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- Dramatically Improved Sales Begins By Being that Red Jacket in the Crowd of Gray Suits By Leanne Hoagland-Smith
In 2003, the Small Business Administration reported that of the 5.7 million firms in the United States only 17,000 firms employed 500 or more employees. Small business accounts for 99% of all businesses. In other words, there is a lot of gray suits standing on the same corner with you trying to get business.Your challenge, if you decide to accep…
- What Are the Best Small Business Opportunities? By Scott Patterson
What are the best small business opportunities? I could just throw a list of opportunities at you and tell you that I had thoroughly researched the topic and found that these, the ones I've listed for you here, are hands down the best small business opportunities out there. Some of you might say "great, I'll choose one of these". The more astute …
- Temporary Staffing Agency: How to Start By Randy Wilson
The temporary staffing industry continues to expand, with yearly double-digit growth being commonplace. Companies find it convenient and cost-effective to work with a temporary staffing agency to fulfill unforeseen demand, fill short-term vacancies, and assist with changing workloads due to restructuring or mergers. Additionally, employers are …
- Local Search and Internet Yellow Pages - A Whole NewVocabulary for Small Businesss By Dr. Lynella Grant
Buyers want both online and local information about where to buy Most small businesses are local in nature, serving people who live nearby. Their customers found them through traditional methods like the Yellow Pages or newspaper ads. So far, the Internet hasn't figured prominently in their marketing efforts. That's about to change, as Local Sear…
- Increase Your Profits with a Point of Sale (POS) System By Brian Cook
Whether you operate a chain of restaurants, a mom-and-pop convenience store, or a medium-sized retail shop, you are in business to make money. And, one of the most critical aspects to your profit and loss is your ability to track information… you need to know which products are making you money, what items need to be re-ordered, who your customer…
- Pressure Washing at Golf Courses By Lance Winslow
There are many potential niches for pressure washing companies that often go unchecked. Some are quite lucrative and are worth investigation if you own a pressure washing business. One such niche is the pressure washing of golf courses, clubs houses, golf carts and facilities. To target this specialization of services you will need to slightly mo…
- How to Get Maximum Results With Minimum Effort By Steve Faber
Get maximum results with minimum effort. Sounds great doesn’t it? The key is leverage. You can get a huge result from relatively little investment of resources. Weather it’s time, money or intellect, you only have so much. The key is to use your resources as a lever to really explode your income!A great example is real estate. You control a relat…
- Window Cleaning Business Future Challenge With Self Cleaning Glass By Lance Winslow
Self-cleaning glass has been talked about a lot, with such a catchy name in his hit the headlines of not only the trade journals, but also the mass media. Does self-cleaning glass mean that all the window cleaners and small businesses across this country are doomed? No, not yet. First of all, self-cleaning glass is not really self-cleaning at all…
- Pressure Washing of Paving Equipment and The EPA By Lance Winslow
Many pressure washing companies will be glad to take on additional work when a company calls them up to come and wash, but the days of cleaning asphalt compactors, steamrollers, paving equipment with diesel fuel are gone forever. If you are caught doing it the old fashioned way it's a $1,000 fines in the United States, fist offense and you pay f…
- Is Your Business Legally Prepared? By Sonia Colon
It is imperative to have your business legally prepared. How you ask? You need to have a business license, a home occupation license, if running your business from home, a city or county license, (depending on what State you live) plus you need to register your business as fictious if you are not using your name as a business. For instance, If Jo…
- Combating Over Regulation of Small Business By Lance Winslow
Many small businesses do quite well due to the blood, sweat and tears of their proprietors. Unfortunately in doing to well often you find that the competition uses the government to attack you. They do this by complaining to various local agencies about how you are not following certain rules, such as the dumpster out back has broken hinges on th…
- Small Business Success: Thriving During Change (And Landing On Your Feet!) By Lorraine Cohen
If I had $1.00 every time I heard someone say “ I don’t like change or, change makes me uncomfortable” I’d be a millionaire. Some people thrive on change – they love it and even create more of it. Others view change with anxiety and resistance. So often, we don’t associate potential, excitement and wonder with change. Instead, we react to it; we …
- Virtual Assistant – Questions Answered By Shannon Davidson
What is a Virtual Assistant?A Virtual Assistant is a person or persons with whom businesses and individuals outsource administrative and technical tasks. Virtual Assistants work from their home office. Virtual Assistants are entrepreneurs.
A Virtual Assistant is a qualified, skilled individual who makes your business their business.Why shou…
- City Wide Garage Sales: Hidden Riches! By Randy Wilson
Most of us remember going to at least one garage sale in our lives. It may have been called a yard sale, garage sale or flea market. The name didn’t matter it was all the same. Other people selling what they thought was trash to people who thought the items were treasures.Those people who find treasures are the people who feel euphoria at the s…
- Business Development Is Not An Event By Denise O'Berry
Cash flow. To stay in business, you've got to keep a steady stream moving through your company.A small business owner mentioned the other day that he has "enough work to keep his staff busy until next February." Another mentioned that his current projects were ending and he needed to "start beating the bushes for more work." Which one do you thin…
- Are You Running Your Business or Is Your Business Running You? By Laurie Hayes
Being a small or home-based business owner can be loads of fun and very rewarding.You may have decided to go into business because of your need for personal freedom or to fully unleash your creative genius. You may also have decided to go into business to supplement your existing income, to make yourself available for young children or aging par…
- Write An Effective Job Proposal By Matthew Keegan
I am simply amazed at the problems some of my colleagues are experiencing regarding writing job proposals for customers. So often I hear that there has been some sort of disagreement between client and service provider, something that can and should be avoided before a project is started. Here are four tips to help you write an effective job prop…
- Collect that Debt - Your Business Depends on it By Peter Viliamu
The efficiency of debt collection is the difference between a business that will succeed and a business that closes up.If you do not have control of your debt collection then you will eventually fail. All businesses that grant credit will be faced with the problem of bad debt at some stage. The best way to deal with bad debt is to have a good deb…
- Why Small Businesses Fail (or Fail to Thrive) By Karyn Greenstreet
Tammy, a skilled and gifted horticulturist, called me to discuss what she needed to know to start her own florist and landscaping business. She had been in the horticulture industry for 10 years and was incredibly skilled at working with flowers and plants – one of the best. She also had great design skills, as well as good customer service ski…
- The Fast-running Chicken: Don't Get Snared in a Business Trap! By John T Jones, Ph.D.
Hey, what are you getting into there? Do you have all the facts about that new business you are getting into?Let me tell you a story that would be true except I made if up from an old joke. George Hotshot, a traveling salesman, was driving down a southern country road when he noticed that a chicken was running along side his car. Being curious, h…
- Leverage The Power of Publicity For Your Small Business By Isabel Isidro
Your business is only as good as the number of people who knows about it. For your venture to grow, you need to start spreading the word about your business. You may have the best products your field, but you cannot expect your business to breach the million-dollar mark in sales if only the people in your street know about it. Some entrepreneurs …
- Franchises Offer Shortcuts, But Not Control By Tim Knox
Q: I will be retiring this year at age 60 and intend to fulfill my lifelong dream of owning my own business. I'm too old to start from scratch, so I'm looking at several franchise opportunities, including fast food, auto parts, and an accounting service. What should I consider before choosing one?
Anthony R.A: Congratulations on the retirement, A…
- Implementing an Internship Program By Andrew E. Schwartz
CONSIDERING COMPANY NEEDS: In identifying your needs for the internship, you need to examine the chief responsibilities of the position. And the broader they are, the more flexibility you will be giving yourself and the intern. Decide upon how often you will need the intern. Gauge any time factor related to the responsibilities you are assigning.…
- Genius Time… It Matters By David Handler
I frequently give presentations at small business gatherings, providing me the opportunity to have engaging conversations with owners about the challenges they face. Based on their input, the economy continues to plug along, heading in the right direction, and distancing itself from the difficult journey of the past few years. However, the result…
- Where Can People Find Information About Starting A Business? By Tim Guba
Approximately 200,000 new businesses are started each year. More people are expected to start a business for themselves this year than ever before. With economic fluctuations rippling through the business world, more and more people are getting laid off every day.People often need help finding the information they need to become a successful busi…
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