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Hang on to Top Talent
Initial Business Funding from Friends and Family
Manage Your Cash Better
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Trademark Style
What's In A Name?
Advertising on Facebook
Choosing Between Online and Offline Business Opportunities
Doing Business Project by the World Bank on Economy Rankings
Rounding Up Staff Ideas
Understanding the Economy
Earning More from Your Website
Five Tips from the Founder of Staples
Ready to Tackle an IPO?
Getting Intellectual
5 Secrets to Never Making Another Cold Call
The Recent Small Business Law
Press Release Distribution
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5 Tips for Finding A Friendly Bank
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read full articleThe Demand Economy
With consumers and businesses pinching pennies, there’s one way to survive: target needs, not wants.
read full articleA Tough Sell
It’s not easy unloading or, for that matter, acquiring a business these days. But it’s not impossible. Plus, what is your company worth as the economy finally begins to limp out of the downturn.
read full articleHiring Strategy
It’s never easy to find good employees—so imagine having to find more than 300 of them in a matter of months.
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There is no shortage of expert opinion on how to negotiate, as a quick scan of any bookstore’s shelves will reveal. Some of that advice is valuable, but much of it is simply not practical.
read full articleHave You Found The Business Opportunity You Wanted?
I am looking for individuals to join me immediately with one tremendous offer. For years, I have built a successful consulting and publishing business. During this time, I have helped thousands of entrepreneurs start, expand and modify their business operations in addition to writing several best selling books.
read full articleApproaches to the PCTP Business Opportunity
There are several different approaches which can be employed, either independently or in conjunction with one another. The Progressive Development Approach provides for a slower, more targeted development of fewer and more specialized consultants while the Quick Start Approach accommodates a much larger number of participants quickly.
read full articleStartup Founders Need To Think For Themselves
Having studied large corporations for years, Jeanie Cartwright, author of the recent book The Responsible Business Founder, has been surprised by how many outmoded corporate ideas she sees start-ups adopting in the name of structure. She spoke with Business Talk’s David Yates.
read full articleThe Groupon Avalanche
It was a Wednesday morning in October, and Malt Lincecum’s phone wouldn’t stop ringing. Each time Lincecum, the founder of Fremont Brewing in
How To Go Downmarket
“Hey, do you have anything cheaper?”
read full articleWhen Slow Is Better
How can customer service—intensive businesses strike a balance between quality service and high profits?
read full articleThe 7 Biggest Financial Mistakes Businesses Make
Running a business should earn you an honorary degree given all you will learn, says Brian Hamilton, co-founder and CEO of Sageworks.
read full articleStart a Business Training Program
This highly successful classroom training program is now available online!
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This highly successful classroom training program is now available online!
read full articleAre National Banks Keeping their Promise to Increase Small Business Lending?
Small business owners may have a reason to celebrate – or at least a reason for hope. Over the last year, four of the nation’s largest banks pledged to increase lending to small businesses and thus far, each appears to be keeping their word.
read full articleBookkeeping Basics for Small Business
Whether you keep your books on paper, through computer software, or hire an accountant or bookkeeping expert, proper bookkeeping practices are important to the operation and survival of any business. Without them, your business is susceptible to not only cash flow issues, but potential legal problems as well. To help business owners have a better understanding of smart bookkeeping practices, we've compiled a quick guide on the basics.
read full articleFive Tips for Finding Small Business Friendly Banks
If you are in the market for business financing you may have noticed that the SBA is tentatively reporting a healthy increase in small business lending. However, finding the right bank for your small business financing needs can still be a time-consuming challenge.
read full articleSelecting the Right Bank for Your Small Business
Choosing a bank for your business can be an overwhelming and frustrating process, but it can also have a big impact on your success. Whether you find yourself having too many choices or not enough, it's important make an effort to find the bank that makes the most sense for your business. Follow these tips and tricks when it comes time to make your decision.
read full articleAngel Investor Hunter’s Guide
Finding the right angel investor could help you get your start-up off the ground. Angel investor networks are a good place to start looking for funding. These national and local groups of angels meet -- formally or informally -- to discuss deals and learn about the best new business opportunities. (This is the Second Article in a Series of “Hunting Down Angel Investors")
read full articleFinancing Your New Business
The past year and half has been tough. Tough on all of us; business owners and consumers alike. But things are improving. Even the outlook for the very near future is very promising. In support of that statement, look at what the experts are saying about 2010 at the end of this article.
read full articleFunding for a New Business is Available
Money is available for new businesses and for expansion of an existing business. If you have never raised money for a new business before, you need an expert to assist you. Money is tight and competition for the funding is at an all time high. But we can help you get the funding you need to start a new business or expand that existing business.
read full articleUsing Web Polls to Survey the World
Good to Be Great
National Boss Day, which is celebrated by someone, somewhere on October 16, honors “superiors for being kind and fair throughout the year,” according to our doughty friends at Wikipedia. “Kind and fair” are good and nice—but most bosses aspire to more than that. Most bosses want to be great.
read full articleThe Recent Small Business Law
The recent small-business law has seven key provisions to help small-business owners, and Rhonda Abrams outlines them here.
read full articleIs Now A Good Time To Start A New Business?
Successful Businessman, Venture Capitalist and Published Author Answers Our Questions in the First of a Four Part Interview About Starting a New Business Now and Into the Early Part of 2011. (This is an Interview with N. Michael Miller)
read full articleSpread The Word
Try these tools, and ramping up your press release distribution is as easy as point and click.
read full articleMarketing - Simply Irresistible
When creating successful print and online advertising, less is definitely more. Too often, entrepreneurs stuff ads full of elements that can actually torpedo their chances of success. With virtually every advertising environment cluttered with ads all screaming for attention, today’s check-by-jowl marketing environment mandates a clean, clear approach to content.
read full articleHow Can A Business Owner Fund A New Business?
Successful Businessman, Venture Capitalist and Published Author Answers Our Questions in the Second of a Four Part Interview About Funding a New Business.(This is an Interview with N. Michael Miller)
read full articleGetting Intellectual
One of the most important steps in launching your business is protecting your ideas. Larry Apolzon, an intellectual property attorney and co-author of From Edison to iPod: Protect Your Ideas and Make Money, offers some tips.
read full articleSome Like It Hot - 5 Secrets To Never Making Another Cold Call
It is very rare that you will find someone that loves cold calling—someone who just cant wait to get up in the morning, pick up the phone and just knock on doors. So for those of you who would like some alternatives, here are a few ideas.
read full articleRaising Money - Ready To Tackle An IPO?
Deciding to take a company public seems simple, but doing it is another matter. “It is a excruciating process, to say the least,” says Joseph Visconti, founder and CEO of ValueRich,a magazine publisher and media company that started trading on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol IVA in August.
read full articleEarning More From Your Website
Sure, your company’s website brings in business, but it can also become a revenue generator in its own right. Using these free services, you paste a little code into your website and pick up revenue when people stop by. It’s easy money, but proceed cautiously.
read full articleSome Tips from the Founder of Staples
Thomas G. Stemberg is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and executive, most notable for founding office supply retail chain Staples Inc. with Leo Kahn.
read full articleUnderstanding The Economy
People worry that a recession is coming. But by the time one arrives, most economic harm has already happened.
read full articleManaging a New Business and How To Do It Right
Successful Businessman, Venture Capitalist and Published Author Answers Our Questions in the Third Part of a Four Part Interview about Managing a New Business and How to Do It Right. (An Interview with N. Michael Miller)
read full articleAdvertising on Facebook
These days, it seems everyone and his mother has a Facebook page. In the
Balancing Acts
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read full articleBricks or Clicks
Choosing Between Online and Offline Business Opportunities
read full articleRounding Up Staff Ideas
Business owners are always on the hunt for new ideas— ways to cut costs, increase revenue, and improve products and services. Often the most cost-effective source of ideas is right in front of you.
read full articleEconomy Rankings
The Doing Business Project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 183 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. The Doing Business Project, launched in 2002, looks at domestic small and medium-size companies and measures the regulations applying to them through their life cycle.
read full article2011 – A Great Year For Startup Businesses
2011 will be the ideal year for small firm start ups. The
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read full articleConvert Website Traffic Into More Sales Leads
Even online, we are a society of window shoppers. On average, a measly 3 percent of visitors to a company’s website make a purchase or fork over contact information.
read full articleForecast Future Demand with Accuracy
When you go several years without a major disruption to the economy, you can forget what it’s like to be faced with this kind of economic unpredictability. It takes a different mindset to run a business in a time like this. Instead of just looking forward, you’ve got to take a step back.
read full articleHang on to Top Talent
A new survey says a third of companies will consider raises, while others may offer flexible working hours or bonuses.
read full articleInitial Business Funding from Friends and Family
How can I structure funding from friends and family in a way that is attractive to angel investors and venture capitalists?
read full articleManage Your Cash Better
You may not have noticed, but a revolution has occurred in business banking.
read full articleProtect Your Trade Secrets
When it comes to intellectual property; or IP, many people’s knowledge begins and ends with patents, which grant inventors exclusive commercial use of their creations.
read full articleWhat’s In A Name?
I have identified a hierarchy of name types that offer increasingly stronger protection when registering a trademark.
read full articleTrademark Style
When you publicize a business, you are claiming a trademark, whether or not you realize it. That’s because there are two kinds of trademarks.
read full articleAcquisitions Fueled Venture Capital Rise
2010 had best buying market, since ‘85 and most IPOs since ‘07
read full articleBanks Open Loan Spigot
Some big
15 Mistakes Young Entrepreneurs Make, But Don't Have To
If you're an entrepreneur, you're probably going to screw up at some point. That's ok. Entrepreneurship is a constant process of quickly testing hypotheses, failing, refining and testing again. If you're not failing, you're not learning, right?
read full articleService Firms Grow At Fastest Pace Since 2006
I have been telling my clients that want to start a service industry related business that now is the time. This advice was confirmed by an article on January 5, 2011 from The Associated Press.
read full articleDecoding the New Consumer
The emerging post-downturn economy poses all sorts of new challenges. Consumers have changed the way they think. So have employees. Once novel technologies are now ubiquitous.
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