Advice Archives

Smart Advice is our community-driven Q&A section. Each issue we solicit our favorite reader-submitted questions and ask one of our Smart Hustle Mentors, all of which are esteemed subject matter experts. Have a question you’d like to field to the Smart Hustle Mentors? Click HERE.

By Ramon RayAdvice

Taking Big Risks? Be Ready For a Big Fail.

I've been listening a lot to Guy Raz's "How I Did It" on NPR and of course these stories also echo through the Smart Hustle community. So many of thee best companies we know about and the millions of others we don't know about are led by risk takers. You and I are risk takers yes? This...

By Morgan GertlerAdvice

Ramon Ray Talks To 100+ University Students about Thriving as a Local Professional by Being Your Best Self

SmartHustle Podcast with Ramon Ray · Ramon Ray Talks To Amity University about Thriving as a Local Professional by Being Your Best Self “Sure, finish school, get the degree. But remember this: what’s on that paper is so much less than who you are as a person.” - Ramon Ray Ramon Ray is an entrepreneur, a...

By Ramon RayAdvice, Marketingbranding

How to Create and Protect Your Brand Identity

According to the Small Business Administration, there are over 30 million small businesses in America. It’s now easier than ever for entrepreneurs to open a business, but that also means there’s some stiff competition. Crafting your brand identity is so important. So, how can you use a personal brand to stand out from the sea...

By Morgan GertlerAdvice, eCommerce, General, Smart WomenFashion

Danielle Smith on Being an Artist, Entrepreneur, and Staying True to Yourself

Danielle Smith has combined her love and passion of being an artist with an entrepreneurial spirit by creating Sounbag, a quality bag that transforms to accommodate her clients needs. Her inspiration has been from music producers, deejays, sound designers & engineers; the people who lay the foundation and frequency to our favorite music. About Sounbag Danielle...

By Liz CarusoAdvice, Sales

5 Things I’m Doing For My Business in 2020

It's a new decade and people are filled with resolutions and BIG plans. And I am no exception. Like the OCD, type-A event planner that I am, I have made quite a list of things that need to be done to be successful this year and while I'm sure you don’t want to hear...

By Katherine MinesAdvice, Your Smart Hustlemindset, Smart Hustle Interviews

David Neagle: The Keys to Success are Mindset and a Mentor

David Neagle shares with Ramon Ray that as a young adult without even complete high school education, who was married with a few children, he realized that he had “created a situation where [he] had way more responsibility than the ability to fulfill that responsibility.” He wasn’t being the husband, father, or provider he...

By Michelle BlueAdvice, Featured, Marketing

TOP 3 Lessons to Success in Business with Marshall Mosher

https://youtu.be/BqXr1R613SM As entrepreneurs, many times when we start businesses we get so caught up in our perfect idea of what the business will look like that sometimes we lose focus on our bigger vision of ‘why’. Speaking with Marshall, founder of Vestigo an outdoor team building platform, we go through the importance of failing fast,...

By Katherine MinesAdvice, General, Operations, Your Smart Hustlefamily, Smart Hustle Interviews

Christina Shaw on Being a Single Parent, Running Her Agency, and Finding the Right People

People automatically think single parents are always struggling and stressed out, but Christina Shaw, owner of an Allstate Agency on Long Island since 2009 and single mom to 2 girls, says that for her, that’s simply not true. She says that she’s not struggling financially, she’s not stressed out, and that she has great...

By Katherine MinesAdvice, General

Greg McKeown New Book “Essentialism”. Why Less Is More.

Ramon Ray has teamed up once more with Helena Escalante, founder of Entregurus, to discuss Greg McKeown’s book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. McKeown’s Essentialism hones in on the idea of focusing on what the author calls “the vital few” and getting rid of the “trivial many.” As busy people, we are spread...

By Michelle BlueAdvice, Featuredbusiness interview, lifestyle

Finding Your Alignment Within to Grow Your Business

https://youtu.be/U7_ODxzxZ2Y When you start to think about a business coach, most people question how will the coach help with my marketing strategy, or help manage my customer relationships better but Yvonne Dodd is no regular business coach. My conversation with Yvonne was beyond transformational and confirmed that your life and your business are not separate entities,...