Small Business with Steve Strauss

This episode of Small Business with Steve Strauss powered by Microsoft, is all about getting your Startup off the ground. In addition to having a great idea, setting up distribution, creating a marketing plan and many other things, it also takes money. We'll help you figure out the secret to starting a Small Business for under $100! Special guest, Chris Guillebeau also joins to provide some incredible insight.

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Having a strategy and goal of where you'd like to take your business, is as important at the day-to-day operations. Do you plan to franchise? How about expand to more locations? Or, would you like to cash in on your hard work and sell your business? In this episode of Small Business with Steve Strauss powered by Microsoft, you will learn about how to take your business from small, to big!

Steve brings in some world class experts in this topic, with Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey, the co-Founders of Barefoot Wine. Michael and Bonnie took their company from a laundry room office, to selling to one of the largest wine distributors in the world. From marketing, to strategy, to cost analysis and so much more, they provide a wealth of information that can directly apply to your business. They also provide advice worldwide via The Barefoot Spirit.

Don’t forget, you can submit your question for an “Ask An Expert Live” segment by sending an email to theselfemployed@yahoo.com.

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Direct download: 169-TakeYourBusinessFromSmallToBig.mp3
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Happy New Year! As we start it of with a brand new episode of Small Business with Steve Strauss powered by Microsoft, we want to focus on something that almost every business can do better. SEO! It's important to have a strong presence online, but how do you do it? That's what our expert is here for.

Steve interviews Damon Burton, the President and founder of SEO National and UtahSites! How do you optimize articles? What resources are there for Small Businesses to turn to? Damon is the expert on all things SEO and provides information that is a must-listen for any entrepreneur. 

Don’t forget, you can submit your question for an “Ask An Expert Live” segment by sending an email to theselfemployed@yahoo.com.

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As we wrap up the year with this episode of Small Business with Steve Strauss powered by Microsoft, we take a look at the ultimate goal of all entrepreneurs; to Become Self Employed! Steve has some great tips on what you should be doing to prepare yourself for this challenging and rewarding, career change.

Then Steve interviews someone who truly changed his life. Barbara Winter is the author of Making A Living Without A Job. It’s all about finding what makes you happy and then being successful at that. She also has a wonderful website called Joyfully Jobless, which sees self-employment as “an opportunity to share our unique gifts, passions and eccentricities with others so every citizen proudly creates a one of a kind enterprise that is a perfect fit for them.” Let Barbara change your life, too!

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In this episode of Small Business with Steve Strauss powered by Microsoft, we revisit Steve's chat with Jeopardy champion, Ken Jennings! Ken won Jeopardy 74 times in a row and has now teamed up with Bridge by Instructure to provide a free course to help you learn and retain knowledge. In the interview, Ken relays some great insight from his run on Jeopardy and some wonderful tips on how you can better yourself as an entrepreneur. Along the way, you'll also receive some great lessons in how to incorporate lifelong learning, into your business.

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In this week's Small Business with Steve Strauss powered by Microsoft podcast, we discuss the art of creating content. Getting the right post, noticed by the right people, can seem like an enigma these days. Often times you can end up wondering why no one likes your content. Well today, we have one of the world's foremost experts Emerson Spartz, to share some of the secrets of his viral content success.

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In this episode of Small Business with Steve Strauss powered by Microsoft we bring you our Annual Summer Small Biz Quiz! We love putting this together every year and on this one we tackle...famous businesses. Steve has some fun and interesting trivia for you to enjoy, as you are hopefully relaxing on a break. Enjoy and we'll be back on our regular schedule after Labor Day!

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Direct download: 164-AnnualSummerSmallBizQuiz.mp3
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For today's interview, Steve is joined by one of the foremost experts in Small Business. Kedma Ough is the Director of the Mt. Hood Community College chapter of the Small Business Development Center (SBDC). The SBDC has chapters all over the country, where they provide experts to overcome any type of obstacle that you could possibly encounter as a business owner. The best part...the advice is free, just like this podcast!

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The special guest on today's episode spoke is with Steve live from Virginia. Ken Yancey is the CEO of SCORE.org, a nonprofit association dedicated to helping out Small Businesses. From getting off the ground, to growing and achieving your goals through education and mentorship, there is something for all entrepreneurs. It's truly an honor to have him on this episode!

 

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This episode of Small Business with Steve Strauss powered by Microsoft is about Public Relations. Steve holds regular chats on Twitter and that's how he met today's guest. Lyndon Johnson is the founder of a company called COMMS.BAR. The goal of COMMS.BAR is to provide Public Relations and Marketing for Entrepreneurs. He'll give you an education on the different forms of PR, the most common uses for Small Businesses and how you can evaluate what will work best for you.

Direct download: 161_LyndonJohnson.mp3
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