As a professional business writer, I am often privy to valuable information regarding my client’s business performance. Noticing a common thread running through their strategies, I recently asked some pointed questions of three successful business owners. Each suggested that a strong business plan was their first and most important tool as they prepared for their venture. With that in mind, I probed further for specifics and received the following responses.
A Beginner’s Checklist for Promoting an Online Business
The Internet’s full of hyped-up promises of the ‘ultimate’ marketing secret that will singlehandedly skyrocket your business to instant success.
Writing Business Letters That Get The Job Done
Despite the widespread use of e-mail in commerce today, traditional business letters are still the main way way that the majority of businesses officially communicate with their customers and other businesses.
Building Someone Else’s Business
Once you come to the Internet and consider making money here, you should answer a question whether you want to just make a few hundred or thousand dollars on top of your salary or whether you want to start your own business with everything it brings along and make money you imagine.
How Your Small Business Can Boost Profits Online – Even When ALL Your Customers Are Local
I talk to many local business owners here in my little hometown that tell me they want a website. When I ask why, they generally say something like, “Well, I just think we need one. Most businesses have them now.”
Find Your Passion And You’ll Find Success In Business
Most successful entrepreneurs have a strong passion for their ideas or concepts. They know what they want and they know what they enjoy doing. Their work becomes their play.
The secret to success in business is to find your passion. Know specifically what it is you want in life.
Business Investment or Divine Intervention: Understanding Angel Investors
You’ve already gone to friends and family for help. You know your company doesn’t qualify for a bank loan. And it’s too early for venture capital. So what’s an entrepreneur to do? Start looking for an angel investor. Angel investors — private individuals who invest their own money in companies — fund more companies at an earlier stage with more dollars than any other kind of capital.
Flipping the Switch … How To Turn Off Your Business and Turn On Your Life
So, you work from home. Good for you! No boss looking over your shoulder, no wasting time commuting to and from the office, no-one setting your hours for you or telling you what to do. No one to care if you’re wearing your rattiest clothes or don’t take a shower before 10:00 am. And how about no life and no time for yourself while we’re on the subject of what you don’t have any more? Sound familiar? If so, read on.
8 Steps to Organizing Your Life & Business
Your life is a mess! Your business is going nowhere! Your house looks like a tornado hit it!
Does this sound familiar? Are you overwhelmed? Do you feel like your life and business are out of control and going nowhere?
Write your Business Plan in 30 Days
Getting started on the business plan is often the biggest hurdle in the whole process of business planning. The project can be overwhelming. While the concept of business planning has tremendous merit, the actual implementation of the process can be daunting, even if you have written a business plan before. One of the most effective ways of completing any project, is to break it into smaller more manageable segments.