Category: Business Planning
Could Your Business Benefit From a Mentor?
Once you’re ready to start a business, you’ll have many important decisions to make. This is especially true in the first months of opening your business. You might worry that you’ll have to make every decision on your own. Ultimately, you are responsible for the decisions you make, but you can always consult others to get guidance. A mentor could be an invaluable resource to you.
Tips for Taking Your Small Business Green
Green: it’s everywhere. It’s taught in the first grade. It’s at the center of many corporate manufacturing and marketing policies. And whether you believe in climate change or still have doubts, consumers are now demanding GREEN.
Click Millionaires: A Roadmap for Today’s Entrepreneurs
The internet has changed the way that business startups are launched — and Scott Fox’s new book, Click Millionaires, offers a helpful roadmap to help you navigate the terrain, and find success as a lifestyle business owner. We’ve all heard of the big name “gurus” that pontificate exploiting search engine vulnerabilities, “gaming the system” in [...]
10 Ways to Prepare for Retirement
Financial security in retirement doesn’t just happen. It takes planning and commitment and, yes, money.
Breakeven Analysis: Know When you can Expect a Profit
Breakeven analysis is a tool used to determine when a business will be able to cover all its expenses and begin to make a profit.
5 Free Sources for Market Research Data
Are you considering writing a business plan, or extending your reach into a new market? Here’s some helpful resources you can tap for valuable insights.
Start-Up Accelerator and Incubator Programs for Social Entrepreneurs
With the success of Y Combinator there has been a steady rise in the number of accelerator programs available for start-up entrepreneurs.
3 Tips to Manage Social Media in Your Business Plan
Three steps to manage your social media business activities using your business plan. I’m thinking mainly of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+, but I hope these three steps will apply to any other social media effort or platform as well.
Company Helps Inventors Launch Their Ideas
George Davison sheperds ideas from sketch to prototype to market—and fueled his determination to give every idea person the opportunity to see his or her big idea realized.
Being A Good Citizen Can Be Good Business
A growing number of corporations are finding that good works and good business can go hand in hand.
Solid Planning May Save You from Disaster
Small businesses play a vital role in helping the nation’s economic recovery. Properly protecting a small business through risk management is essential to its long-term survival.
A Better Telecommuting Option for Small-Business Workers
If you work on your own at home-or would like to—you’re not alone. According to research by the University of Oregon, about 6 percent of the work-force (over 8 million Americans) telecommute to company jobs from their homes on either a part-time or full-time basis—and the number is increasing.
Are You Getting Enough Time Off?
The common philosophy amongst small business owners is that if you are doing what you love, you will never have to work a day in your life. While that holds true to some extent, the fact is that starting a business and maintaining it will take a concerted amount of energy and effort out of anyone.
How Moms are Finding Opportunities to Chase their Dreams
There’s no need to choose between being a parent and running your dream business. Female entrepreneurs have been phenomenally successful in the recent past, with more than 8 million women-owned businesses in the United States.
Golden Opportunity for Portfolio Diversification
In this unsettled market environment, many investors are considering ways to diversify their portfolios further.
Make Your Small Business More Green
Even if being green doesn’t mesh with your worldview, it can still bring about cost savings for your business.
Tips for Bolstering Your Small Business
Are you maximizing efficiencies, or spending too much time on the small things? Are you doing the right things to grow your business?
