Startup BizCast - The Small Business Advice Podcast

There has been quite a gap between episodes 85 and 86.  The reasons for that are plentiful, but one of the biggest is that I’ve been doing a lot of speaking engagements that have taken away the time I would normally have spent on this podcast.  For this episode, I wanted to make available the [...]

Between hardware like mobile phones and new social media tools, there’s so much new technology coming out every day that it can be hard to keep track.  If you’re able to harness some of these tools, however, it can make your work more profitable and sometimes even easier.  The topic of this episode is “new [...]

The social media landscape changes so quickly … almost every day!  The pace of change is so fast, in fact that it’s sometimes hard for professionals to keep up, let alone small business owners who have other things to worry about.  For that reason, in Startup BizCast #84 I decided to revisit the social media [...]

It’s no April Fools … tax day in the U.S. is rapidly approaching.  That means you’d better be getting to work on your tax returns.  If you’re not, you may need to think about filing for an extension.  Our guest on this episode of Startup BizCast is Ryan Thompson from FileLater, an online service set [...]

After a bit of a long hiatus, Startup BizCast is back with episode 82!  In this show, we take the pulse of entrepreneurship.  How are things going out there?  Our guest is Chris Benjamin from Rogue CFO.  He’s a contract CFO, working with companies that need someone in that position, but perhaps not full time [...]

It’s tough to hire new employees these days.  It may seem like a strange statement, and it’s not top on the list of concerns of most people, but it’s something to consider.  If you’re one of the small businesses that’s actually thriving in this weak economy, and you put an ad in the newspaper that [...]

Back in the 1990s, all you needed to do if you wanted funding for your business was show up with an interesting company name and slogan … and you’d get all you wanted.  These days … not so much.  With the economy withering, so is the amount of funding available.  To gain venture or angel [...]

After missing a week of the show … I’m back!  This week we have our promised episode on how small business owners can use Twitter.  I’m a member of the micro-blogging site and use it quite a bit, but I decided to bring in a guest who is even more immersed in the Twitterverse.  Dave [...]

This week we welcome back one of our favorite guests.  Ken Colburn from Data Doctors joins us to talk about this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.  Ken was at the show in Las Vegas, covering it not only for his own newsletter but also for CNN!  He gives us the rundown on a couple of the [...]

Happy New Year everyone!  Startup BizCast is back from the Christmas and New Year’s break, and ready for action! In this episode, I give a few suggestions for resolutions for this year for small business owners.  More importantly, however, I’d like YOUR input.  What do you think small business owners should resolve to do this year?  [...]

There’s a large portion of the population that would probably rather take a bath in a tub full of those newly-discovered cyanide spitting pink millipedes than speak in front of a room full of people.  Public speaking is one of the top fears out there, but when you’re asked to talk about yourself and your [...]

Free is good … free is great!  With times as rough as they are for small businesses, we need to save money wherever and whenever possible.  This week on Startup BizCast Ken Colburn from Data Doctors and I run down some of the best FREE resources on the `net for your small business! Also, in BizCast [...]

This week we tackle small business websites, and what they need.  I go solo to discuss three different types of small biz sites, and the integral parts of each.  Included are the online business card, the online store, and the social media hub.  This is a shorter episode, as I’m slammed trying to catch up [...]

Note: I’m publishing a day earlier than usual this week, partly because there was no episode last week and partly because of the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. This week we have not one piece of advice … but five!  The guest for Startup BizCast’s small business advice segment is Jim Tracy, founder and president of [...]

A few weeks back I was one of the presenters in two different webinars from PRWeb.  Each of the presentations was about small business marketing, and during each I talked about business blogging.  And … after each I received a number of emails from people who were confused about how to do it.  Since this [...]