC Lawyer Shares His Journey In Launching A Second Business
If you live in New York State and have received a traffic ticket, you may already be familiar with this next person I had the opportunity to interview: my friend and the very successful entrepreneur Matthew Weiss. For those of you who have not had the pleasure of being represented by one of the...
Salesforce VP Shares 3 Pillars of Sales and Marketing Success: Find, Win, Keep Customers
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Jamie Domenici, VP of Product and SMB Marketing for Salesforce, as she relayed to me the three important pillars of sales and marketing and how it relates to their software. When I asked her what defines a company as "winning," she had this to add: “The...
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Don’t Wait for Perfect and Other Advice from JJ Ramberg
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