Turning Your Hobby Into a Business
Many articles about starting a business advise you to follow your passion by turning your hobby into a business. Before deciding to turn your hobby into a profit seeking business, let's examine the pros and cons. More ...
Niche Business Franchises
A niche business is as a small segment of market that targets a particular group of people with a specific interest, desire or passion. A franchise is defined as a right granted to a person to market certain goods or services of a company within a specific territory. More ...
Top Ten Businesses to Be in During a Recession
This article tells you which businesses tend to succeed during a recession and provides you with real world business recession tactics and strategies. More ...
Small Business Success Tips - Marketing
For a small business, marketing is crucial. It is also very expensive if done badly. A small business owner just starting out should take two primary marketing steps simultaneously, whether or not he can hire marketing help. 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 ...
Business Models Simplified
A business model is how the business intends to make money. It consists of nine basic building blocks that work together to form your business blueprint. More ...
Top Ten Halloween Income Streams
I spent hours online, researching Halloween crafts and recipes to try. While engaged in such research, I was thinking about how your love for Halloween might lead you to many lucrative income streams. More ...
Finding an Accountant for Your Home Based Business
There are many things to do as a new home based business owner, but if you do not have a trustworthy accountant, you should start looking. Sure you could do it yourself, but unless you are an accountant, your time would be best spent doing what you do best and letting an expert handle your finances. More ...
How to Start a House Cleaning Business
There's always a big demand for cleaning services because dirt just keeps coming. According to angieslist you can charge from $25 to $35 per hour. If you're cleaning a large office building several times per week, you can charge between $500 and $700 per month. More ...
SWOT Your Business Idea
SWOT is a method used for analyzing a business idea. To SWOT your business idea, on paper, draw a box and divide it into four sections. label the sections Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. Then in each section write down the related factors that apply to your business idea. 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 ...
Small Business Success Tips - Production
One of the most destructive lies of business is that in order to maximize profit production has to trade off quality for quantity. Acting on this false principle almost guarantees that a small business will not grow very far. More ...
22 Books Every Ambitious Business Owner Should Have on Their Bookshelf
Some of the world's top CEOs and executives read 4-5 books per month. So today, I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to share some of my all-time favorite books with you. More ...
Choosing the Best Small Business to Start
If starting your own business is something that you have been thinking about for some time, then you have probably toyed with many different business ideas. If you have the entrepreneurial spirit and a strong desire to start your own business then this checklist may help you to narrow down your choices. More ...
Small Business Success Tips - Networking
Networking bears a striking resemblance to a barter system. You earn credit by helping as many people in your network as you can to fulfill their needs, and then when you have a need, all those people in your network will help you. 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 ...
A Childproof and Workable Home Office
My young children have ripped up or colored on important papers, stuck objects into disk drives, and jammed the printers with toys. With this under my belt, I can give you some good advice on how to prevent this happening in your home office. 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 ...
Seven Success Tips for Would-Be Telecommuters
Working from home helps to reduce unproductive time and stresses such as commuting to the office. However, the ever-growing numbers of people seeking to telecommute means that competition for work-at-home jobs gets tougher each day. 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 ...
