The Women’s Business Development Center (WBDC) proudly presents, Digi Tips and Tools, where we provide digital tips and tools that can help your business increase revenue, save money, and optimize your time. We will tackle some of your most pressing questions when it comes to digitizing your business processes, and seek out advice from experts on how to immediately implement it in your business. Do you have questions on how to use digital tools to optimize your business processes? Send us an email at wbdc@wbdc.org and we'll try to answer your question in a future episode.Founded in 1986 on the concept of inclusive entrepreneurship, the Women’s Business Development Center is a nationally recognized leader in the field of economic development. The WBDC is a Chicago-based 501c3, not for profit, committed to empowering women and minorities through business advising, technical services, and resources. Visit us at https://www.wbdc.org/
3.3 Karen Goldner: Leveraging Your Business’s Certification
Karen Goldner talks to us about how you can best leverage your business’s certification.
9 Oct 2024
3.2 Karen Goldner: Preparing for Certification
Karen Goldner joins us to talk about how to prepare your business for the certification process and what digital tools you can use to help you along the way.
9 Sept 2024
3.1 Karen Goldner: Strategic Value of Certification
Karen Goldner talks about the strategic value of certification and how to decide what kind of certification may benefit your business. We talk about digital tool that can help us get prepared for the application process.
7 Feb 2023
2.5 Susan MacNicol: Effective Email Marketing Strategies
As we look for new ways to reach our customers, we are seeing more and more companies invest more time
and money in their social media marketing and not enough in their email campaigns. But your email marketing
strategy is still one of the most important parts of any marketing strategy. Email is the most cost-effective way
to communicate with your customers, promote your services and products and reach your business goals. In this episode, Susan MacNicol, the founder and president of Strategic & Creative
Marketing Inc., shares some simple tips.
11 Jan 2023
2.4 Michelle Tran Maryns: Bio Link Tools
In this episode, Aisha talks with Micelle Tran Maryns of WeSparkle. Recently, we’ve been talking to business owners who have been working on their social media strategies. A lot of the effort is centered around content that connects with future customers and existing customers. Whether it's an article they wrote, or a product they want to showcase, business owners are really flexing their creative muscles to really come up with content that attracts. In these discussions, one question that sometimes gets forgotten is “now that I got their attention, how do I get them to my website or landing page or online store to close the deal?”
Tune in for the answer.
As small business owners, many of your wear multiple hats in your daily operations. You're handling marketing, sales, development, finance, operations, compliance, security, and more. In addition to your business. Without a good organization plan in place, it can feel like you’re running from one fire to the next.
In this episode, Aisha talks with Mekeda Johnson-Brooks about ways to organize your business so that your big ideas don’t get buried under all the other parts of your business operations.
Mekeda is the President and Chief Client Experience Architect of MJ Design and Company; an MBE, WBE, and WOSB certified consulting agency that helps mission-driven organizations solve problems, tell stories, and build connections through strategy, design, and program development. An avid organizer with a strong background in negotiation, project management, and instructional design, she regularly pioneers new client experiences for corporate and nonprofit organizations.
Digi Tips and Tools is produced in partnership with iDream.tv, a multi-media production company.
This episode is being sponsored by Capitol One, our valued corporate partner.
26 Dec 2022
2.2 Fiona Parr: Cybersecurity Risk: Data Management
As technology evolves, so does risk. Without a proper risk assessment or a good data security process in place, your company and your customer’s data can be left vulnerable. Even if you haven’t experienced a compromise, a weak data security process can still hurt your company’s reputation.
In this episode Aisha talks with Fiona Parr about some steps you can take to secure your customer’s data even more.
Fiona is the Director for Cyber Governance and Risk Services at Capital One. She is also the Cyber External Client Assurance Program Lead.
Digi Tips and Tools is produced in partnership with iDream.tv, a multi-media production company.
This episode is being sponsored by Capitol One, our valued corporate partner.
30 Nov 2022
2.1 Mekeda Johnson-Brooks: Content Manager Tools
Today we’re going to talk to Mekeda Johnson-Brooks about how small business owners can manage their content in a less stressful way. Thinking about your marketing strategy, let’s focus on streamlining your social media engagement.
Mekeda is the President and Chief Client Experience Architect of MJ Design and Company; an MBE, WBE, and WOSB certified consulting agency that helps mission-driven organizations solve problems, tell stories, and build connections through strategy, design, and program development. An avid organizer with a strong background in negotiation, project management, and instructional design, she regularly pioneers new client experiences for corporate and nonprofit organizations.
Digi Tips and Tools is produced in partnership with iDream.tv, a multi-media production company.
This episode is being sponsored by Capitol One, our valued corporate partner.
18 Oct 2022
1.3 Lauren Ramsey: TikTok for Business
Today we are talking about TikTok for business. A lot of businesses may overlook this platform when thinking of their social media strategy, but why is that? Depending on what source you look at, TikTok has anywhere from 750 million to 1.1 billion active users worldwide.
In this episode our guest is Lauren Ramsey of Betsy Bash. Lauren Ramsey is a digital strategist who focuses on bringing community engagement to the forefront of social media campaigns, whether she is sitting on a panel mentoring startups at 1871 or working with retailers and restaurants.
To build a killer social media strategy. She is always focused on growing an authentically engaged community of brand advocates and customers for her clients through excellent digital marketing strategies.
Digi Tips and Tools is produced in partnership with iDream.tv, a multi-media production company.
This episode is being sponsored by US Bank, our valued corporate partner.
15 Oct 2022
1.2 Tony Pittman: Tracking Expenses
Welcome to Women’s Business Development Center’s Digi Tips and Tools Podcast Series – where we tackle some of your questions when it comes to your digitizing your business processes and discuss possible solutions. These solutions include easy digital tips and tools that can help your business increase revenue, save money and optimize your time.
Today we'll talk about a sore topic for many business owners when it comes to accounting and bookkeeping, and that is tracking expenses.
In this episode we talk with Tony Pittman about what expenses you need to track and what digital tools can you use to help make tracking expenses easier.
Tony Pittman currently serves as tax consultant and preparer with RE Clemons and Associates Tax and accounting. RE Clemons and Associates Tax and Accounting have a staff of Enrolled Agents and CPAs with over 40 years of experience in corporate and personal taxation and bookkeeping. Their involvement in local and national tax associations keeps the firm on the "leading edge" of the ever-changing tax laws and accounting methods.
Digi Tips and Tools is produced in partnership with iDream.tv, a multi-media production company.
This episode is being sponsored by US Bank, our valued corporate partner.
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