The Small Business Edge Podcast with Brian Moran

Maintaining healthy, positive cash flow can often be a struggle for small business owners. Unplanned expenses, and late paying customers can make life hard for most companies, whether you are just starting out or you’ve been in business for decades. One way to balance the ups and downs of cash flow in business is having access to capital when you need it the most. In this episode, Brian talks with...

Social media and technology seem to be the obvious drivers of business these days. Both also seem to take over the lives of your customers that you may think that this is the best channels to reach them. However, social media and technology are simply tools that you can use to keep customers engaged. Behind these tools are humans with whom your customers seek to interact. The human-to-human or H2H...

Whitney Johnson wants to help you build an “A” team. She believes that most employees want to learn and grow. They don’t want to get stuck in dead-end jobs that don’t challenge them. Eventually, they don’t feel challenged anymore, become complacent, and even feel bored to the extent of leaving the company to pursue other endeavors. How can you avoid this happening in your company? Listen to Whitne...

What happens when most of your employees are either apathetic or disengaged? What about executives who only look to serve their own motives? Andrew Sherman explains how to elicit engagement from company leaders and employees alike that will make them active participants in your business success.

Tech is completely changing almost every aspect of our lives. However, if you want to grow your company, you must find the balance between effectively using technology and nurturing the human element in business.

Dealing with finances can be tough for most individuals and especially so for business owners. What if you could demystify the numbers and really understand how finance works? In this episode, Joe Knight explains what you need to know about finance and financials to run a successful company.

Rieva Lesonsky discusses her new book “Small Business Hacks: 100 Shortcuts to Success.” She also talk about why it’s important to look at the big picture when trying to solve business problems, how to play the “What If” game to see if your business is prepared for potential troubles, and why “digital transformation” is here to stay.

Barbara discusses the new tax laws and their impact on business owners. She also talks about new qualified business deductions—eligibility, limitations, and who benefits the most, changes in deductions on capital equipment, smart moves to make now before interest rates go up in 2018, and why your company should look at cyber liability and disaster insurance this year.

Brian introduces the SMB Experts you should know to help you run a better company. He discusses the four questions business owners should ask themselves for 2018. He asks listeners what type of business owner they are, and why knowing the answer is KEY to success.