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What To DO When You Don't Know What To Do NEXT?
In the course of building your business, there are times where you may not actually be sure of what next steps to take or even what questions to ask. I help entrepreneurs with business development and small business funding support and coaching and these are the very questions I hear from clients during our first meeting.
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Business Loans: Finding The Right One
Business loans are not very difficult to come by these days as might be thinking. What with so many governmental and private financial lenders vying with each other for a share of the business loan market, there are brighter chances for businessmen and women to get one provided they have their credit ratings and documents right in place.Small Business LoansSmall business persons feel the need for loans when they are short of investment at the time of start-up or when ...
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Planning For Every Expense
Making a budget for a home business start-up is more of an art than it is a science. No matter how exactly you think youve pinned down all your expenses, its guaranteed that more will appear that you either didnt think of or just couldnt have predicted. Thats why you need to make sure that you always plan for every possible expense.Things Break.Remember that any equipment you buy can go wrong, no matter how expensive or high-quality it was (this is especially tru...
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Factoring Can Be An Ideal Solution For Start-Up And/Or Growing Businesses
Factoring is one of the oldest methods of business financing in existence. The history of factoring dates back to the days of moneylenders in the middle ages. Factoring has been the working capital facility of choice in Europe for centuries. It has taken on a new life in recent years as a financing method for many businesses in the United States. Factoring is the sale of accounts receivable, as opposed to borrowing against them as you would do with a bank line of credit. ...
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How To Get Your Small Business Off The Ground
Many people have what they think is a great idea and would love to set up their own small business. The problem many of these people face is how to fund this idea, to get the business off the ground. Unfortunately many of these ideas never come to fruition because of these lack of funds, where in reality there are many avenues people could take to find this initial start-up capital.
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An Easier Learning Curve Through Social Marketing Networks
Most people who have succeeded in business can probably tell you something about the importance of having a mentor who will be able to teach you the ropes in starting your own business. This is because the experience that these successful businessmen can impart is a very important factor in shortening your learning curve and in helping you avoid the mistakes start-up entrepreneurs usually make.Consider the fact that 90 percent of all start-up businesses fail within five ...
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Affordable Individual Health Insurance - How To Control Your Own Insurance Costs
The need for affordable individual health insurance is becoming more prevalent because of the rising numbers of self-employed. Entrepreneurs are changing the landscape. Home-based businesses are growing at a phenomenal pace. The enormous growth of small business has generated a greater demand for individual health insurance. This is a first time experience for many of these new start-ups. Group health insurance is provided by the employer. The employee that is enrolled in the...
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Causes Of Business Insolvency
It is a known fact that only about 50% of small businesses continue to exist after about three years from being formed. There are many reasons for this occurrence but the foremost explanation is business failure. Business failure does not happen only to small start-ups but also to big businesses that have been set up for quite some time and have experienced a moderate measure of success.Its true that insolvency happens to all business but smaller businesses stand a great...
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Why Hiring a Virtual Assistant Makes Good Business Sense
Very few start-up businesses have the resources to pay employee related expenses such as vacation pay, health insurance, retirement benefits, etc. Ignoring the never-ending stack of paperwork could result in holding back your new business before it has even started.A possible solution could be to hire a Virtual Administrative Support Assistant. More and more people are turning to these highly skilled e-professionals for help.
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Planning for Success
Here are some general start-up tips for a successful home business.
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The Number One Reason For Small Business Failure!
Nearly half of all small businesses fail within the first two years of operation. The number one reason for business failure is inadequate planning. The second reason is under-capitalization.
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5 Tips for Estimating Your Start-up Costs
Most business start-up stories say that you have to have a business plan. And you do. But that's not the beginning and end of figuring out your start-up costs.
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Five Unstoppable Tactics For Demonic Viral Marketing.
Does marketing your start-up company petrify your checkbook? Tri-media advertising does wonders for corporate brand building but it's not the only way to spread the good word. With non conventional promotion, you avoid costly tri media expenses and create an almost demonic cult-following for your new product or service. All you need is a bit of unconventional thinking.Let's get down to brass tacks.Since 1999, I've been launching successful start-ups. Most were pure on...
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Ask Don't Tell Leadership: When To Start Your Own Business?
When to start your own business?Q: After working at one company for 10 years, I would like to begin my own business. What issues do I need to consider, and how do I know when it is the right time to take the big step?A: Almost 20 years ago, my roommate asked me to spend a day of my vacation in New York spying on his competition at a tradeshow. I made up a story to tell the vendors at the show -- I was planning to start a fundraising call center for politicians and w...
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Ask Don't Tell Leadership: Why Do I Need A Business Plan?
Why you need a business plan!!!Q: In last weeks column, you gave advice about starting a business, and you kept preaching about writing a business plan. I own a business, I dont have a plan, and Im doing just fine. Whats the big deal?A: How do you know your business is doing fine if you do not have a business plan? This is like a runner stating that he is fast when asked his running pace. Quality and success cannot be measured without having b...
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Angel Investors Definition
Angel investors are one of the financing options that you can look into when you decide to start your own business venture. Business start-up is not only a crucial process it also requires a lot of time, effort, and of course money. Make sure you fully understand just what and angel investor can do for you and your business.
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Little Known Facts About the Internet Marketing Industry
Low start-up costs and tax saving incentives make home based businesses an attractive income avenue worth exploring. Developing your own home based business takes patience and courage, but it could be the ideal rewarding residual income machine for you.
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Reap Benefits When You Submit Articles For Niche Marketing
Niche markets are small specific markets. Individuals or businesses are grouped together for niche marketing if they share similar interests or needs. For instance, females who play golf can be considered a niche market. Reaching as many people in the same niche is necessary to making your small business work. However, if you are an online business start-up, finding your target audience may be challenging in the beginning. One way to quickly finding your target audience i...
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Internet Marketing Affiliates: Earn Ongoing Commissions As A Super Poker Affiliate
The Internet is clogged up with get rich quick schemes, some work, some fail spectacularly. For users who are looking to choose a system, a scheme or just to get ideas there so many to choose from. But the problem with all schemes is that there is always a catch, a small problem that makes them high maintenance or risky. One of the biggest failsafe schemes is as simple as adding an advert to a personal website. There are no catches, no expensive start-ups and best of all very...
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Pitfalls To Avoid As A Newbie What Do You Want For A Buck?
A strange headline? Not really, think about why you started on a specific affiliate program or Internet marketing site
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How To Find A Freelance Copywriter
Copywriting is a career suitable for both the corporate and freelance worlds. So its an ideal resource for businesses from start-ups to restaurants, local shops, professional service providers and real estate agents to acquire the professional copywriting and editing they need. Hiring a freelance copywriter means you avoid hiring a permanent, full-time employee, paying for benefits, office space, a computer and equipment.If youre looking for as-needed copy writing or...
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Small Business Funding: The Haves And The Have-Nots
I’ve heard it literally thousands of times from inventors and start-up entrepreneurs “I have the best idea on the planet --- why can’t I get anyone to invest in me?” Every entrepreneur has the opportunity in this country to seek funding to help launch their idea yet very few do it successfully. It has everything to do with the opportunities you can actually create for yourself.
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Passion To Prosperity For The Holistic Practitioner and Service Provider
All too often, practitioners and service professionals who maintain a high degree of integrity with the work they do find it challenging to grow their business--- or to even think of the service they provide as a “business”. What general happens is they find themselves continually trading time for dollars with no room left to pursue other important activities such as marketing, follow-up, networking, operational duties, or developing other revenue streams of their business, etc.
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eLearningZoom
eLearningZoom is an early start-up company with the right vision to deliver the best simple to use online training solution to small to medium sized companies. We provide the most advanced, yet easy to use web-based elearning tools that enable subject matter experts and training professionals to build, deliver and manage eLearning solutions for their employees, customers and partners worldwide.
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