Small Business Information

Creating Time the Virtual Way


Time. As a small business owner, it's the commodity you covet most but never seem to have enough of.

Buying a Business


Start thinking about buying an established business if you want to avoid the immense risks involved in starting one. Not everyone wants to start a business from scratch, and buying a business with the infrastructure in place lets you focus on building it up, as opposed to getting a new business off the ground. This is not to say that it?s easy to buy an existing business; it?s a fairly complicated process throughout which you need to know exactly what you?re doing.

Survival Tips For Small Businesses


You may be in Mail Order, Direct Mail, or you may be a local merchant with 150 employees; whichever, however or whatever---you've got to know how to keep your business alive during economic recessions. Anytime the cash flow in a business, large or small, starts to tighten up, the money management of that business has to be run as a "tight ship."

From Birth to Death


Your product is dying. With the same inevitability that we humans move ever closer to death, so does every software application move towards its eventual demise.

Creative Metrification - A Technique to Improve


Some things in business are relatively easy to measure ? these are the ?hard? metrics such as sales volume and profit, production per man-hour, time without an accident, shipments without error, number of customers served, on-time delivery, etc. Other, ?soft? metrics, are more difficult to quantify, but with a little creativity, measurement can be made of just about anything.

The Key to Creating Total System Empowerment


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4 Areas Where Your Business is Losing Money


In my 18 years of consulting I have heard it all. Everything from competition to managed care as reasons why it?s hard to create the business of your dreams. New customers are needed to keep any business going but it is how you and your staff manage these customers that determines your success in business.

Why Internet Shopping is the New Mall of the Future


Last year, trillions of dollars transferred hands on the internet with regard to sales, or as the internet wishes to call it, eCommerce. The internet is becoming an increasingly complex manipulation of do's and don'ts. However, one thing I am sure of is, what are you doing? The cliche says, "Either get in the game, or sit and watch from the sidelines." I've been sitting around long enough and recently took bold steps to leap into eCommerce.

Passion Is Key To A Successful Business


Passion. Passion alone can make your business successful. As an entrepreneur, you are a passionate person. For why would anyone invest such incredible amounts of time and energy on something they have no REAL desire to do? If you do such a thing, then it's just bullshit. You have built an unreal, superficial way work environment and based on that you most likely are not very satisfied in what you do.

Selling Your Business, Entrepreneurs Role


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Understanding Franchise Releationships in a Franchised Business


Now that you have invested your time, energy and money in buying a franchise, how do you work within the system? How do you take advantage of all your franchisor has to offer? How do you deal with your counterparts, other franchisees?

Small Business Server Business Tips


Top 3 Ways to Maximize Your Small Business Server Consulting Profits

Top Ten Resolves for Building Your Business in 2005


1. Resolve to build a consistent network system.

Everything I Need to Know About Business I Learned From My Nametag


So there I was ? sitting in the audience of an on-campus seminar. Surrounding me sat hundreds of fellow students; each of us wearing one of those little, handwritten, adhesive nametags. When the event was over, we all filed toward the exit. I approached the door and noticed a small trashcan filled to the brim with ripped up, used nametags.

How To Create A Business Note That Is More Attractive To A Note Investor


You are selling your small business (business value under $1 million for this article). You would like the buyer of your business to come in with an all-cash offer, or be able to qualify for an SBA guaranteed loan. However, in many cases the owner of the business ends up taking back the financing because the buyer is not able to make an all-cash offer or does not qualify for an SBA guaranteed loan. So you create a ?business note? and you now become the ?bank?. At first that may seem okay, but after a couple of years of receiving payments you may decide you want to get back into business and you need the cash that is tied up in your business note on which you are receiving payments. So now you want to sell your business note to raise cash for your next business venture. What is it worth? That will depend a lot on how you structured the note.

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