In this episode we speak with serial entrepreneur and founder of Business Babes, Yolanda Keels-Walker about creating successful business strategies.  Business Babes boasts a community of 50K strong of entrepreneurs growing and running successful businesses.  Yolanda is a business coach and consultant focusing on strategy and marketing.  Yolanda shares with us how to stand apart from the competition by creating a strategy and business plan that will force you to succeed. 

Yolanda's currently reading:

How to Become a Rainmaker

Praying the Promises of Jesus

Keep in touch with Yolanda at:

Email: [email protected]

Social Media: 

@businessbabes

@thebusienssbabes

www.BusinessBabesOnline.com

www.IamaSixFigureStylist.com

In this episode we speak with the Biztechpreneur, Kristen Smith, MBA.  Kristen is an MBA, Apple Genius, Evernote Certified business owner how helps entrepreneurs build and run systems to streamline their businesses. 

You can find Kristen on all social medial @bizptechpreneur.  

We will be updating the show notes to provide Kristen's list of books.  

You can learn more about the services that Kristen provides at www.Biztechprenur.com

In this episode, business owner Tiffanie Standard talks about building a solution to a real-life problem she saw in running her business.  Often, corporate sponsors and non-profit organizations are not able to find each other.  Her newest endeavor, "Stimulus" is a search engine and marketplace that seeks to make this process much easier.

Tiffanie also talks about how her many jobs prepared her for entrepreneurship and what she does to stay on top of her game.

Here is a link to the books that both she and Alycia mention during the interview:

1. Great Leaders Grow
2. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
3. Wired to Create
4. Lean Product Playbook
5. Membership Economy
6. Hooked

You can follow Tiffanie on twitter, IG, and Facebook at TiffanieStanard.

In this episode, Alycia talks about finding an accounting philosophy that will help you make your financial documents a living, breathing set of documents to help you grow your business.

She talks about the book that changed her thoughts on accounting:  Profit First by Mike Michalowicz.

Key Points:

• Pay yourself first
• Develop of rhythm for paying your bills
• Find the right tools (read: the tools that work for YOU)
• Monitor your progress

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Marquita Eshun, CPA is an accountant and business owner.  She owns and operates Araba & Associates tax consulting business.  She also owns several other business and is a partner in Business Babes, a business coaching and consulting company for women.  In this episode, Marquita tells us what she looks for when meeting a new client and how she helps them to strong financial plans for both their business and personal lives. 

Marquita has also provided our listeners with a Business Budget Spreadsheet.  To get the spreadsheet, click the link below.

Get the Business Budget Spreadsheet.

Araba & Associates is having a free consultation at the time of the airing of this episode.  You can go to the website to submit an inquiry: www.ArabaandAssociates.com

Marquita's currently reading:

Giants of Enterprise

True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership

Social Media:

IG: @arabaandassociates, @studio44hairsalon

FB: Araba & Associates 

Let's talk about creating a successful marketing plan in one week.  In this episode Alycia explores Mark Satterfield's book, "The One Week Marketing Plan" and how she's used it to create a successful marketing campaign  for her business.  

In Episode 2, guest K. Renee Ward, shares her transition from the corporate world to starting and running a small business.  K. Renee is a business profit and lifestyle marketing advisor who after 12 successful years in corporate America became a full-time entrepreneur. Her results-driven tactics helped Fortune 500 companies establish global reach. She now focuses on sharing those systems with entrepreneurs to expand and sustain their businesses almost effortlessly by applying big business tactics to small business strategy. Her goal is to prove that you can run your business from anywhere in the world, rather it is your couch or on the beach. Her “zone of genius” is shared in her book, Straight Out Of Corporate, a toolkit to help action-driven aspiring entrepreneurs and side hustlers who are currently living the 9-5 lifestyle and would like to venture into the world of full-time entrepreneurship.

Best-Selling Author and New York Times Writer, Paul Downs, sits down with us to talk about how he brought his business back from the brink of closure.  His struggles with finding adequate and transparent resources from the small business owner's point-of-view led him to write a book about a year in his business.  Paul walks us through how he pulled through and what business owners can do to avoid where he was just a few years ago.