Do You Want Your Own Fully Programmable ERP? - Part 2
In the first article we mentioned the main characteristics that should have a software to be used as a Front-End with some functions of an Enterprise Resources Planning ERP: ODBC, Replication, ...
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Earn More Money in Your Small Business by Creating a PIG
Learn an important lesson for setting up systems that pay you while you sleep or on vacation. If the idea of doing the work once and get paid forever makes your skin tingle with delight, then you really need to get a passive income generator working for you.
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Find Your Niche & Follow It - Part 1
In this series of articles I'm going to show you how to find out if there's a hungry crowd for your information product BEFORE you write a single word. Mark Twain once said: Find out where the peo...
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Small Business Marketing - How Important Are Your First Words?
The ability to verbally express your self clearly and articulately can be the difference between marketing success and marketing frustration. Do you know how to grab others attention and interest so they'll want to know more?
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Small Business Marketing: Specialize or Generalize?
There have been many great points raised on both sides of this discussion. In order to make a final decision, we must look at how the business world is moving and at the purchasing patterns of the consumers who will be utilizing your services.
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Accounting and Billing Procedures for Small Business
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 is a crisis.
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Finding the Right Virtual Assistant for Your Small Business
Articles abound advising the business community how to properly screen when looking for a Virtual Assistant (VA). Unfortunately, some of the advice may lead you astray.
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Slip And Fall Professionals; Service Businesses
Since you own a business you probably have liability insurance to help you against a scam of slip and fallers. Some entrepreneurs call them slip and fall professionals. The scout out the area, bring friends as witnesses trip and fall and then file a lawsuit, go to their chiropractor who is best friends with a lawyer and soak you or your insurance company out of tens of thousands of dollars.
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There Is Security in Change... But Use Caution
While consistancy may be comfortable, businesses must change and evolve or the marketplace will bass them by. Create a culture of change to keep ahead or at least keep up with our changing marketplace.
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Truck Detailing Shop Business Case Study
As an entrepreneur you can learn a lot by following the real life case studies of other entrepreneurs. Often the text books in school leave out the beginning details and the juicy part of how it all comes together and is created out of nothing but a thought. I have an interesting case study for you and it explains how my company got into the truck detailing business.
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Beginning an Internship Program
There specific steps one must take when beginning an internship program. Here we provide some considerations that will facilitate a smooth start.
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Franchises Offer Shortcuts, But Not Control
Franchising can be a great way to start a business career, but you should make sure you're not just trading one job for another. Unless you plan on being an absentee owner, which I highly discourage, you are gong to be working in the business just as an employee would, so be sure the business you choose doesn't turn your lifelong dream into a never-ending nightmare.
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Share Ad Expenses to Boost Profits
The challenges of the small business owner are well documented. They must battle for market share against larger competitors, run all aspects of their business, and even pay higher rates for advertis...
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The PR Commitment to Small Business
We're birds of a feather, public relations and small business.
Wonderfully compatible and a perfect fit. Usually makes it
easy to commit resources to small business success.
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Trailblazer Interview with Diane J. Levin, Partnering Solutions
Trailblazer Interviews chronicle the unusual and fascinating careers of women and men in the Alternative Dispute Resoluion Field.
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You'll See It When You Believe It - Growing Your Business from the Inside Out
What unspoken message are you sending your clients and customers? Is your personal energy field projecting positive, high vibrational energy or just the opposite? The latter will cost you business--and worse, you won't even realize it. The energy I'm talking about here has been called many things, "being in flow," "in the zone," "locked on", "jazzed", "sending out good vibes," (that last one is for anyone old enough to remember the 60's).
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11 Things Small Business Owners Can Learn From Rudy Giuliani
By the way he handled 9/11, Rudy Giuliani showed he's one of the great leaders of our time. Looking to him for guidance on how to be a better leader will help you improve your small business.
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Concrete Cleaning Discussed at World of Concrete Expo 03
If you are in the pressure washing business and are serious about what you clean on the ground floor, I suggest you attend the WOC. The WOC is the World of Concrete Expo in Las Vegas, which is held once per year.
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Consistency Builds Trust
You know your prospects need what you sell. You know they want what you sell. Heck, you know that they even sent away for information on your service and requested a quote. But the fact is you are mi...
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Effectively Completing the Operations Plan Section of Your Business Plan
The Operations Plan is a critical component of any business plan as it presents the Company's action plan for executing its vision. The Operations Plan must detail 1) the processes that are performed to serve customers every day (short-term processes) and 2) the overall business milestones that the company must attain to be successful (long-term processes).
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Franchise Territories for Mobile Businesses; Why Limitations
In franchising an individual desirous of their own business will sign on with a franchising company and use their brand name, know how and expertise to make a living. The franchisor will generally assign an exclusive territory with limitations.
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Franchises Must Meet Legal Definition to be an Actual Franchise
All franchises must meet the legal definition of a franchise no matter what they call it before it is an actual franchise. This is the Federal Trade Commissions take on the franchise rule. It is not illegal to call a company a franchise even if it is not one and if it is not it does not have to follow the rules.
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Franchising VS Business Opportunity; What is the Difference?
The modern Franchise business model and the much different business opportunity are much different and dissimilar. The definition of these two business models should be broken into completely different parts to better fit the two-different business models and have their own set of regulations, which would contain similar stipulations with regards to prohibitions, definitions or basic rules of law.
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FTC Franchise Rule if Enacted will Trigger Hardship for Private Sector
The FTC Franchise Rule maybe changed, as the Federal trade Commission has put out a report to the franchising industry as to upgrade the rule. If enacted will it will trigger hardship for private sector and cost many trees their lives; Paperwork.
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How to Get Maximum Results With Minimum Effort
Are you working too hard in your business without enough to show for it? Stop it before you quit or drop dead. This principle maximizes and multiplies all your resources to make your business explode!
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