Archive for the ‘Starting a business’ Category
Monday, March 30th, 2009
Many of us start a business with big ideas. We know we have a great idea, that it will catch on, and we will become a household name across the country- or maybe even the world. Usually things go well for a while. We make some great ...
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
Yesterday Wil Shroter on the GO BIG network wrote a post about how a startup should never close. The gist of the article is that entrepreneurs need to get the 8-5 mentality out of their heads. When you are starting a business, you are always on the clock, ...
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
It's no secret that small business owners, by and large, love to hate QuickBooks. While 80% of small businesses use Quickbooks over any other bookkeeping software, at any given moment many of those same business owners find themselves at their wit's end when trying to close out a year's ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
When I was in high school, I worked in my parents' janitorial services company. It was a straightforward industry where virtually anyone with a mop and bucket could start a business- and did they ever! As the job market grew tighter, more and more “fill-in-the-blank’s cleaning services” kept ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Late last year Google announced the Knol Project. Finally, last week they opened it up to the public. It is a user-based article submission site quite similar to Wikipedia. According to the original press release:
"A knol on a particular topic is meant to be the first thing someone ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
I spend a lot of time convincing people they need to create a business that actually makes a profit rather than just making salaries the ultimate goal. Today, I want to take a break from business profitability to talk about non-profit organizations.
Small non-profits are much like small businesses of ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Skybus Airlines had a short life. They came on the scene quickly and were flying all over the country in no time. Infinitely more abrupt, however, was their decent into closure. On April 5, they simply stopped flying altogether. Employees were told they no longer had ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Sounds simple enough, right? The next section of the business plan is your Product Description. Your task is to write persuasively and concisely to convince your reader that your product or service is worth buying. This is not the marketing plan; you will get to the marketing ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
If you successfully filed your articles of organization or incorporation, you are ready to move to the next steps before you can hang out your shingle. The following steps should get you headed in the right direction1.
1. Get your Federal Employer Identification ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
At some point in life, most people have what they think is a good product or business idea. The idea could be a new invention, an improvement on something, a new way to do something, or even great new restaurant. What happens to all those great ideas? ...
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