Marcia Layton Turner

5 posts

Marcia Layton Turner runs Layton & Co., Inc. and the Association of Ghostwriters and is a member of the advisory board for WomensNet.net, which awards monthly grants of $10,000 to aspiring and established women business owners, as well as an annual $25,000 grant to one of the prior 12 winners.

Free Business Funding: 5 Tips for Writing a Winning Small Business Grant Application

If you’ve researched grants for startup or existing businesses, you know how hard they are to find. Sure, you can find incubators, accelerators, loan programs, angel investors and venture capitalists, but the vast majority of...

byMarcia Layton Turner

June 6, 2022

15 Grant Programs for Minority and Women Business Owners

Grant programs offering free money are hard to come by, which is why many entrepreneurs frequently end up applying for small business loans or try crowdfunding to start or expand their companies. However, many organizations...

byMarcia Layton Turner

November 21, 2021

5 Creative Financing Tools to Kickstart Your Business

Traditional banks today aren’t typically willing to lend to startup ventures, unless you have a stellar track record and money already in the bank. Only 30 percent of businesses are bank-funded, according to Linda Jenkins,...

byMarcia Layton Turner

September 5, 2019

Overcome These 7 Hurdles to Achieve Startup Success

The path to entrepreneurial success is never straight and never easy. But the issues you might expect to be major obstacles often turn out to be inconsequential, while seemingly minor behaviors and habits can seriously...

byMarcia Layton Turner

April 29, 2019

Tip Sheets: One of the Most Effective Publicity Tools

The Most Important Publicity Tool: YOU! Daren Hornig was becoming increasingly frustrated in 2006 with the never-ending stream of articles warning of the coming real estate crash. As president and CEO of The Quest Group,...

byMarcia Layton Turner

February 2, 2007