Small Business Heroes

This episode of #SmallBusinessHeroes features an interview with Hatim Shetiah, Director at 7C Lingo. 7C Lingo started when the founder, Fathy Shetiah, took on a project of translating MEAP test in Michigan. Eventually, they landed more projects from universities, corporates and government agencies. Today, 7C Lingo has over 300 clients with services in close to 270 languages. Watch all the episodes of Small Business Heroes here.

The latest episode of Small Business Heroes, a CustomersSpeak series, features an interview with Elzie Flenard: Mayor at The Podcast Town. Elzie left his 9-to-5 job to pursue his passion in entrepreneurship. To learn more about running a business, he started with interviewing every entrepreneur in his vicinity. In conducting a lot of interviews, Elzie got the idea of starting his own podcast project where he regularly invites entrepreneurs to share their story. The Podcast Town, today, also helps businesses setup their own podcast programs with and provides helpful resources they might need. 

This episode of Small Business Heroes features an interview with Troy Titus: a CRM administrator at Scale-Tec. Troy began his career by managing church activities and then moved on to gain real estate expertise by building a house himself for his family. However, over the last four years, Troy has dedicated his time to learning to code, especially Deluge. He now works as a CRM administrator and works hard to customize Zoho CRM and set up a smooth sales and customer relationship process at his company.

Pamela Crenshaw's entrepreneurial journey has helped her understand the challenges of starting a business and setting up various business processes efficiently. She noticed her friends having a difficult time with their new ventures, which inspired her to start 'Simplify Bizness', a virtual assistance business that offers a virtual team to remotely take care of business processes such as marketing, book-keeping, and recruitment. Check out the ninth episode of Small Business Heroes, a CustomersSpeak series by Zoho Community, in conversation with Pamela Crenshaw from Chicago ZUG (Zoho User Group).

In the eighth episode of Small Business Heroes, a CustomersSpeak series, we had a conversation with Shanique Young from Dallas ZUG. Shanique shares her interesting journey; from working in chemistry labs to becoming the technical sales and marketing director for McKinley Resources, manufacturer and supplier of raw materials for cosmetic and pharmaceutical companies. Watch the video here.

In the seventh episode of Small Business Heroes, we had a conversation with Juan Ramirez from Minneapolis ZUG, aka Juan The Cookie Man. Juan and his wife started a cookie business using Zoho services. Eventually he ended up becoming a Zoho partner, realizing that many other small businesses could benefit from Zoho's software suite.

Here's an interview with Brian Dunkin from Indianapolis ZUG, a veteran sales consultant with FACTS Inc. Brian brings over 30 years of sales experience in the finance industry and talks about his strategy for clients and competitors.  Check out all the episodes of Small Business Heroes in the Zoho Community forum here.

An interview with Georgia Rei, Franchise Development in-charge at Dog Gone Mold where she shares a paw-some story about a mold inspection business based out of Kansas City and Dallas.   Check out more stories from Small Businesses here.

How to take the pain out of your business routine with virtual assistant? Listen to the founder of SOS (Specialized Office Support) - Amy Wall, who has been helping businesses streamline their business processes like sales, marketing, accounting and even front desk reception with virtual assistance.

'Small Business Heroes' is a podcast series where we cover stories from small business owners on how they use tech and other strategies to scale their businesses. In this third episode of Small Business Heroes podcast series, we have with us a young entrepreneur from Twin Cities, Minnesota - Doug Kasper, founder of 123HomeTheater.com . 123HomeTheater.com provides consultation and installation services for a variety of home theaters to bring awesome movie theatre experience right into your homes. Let's listen to the story of Doug Kasper. Join the discussion here.