Mastercard Offers More To Its Business Customers, Including QuickBooks Offering

The credit card business is competitive and brands are fighting to offer as much as they can to their small businesses customers. Credit card companies want to be more than transactional relationships but a part of the growth of their customers' journey. Announced today Mastercard is partnering with Intuit to offer 50% off to it's...

How Modell’s CEO Used Video and Over Communication To Resurrect Itself

Everyone in the New York area knows the Modell's iconic brand. It's where you go to get every kind of sports and athletic wear you need. Like many retailers, Modell's future was (and is) challenged by Amazon and shifting consumer purchase buying patterns. The Wall Street Journal reports that then Modell's hired a company to...

Personal Brand vs Business Brand – Ramon Demystifies This Most Asked Question

Personal Brand vs Corporate Brand - this is the ONE question I'm asked the most in my travels around the United States (and the world!). Almost every event I speak at people ask me this question. Here's the deal. We know that larger businesses have corporate brands. Coca-Cola, Starbucks, Microsoft! For the most part when...

MANA Nutrition Feeding Children Powered by Love and Tech

Meet Chris Whitfield, the CFO of MANA Nutrition. MANA Nutrition is a nonprofit organization in Charlotte, NC that produces ready to use food for humanitarian giants like Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF, and World Peace. Their mission is simple: to feed as many at-risk kids as possible. With the help of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software,...

4 Ways To Improve Your Network and Create New Relationships

We all know the strength of business networking and are for the most part are doing our best to be in the right places to be present and engaged with the best possible “others” (prospective customers, industry peers connectors and influencers). But suppose your business is specialized to a very specific niche? You may be...

Koble Survey Says Getting New Customers Is Number One Priority for Small Businesses

Koble an exchange helping small companies connect to bigger companies is out with it's 2nd annual small business survey. One of the findings of the survey is that for small businesses one of their biggest challenges is getting new customers. I see this quite a bit as  I travel around the USA, speaking to thousands of...

Small Team. Big Impact. Hiring and Managing Webinar on 7 May with Ramon and ComplyRight.

Hiring the right people, the right way is important. Managing your team and helping them grow your business is a challenge. On 7 May, on the occasion of Small Business Week join entrepreneur Ramon Ray, Jaime Lizotte  HR expert with ComplyRight, entrepreneur Becca Brown, The Sole Mates (featured on Shark Tank) and Robert Zabbia , The Zabbia...