Small Business Articles & News
Accept Credit Card In Your Business
Should you accept credit card in your business transactions? Many small companies or home-based businesses avoid doing so because of their concern over fees and expenses that may drain away potential profits. Yet the actual cost of implementing credit card payment processing equipment, along with associated monthly and annual fees, may cost less than you think. The application process is easy, many banks are willing to work with small business owners, and exciting profits are possible, so what ...
Home Office Furniture: Choosing The Right Computer Desk
Your home office should be planned carefully, as the right equipment and office furniture will not only save you time and effort, but money, too. Old or inconvenient office furniture results in a messy workspace, loss of productivity and can eventually lead to back or wrist pain. When you depend on yourself for your income, any time you are not working to your full productivity, you are losing money. That is why most business owners need to pay special attention to their computer furniture, ...
Top 7 Small Business Tax Tips
Here are seven ways for owners of small businesses to save money on their taxes. 1. Incorporate Yourself: If you`re still a proprietor or partner of a business, it`s time to incorporate yourself. Not only will you limit your liability, but you may enjoy lower tax rates on small business income and other tax advantages as well. 2. Be Home Based: If possible, continue (or switch to) being a home based business. Not only will you keep your overhead ...
Builders Cleans – A Lucrative Market For Commercial Cleaners
With office cleaning becoming an increasingly competitive market for contract cleaning companies they must diversify or move into a niche market if they wish to continue to grow. One niche market that is not so competitive is that of ‘builders clean’. The number of companies that offer a good, high quality service to the construction industry is relatively small. So for small to medium sized firms it is well worth considering entering this market. In order to succeed the ...
Want To Start Your Own Retail Business?
If you are looking for a rewarding retail business, consider sunglasses. Retail sunglasses business is booming. People love to sport sunglasses from leading brands at all occasions whether they are at a fair, festival or at the beach. A retail sunglasses business can help you earn a pretty handsome income with some well planned operation and these tips. Why should you start your own sunglass business? The main advantage of having your own sunglasses business is ...
Do You Need Accounting Software For Your Small Business?
If you’re anything like me then you dislike with a vengeance doing your accounts and taxes. So how can you make this process easier, less painful and cut your accountancy fees? Well buying an accounting software package is one way. First of all you need to decide whether you are going to keep your accounting records manually, that is using pen and paper, or whether you are going to computerize the process. If you decide that computerizing the process is the way to go then you need to decide ...
Small Business Grants Innovation At Its Best!
The small business grants innovation research is from the USDA. This is just one of many federal business grants that could serve your need for your small business. This free grant is a project grant and the federal government has set aside 2 billion dollars a year for this grant. It never needs repaid. The 10.212 Small Business Grants Innovation Research Program- is an exceptional free grant program that does so much more than the name can describe.
The Skills Gap: It Pays to Use Experts
By outsourcing to skilled professionals you'll be able to grow your business without adding overhead.
How To Build Business Credit
Having their own business is something many millions of people dream of doing. Many do, of course, but so many others never quite get around to it. One of the factors that may discourage people from getting that business off the ground, is a lack of start up capital; and another may be the risk of losing their own money.
Six Sigma for Small Business
It is not surprising that some people may perceive Six Sigma as being only for large corporations. Major corporations such as Allied Signal, Black & Decker, Dow Chemical, Dupont, Federal Express, General Electric, Johnson and Johnson, Kodak, Motorola, Sony, and Toshiba have all rolled out Six Sigma efforts and achieved outstanding results. Yet, it is incorrect to think that Six Sigma process improvement results can only be achieved by huge organizations. Small businesses can also succeed in ...
So What? How to Elicit Benefits from Features
"So what?" is a lovely question. It can lead to a punch on the nose if you tactlessly say it to others to challenge their ideas but, when you use it to question your own decisions it has endless uses. Today I'm going to describe a process for applying it to elicit benefits from features and to determine if a marketing task is really worth it! This article will require you to roleplay in your own head, or better still, get the help of a colleague or friend to play the role ...
Take a Break Have a Pity Party
Pity parties are nothing new. In fact, we do it all the time and I'm guessing that you probably go to many... you know, you get together with some friends and you'll bemoan the state of your industry. No one understands what we do and how we can help them. Companies are always spending less and less on the services I have to offer. I only get called in to sort things out when it's too late. Then they expect me to work miracles. Why don't people plan ahead?
Take a Break Have a Pity Party
Pity parties are nothing new. In fact, we do it all the time and I'm guessing that you probably go to many... you know, you get together with some friends and you'll bemoan the state of your industry. No one understands what we do and how we can help them. Companies are always spending less and less on the services I have to offer. I only get called in to sort things out when it's too late. Then they expect me to work miracles. Why don't people plan ahead?
Expand Your Professional Organizer Business
Grow your Professional Organizer business by branching out into related areas. If you have been doing the same old thing for a while, and are comfortable with it, it may be time to stretch your capabilities and offer something new.
Increase the Wealth in Your Community
Many of us have noticed how some nearby communities seem to be “wealthier” than other nearby communities. They seem to have more shopping markets, more restaurants, more choices; items often cost more in these communities than they do in surrounding areas, yet the affluence remains where the prices are high; people are drawn to these communities, bringing even more resources and more wealth.
To Buy A Fat Pig
What does buying a fat pig have to do with your business? Stick with me and all will be revealed.
11 Things Small Business Owners Can Learn From Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
1. Everyone Makes A Difference – Despite not letting him play in their games, the other reindeer came to understand Rudolph’s importance. Look for the talents in each of your employees.
11 Things Small Business Owners Can Learn From The Supreme Court
1. Have A Strong Constitution – Justices deliver decisions by interpreting the U.S. Constitution. Never let the challenges of running your small business overwhelm your judgment.
Marketing a New or Small Business on a Budget
There are almost as many opinions and views on marketing as there are companies to market. The big names and multinationals will have an extraordinary amount of funding set aside in which to convey their marketing message to the masses.
Solving the Late Paying Customer Blues
Nothing can drive a business down faster than customers who don’t pay their bills as agreed. When you sell to customers on credit you are making an agreement with them. You will provide them with goods or services in exchange for their payment within the terms you agree upon. Period.
Uncover Free Veins Of Gold By Prospecting Online Guru Newsletters (Part 1 of 2)
Incredible as it sounds, you have a goldmine of free business advice and resources available to you for starting an online business. Many entrepreneurs are taking advantage of the unbelievable opportunity of financial independence by starting an Internet business.
Explode Your Consulting Income
Here are just a few ways to increase and diversify your income from your consulting business.
A Day in the Life of a Self Employed Professional
It’s Monday morning and Connie the Consultant sits in her executive office chair overseeing her business empire. Her desk is strewn with half finished projects, several weeks worth of to do lists (none of them completed), scribbled post it notes, and a permission slip for her daughter’s field trip to the Planetarium that should have been turned in last week. Somewhere, buried deep in the rubble is Connie’s business plan. The last time she saw it was during the Clinton Administration.
How to Raise Your Fees and Thrill Your Customers
Think the best way to get more customers is to have the lowest prices in town? Think again. Think the best way to create a successful business is to try to appeal to everyone? Wrong again.
11 Things Small Business Owners Can Learn From The Miracle On Ice
1. Know Where You’re Going – Coach Herb Brooks had a strategic plan for assembling the American team. Take time to determine the direction you want to take your small business, then put in place the action steps and players to accomplish your goals.
Eight Ways To Improve Your Company's Cash Flow – TODAY!
Cash is the lifeblood of any business. As humans need air to breath and food to eat, your business requires customers that provides the primary substance that keeps a business in business: cash.
Big Successes Never Happen Overnight
Treat your business as a serious, full-time business and be serious about making it work. Put your plans on paper. Neglecting to develop and follow a consistent marketing plan can be devastating to the growth of your business. Big successes never happen overnight. Market and promote your business everyday. There are subscriptions available that can assist in your conquest to success.
Using Holidays to Put Some Extra Cheer in Your Cash Box
No matter your age or station in life, we all look forward to holidays. They give us a reason to decorate, celebrate, and most of all, spend.
11 Things Small Business Owners Can Learn From Tiger
1. There Are No “gimmes” – They count two-foot putts on the PGA Tour. Hold your small business team accountable for completing everything they commit to starting.
The Wrap on Ag Plastic
While driving through Pennsylvania farmland, you have probably noticed an increased amount of white plastic bundles stacked in lines or piles along farm buildings or edges of farm fields. Sometimes referred to as “marshmallows” or “long white tubes”, etc. these objects are increasing in farmer popularity and represent a changing trend in harvesting of farm livestock feeds.