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•Entrepreneurship Do You Have What It Takes
According to the SBA, 50% of all small businesses fail within the first 5 years. Wow! That’s scary! Think about it this way – you’re standing in a room with another small business owner, and most likely one of you will close your doors. Who will it be? There’s a 50% chance it’ll be you!
Here’s the picture. On a personal level, you wonder from day to day whether you can pay the mortgage, sometimes even whether you can pay the utilities, or worse, if you will be able to buy groceries. And...
•Office Location Home based or Off site
There are a variety of issues that support both sides of the off-site vs. home-based decision business owners must make. Often it is obvious - a no-brainer, if you will. But just as frequently, a lot of thought, discussion and pencil-to-paper time are devoted to coming to the right conclusion.
HOME-BASED
There are a variety of easy-to-capture reasons for wanting to work at home:
• Location, location, location – the most convenient work address around!
• Travel time – a few steps and...
•A Home based Business Sometimes It Is Hard To Get To Work
Have you heard about the kids who live across the street from the school and are always running in as the bell rings? Or about the employee who lives just around the corner and is always the last to arrive each morning?
Strangely enough, the same can be true for an entrepreneur who has chosen to be a home-based business owner. Discipline often has more to do with being late (or not arriving at all) than anything else.
Procrastination, focus or discipline -- it doesn’t matter what you call...
•Technology Time Savers or Time Wasters
You’re answering a voice mail message when you get a notice that a text message has arrived. Sitting in front of your computer, your mail icon indicates receipt of a new email while your IM screen pops open. What to respond to first? Is this a typical day? Unfortunately, most likely it is.
As we struggle to stay up with the various communication options available, many people feel they are wasting more time than they are saving, due to constant interruptions. Technology creates immediacy....
•Templates Help Small Businesses Create A Professional Image
Website, e-mail marketing and print material such as brochures, sell sheets, newsletters and business cards can be very affordable and presentable when using templates. Home-based and small businesses can now support a professional image while keeping within their smaller budgets by using template software.
Templates make the process easy, and are now available for almost any marketing piece you want to put together. They offer a variety of styles and colors to create a cohesive business...
•Starting a Business Three Criteria to Help You Decide
Recently down-sized, company closing, early retirement offer, tired of making other people rich. Whatever the scenario, those with an entrepreneur mind-set eventually make the decision to start their own business. Some people are young, while others don’t make the transition until their late 50s or early 60s.
Once the decision is made to become a business owner, entrepreneur or self-employed, how do you decide what to do? Sometimes it’s an easy process. Let’s say you’re in your mid-20s,...
•Crime Victims Feel Anger Outrage
Property crimes make up an overwhelming majority of all crimes. Homes and businesses are equally susceptible to the attention of thieves. And mostly these crimes happen when you aren't there. An overwhelming number of residential burglaries happen during the day when you are at work. And, of course, businesses are most often burglarized after normal business hours.
There are few things more violating than coming home or arriving at your business and discovering your door has been kicked in...
•24 Hours A Day Is All We Get
We all have the same amount of time in each day – 24 hours; no more and no less. Why is it, then, that some people can get so much more accomplished than others? It’s called Time Management. But it’s not really managing time; it’s managing the activities that take up your time.
Small business owners, just because of all the hats worn each day, have more types of issues to deal with and more items to prioritize than others. We seem to be putting out fires instead of preventing them. Or we...
•Video Marketing for Small Businesses
Technology has created video marketing opportunities - cable TV, email marketing, websites and video – for small businesses to be on an even playing field with large companies. From extremely inexpensive video streaming in an email to the full-production TV ad with hired actors, even small companies and home-based businesses can include video advertising in their budget.
You might be asking why you should consider it at all when your current advertising is working just fine. Aside from the...
•Home Inventory 8 Reasons Why You Need This Information
Knowing what you own is important for many reasons. Compiling one can be time consuming, but there are home inventory companies who will document the contents of your home for you.
DISASTERS
Everyone faces the possibility of a fire, tornado, theft or other disaster. When these situations occur, a personal property inventory will provide detailed documentation of your home’s contents and ease the claims process. You’ll recover faster, and according to the Insurance Information Institute,...
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