Monday morning at Roundpeg, right around 11 am, we set up the camera and shoot a Facebook live video.  Why do we do it?  That's the topic of this week's episode of More than a Few words, with Sam Von Tobel, the new host of Monday Morning at the 'Peg. 

Life happens and sometimes it is hard to keep the distruptions of your life or of your employee's lives outside the workplace. This week's guest Lisel Mertes believes that you shouldn't have to keep those two parts of your employee's lives separate.  As a matter of fact, learning to bring emplathy into the workplace is actually good for business. 

When you are developing social media, where does the information come from? How do you figure out what to write?  These are questions we get asked every day as we write content for companies as different as a flooring installer, to a bean company to a tech firm.

So Lorraine sat down with Staci Seber our social media specialist t ofind out some of the tricks of the trade.

Many of us started out as a solo entrepreneur. However, somewhere along the way the business grew and we had to make that transition from worker bee to business owner.

Today, my guest Matt Zentz of Market Path shares his journey from developer to owner.  

As we get close to the 10 year anniversary of More Than a Few Words, I've been digging around in my archives.  This week I've put together two episodes that both deal with small businesses and the economy. Although the episodes are 10 years old, there's a lot of relevance for business owners today.

This first episode starts with a story, but it's really about business owners using the economy and factors outside of their control as reasons for not investing and not growing.  

In the second episode, I discuss why businesses needed to start spending and investing as the economy was improving. These same strategies will help keep your business strong in 2020 if the economy turns into a downward spiral, as well,

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