1.) Products & Services – Your products and services must be quality products that you would be proud to offer your Mom. There’s nothing worse than providing a shoddy product that you as the owner wouldn’t even purchase. Your product represents you and your business. There are millions of whole sale companies and quality products to resell or create your own. Do not settle for less than the best!
Masterminding Our Own Business
Bill’s a videophile. Dave’s an audiophile. As mediaphiles, we use to carry all sorts of files like AVI, MP3, or WMA on Zip disks or burn them to CDs, just so we could bring our favorite movies and songs wherever we went: the office, school, radio station, or home. But those days are over, now that we’ve got Mastermind by DivX. Mastermind is a free, media management service that lets us manage and organize our video and audio files, access them, and play them back wherever we are.
The Unthinkable: Protect Your Business
You have worked very hard to get your business where it is today. Many hours have gone into finding the right mix of products and/or services, marketing and finding customers, building relationships and so much more. What would happen to your business if you should fall ill or worse yet, the unthinkable, you pass away? Protect yourself, your business and your family by putting a few processes in place.
Tips To Ignore When Starting A Business
1. “Career freedom means starting a business.”
“Clients often assume they can reach career freedom only by starting a business, yet many people feel truly free in a corporate setting.
Five Reasons Your Home Business Needs a Business Plan
Do you have a business plan for your home business? “Don’t need one,” I can hear some of you saying. “I don’t want or need a bank loan or venture capital, so why bother? Besides, I have other, more urgent things to do.”
Business Success is Rooted in Sales
When I launched my first business I had a wildly mistaken view of what business actually is. First off, I thought an enterprise was about money. I thought business was about the accumulation, budgeting and the careful spending of dollars. Certainly that’s part of business. But it’s not the important part. I also mistakenly thought business was about creating a high-quality product or service that was compelling and clearly needed. Nope, not even close.
Are These Common Email Mistakes Costing You Business?
I hope that you have already learned not to type your email in ALL CAPS as that is considered YELLING. Also, if you are doing business, I hope you are not one of those that types in all small case letters – no CAPS!
Make Your Business Plan A Guide To Success
Congratulations, you’ve just started your new business! And as daunting of a task it may have seemed to get your business off of the ground, the hard part isn’t over yet. In fact, it’s never over at least until you retire.
Complaining Customers Are Good For Business
Remember the Coca Cola marketing disaster a few years ago? They tried to switch Coke drinkers to New Coke. It didn’t work. Fortunately, the company quickly recognized the problem and had the resources to recover fast. Their follow up research revealed that only 1 unhappy customer in 50 takes time to complain. The other 49 just quietly switch brands.
Simplified SEO for Small Business Webmasters – TEXT!
Small business webmasters often believe search engine optimization is a complex and mysterious art that they must struggle to understand and master. It couldn’t be further from the truth. SEO is basic and simple – TEXT.