Defining Your Market
How big of a market is there for your service or product? How well is that market being served? How have you differentiated yourself from your competition?
Finding a Profitable Business Idea Right for Me
How do I know if a business idea is right for me? There are many possibilities, many opportunities, but not all business ideas are right for everyone, even if they are profitable ideas.
Buy a Business Instead of Starting One
Many experts agree that the safest way to get into business for yourself is to buy a business rather than start a business from scratch.
Start a Business From the Ground Up
It's often thought the highest risk way to get your own business is to start a business from the ground up.
How to Start Business Successfully
What does it take? Can I learn how to start business successfully? That is the big question and the answer lies in our expectations.
Are You a Wage Slave?
A wage slave can be freed and find financial security. Most though, will never choose freedom. Most don't even know they are slaves.
Business Funding: Freedom or Slavery?
When starting a new business, many assume that going into debt is the only way. There are other alternatives.
Picture Your Small Business Structure
It's not enough to know how to start a business. You must select amongst the profitable business ideas and choose the right one for you. It's always best to critically evaluate your business idea to avoid going down a road you'll regret.
Build Values into Your Strategic Planning
The wonder of small business lies in its agility and responsiveness to the slightest turn of the wheel. (Obviously, it is harder to turn a big ship around.)
Hiring: A Plan from Day One
One hire or fire, more or less, in a business with 250 employees does not have the impact it does on a business with five employees.
Marketing Strategies: Build a Foundation
As a small business mentor, I caution that not all small business marketing strategies are the same. (Despite the obvious, I have found that not all small business owners understand this.)
5 Tips to Manage Fears
Small business owners face unwanted fears on a regular basis – dare I say daily? Personal or business cycles rear their heads frequently, just to make things harder than they have to be.
Office Technology: Friend or Foe?
Small business owners who employ staff find office technology to be both a friend and foe. The ready flow of information and the transparency that comes with it is a boon to business owners and managers.
Estate Planning: An Important Element of your Strategic Plan
Is Estate Planning a part of your small business strategic plan? It should be. Yes, estate planning is complicated in the simplest…
Four Tips for Implementing a Living Wage
For me, a living wage has nothing to do with government mandates or research regarding minimum wages, fair wages, the poverty line, or even the economic needs…
Technology: Servant of Your Small Business Strategy
Technology should be servant - not master - of your small business strategy. Phone systems, mobile phone apps, payroll management…
Your Strategic Plan: Six Basic Elements
A deliberate strategic plan involves a checklist of activities and assumes that you have a marketable product or service (you'd be surprised how many skip that all-important step when starting a business).
Obstacles to Strategic Planning
Because I often assist with small business strategic planning, I get a front row seat for the business owner's fear of formalizing an effective business strategy.
Clarity Counts when Hiring a Business Advisor
Looking for a small business strategy - to continue your small business success, to secure your small business future, or to pull your small business out of a slump?