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Hit It & Quit It with Joe Mindak and Michelle Walker-Davis · The SmallBizChat with Melinda Emerson

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  Three, two, one, zero.
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  Ignition.
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  Lift off.
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  Ending small business failure.
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  Welcome to the Small Biz Chat podcast with the number one small business expert, Melinda
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  Emerson.
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  Melinda's goal is to end small business failure, and she'll give you the information
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  you need to succeed and live the life you dream of.
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  Now here's your host, the small biz chat lady herself, Melinda Emerson.
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  Have you subscribed to the small biz chat podcast?
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  Well, it's time.
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  Every Wednesday, we offer listeners bite sized actionable tips to start and grow a successful
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  small business.
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  In just twenty minutes or so a week, you can get a ton of insight and resources to propel
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  your business forward.
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  Be sure to subscribe to the Small Bitch Chat podcast today.
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  Hi, everybody.
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  Welcome to another edition of the Small Biz Chat podcast where we help small business
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  owners get real answers so they can succeed as their own boss.
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  I'm Melinda Emerson, the small business lady, America's number one small business expert, and
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  it is my honor to host another episode of the Small Biz Chat podcast.
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  We're gonna do our quick little panel that we like to call hit it and quit it.
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  And we call it that because each of my guests are gonna get asked the same question.
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  They're only gonna have thirty seconds to answer.
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  And if somebody steals their answer, too bad.
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  You better come over the phone.
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  All right, Michelle, let's go.
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  Come on.
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  Here we go.
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  All right, Michelle, I'm gonna come to you first as you've been waiting the longest.
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  So the first question is, what is your favorite podcast?
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  What is your
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  favorite Oh my goodness.
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  I wanna say SmallBizLady.
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  And I'm serious about that.
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  Melinda knows how we met one another, and I was given a boot camp and using curriculum and as a
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  result I found out I was failing my own boot camp.
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  So when my parents passed away I took the time out.
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  I filled out all the paperwork, did all the workshop material and that's how I was able to
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  scale my business.
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  So that was the ninety Days to Fix Your Business.
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  Was that the title?
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  Yeah, was, Fix Your Business.
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  It was ninety days.
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  Yeah, ninety days or less.
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  So that was the program.
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  That is how we met.
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  Good stuff, good stuff.
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  All right, Joe, what is your favorite podcast?
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  Well, that's a tough one because I've been on a lot of podcasts.
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  I'm gonna go off of the podcast I've been on, not to insult anyone that I've been on.
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  So, John Palumbo runs a fantastic podcast.
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  He's got a couple of big heads, and and he is just a very good interviewer, very down and
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  dirty and honest and getting So it he's got a great podcast.
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  You want to listen to how a great podcast is done and how a good interview is done, he
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  really does a great job.
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  I've never heard of him, so I'll have to check it out.
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  All right, guys, second question.
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  Now, Joe, this time I'm gonna come to you and then to you, Michelle.
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  What is your favorite business app?
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  I can't say my own app, right?
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  So I guess my favorite business app is probably WhatsApp, just to be able to communicate with
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  people all over the world, right?
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  We communicate here in The US just by texting and all that, but I have a lot of connections
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  now.
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  I've been building out more globally.
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  And WhatsApp is a great way to just be able to connect with other people and build these
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  little communities on that.
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  So it's been really valuable.
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  Great, great.
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  And Doctor.
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  Michelle, what about you?
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  What's your favorite app?
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  I'm gonna say ChatGPT.
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  Very simple.
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  User friendly.
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  No, it's increased my personal productivity 200%.
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  No, I agree.
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  Chat is amazing and it's really good for lots of different types of things.
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  Love it, love it, love it.
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  All right, next question.
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  Doctor.
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  Michelle, I'm coming to you first and then to you, Joe.
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  What is your favorite old school marketing tip?
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  Old school marketing tip.
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  Oh, always be selling, always be selling.
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  Always be selling, right, good, good.
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  All right, Joe.
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  What about you?
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  Favorite old school marketing tip.
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  Well, look, I've been on LinkedIn for since it started and going finding your ICP on LinkedIn
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  and finding someone that can connect you to the ICP, I still do it every day.
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  I go on LinkedIn for an hour every morning and find, put in my ICP, my ideal client profile,
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  and look at who I might be connected to.
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  Doctor.
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  Michelle, do you know Melinda?
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  Yeah, do know Melinda.
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  And if you get that introduction or somebody you know well, that's the best way to get an
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  introduction.
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  Still works like a charm.
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  Oh yeah, isn't that the main purpose for LinkedIn to introduce people to people?
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  I mean, that's like the main thing people are doing with LinkedIn is introducing people to
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  other people.
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  I 100% agree.
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  My favorite app I have to say has become mint.com.
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  I'm all about tracking the money.
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  So I like mint.com to use to track money.
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  All right, last question guys, and this is one that hopefully isn't gonna be that hard.
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  What is your favorite business book you have ever read?
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  Doctor.
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  Michelle, your favorite business book you Yeah, have ever
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  it's a book called Dare to Dream.
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  And the author is, the first name is Valerie, I can't remember the last name, but I met her at
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  a conference And that book was such a good read, just basic stuff that we need to do the
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  power within us, you know, and that it's already there.
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  You just have to execute and just tear down all those barriers.
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  So the power, it was the dare to dream.
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  Alright.
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  I love it.
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  I love it.
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  What about you, Joe?
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  So it's called One Phone Call Away, Secrets of a Master Networker by Jeffrey Michel.
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  When I read the book, it was like I was reading what I was building at the time.
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  I was building out my platform and how I was connecting people and doing all that.
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  And it was like, I couldn't put it down because it was like, I should have wrote this.
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  This is the book I would have wrote if I would have wrote it.
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  Now I have written a book, but
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  it's not
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  the same thing.
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  But that was like, if you want to know how to network and be a good networker, like one phone
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  call away.
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  It's a fantastic book.
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  One phone call away.
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  One phone call away.
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  I love it.
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  I love it.
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  Now My favorite book is 10X is Easier than 2X by Dan Sullivan.
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  I have read this book twice, but the audio is even better because he tells little stories in
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  between the chapters with his coauthor that are amazing.
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  So it's still undefeated.
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  I just got onto that a few years ago, but it's my favorite book.
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  And the whole point of it is that the stuff it takes you to do little things, the same effort
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  it takes to do big things.
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  So stop doing little things and do big things instead.
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  That's really what the gist of the book is.
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  I mean, there's a lot to it, but that book changed me and it made myself and my business
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  completely differently.
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  I love that book.
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  Is Dan a man.
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  He's an old man now, but he was brilliant, Brilliant.
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  Brilliant.
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  Brilliant.
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  So he is a young co author that, yeah, I think did all the legwork for him.
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  But I mean, the book is brilliant.
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  Amazing.
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  Love it.
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  Because basically he talks about in order for you to be the leader that you wanna be, you
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  have to transform yourself into that leader to take your business to the next level.
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  He said, and even if it takes you two or three years to transform yourself, that's okay
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  because you're doing it because you know the leader you have to be to take your business to
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  the next level that you have to take it to.
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  It's great.
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  Like, woah, like, you know how you read something, they're just like, all right.
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  I've seen that book a few times.
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  Think I bought one of his other books recently.
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  Oh, he has several books, but that is like, to me, it's the, I don't know, what did they say?
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  The genesis qua, I mean, pretty amazing.
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  But listen, I have to thank both of you so very much for being my guests on this edition of the
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  Small Biz Chat podcast.
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  I'm Melinda Emerson, the Small Biz Lady, your host.
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  Please support Joe Mendek and his platform, noladex.com.
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  You wanna learn how to get paid from introducing people, check out what Joe's
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  talking about.
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  And if you need help with your contracts, your grants, if you are on nonprofit looking for
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  foundation dollars, you need to find my friend, Doctor.
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  Michelle Walker Davis, her organization, the Imperial Management Group, img.info.
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  You gotta check them out because they are amazing.
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  They are changing people's lives and changing organizations.
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  And I am so grateful that she sought it not Robbery to hang out with me today.
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  On a great time.
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  I guess.
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  And listen, don't forget if you are in business and you need help, it is my business to help
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  you fix your business.
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  So if you are looking for support with your small business, head over to
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  smallbizladyuniversity.com.
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  We have lots of resources.
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  I coach people.
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  We have sales training.
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  If you got a revenue problem, it's probably because your business, your sales is not in the
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  right order it needs to be in.
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  And I love to help people build sales systems and businesses.
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  So head over to Small Business Lady University, check us out.
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  This is 2026 y'all, and we are trying to do big things in 2026.
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  So I thank you all and I leave you with this.
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  You never lose in business.
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  Either you win or you learn.
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  Thanks for listening to the Small Biz Chat podcast with Melinda Emerson.
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  Subscribe to this podcast wherever you listen to podcasts, and join us next Wednesday for
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  more fantastic information and interviews.
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  You can find more sources and small business success strategies by visiting Melinda's
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  website, succeedasyourownboss.com.
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  Thanks again for listening, and we'll see you next week.