Saturday, January 28th, 2012 | Law
It's important that your business be on the "up-and-up" right
from the start. Taking care of the legal issues associated with
starting a new business will keep you out of hot water in the
future.
Here are the first steps you need to take:
1. Register Your Business Name
Your business name must be registered if it is something other
than your full legal name. This is a way of informing the public
that you will be doing business as (DBA) an assumed, or
"fictitious" name. Generally, a search is ...
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Friday, January 27th, 2012 | Internet
Most people have no idea how to put their online business ideas into practice in order to make money online. If you want to make money using the internet you must have a goal. Without that, you cannot set targets, and without targets you will fail - period! All businesses must have a goal and must set targets that will be the foundation of their business plans.Nothing could be more true than the old adage that a failure to plan is a plan to failure. As a simple goal, decide how much money you ...
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012 | Shopping
Copyright 2005 John Jantsch
A prospective client asked me to view his web site and give him
some advice on how to make the site better. Unfortunately, his
site was such a mess it became the inspiration for this article.
One of the primary reasons to have a web site is to attract and
educate visitors. However, this obvious concept seems to be lost
on many web designers. The way your site is designed, what's
there and what's not there, including what's in the unseen HTML
code, can have a great ...
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 | Health
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Is Technology Robbing our Kids of Good Health? Today's kids are
technologically smarter than we were at their age, but in some
homes technology seems to have taken control of our children's
lives. Many parents don't realize the underlying effect it's
having on their children's health.
Hardly a day goes by that we don't hear a news report on
childhood obesity. With our children coming home from school,
sitting in front of the computer or spending time playing video
games it's no wonder ...
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 | Business
Top 10 Lessons for Small Business Success
As learned from my Twin 2 year olds
Small business success is very similar to learning to walk, talk
and spell. The basics have to be understood before moving on to
the next step. I am blessed to have twin 2 year old girls in my
life and am amazed constantly how much I learn from them on a
daily basis. As I watch them run around and explore, I find
myself realizing just how much my observations apply to being
successful and happy in life and in ...
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Monday, January 23rd, 2012 | Finance
Do you remember when real estate financing meant you saved up
enough to put 20% down on a house, and then you got a mortgage
loan for the other 80%? Well, you can still do that, but there
are many more options now. Here are ten of them.
1. Gifting programs. In some parts of the country, builders
fund foundations that give you a portion of the downpayment, so
you can get into a home with as little as 3% downpayment from
your own pocket. FHA and other lenders have so far approved of
or allowed ...
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 | Advertising
In what will be hailed as a new frontier in marketing "Role
Playing is about to become a major force." Heed the words of
Sear Rhykan, the marketing Guru. This is marketing taken to its
next level!
Players will be given roles as advertising executives,
newsletter writers, movie critics, copy writers, brain surgeons,
kalamazoos, average Joe's, test drivers, and on and on.
Other players will take the parts of the notorious "Big Box
Store Owners", Mutual fund salesmen, real-estate guru, used ...
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Saturday, January 21st, 2012 | Business
Copyright (c) 2008 Linda Feinholz
"I'm too small to be a Leader. We don't need to spend any time on that!"
Those were the words from my small business client, Paul. He didn't mean that he was too short. He meant that in his mind, his $4 million business was too small to need a 'leader.'
After all, he wasn't running a computer software company or a car manufacturer, 'just a local services business.'
He brought me in to work with his management team on improving their overall performance. The ...
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Friday, January 20th, 2012 | Business
I decided to open my own website to help others to avoid my earlier mistakes. I have worked online from home for sometime and lost valuable time and money, not to mention my hopes that were dashed and my plans had to be shelved indefinitely. Now I am my own boss and there is no one to breathe down my neck.
To my good fortune, I have discovered three fool-proof sites, with a proven income opportunity, that anyone can work from home and earn. I call them "fool proof" because you just can't lose ...
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012 | Finance
Today, there are more than 23 million businesses operating as sole proprietorships or partnerships. This accounts for more than 80 percent of all U.S. businesses, according to BizStats.com. Do these structures protect small business owners from certain liabilities, or if a suit was brought against them, could their assets be at risk?There is a common misconception that limited liability companies (LLCs) or incorporated structures are absolute safeguards against personal liability. As a result, ...
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