How to Spot a Work at Home Scam
With all the work at home opportunities advertised today, it can be difficult to pick out the true jobs from the scams. Here are some tips that will help you determine whether a job is legitimate or a scam in just minutes. More ...
How to Make Your Product Idea a Reality
I often see entrepreneurs with an idea for a great product, but with little knowledge of the product design process. Here are a few tips on how to get through the design process more easily. 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 ...
Five Things You Need To Remember Before Starting a Small Business
Everyone knows someone who has decided to go into small business but did you know that 70 percent of all small businesses fail within the first 12 months of operation. In some countries that failure rate is as high as 85 to 90 percent. More ...
Small Business Success Tips - Dependability
Small business owners looking for a way to distinguish their business from their competition can charge less, or advertise more, or fly a huge red weather balloon over their store. Yes, short-term campaigns can lead to short-term success. But the secret to long-term success is dependability. More ...
SBA Small Business Loans and How They Can Be Used
Small Business Administration business loans come in several sizes and forms. Depending on the size of your business and the stage your business is in, one of the SBA business loan programs may work for you. More ...
Home Business Jobs - Basic Start-Up Guide
If you decide to pursue a home-based business, you must determine if your personal traits, skills, and abilities are appropriate for a home-based business. Carefully plan and consider the topics in this publication to help increase your chances of success. More ...
Working at Home: Both Sides of the Coin
If you're considering a home-based business, why not begin a special list of the advantages and disadvantages of running such a business. While the following article may seem flippant, there is a serious side to almost every phrase. More ...
Small Business Success Tips - Finances
A small business owner must have a handle on his finances if his business is going to survive. You don't need a degree in accounting to apply common sense or to take good advice. You do need a little self-discipline. More ...
How to Pick a Winning Business Name
Many marketing campaigns are solely based on business names. Despite this many people, completely ignore spending time picking a good business name. This very often happens, when someone believes to have a winning business idea, and wants to kick it off as soon as possible. More ...
Unusual Home Businesses
All Unusual Home Businesses have one great thing in common in that they're, well, unusual. This often means both that tons of other people haven't gotten in on them yet. This can have you on the road to having your own successful at home business a lot quicker. More ...
Small Business Success Tips - Training
Staff training is absolutely vital to the success of a small business. Some small business owners throw a new employee into the deep end of the pool to see if he can swim. This produces a ineffective employee. How formal should you be in your training? More ...
Understanding Financial Statements When Approaching Lenders
A young and maybe struggling company, needs bank financing to survive. Going to the bank shouldn?t bring on apprehension. Having a basic understanding of financial statements and being prepared when you approach a bank will go a long way in reducing your apprehension. More ...
Home Based Business - Making Money With Your Passions as Your Guide
Too many people jump into trying to make money online without being properly prepared. There are certain things you must learn to be successful. You cannot just drive in and expect to be able to be successful. More ...
Finding Home Based Business Ideas
If you are one of the people stuck for a business idea, be sure to browse the following suggestions. Some of the ideas may seem a little quirky, while others may get you excited at the possibilities. 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 ...
The Mom Inventors Handbook
I'm the type of person who is continuously annoyed (just ask my wife). I get especially annoyed when something that should be dirt simple turns out to be a royal pain in the butt. A wise person would look at each annoying incident as an opportunity to invent something to solve a problem and get rich. More ...
Six Trends That Will Affect What You Sell, How You Price Your Products, and Who You Sell To
Here are my predictions about how major economic and political changes will affect how you run your business, who and what you sell, how you price, and how you deliver your products in the coming months and years. More ...
Small Business Success Tips - Quality
When small business owners they think about quality at all, either they think they know all they need to know about quality, or they think quality is not all that important. More ...
Getting Started With Accounting Basics
This article describes the accounting process in about the most basic and simple terms possibe. More ...
