Melinda Emerson
Keynote Speaker: Bestselling Author, Marketing Consultant & Small Business Expert
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Melinda Emerson Biography
Melinda F. Emerson, “SmallBizLady” is America’s #1 Small Business Expert. She is a media spokesperson, small business influencer, and internationally renowned keynote speaker on small business development, social selling, and content marketing.
For more than 24 years, she has been CEO of Quintessence Group. Her marketing consulting firm serves Fortune 500 brands that target the small business market. Her clients include VISA, American Express, FedEx, Verizon, Google, Chase, Microsoft, Pitney Bowes, and Xerox. She also has an online school, www.smallbizladyuniversity.com, that teaches people how to start and grow successful small businesses and learn online marketing skills.
In addition to being a former New York Times columnist, she is frequently quoted by media organizations including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Forbes, Fortune, USA Today, MSNBC, CNBC, ABC News, Entrepreneur, Inc., Essence and Black Enterprise. In 2021, HubSpot named her one of the top business coaches in America. LinkedIn named her a Top Voice for Small Business and Entrepreneurship in 2019. Forbes magazine named her the #1 woman for entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter. Emerson is the creator and host of The Smallbizchat Podcast.
A prolific writer, Emerson has published more than 5000 articles on her blog SucceedAsYourOwnBoss.com. Her advice is widely read, reaching three million entrepreneurs each week online. She is a small business educator at heart. She has lectured at hundreds of conferences and universities, including MIT, University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University, NYU, Temple University, University of Delaware, Point Park College, Chatham University, Rutgers University, Rosemont College, The Joseph Business School, Howard University, Cheyney University, Morgan State University, Delaware State University, Virginia Tech and The Emlyon Business School in Lyon, France. She is also adjunct faculty at Babson College and Drexel University.
She is the bestselling author of "Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months, Revised and Expanded" (Simon and Schuster, Sept. 2021) and "Fix Your Business, a 90 Day Plan to Get Back Your Life and Reduce Chaos in Your Business."
She earned a journalism degree from Virginia Tech and holds an Executive MBA from Drexel University. She resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with her amazing son JoJo.
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Melinda Emerson Speaking Topics
It’s hard to run a small business. You are doing 14 jobs all at one time. It’s easy to drop a ball, but a lot of the pain of running a small business is self-inflicted. Melinda Emerson ‘SmallBizLady’ is going to teach the 10 biggest mistakes of small business and how to avoid them. Often, costly mistakes are due to a lack of planning or just a lack of experience. Melinda will walk attendees through the most common mistakes in business and social media and give tips for how to create customers for life.
Too often small businesses market their companies with what is left at the end of the month. However, finding and attracting the right customers is fundamental to having a sustainable business. Marketing your small business doesn’t have to be difficult but it certainly takes some planning. Let Melinda Emerson teach you how to kickstart your customer attraction system and boost your small business revenues:
Small business owners have limited time and resources to hit it big with their target customer. Let America’s #1 small business expert Melinda Emerson “SmallBizLady” teach you her proven step-by-step method for how to transition from corporate to small business ownership. Her talk is based on her bestselling book Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months.
Melinda is a pioneer in social media marketing who is also the social media columnist for the New York Times. She’ll offer tips on the do’s and don’ts of building a social media brand, how to create a blog, and determine your best social media platform, and build a following in just one hour a day. You’ll learn how social media can become your #1 marketing tool in your small business.
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Melinda Emerson is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Customer Service, Business Growth, Female Leadership, Black Heritage, Business, Business Leadership, Women and Leadership.
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Melinda Emerson generally travels from Drexel Hill, PA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances.
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Melinda Emerson is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Customer Service, Business Growth and Female Leadership. The estimated speaking fee range to book Melinda Emerson for live events is $30,000 - $50,000, and for virtual events $20,000 - $30,000. Melinda Emerson generally travels from Drexel Hill, PA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Minda Harts, Jasmine Crowe-Houston and Xernona Clayton. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Melinda Emerson for an upcoming event.
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Melinda Emerson Speaking Topics
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10 Biggest Mistakes in Small Business and How to Avoid Them
It’s hard to run a small business. You are doing 14 jobs all at one time. It’s easy to drop a ball, but a lot of the pain of running a small business is self-inflicted. Melinda Emerson ‘SmallBizLady’ is going to teach the 10 biggest mistakes of small business and how to avoid them. Often, costly mistakes are due to a lack of planning or just a lack of experience. Melinda will walk attendees through the most common mistakes in business and social media and give tips for how to create customers for life.
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How to Kickstart Your Marketing
Too often small businesses market their companies with what is left at the end of the month. However, finding and attracting the right customers is fundamental to having a sustainable business. Marketing your small business doesn’t have to be difficult but it certainly takes some planning. Let Melinda Emerson teach you how to kickstart your customer attraction system and boost your small business revenues:
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From Corporate to Small Business Ownership
Small business owners have limited time and resources to hit it big with their target customer. Let America’s #1 small business expert Melinda Emerson “SmallBizLady” teach you her proven step-by-step method for how to transition from corporate to small business ownership. Her talk is based on her bestselling book Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months.
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How to Become a Social Media Ninja
Melinda is a pioneer in social media marketing who is also the social media columnist for the New York Times. She’ll offer tips on the do’s and don’ts of building a social media brand, how to create a blog, and determine your best social media platform, and build a following in just one hour a day. You’ll learn how social media can become your #1 marketing tool in your small business.
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