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…

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,…

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 h…

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 extensio…

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 Rogu…

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 sm…

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.   W…

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, b…

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…

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 bus…

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.…

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 Doctor…

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 ca…

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 ad…

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.   …

Local, state, and federal U.S. government contracts are NOT easy to get.   However, they tend to bring in good money, particularly for small business owners who aren’t used to multi-thousand or milli…

This week, I welcome a good friend and guest from the first handful of Startup BizCast episodes.   The topic of the week is SEO for press releases.   More and more people are catching on to the fact …

Despite having a bigtime name behind them, businesses like McDonalds, Hair Cuttery, and Century 21 are all small businesses.   They’re franchises, and most of the time they’re owned by someone in you…

This week, we’re talking about how to manage the flow of money going out the door, while the poor economy worldwide may be limiting the amount of money that’s coming in the door.   My guest is Toffer…

Almost a year and a half ago, in episode five of Startup BizCast, I reviewed a list of online news release distribution services.   These sites will post and distribute your news release across the w…