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- How To Make Sure Your Customers Still Trust Your Small Business By Denise O'Berry
The stock market is still on a wild roller coaster ride. Trust in business is at an all time low. Do your customers still trust you? Here are seven ways to help you make sure.1. Go the extra mile. Under promise and over deliver - a time worn concept that still works every time. Be there for your customers and show them how reliable you are. It's …
- Accounting and Billing Procedures for Small Business By Lance Winslow
No matter how small your small business is, it is essential to have some sort of accounting and billing police and methodology. This will prevent you from making mistakes and upsetting vendors or even bouncing checks. Most sole proprietor and single employee companies do not have a plan of attack for accounting and billing procedures until there …
- Do You Own Your Business Or Does It Own You? By Kem Thompson
What was your aim when you went into business for yourself?
Chances are you wanted to be your own boss, be in control
of your future, improve your chances of earning a high income,
among other things.How are things for you right now? Do you feel in control of
your business? How many hours do you put into your business
each day? Each week? Will …
- How to Manage Your Pipeline By Bette Daoust, Ph.D.
How is your pipeline structured?I assume most of you have heard about the sales pipeline. Your pipeline is what keeps your business going. It is a lot like a funnel: at the large end, you need to do lots of activities that will generate a slew of interested contacts; some of these move down the funnel and become coached; of these, a few get quali…
- How to Get Started As A Government Contractor By Cheryl Antier
Becoming a contractor or sub-contractor for the U.S. government can bring in lucrative, on-going revenue to your small business. But doing business with the government is very different than typical business-to-business selling.For example, sales cycles can be much slower. There is a specific process that must be followed, and you'll face stiff c…
- Janitorial Cleaning Service: Getting Started By Randy Wilson
A janitorial cleaning service is one of the best businesses for a hardworking, blue collar person to start from scratch. Every business and every building needs to be cleaned once in a while - in some cases, many times each day. With the overhead involved with hiring employees to provide janitorial services, it is convenient for a company to ou…
- Banking and Company Credit Card Policies for Small Business By Lance Winslow
Does your small business have a banking and credit card policy? If not, perhaps you might wish to think on it. Developing such policies and procedures is not a difficult task. It will not take you long at all to make a relatively simple operations manual to cover your banking and credit card strategies.
Below please find an outline or guideline …
- Getting Grant Funding For Your Nonprofit Organization By Berwyn Kemp
Do you need grant funding for your nonprofit organization? If you do you are most certainly not alone in your needs. This combined with the fact that because of regular government budget cuts there’s not as many federal dollars available as there once was. And because of our current economic recession foundation dollars are down as well. What you…
- New Ideas In Holiday Small Business Marketing By J D Moore
Two seconds after Halloween it seems that all the retail stores put up their Christmas decorations - trying to capture as much of the Holiday market as possible. Typical ways that retail stores use to capitalize on the holidays include extended hours and sales. This is all well and good. Today I want to give you an early present by giving you som…
- Where to Find a Cash Windfall of $10,000 to $1,000,000 -- You Never Knew You Had By Jay L. Abraham
There is a rather famous true story called “Acres of Diamonds”.It is about a successful farmer who risks everything searching the African continent for diamonds. Ultimately he dies sick and penniless, while the new owner of his farm uncovers on his property the largest single diamond ever known to man.Point of fact: After helping hundreds of…
- The 5 Habits of Highly Successful Small-Business Owners By Salim Omar
Have you ever wondered what the difference is between a business that consistently grows and another that struggles just to make ends meet? Or why a business that was started in a basement of a home can outperform some of the best-run “big” companies in sales and profits?Two businesses, operating in the same marketing arena and selling the same…
- Four Reasons Why Small Businesses Succeed (or Fail) By Bob Normand
The American system of business management has been admired and emulated around the world. This system is characteristic of two traits in the American psyche: (1) enthusiasm for the future and making things better, and (2) an openness and willingness to change in order to achieve that end.No society in the world is better or more prolific at crea…
- Competition Relations in Auto Detailing By Lance Winslow
There is significant competition in auto detailing and car washing. Even more between types of cleaning businesses, as each company attempts to expand into other services which are the mainstay of similar business models. Many times the line blurs between a car wash, oil change business, truck repair, auto accessories business, electronics instal…
- Financial Strategies for a Mobile Car Wash Business Plan By Lance Winslow
Writing a business plan for a mobile car wash is fairly easy, yet often operators fall down in understanding the financial strategies and costs. Bankers and Investors alike will want to see that you have a well thought out business plan to insure your start-up goes successfully. Below you will find a sample mobile car wash strategic financial str…
- Going Public by Way of Regulation D (504) Offering By Joseph Quinones
Under the Securities Act of 1933, any offer to sell securities must either be registered with the SEC or meet an exemption. Regulation D (or Reg D) provides three exemptions from the registration requirements, allowing some smaller companies to offer and sell their securities without having to register the securities with the SEC.Rule 504 or Regu…
- Essex Accountants: Top Things to Look For By Jay Carmichael
One of the most common horrific mistakes a business can make is hiring the wrong accountant. Once hired, it can be very costly to hire a replacement accountant due to the nature of the job which inherently and directly impacts your bottom line. Choosing the right accountant for your business can mean the difference between success and failure. …
- Creating Time the Virtual Way By Danielle Keister
Time. As a small business owner, it's the commodity you covet most but never seem to have enough of.If you had more time, you could complete all the administrative chores required to operate your business.With enough time, you could do more marketing, more networking, more planning and systemizing.If you had just a little more, you'd be a whole l…
- Office Etiquette for Cleaning Staff By Steve Hanson
Company policies are developed in order to keep all cleaning staff on the same page. Policies must also be enforced regarding proper behavior of the cleaning staff while on the job. The following tips can be helpful when training new employees or useful reminders for long-tem employees:
Do NOT use any property of the client. This includes copy…
- The More you GIVE the More you GET By Bette Daoust, Ph.D.
Why give freebies?We have all seen freebies at trade shows and we have all probably seen the person that goes from booth to booth collecting as much of it as possible. There is always someone that only goes to get the free stuff, but then again there are also people that go there to learn about new products or services. These people may be genuin…
- Don’t Quit Before You Get to the City! By Sheronde Glover
We were more than excited. Our women’s doubles tennis team had won our division, successfully competed in three rounds of the playoffs and had emerged as finalists in the city competition. We fought hard and the results had paid off, but things didn’t always look so promising. Just last season we finished in 3rd place. Three of our members decide…
- Yesterday I Read A Book - Yikes! By Chris Ellington
Yes, I admit it. I did.Now, don't get me wrong. I am an internet marketer. I spend hours and hours in front of my computer, answering questions from my customers, working with prospects, improving my offering. I personally take calls from my customers and I react to ensure that their needs are met. I work hard to squeeze every dollar out of my we…
- Pressure Washing Business; Steam Cleaner Fuel Maintenance By Lance Winslow
It is essential that you fully understand how the fuel system works on your hot water pressure washer or steam cleaner. If you mess it up it could catch on fire and if you are not right there to put it out, you could potentially lose your machine. This type of equipment has been known to explode and Hydrotek out of California actually has a CD Ro…
- SBIR - A Nice Add-on Business By Lisa DeMaio
If you are a small business and qualify to participate in the SBIR program, it is a natural enhancer to your existing business. If you are small enough you may be able to start a company using SBIR funding, but you will soon come to realize that if your sources of income are not diversified (with SBIR being only one source) you might fall victim …
- Small Business Security No Passing Fad By Denise O'Berry
How careful are you with the data you collect from your customers? How about the handling of money in your business. And passwords? What controls have you put in place to protect computer data?We don't often think about the security of our businesses, but we should. Customers are becoming increasingly aware that their details could be vulnerable …
- The Business Autopsy: A Fact Of Life By Tim Knox
Last week we discussed the importance of performing an autopsy on a dead business. No, I haven't been watching too many of those wonderfully graphic, TV forensic investigation shows. The reason I recommend you do a business autopsy is to uncover the exact reasons why the business died. This is valuable information that can not only heal feelings …
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