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Millennial Erica Douglass Shares Her Thoughts about the Small Business Success Index

Below is a snippet of her thoughts about the Small Business Success Index. For the full interview, visit the Grow Smart Business Blog.
Erica Douglass started her own Internet-based business (a web hosting company) during the tech downturn and at the age of 20. She noticed that many large web hosting companies were going out [...]

Susan Gunelius of Women On Business Sounds Off on the Small Business Success Index

Below is a snippet of her thoughts about the Small Business Success Index. For the full interview, visit the Grow Smart Business Blog.

Susan Gunelius is the owner of Women On Business and president & CEO of KeySplash Creative, Inc., a full service marketing communications provider. Women On Business provides women with news and information on [...]

Interview with Robert Neelbauer of Social Matchbox

As I mentioned in my Social Matchbox DC event review, I was able to grab a few minutes with founder Robert Neelbauer to talk a little bit about the evolution of Social Matchbox DC (unofficial motto: “Speed Dating for Geeks”) and how it fits in with (and sits apart from) other DC tech networking events. [...]

Entrepreneur Evan Carmichael Discusses the Small Business Success Index

Entrepreneur and international speaker Evan Carmichael hosts the Internet’s #1 resource for small business motivation and strategies. Evan started his own business, the Evan Carmichael Communications Group, in 2005 as a resource for entrepreneurs to grow their business. He is known as an entrepreneurial expert and has been featured in publications such as The New [...]

One Year and 500 Posts – The Best of the Best and the Future is Looking Bright

For all of our readers out there, we are marking a milestone of our 500th post here at Solutions Are Power and it has been an awesome 16 months of growing, learning and listening. We hope we have provided you valuable and timely information along with some humor thrown in for good measure. We plan [...]

Small businesses are optimistic, regardless of the current gloomy economic situation : Roy Dunbar CEO on Fox News

Roy Dunbar CEO of Network Solutions spoke to Jenna Miller on Fox Business about Small Business and their optimism despite the economy.
During the conversation Roy and Jenna discussed the findings of the Small Business Success Index and the pulse of Small Business.  The Small Business Success Index (www.growsmartbusiness.com) that Network Solutions and the University of Maryland [...]

Being a Director of Community Amber Naslund

Amber Naslund who is one of my fav. bloggers at http://altitudebranding.com/ wrote a great post on the role of community director:
As a community director, I see my role as a bit of a blend: part business development, part client services, part communications (like marketing and PR all smashed together). In short, my job is to [...]

Building Recession-Proof Business Models – A Conversation with Lynda B. Rothschild, SVPof Town & Country Movers

Lynda Rothschild is an entrepreneur always in search of new ways to grow her business and find new customers in every type of economic environment. She helps runs Town & Country Movers, located in Gaithersburg, MD, that offers residential, commercial, local, long distance and international moving service and storage services in MD, serving the Maryland, [...]

SXSW Entrepreneurs: Jeremy Wright of B5 Media

Jeremy Wright is a entrepreneur that understands the power of flexibility and that in order to be a successful entrepreneur you need to be willing to modify and sometimes overhaul your business model to succeed.
I used to write for B5 Media a few years ago for about three months at their entrepreneurship blog, Startup Spark, [...]

SXSW Entrepreneurs: Dave Delaney of Griffin Technologies

Dave is an old school punk rocker transplanted from Toronto to Nashville. He always makes me laugh and he has been a very prolific and popular person in social media. For example, he was the co-host (with his wife) of the very popular podcast “Two Boobs and a Baby” which just recently ended last year. [...]