Accounting Basic - What is Accounting?
This article explains the basics of accounting: the accounting cycle, the accounting equation, and the general ledger. More ...
15 Easy Steps to Starting Your Own Small Business
When I decided to start my business, I tried hard to find a good startup guide. I couldn't find anything that had all the steps clearly listed without a lot of confusing fluff and filler. More ...
Public Domain Profits
To put it in simple terms, anything created before 1923 is now in the public domain. Anything created between 1924 and 1963 is in the public domain unless the copyright was renewed. Most of the time these copyrights were not renewed because either the owners weren't making any money off the work, or they just forgot the deadline. More ...
Taxes and Your Home Business
How do you avoid having the IRS classify your business as a hobby? How do you figure your estimated taxes? How do you qualify for a home office deduction? More ...
Financing a Home Business With a Microloan
There are several ways to finance your new home business such as getting a loan from your local bank, taking out a loan from your 401k or retirement savings or applying for a microloan from the Small Business Association. More ...
Solve Your Business Cash-Flow Crisis With Factoring
There are times in the life of every business when cash is needed ASAP. In factoring, uncollected accounts receivable are sold to a company that will pay the value of the invoice to the business owner, minus a fee. More ...
Trade Secret vs Patent
The main difference between trade secrets and patents lies in the timing and extent of their protections. More ...
Small Business Success Tips - Cleanliness
No single factor determines the difference between success and failure. But one contributing factor has a high correlation to success: cleanliness. Possibly you have not given much thought to the many ways cleanliness can affect your small business. Here are seven of them. More ...
How Do I Make Money Working From Home? Let Me Count the Ways
People - especially moms - are looking for ways to stay home with their kids and yet contribute to the family income. They prowl the internet at night or on their lunch breaks, looking for just the right opportunity that fits their interests and family. More ...
Start a Home Based Business even with Limited Cash and Skills!
You wish to start a Home Based Business, Make Money from Home, be your own Boss but unfortunately what is preventing you from getting started is that you don't have much money or special skills. Let this not be a barrier and dampen your enthusiasm. You certainly can get started if you set about in the right manner. More ...
Starting a Small Business - Twelve Questions to Consider
This article contains twelve questions that you should consider when starting a new business: 1. What is your product or service idea? 2. What geographic area will you serve? 3. What is your competition? 4... More ...
Bootstrapping Basics Entrepreneurs Need to Know
When seeking venture capital to start a business, your chances of getting funded is only 2.5 percent. Bootstrapping is starting a business with small up-front capital without external help. More ...
Whether You Know it or Not - You Gave a Warranty
You may not know it, but when you sell a product you automatically provide the buyer with a very extensive warranty. Article Two of the Uniform Commercial Code provides buyers with implied warranties of merchantability, fitness, and noninfringement. More ...
68 Ways to Make Money That Actually Work
This article by Ricardo Davila lists 68 ways to make money. Some of them are a little off-the-wall, like "create your own business in a third world country", but there are many useful ideas here, and if these arn't enough, find many more at his websites. More ...
Business Startup Checklist
Use this comprehensive checklist to plan each step of your new business startup. You can use these steps as a guideline for completing all of the necessary business startup tasks. More ...
Seven Steps to Setting Up a Home Business Budget
A Budget is nothing more than estimating costs and income. It is your task to review your budget from time to time and adjust it based on real numbers. The real numbers are the actuals you get from your business. The budget is the estimation of your costs and income. More ...
Get Rich at Home Without Any Product Inventory
Here's one of the best work from home ideas. The concept is basically being the middle man for other businesses. This is different from affiliate programs because they're set at 10 percent, or whatever. You could make up to 150 percent with this concept. More ...
How to Choose Your Business's Legal Structure
One of the most important decisions you must make when starting a business is the business's legal structure. Each legal structure has advantages and disadvantages. Your choice depends upon how much of the company you want to keep control of, and how much risk you can tolerate. More ...
Minispreadsheet to Calculate Cost of Acquisition
Acquisition cost of equipment means the total cost of acquiring the equipment. Use this minispreadsheet to calculate Total Acquisition Cost. More ...
Finding Your Home Business Niche
When some folks begin to think about a business of their own, they know in that very moment what kind they are going to start. Then, there are the rest of us... Knowing that we want to have a business of our own is not enough. Many of us have struggled with the important question of what type of enterprise we would like to start. More ...
