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Smart Hustlers are constantly on the go and often invest most of their time and energy in their work. Use these pieces of tips and advice to help maintain a healthy work / life balance.

By VirTaskticLifestyle, Tipscommunity

Why Startups Should Get Involved in Building the Community

Why are you in the community you are in? Is it because your target demographic consumers are in surrounding neighborhoods, cheap rent, because you like the culture, or grew up in the town? Whatever your reason for choosing the location of your startup, you’re a part of a community of people connected by location, and...

By Ramon RayFeatured, Lifestyle, Your Smart HustleInterview, Smart Hustle Interviews

How an Entrepreneurial Doctor’s Product is Helping Babies Take Medicine

There’s nothing that says you need to come from a certain field or background in order to become an entrepreneur, and my latest podcast guest is proof of that. Dr. Agnes Scoville, the creator of the Pacidose, spoke with me recently about how her 15 years of experience as an ER doctor and recent...

By Ramon RayFeatured, Lifestyle, Your Smart Hustle

Bedros Keuilian Used the Immigrant Edge to Build His Successful Franchise Business

Every entrepreneur has a story about where they got their hustle from. Bedros Keuilian’s story is not the typical journey you’d expect from the owner of an Inc. 5000 franchise, and that’s exactly why I want to share it with you today. Defining the Immigrant Edge Bedros Keuilian’s family immigrated here back in 1980 in order...

By VirTaskticLifestylefamily

Balancing Running a Business and Having a Family

The good ol' American Dream may have been passed down many generations, but the spirit from which it was born is timeless. We were once explorers, settlers, and adventurers, and now entrepreneurs. People who strike gold today often do so by launching a unique business idea like an app, a social network or a...

By VirTaskticLifestyle

Benevolent Capitalism: A New Possibility for Organic Growth in Business

The words benevolent capitalism are two words you don’t typically find together. Capitalism has become something that is viewed as negative. It’s the idea of, “I am here to get my share and in order for that to happen, everyone else has to lose.” When capitalism started out, this was not what it was about. Capitalism...

By Ramon RayFeatured, Lifestyle, Your Smart Hustlebusiness interview, Interview, Smart Hustle Interviews

How Irma Cedeno is Finding Success by Helping Entrepreneurs Tap Into the Spanish Market

As an entrepreneur, you’re busy thinking about where that next client will come from and what your next big move will be. So, when an opportunity arises that seems as like it may only be of benefit to you, it’s sometimes difficult to seize upon it. After all, your time is precious and it’s...

By Ramon RayFeatured, Lifestyle, Your Smart Hustlework life balance

Seasoned Entrepreneur Amy Vetter Shares Tips on Achieving a Work Life Balance

One of my favorite things about talking to seasoned entrepreneurs like Amy Vetter is that you never really know what’s going to come out of your discussions. Take Vetter, for example. She’s a CPA who knows her stuff. In fact, she acquired the accounting bug from her grandfather who was a CPA. But it turns...

By Ramon RayAdvice, Lifestyle

7 Business Lessons for Entrepreneurs from McDonald’s and Ray Kroc

If you are a small business owner and you want to learn about scaling, franchising and building a brand then the one business you look to as a reference, who has done this incredibly well, is McDonald's. They are a true American business icon and success story. In a new movie, "The Founder", the...

SMART HUSTLE SMALL BUSINESS CONFERENCE 2017

By Ramon RayLifestyle

12th Annual Smart Hustle Small Business Conference Is Announced

The 12th Annual Smart Hustle Small Business Conference 2017, which will be taking place in New York City in October 2017, is a one-of-a-kind small business conference that brings together hundreds of entrepreneurs and small business owners - all of whom are in the daily hustle. Created by entrepreneur and best-selling author Ramon Ray, the Smart...

Gina Alexander Shares Business Mistakes and Lessons Learned

By Ramon RayLifestyle, Your Smart Hustlelifestyle

Custom Bag Entrepreneur Shares Mistakes and Lessons Learned

Question: What do you get when you combine serendipity with hard work and dedication? Answer: A booming small business that made $1.4 million in its first year and has been growing strong ever since, for 19 amazing years. More specifically, I’m referring to my latest interview guest, Gina Alexander, an LA-based designer who has created a...