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SmallBizChat · The SmallBizChat with Melinda Emerson

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  Hi.
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  I'm Melinda Emerson small biz lady, and I'm really excited to tell you about the small biz
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  chat podcast.
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  Now I am my nickname is the small biz lady, and I have been giving out helpful small business
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  information For the last 12 years, since 1998, I have been teaching people how to start and
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  grow successful small businesses.
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  I also have been doing a show live on Twitter every week called Smallbizchat where we bring
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  on a guest expert who helps small business owners get information that they otherwise
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  would have to pay for.
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  The mission of small business chat is to end small business failure.
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  And I'm really excited because, you know, for years, I've been blogging.
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  For years, I've been doing Twitter and tweet chats, And now finally, in response to so many
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  friends and fans asking me, we are launching the small business chat podcast.
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  What are we gonna be talking about?
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  Well, we're gonna be talking about all the booby traps that are out here waiting for small
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  business owners.
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  You know, all of us know how to do our individual craft, but most of us struggle
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  running our small businesses.
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  And so what I wanna do is illuminate all of those things out there that are hard about
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  running a business, you know, things like cash flow management, things like marketing, things
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  like figuring out What to do with SEO?
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  Who to hire to do your SEO for you?
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  Those things that, you know, hiring is a big one.
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  Training people, you know, developing processes and systems in your business.
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  How to develop a business that works as well with you as it does without you?
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  I want the entrepreneurs that listen to the small business chat podcast to be able to take
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  a laptop free vacation That's a real goal.
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  I also want to pit people in a position where they can stop skipping paychecks so that you
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  can have not only an operating account for your business, but a profit account as my good
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  friend, Mike McConnell, it's talks about.
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  So the thing that I want you to know the small biz chat podcast is we're not gonna talk to you
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  from 50000 feet in the air.
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  We're gonna talk to you with boots on the ground All of my guests are people who run
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  small businesses.
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  All of my guests are people who have researched and written books about how to be better in
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  business?
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  How to work on your leadership?
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  How to work on your leadership style and your communication style?
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  You know, how can you grow yourself while you're growing your business.
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  How to maintain work life balance?
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  You know, there's a lot of people out here that say work life balance is a misnomer.
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  And I, you know, I have to be tell you the truth.
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  I'm kinda one of them, but I think that it's not about work life balance as much as it's
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  about presence.
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  And we're gonna talk about that.
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  You know, the guests and the people that I invite to be on the show are gonna be from all
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  walks of life in entrepreneurship.
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  And I'm really excited because As the small biz lady, I have the ability to call anyone to be
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  on my show, and most would be scared not to say yes, but most of the people that I reach out to
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  are generous, and they wanna help.
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  They wanna give you that one kernel of wisdom that's gonna keep you going on those really
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  hard days or inspire you to get started in the first place.
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  Now we're gonna mix the audience of our show.
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  Like, half of our guests are gonna be, you know, startup based content, and the other half
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  of our guests are gonna be existing entrepreneurs.
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  You know, they're gonna be giving advice for people in the trenches, dealing with how to
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  make payroll on Friday.
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  And, you know, that's really what it is about at the end of the day, but here's what I want
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  for you.
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  Here's what I want for the listeners of the small business chat podcast.
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  I want you to run the business of your dreams.
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  We as entrepreneurs, we live how most people won't, so we can live how most people can't.
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  I know most people with a job cannot take 4 vacations a year and work for the clients they
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  wanna work for and get paid what they wanna get paid.
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  But if you want your business better, I know you can.
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  And that's what we want for you, and that's the kind of information that I'm gonna pour into
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  you.
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  Now we're gonna vary this content.
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  Sometimes it's gonna be an interview.
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  Sometimes you're just gonna hear from me.
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  Sometimes there's things I just feel so passionate about.
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  That I'm just gonna give you straight up the information that I think you need, but we're
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  gonna mix it up.
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  You never know what you're gonna ask for what you're gonna get.
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  And I also wanna let you know that I'm available to you.
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  If there's something you wanna hear, something you wanna know on the small business chat
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  podcast, shoot me an email.
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  Send me a line.
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  DM me on Twitter, linkedin, Facebook, instagram, I'm small biz lady everywhere except
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  for LinkedIn.
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  I'm Melinda Emerson on LinkedIn, but you just need to know that the reason why I'm doing
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  this, the reason why I'm adding one more thing.
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  You know, we already do, small business chat on Facebook live, on Twitter, I I blog three, four
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  times a week.
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  I have faithfully over 10 years, but the reason why I'm adding a podcast to the mix is because
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  I want to give you information where you wanna learn it.
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  And whether that's you wanna read it, you wanna watch it, now you wanna listen to it while
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  you're in your car or you're in the gym on the treadmill.
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  I know that there is an ability to reach more people if you add one more platform.
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  So this is what I'm doing.
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  I'm really passionate and excited about it.
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  And the small biz chat podcast is gonna launch this fall, the fall of 2019.
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  So I want you to be excited about it.
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  We're gonna give you lots of content, lots of options.
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  It's gonna be on every platform where you can hear podcasts.
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  And so I just want you to know that me and my team were busy at work We're in Santa's
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  workshop, getting it ready for you.
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  And when we drop it, you are gonna love it.
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  So I'm Melinda Emerson.
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  I am the small biz lady.
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  And I want you to get ready for the small biz chat podcast because our mission is end small
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  business failure, and that's what we're out here to do.
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  Take care.