Transitions: a conversation with Melinda Emerson
Melinda Emerson is probably best known to many online microbusiness owner as Twitter’s @smallbizlady and hostess of what she calls her Twitter talk show, #smallbizchat.
She is also the author of Be Your Own Boss In 12 Months and has her sights set on producing and hosting a new reality show doing something very much like [...]
[June Poll] Has the economy caused you to reasses your business?
(Photo “Reassessing things” by ‘otakuchick’, via Flickr)
Hey, we have a new poll for you here at The Journal Blog and, as usual, there’s a reason for that.
Your trusty Journal Blogger has encountered a whole string of issues, challenges, problems, etc., over the last year that has her considering and reconsidering what her options might be [...]
[Poll] How is the new year/decade looking for you?
I was talking about that surge of optimism that comes from a sense of clean slate-ity at the beginning of a new year in my Policy Matters column this week.
The effect is multiplied at the beginning of a new decade (although, technically, the new decade doesn’t start until next year).
We’re all convinced that greatness [...]



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