Our guest on this segment of the Smallbiz Brain knows SEO—-that’s search engine optimization and it’s essential for achieving success on the internet.
Stephen Riegel is Director of Search and the co-founder of Faction Media—-a leading provider of Search Marketing solutions; connecting clients directly to their online target audience through research, analysis, strategy, and design.
Steve’s Marketing 101: Online Branding approach has been hailed by industry
leaders Atlas DMT and Michael Campbell of Dynamic Media as “Best in Class”
and “easily in the top 1% of search engine marketers”, generating programs that consistently exceed industry performance standards in both Paid and Natural Search.

Our guest on this segment of the Smallbiz Brain has a diverse background with more than two decades of experience in marketing, management, and sales. Besides spending many years working in the corporate world, he has started and run more than five small businesses.

In this segment we visit with founder of Realtime Sites, Steve Schroeder. Steve shares the story of the creation of the company and how they make website launch and management easier for their clients.

In this segment, my guest is Bruce Howard, author of Charting the Course. We discuss his new book and the relationship between human values and what makes markets. A fascinating conversation.

Our guest on this segment of The Smallbiz Brain had a mission to make all matters related to starting, growing and operating a small business easier for those that own them. Jim Tracy is the founder and CEO of http://www.AmericasBestCompanies.com. The company is a national, small business organization that fights passionately for the small business owner by providing education, information and benefits that are tailored to the needs of small businesses. ABC has developed considerable strength in numbers—-they now influence more than 50,000 small business owners. ABC offers a low priced membership for all its products and services. This allows every small business owner to maintain a competitive edge against big corporations.

Born and raised in the Philippines, Margarita McClure spent a good part of her life thinking she would end up with a career or a business in the food service industry. She graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree in Hotel & Restaurant Administration, then received an Associate Degree from the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco where she graduated at the top of her class.

In my interview with Michele DeKinder Smith, founder of JaneOutOfTheBox, she talks about her progression from researcher to entrepreneur. Michele has created a wonderful entrepreneur-personality-typing system to help women celebrate their strengths and work on their weaknesses in business.

Our guest on this segment of the Brain is a marketing consultant and the author of 7 books on various subjects relating to business and non-profit organizations. In 1985 Shel Horowitz published the first of five books on low-cost, high-impact marketing. His client list now includes accounts in Europe, Asia, and all across the U.S.; his books have sold to dozens of countries, one of them has been translated into Korean, and another has been sold to publishers in India and Mexico.
Shel now offers not only copywriting and strategic marketing planning, but also speaks on affordable, effective marketing to national audiences.

All businesses need to consider motivating their employees to keep them happy by creating incentives to encourage them to deliver great performance on the job. Our guest on this segment of the Smallbiz Brain is an expert in creating programs that help companies do just that.

Sam Horn is an award-winning communication/creativity consultant who has a 20 year track record of results with an international clientele including Fortune 500 Forum, Young Presidents Organization, Hewlett-Packard, NASA, Kaiser Permanente, National Governors Association, KPMG, Boeing, Intel and Capital One. She was selected ( along with Tom Peters, Seth Godin, Tim Ferris and Michael Gerber) to be a featured speaker at INC Magazine’s annual convention for the top 5000 entrepreneurs in the country.