Reading List for Your Busy Week
By Rieva Lesonsky
The life of a business owner is a busy one. If I had my way, days would be 30 hours long—and there’d be, like the Beatles sang: “8 days a week.” But there aren’t. So to help you stay on top of important small business news, information and advice essential to running your business, here’s my weekly Reading List.
Best Practices
- Catch up on your reading: here and here
- Best way to increase your web traffic
- Protecting your online reputation
- Getting people to like your teleconferences
Inspiring!
- Mark Ahn says startups aren’t scary, they’re “liberating”
- This entrepreneur bounced back from being in a coma and built a successful business
- Be proactive when it comes to taking care of your customers
Marketing Smart
- Social media marketing—essential to your success
- Secrets to personalized marketing
- 3 tips for professionally branding your small business
Money Matters
- 9 things you should NEVER say to a small business lender
- How using social media can increase your chances of getting a loan
People Power
- Does having women in charge strengthen your small business?
- Should you have summer hours?
Sell More
- 7 lessons to learn from the country’s top 100 retailers
- Want to sell more? Then think differently
Tech
- Does your small business need a mobile app?
Women Entrepreneurs
- 3 women’s conferences you should attend this fall
- How you can get a life
- Women in business: passion, power & profitability
