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Views: 931(1 vote) - WakeUpLive.com presents: Feeling Sensitive - by “The best part of getting a card from you is always the verse you write. Why don’t you design a line of greeting cards?” That is a question I hear often in the early 70’s from my close friends. Little did I know this is the beginning of a wildly successful greeting card line as well as a path to ...
Views: 905 - Six Essential Guidelines for Getting Success of E-commerce Website - by Submitted on May 01, 2009 from Ella SmithE-commerce websites are the most common mediums for doing online business. However, there are certain points that need to be kept in mind while looking for E-commerce website development. The following article lists down the six important points that can give you quick and expected success in ...
Views: 531 - How To Effectively Run Your Home Based Business - Part 2 - by Submitted on May 01, 2009 from David AlichIn the last post, I touched on some of the ways you can get the word out about your home based business. Continuing to do those things on a regular basis will definitely be effective and you will have a successful home base business. In this post, I want to cover some of the day to day ...
Views: 1572 - Four Strategies to Find A New Business - by Submitted on Apr 28, 2009 from John AOVThere are four strategies you can use to find a new product or service to start or build your own business. Search Your Own Field The first strategy is to find a new product or service in your own field or skills. You may have a million dollar idea in your own mind. Many people have had the ...
Views: 572 - Starting a Small Business - The Basics - by Submitted on Apr 27, 2009 from Alvin JayHaving a little financial plan when it comes to a company can be a little of a concern to anyone, because it restricts what you can do. When you are discussion about inflowing the market or exhilarating the earth with your new-fangled manufactured goods, there are in fact a lot of ways you can ...
Views: 630 - Starting Your Own Business with a Small Budget - by Submitted on Apr 27, 2009 from Alvin JayHaving a small budget when it comes to a business can be something of a worry to anyone, because it limits what you can do. When you are talking about entering the market or exciting the world with your new product, there actually many ways you can go about doing so without actually putting down ...
Views: 531 - Build Your Own Business - by Submitted on Apr 27, 2009 from John AOVThe high road to becoming a self-made millionaire in America is starting and building your own business. But this is not as easy as it sounds. Most businesses started by inexperienced people fail. Probably the primary reason why people don’t start businesses is because they’re afraid that ...
Views: 611 - Grant Money to Start a Business - by Submitted on Jan 11, 2010 from Leon EdwardStarting a new business is the dream of many people across the United States. However, with the current economic climate, it has become a tad bit more difficult than it used to be. Many potential business owners are scared out of starting their own business for one reason or another. They don't ...
Views: 1660(6 votes) - Two Rules for Business Start-ups - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2009 from John AOVEntrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems. Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems. Every successful entrepreneur, every successful businessperson has been a person who has been able to identify a problem and come up with a solution ...
Views: 585 - *** How Important is Budgeting for Small Businesses? - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2009 from Dr. Mary WatersBudgeting is an integral part of business so no matter what kind of business it is, you will need a good budget. You can consult with the accountant or the business manager on the previous year’s expenditures. You can also arrange a board meeting to discuss managing your sales and expenses by ...
Views: 10683(1 vote) - *** Different Small Business Opportunities Available Online - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2009 from Dr. Mary WatersBusiness is obviously a much better option than working on a regular job. On a regular job, you are compelled to spend at least nine hours a day and also obey the various rules and regulations, even though you do not like them. Now funding is the most important part of any business and it is ...
Views: 18151(3 votes) - *** Small Business Startup - Not Small in Earnings! - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2009 from Dr. Mary WatersWhat is small business Startup? Setting up a business is always a meticulous work that requires precise and detailed knowledge of all aspects. Every business that grows large at present was actually a small business in the past. A small business startup can take you to great heights if it is ...
Views: 10280 - *** Small Business Marketing Tips – Effective Ways to Get Success! - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2009 from Dr. Mary WatersA proper marketing plan is the key to the success for any type of business. In a small business, it is even more challenging because the funds and the time are limited. The efficient use of the available budget along with a good strategy will take a small business a long way. The marketing plan ...
Views: 13772(5 votes) - *** Starting Your Own Online Small Business - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2009 from Dr. Mary WatersThe world of Internet has provided us various options for starting business online. There are plenty of websites that offer different types of business that you can do at your home with a computer and an Internet connection. Beside that, in order to launch a new small business of your own, you ...
Views: 6776 - ***Cash Advances for Small Businesses - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2009 from Dr. Mary WatersA small business set up is quite common these days. In fact with the worldwide economic recession, many people have become jobless. For them opening a small business is definitely a much better option than wasting time and effort looking for a job that can be snatched away, any day. But ...A ...
Views: 6620 - Small Business Owners - Why You Must ACT As IF You Have Achieved Your Financial Goal - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2009 from Lalitha BrahmaAs an entrepreneur it is very essential that you set your financial goal. A goal must be a ( SMART} one-S-specific, M-measurable, A-achievable, R-realistic and have a T-timeline. Let us say you set a goal of making $10000 in next two months. This is a SMART goal if you have at least made say ...
Views: 663 - Why Should You Start A Home Based Business? - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2009 from Christopher KeenanAverage people are attracted to the many benefits a home business can provide, including, but not limited to very low start-up costs, flexible hours and massive use of the internet. The use of technology, the Internet, etc., allows home-based businesses to work in concert with other entities ...
Views: 476 - How to Receive Government Grants for Small Businesses - by Submitted on Apr 16, 2009 from Jason ArnoldIf you have been dreaming of having your own business, you can get government grants for small business by searching online. When you search for grant money, it is easy to find start-up capitalization. You must not start a business without enough cash as most small businesses fail due to ...
Views: 1426(1 vote) - ***Why Starting a Business Is Your First Step toward Staggering Wealth - by Submitted on Apr 14, 2009 from John AOVIf you take a look at the Forbes 400 List of Wealthiest Americans, you will see that virtually every person on the list got there by being an entrepreneur. From Bill Gates to Warren Buffet to Michael Dell to our own Donald J. Trump, the truth is self-evident. People get rich by starting their ...
Views: 468 - ***Buy a Business and Become Rich - by Submitted on Apr 14, 2009 from John AOVWealth-generating secrets from our free special report, The 10 Golden Rules for Buying a Business Owning a business is, without question, your best path to riches. And buying an established and thriving business can be the quickest way to achieve that success. In today's business climate, ...
Views: 529 - ***It's Better to Be the Boss - by Submitted on Apr 14, 2009 from John AOVWith more employees getting shoddy treatment or worse from their employers these days, there is little doubt that it really is better to be the boss today. And for mostof us, the best way to become the boss is to buy a business. Within the last week alone, I have read three disturbing articles ...
Views: 431 - ***When You Own a Business, You Own Your Life - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2009 from John AOVSeveral weeks ago I had a conversation with Larry Gessner, a very active member of the Trump University community. If you spend any time on our Discussion Boards, you're already familiar with Larry's keen insights about what it takes to be a successful businessperson and entrepreneur. Larry ...
Views: 444 - ***Why Starting a Business Remains the Path to Success - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2009 from John AOV--Secrets of the Self-Made,-- an interactive multi-media article on Forbes.com, offers a revealing glimpse into the minds of some of America's entrepreneurial billionaires. Among the more interesting information, for me, are the descriptions that these ultra-rich individuals share about their ...
Views: 480 - ***Avoid the Mistakes that Sink Start-Ups - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2009 from John AOVA student in our Entrepreneurship Mastery Program is a smart and courageous woman. Ten years ago she started a business that failed after four years. Now she is with us, acquiring the knowledge she needs to be successful the second time around. Just a few hours into the course, she learned an ...
Views: 473 - ***How Healthy Is Your Enterprise? - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2009 from John AOV
Views: 447 - ***The Best Gift You Can Ever Buy for Yourself: A Business of Your Own! - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2009 from John AOVIf you have any desire to be in business for yourself, then now’s the time to make your move! In fact, there has never been a better time to take that step. So this year, buy yourself the greatest gift of all - a business of your own! Over the past year, I’ve met and spoken with thousands of ...
Views: 438 - ***Two Marketing Mistakes that Kill New Businesses - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2009 from John AOVWhat are the most disastrous marketing mistakes that new entrepreneurs make? Now that our Marketing Mastery Program is entering its second successful year and we have worked with hundreds of students, we can answer that question with some certainty. The two marketing problems that most new ...
Views: 443 - ***Bootstrap Your Way to Startup Success - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2009 from John AOVBootstrapping is the process of conserving financial resources to the extreme during a business’s startup phase. It means pulling yourself up by your bootstraps by doing most of the work yourself. Because you want to go into any new business enterprise with your eyes wide open, let’s take a ...
Views: 472 - ***Seven Ways to Tell if Starting a Business Will Work for You - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2009 from John AOVContrary to what you might think, most successful entrepreneurs enjoy a sense of calm control over their own lives. Compared with people who spend their lives working for other people, subject to whims not remotely under their control, entrepreneurs have a much better shot at happiness and inner ...
Views: 473 - Want to Set Up Your Own Online Business? 4 Steps to Starting Your Own Online Store - by Submitted on Apr 11, 2009 from R BlackThere are a lot of people who want to set up their own business on the internet, but not everyone knows how. The internet can be a very good place to start a business, even if you have never done anything like it before. There are relatively no overheads, and its very easy once you know how. ...
Views: 505 - Hosted PBX - More Features for Less Money - by Submitted on Apr 10, 2009 from John KinskeyHosted PBX is a business based telephone system having more organized technological features helping small and medium sized business enterprises to spend less money for a thriving communication system. With the advent of high speed internet, the hosted PBX system is provided over IP phones, ...
Views: 446 - Auto Attendant IP Phone Service - by Submitted on Apr 10, 2009 from John KinskeyIP phone service with auto attendant is a cost-effective means for your business to maintain efficient communication with your customers. This innovative telecommunication service is an ideal means to boost your business image and gain credibility among your customers. Auto Attendants with ...
Views: 662 - Affordable Business Phone Answering Service - by Submitted on Apr 10, 2009 from John KinskeyAn effective means of telecommunication is important for small businesses to meet their set objectives. Now, affordable business phone answering services are made available by numerous providers active in the field. Benefits from a Reliable Business Phone Answering Service With the help of a ...
Views: 577 - Recipe for Trouble: Expansion - by Submitted on Apr 10, 2009 from Dr. Robin RushloEveryone wants their business to grow and everyone wants to make as much money as possible in their business. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t have started the business in the first place. Starting a new business can be a long and trying process. It can also be expensive and it may take some ...
Views: 724(6 votes) - Recipe for Trouble:The Business Plan - by Submitted on Apr 10, 2009 from Dr. Robin RushloEveryone knows that new business fail at a fairly high rate. Most people assume that the reason is there is not enough money. While that might be true in some cases, there are other things that can cause a new business to fail, even if they have plenty of money. It would seem like common ...
Views: 753(7 votes) - Niche Marketing: How to Set up a Business with Little Competition - by Submitted on Apr 09, 2009 from R BlackTrying to set up a business on the internet can be quite difficult. If you made it through the actual website creation, setting up hosting a domain name etc then you have got the first part started. But what about the next step? Getting traffic to your website is quite a task. If you are in ...
Views: 510 - Treasure Is Everywhere - by Submitted on Apr 08, 2009 from Kenneth VandreEver since I was a child, I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of hidden treasure. I don’t know if I was stranger than other kids (I suspect I was), but I used to daydream quite a bit about secret passageways in our house. In my imagination I would discover (or even construct) the secret ...
Views: 764 - Popular Dog Businesses You Can Start at Home - by Submitted on Apr 08, 2009 from brian spilnerWhile economic conditions have caused many entrepreneurs to pack up shop, it might be a good time to open a pet care business. With so many American’s out of work and jobs becoming scarcer, opening a home based business seems like an attractive option. While home based businesses have high ...
Views: 1110 - The 3 Most Efficient Internet Marketing Signals to Translate to Online Consumers - by Submitted on Apr 02, 2009 from Shaun ThortonThe truth about internet marketing is: If you fail to translate a marketer’s language into consumer language, there’s no business to push through. This is the rule of internet marketing, its either you make it or you break it. In an online undertaking such as internet marketing, there will ...
Views: 492 - Small Business Planning - by Submitted on Mar 31, 2009 from todd capperSmall business is a wonderful way to achieve your dreams. Many people spend years thinking about being their own boss. Running your own company is an incredibly fulfilling achievement. There is nothing like the spirit of an entrepreneur. Major corporations may be the ones who deal with ...
Views: 468 - The Small Business Plan: Your Roadmap to Success - by Submitted on Mar 29, 2009 from todd capperSmall business is a vital part of the overall economy. In these difficult economic circumstances, it is more important than ever for small businesses stay afloat. This can be quite a challenge considering the current state of things. When starting up a business or maintaining one that is ...
Views: 464 - 3 Easy Ways to Start in Affiliate Marketing - by Submitted on Mar 28, 2009 from Wong MichaelLooking back at how internet has evolved, people have been leveraging it for their personal agenda. Be it to establish communication or to get information from it. Nowadays you can even earn money with it with just some small investment. Since you are reading this, you should already have ...
Views: 763 - Why Offline Businesses Need Your Online Marketing Skills - by Submitted on Mar 25, 2009 from Cherie AngOne way to make money online is to market your skills to off line businesses. This suggests a tremendous income opportunity to those who are ready to tap into it. There are many reasons why this market is ripe for your online marketing skills and we will look at a few of those right now. 1. ...
Views: 446 - Home Business Reviews – Revealing 5 Secrets to Separate the Good from the Bad - by Submitted on Mar 20, 2009 from Brendan BrosnanPopping up everywhere now on the internet are new home business opportunities. There seems to be a new product every second day. The need has arisen to review this great number of new home business ideas. Here is a set of secrets to helping the potential home business owner to decide how to make ...
Views: 756 - 5 Great Reasons to Start a Home Based Business Today - by Submitted on Mar 18, 2009 from David AlichThinking about starting a home based business? We all have at one point or another. Here are 5 great reason to start one today. 1. The Economy It's bad and it will take some time to rebound, and in the mean time, we are all losing our shirts. Don't rely on the government or your stocks for ...
Views: 520 - Online Video Ads A Healthy Choice for Small Businesses - by The recent recession has been tough for service businesses, but some savvy health and wellness companies have found a creative and cost-effective way to attract new clients: online video ads from Jivox. Jivox, the online video advertising service that helps local businesses reach customers ...
Views: 762 - 4 Easy Steps to Starting a Home Based Photography Business - by Submitted on Mar 09, 2009 from Jeff SnyderTo get started in a home based photography business you need to first think of the area you want to focus on. To start in this lucrative business, it is important to pick an area to specialize in. Once you establish your business and have a few clients then it is easier to branch out into ...
Views: 497 - Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets, Copyrights and Trademarks - by Submitted on Mar 06, 2009 from Marjorie GeiserMany professionals have a lot of questions about protecting their materials and name. What they are concerned with is what we call 'intellectual property'. Intellectual property can represent 70% of a company's value, so it is important to not only understand it, but to also understand how best ...
Views: 1747(1 vote) - Product Innovation - How To Have Ideas - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2009 from Steve GillmanThe easiest route to creative product innovation is to start with something we already have and ask some simple questions about it to suggest new ideas. For the sake of demonstrating how this can be done, we'll suppose that we want to design a new kind of bicycle. We start by asking a lot of ...
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