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- Mini-Blind Cleaning Business, Case Study By Lance Winslow
Sometimes the simple businesses are the ones, which make good money. Take mini-blind cleaning for instance. There are many successful small time entrepreneurs out there cleaning mini-blinds. Having been in the franchise cleaning business for some time, I often noticed exceptional entrepreneurs out there.We met Gary Hartman while searching through…
- Marketing Your Small Business - The Top 10 Brilliant Ideas By Alex Barrington
A Brilliant Marketing Idea... sounds great but what is it? Is it the idea that results in the mailman ringing your doorbell, signaling in a caravan of postal workers with mounds of letters (all in response to your latest advertisement)? Is it the idea that brings a 20% response rate on your direct mail campaign?Surely these ideas would be consid…
- How to Achieve Real Success in Business: Five Breezy Tips By Kannan Balakrishnan
Achieving real success should be the goal of any good businessman. But what is real success? I believe that it is no just money, or instant growth. In my opinion real success is composed of the following factors. Good growth, good reputation and above all peace of mind. In this short exposure I try to elaborate on five factors pertinent in achiev…
- Keep TRACK of your Business Relationships and Gain Profits By Bette Daoust, Ph.D.
How do you know when an alliance needs to be monitored and tracked?More often than not, an alliance needs to be monitored and tracked. If you ignore your alliance partner at all, you will be losing ground and your business relationship will not be what you expect. If you ignore anyone, they tend to forget about you, or at least they will not take…
- Reseller Business Opportunities By Randy Wilson
Are you looking for an opportunity that will allow you to earn a living from home? Reseller business opportunities are a great way to start. With no background in sales, you can still earn a substantial living in the reselling industry.The industries involved in reselling are endless. For example, everything from computers to horses can be res…
- How to Implement Emergency Response In a Small Business By Rito Salomone
The telephone is the most vital communication tool and the lifeline of most organizations. Valuable time is often lost in trying to locate the individual that placed an emergency call. Seconds can make the difference in saving lives or apprehending harassing callers. In this era of heightened security concerns, many organizations are reevalua…
- Small Business Survival By Laura Aldridge
In today’s economic climate, the first priority for the small business entrepreneur is survival. A glance at newspapers, business journals, or cable news channels reveals a succession of corporations striving to stay on top of their game, and often failing, to slow the growth of outsourcing or to show real growth within their market space. In suc…
- Debt Collection Techniques By Steve Austin
Here are some sound debt collection techniques that can be followed by businesses to mitigate the bad debt crisis:Sending a pre-collection letter.
Hiring a collection agency.
Doing it yourself.Sending A Pre-Collection LetterMost businesses don't want to "play the bad cop" with their clients, so they approach a collection agency, which for a nom…
- Building Your Business for Success in 2005 By Paul Barrs
It's a strange anomaly.Most people who set out to start their own business, no matter what type, build it for failure, not success.Crazy isn't it? But true.The saddest part in all this, is that they don't even know that they are destined for failure long before their dreams shatter and break apart.Statistics tell us that within 5 years of start u…
- Why Do Franchisors have Exclusive Territories By Lance Winslow
The reason we Franchisors call it an exclusive territory is because we will not sell that area again to another franchisee. That is your area to market and to conquer and to generally obtain as much market penetration as possible. If you are a home-based business or mobile franchise then this is a serious issue. You can put as many service units…
- Mobile Detailing Expansion Considerations By Lance Winslow
Expanding your business requires you to take a good hard look at your business (checking under the hood). You need to ask yourself. What am I making money at in my business and what isn’t making a lot of money? It requires coordination with all aspects of your business. It requires a look at your schedule and where inefficiencies lay, if any.…
- Small Business Marketing, According to Seinfeld By Will Dylan
What could Seinfeld possibly have to do with marketing a small business? As it turns out, all small business owners could take a few lessons from the show that brought us such popular phrases as “Man Hands” and “master of your domain”.The Coffee Shop – Jerry, George, Kramer, and Elaine spent countless hours in the coffee shop, talking about “noth…
- Small Business Debt Collection Laws By Steve Austin
In your small business debt collection laws will eventually become important, as your debt grows and some clients do not pay. To collect small business debts legally, you must send a written notice that collections have begun, within five days of first contacting the debtor for collections. The letter must include dispute instructions.Small Busin…
- Small Business Credit Card Advantages By David Hall
Obtaining a business credit card enables the small business owner to separate personal expenses from business expenses. Offering business credit cards to their employees eliminates the need for employees to use their personal credit cards or cash to make company purchases. Employees using a business credit card will not need to fill out expense s…
- Become The Squeaky Wheel and Watch Your Business Skyrocket! By Judith Wentzel
Providing high quality customer service is a must for any business to survive.Following up on all contacts and leads is also crucial in order to increase your sales and client base.If I had a nickel for every time I have had to remind a new client about the importance of following up...The truth is, life can be hectic. A typical business day can…
- Do Your Best; Hire the Rest By Doug Emerson
One of the hidden perks of raising six children is the learning laboratory it provides for the parents. My wife and I have learned how important it is to teach our children to do things for themselves and become problem solvers. There isn't enough time to do it any other way with a house full of children. Learning how to tie your shoes, make a te…
- Small Business Help Through the #2 Universal Funnel Law By Leanne Hoagland-Smith
The Universal Funnel Law #2: Every business needs prospects. A marketing plan is a proven way to reach and begin to develop relationships with future clients.All businesses including independent contractors, SOHO, entrepreneurs, small business owners and those very large Fortune 1000 corporations have the same basic need – someone interested in …
- Hows and Do'nts of Structuring a Business Note for Sale By Ron Nelson
Every year thousands of business notes, which is a promissory note, are created when a seller of a business takes back some of the financing of the business sale. Another name for this is 'Seller Financing' of a business sale. The majority of business notes are associated with the sale of a small business (i.e. A business whose annual revenues …
- Small Business - Would You Still Need An Accountant If You Didn't Need A Tax Return? By Kelvyn Peters
After over thirty years advising small business it still comes as a surprise to see the number of small business owners who are only interested in their financial results when it is time to do their tax return.Many still think that their accountant is there to ‘cook the books’ at tax time!It is not surprising that almost invariably the business o…
- How To Start A Blind Cleaning Business Quickly And Easily By Randy Wilson
Starting the blind cleaning business is one of the best marketable business ideas you could latch on to. If you give the requisite amount of time and dedication, there will be no cap on your earnings. No wonder, there is pleasure unlimited in being one's own boss. A lot of ambitious people like you have made successful entrepreneurs of themselve…
- Excuses Franchisees Make; When They Violate Exclusive Territory Agreements By Lance Winslow
One of the biggest excuses franchisees of home based and serviced based franchises make when violating their exclusive franchise agreement with their franchisor and fellow franchisees is: My Family Works There. As a franchisor, I cannot believe how many times neighboring franchisees steal each others clientele or work outside their exclusive fran…
- 5 Good Reasons a Self-Employed Professional Should Take Vacation By Cynthia Morse
So you think you're not justified in taking time away from your business because you're self-employed? Here are five great reasons why you should definitely take a vacation:1. Physical down time
You work hard to grow and maintain your business. Trying to be superhuman will certainly take its toll if you allow it to. Give your body a break by taki…
- Finance Your Small Business: So Much Money, So Little Time By MaryAnn Shank
$37.4 million funded from venture capital today. $86.4 million funded yesterday. $51.4 million funded the day before.These numbers are not made up. They are actual numbers from actual reported venture capital funding. I get these notices emailed to me day after day, rain or shine.I’m not personally looking for business financing – but the ent…
- Asking the RIGHT Questions By Bette Daoust, Ph.D.
Which questions do you need to ask to even get a hint
if you really want to know something about another person's business pain?We define business pain as a problem that a business needs to have a solution for. The pain may be that they do not have enough sales, or they do not have an appropriate process in order to track their forecasting. The p…
- How to Save Taxes with an S Corporation By Stephen Nelson
Ever wondered why so many small businesses—more than 3,000,000 at last count—operate as an S corporation? Simple. An S corporation saves business owners big taxes in three separate ways:First, as compared to regular corporations (sometimes called C corporations), S corporation owners can use the business’s losses incurred during the early lean ye…
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