Melinda Emerson

Melinda F. Emerson is SmallBizLady, an author, speaker and small business coach whose areas of expertise include small business start-up, business development and social media marketing. As CEO of Quintessence Multimedia, Emerson develops audio, video and written content to help her Fortune 500 clients engage small business customers.  She is a weekly columnist for the You’re The Boss blog for the New York Times, publishes a resource blog, www.succeedasyourownboss.com which is syndicated by the Huffington Post and hosts a weekly talk show on Twitter called #SmallBizChat for today’s entrepreneurs.  She reaches 1.5 million small business owners weekly on the Internet and Forbes named her the #1 woman for entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter. Emerson has been featured on MSNBC, Fox News, NBC Nightly News and in The Washington Post, Fortune, Essence and Black Enterprise. She is also the author of the bestselling book “Become Your Own Boss in 12 months; A Month-by-Month Guide to a Business That Works.” Emerson is a graduate of Virginia Tech. @SmallBizLady