Business

How to make Bigger Business Profits

If you have a business already and want to make bigger profits, or you are thinking about starting an online or home business, this section is for you.

We cover all the basics needed to make your business a success - and offer a free business assessment.

Covered in the basics for a successful business is marketing - where we cover how to market your business successfully.

Marketing is the key to business success - and online marketing is one of the cheapest and best ways to reach millions of hot prospects.

In this business section we also cover branding, customer service, sales techniques, strategic planning, online and offline advertising. Also covered is how to cut your costs by outsourcing - and buying and operating an offshore business.

Finally, you will find useful personal and legal advice.

Business Articles

Be Sure To Use Industry Metrics in Your Business Plan
If you are a business plan writer planning how to start a new business, you have to make some assumptions. For those assumptions to have some credibility, you should be aware of industry metrics. Unless the business you are starting is truly the...

Home Business Copywriting Ideas
When you do any online research about home based businesses, you will likely find thousands of results that tell you that the most successful and easiest business to start from your home is a copywriting business. You can make a great living without...

How to Plan for Business
When thinking of starting a new business the realisation that the initial idea is leading in this direction is sometimes a long slow process. What is more it is human nature that you will feel the need to talk it over with friends and family. My...

Make Money In Your Own Coffee Business
A 2001 survey by the National Coffee Association indicated that over 100 million people drink coffee on a daily basis and that nearly 60 million more occasionally consume coffee. Based on average drinking habits, the daily coffee drinker will...

Business Planning Software
Once a business idea is selected, it is highly recommended that we sharpen the concept by a detailed planning process. The result of this step is a comprehensive business plan, with its major components being the marketing "mix," the strategic...

Managing your home business and life
If you work from home, chances are you already know that you’re really pulling “double duty”. You probably work on your business while doing the laundry, corralling the kids, or fixing dinner... and let’s not forget all the phone calls from family...

The Coming Home Business Boom
There is a coming home-business boom. You may not read much about it, since home business activity takes place quietly, but it's coming nonetheless. All of the elements are there to support this quiet boom. Layoffs are increasing. Home-equity...

5 Tips for Maximum Business Success
1. Be aware of what your competition is doing but don’t “compete” with them. To do so results in a game of “leapfrog” – this year your product’s a little better, next year, theirs is a little better, etc. This is a tough way to do business. ...

Are You Getting The Most Out Of Your Business Cards?
One of your easiest and still one of the best tools to promote your business is the good old business card. Are you taking full advantage of them, or are they simply sitting there on your desk collecting dust? If you are just carrying a few of them...

Start a Blind Cleaning Business
Equipment There are two ways to start the business. The first is to buy a blind cleaning machine. This may cost you anywhere from between $7,000 to $15,000, depending upon the model and brand you buy. The other is to rent a machine. This is much...

10 Home Based Business Niches You Can Use Now
Copyright© Trent Brownrigg http://www.home-business-team.com I grant permission to publish this article, electronically or in print, as long as the bylines are included, with a live link, and the article is not changed in any way (grammatical...

Reseller Business Opportunities
Are you looking for an opportunity that will allow you to earn a living from home? Reseller business opportunities are a great way to start. With no background in sales, you can still earn a substantial living in the reselling industry. The...

The Golden Rule of Small Business Marketing
The Golden Rule of Small Business Marketing Solving the Marketing vs Operations Riddle As a current small business owner and corporate marketing manager, I have seen marketing from both sides of the fence. The big corporations tend to rely on...

Best Small Business Idea -- It's All About You
Getting More Focused -- It’s All About You Jeanna Pool from Catalyst Creative writes a great ezine on marketing each month. In January she shared 5 Great Marketing Tips for 2006. Number 1 was “Stop Focusing on You”. She declares 2006 the year of...

Business 101
Barely a day goes by without our hearing of another business closing. Perhaps the restaurant that you ate at just last week has now closed its doors or the gift shop that you loved has gone forever. Such instances are common to all of us. In...

How To Balance A Job, A Life and A Home Business!
For most of us Internet entrepreneurs the reality of starting our own home business on a full time basis is not a reality. With financial and/or family commitments a priority it is hard work to get a home business off the ground and nurture it into...

Massage Business Cards with Muscle, Part 1
When you were starting your massage business, getting your massage therapy business card printed was probably the first thing you did. After all, a business card really defines you as a business person. If you've got a card then you must have a ...

The next level of business-ebay business
Over the last few years the number of people using eBay has grown rapidly. While many eBay users are just buying and selling for some extra cash or as a hobby, there are many people out there taking it to a new level and running their own full-time...

How to Choose the Best Small Business VoIP Solution
Copyright 2005 Gobala Krishnan Telecommunication cost is always an obstacle for small business owners, especially if you need to call domestic or international long distance. The long distance cost factor alone, depending on the type of business...

How to Write a Business Plan that Guides Your Success!
Your excited. You have a great idea for a profitable online business. Maybe it is an original idea that has not been marketed online before. Maybe you have come up with a new spin on the ordinary. Whatever it is that has influenced you to start your...

Planning Is A Must With A Small Business Website
Is your business ready for the 21st century? Remaining competitive today requires a small business to have a website. Most business owners realize this but getting started seems to be the problem. A business owner wears several hats each day while...

Should I Buy an Existing Business?
One option in going into business is to buy a going operation. The advantage over starting from scratch is, of course, that there are more facts to work with than a business which exists only on paper. To turn this into an advantage, the...

Why Is A Work At Home Business Now Easy?
Why not work at home and make money online using today’s internet technology? With a home business using proven internet marketing techniques and opportunities it’s easy. Really! Now, more than ever, we are seeing a revolution of people...

Marketing Genius: The CD business card.
Marketing Genius: The CD business card. What is a CD Business card? CD business card replication is a relatively new concept. CD Business Cards are business card shaped CD-ROM's that can play in any standard computer CD drive....

3 Myths of the Internet Home Based Business Industry
Many things have been said about the home based business industry offline but even more myths are perpetuated online about internet home based business ventures. This causes some people to regard all such internet based opportunities as scams. This...

7 Small Business Marketing Tips
7 Small Business Marketing Tips Copyright 2005 Bob Leduc http://BobLeduc.com Here are 7 low-cost but highly effective marketing tips to help any small business find customers and generate sales quickly. 1. Don't Advertise Like a Big...

Do You Really Need a Business Plan?
"I don't need a business plan." Neither did Alice in Wonderland. "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where," said Alice. ...

Ten Tips for Translating Your Business Card
International business today necessitates people travel all over the world for meetings, negotiations and other business functions. Along the way one will meet numerous people that all have the potential to give recommendations, pass over work or...

The Truth! Your Thoughts Effect Your Business!
The TRUTH! Your Thoughts Effect Your Business! Anyone who owns a business knows that there are many things that can have an influence on whether or not you are successful. Offline or Online, many of these things are the same: 1. # of customers...

Is A Stay At Home Business Right For You?
Your dream is to have your own home business and to tell the boss "Good-Bye". An excellent dream to have, a little exciting and a little scary at the same time. Before taking that big step, take a long hard realistic look at yourself and determine...

Working A Home Business
Are you working a home business? Chances are you already know that you’re really pulling “double duty”. You probably work on your business while doing the laundry, corralling the kids, or fixing dinner... and let’s not forget all the phone calls...

Your Business Success Checklist
As a business coach, I spend a lot of time working with people who want to improve different aspects of their business. Many times these aspects are merely symptoms of a more fundamental, underlying issue. If you want your business to truly shine,...

Even Small Business Owners Have Assets To Protect
If you’re a small business owner, you have assets to protect. Usually associated with high income individuals and medical professionals, asset protection planning is just as necessary for owners of start-ups and small businesses. Unfortunately,...

Business Process Outsourcing for Small Business
What is BPO? Business Process Outsourcing is hiring external businesses to deliver a task that you otherwise had to do inhouse and has been around for many years, but has with the introduction of the Internet and globalisation taken a new...

How to Finance Your Small Business Startup
You have a great idea for a business but don’t have enough cash to get it off the ground? Funding is often the main component that keeps an entrepreneur from his or her dream. Have you been searching for government grants in the hopes of finding...

Should My Home Business Have a Blog?
It's fair to say that blogging has taken the Internet by storm over recent years. And it's no surprise that today there are hundreds of thousands of new blogs being launched every day. But as a home-based business owner, should I have a blog? To...

6 Ways You Can Advertise Your New Business
Your advertising plan should be a vital part of your marketing plan. You have an excellent service or a useful product and you need to let people know what you have to offer! People learn about your business through advertising. Because successful...

A Real Work At Home Business
The market of the real work at home business is one of the largest markets on the internet in regards to growth. Think about it each day a new website is created and right now there are greater than thirty-four million websites on the internet. Of...

Work Smart: Sharpen Your Business!
Have you ever cut down a tree? Did you use an axe or a chainsaw? Was the blade dull or sharp? If the blade was dull, you undoubtedly found the project to be a lot of HARD WORK! In contrast, if the blade was sharp, you accomplished your goal a...

How To Make Business Travel Easier on Your Family
Women in business who need to travel as part of their work face the problem of staying connected with their children when they are on the road. Most business women try to fit in a phone call coupled with a long distance bedtime kiss and a few...

Mattress Cleaning Business: How To Manual
A Mattress Cleaning Business might be just for you if you have tried everything to contain your allergies, but feel like it is not enough. Instead of just purchasing the equipment to rid your fabric furniture and mattresses of allergens, you can...

The Attitude of Entitlement in the Family Business
It is difficult for most kids who are members of “The Lucky Sperm” club not to have some feelings of entitlement. After all, the main reason most entrepreneurs’ start their own business is to provide for their families. Once that is secure,...

How to choose what kind of online business to start
The beauty of having an Internet business is the many different models of businesses you can choose from. You could create any of the following ones: Membership Sites Membership sites have always been hot and are hot right now. A very good...

Joint Ventures - How They Can Benefit Your Business
Joint ventures are partnerships in which two or more businesses join forces to work together in promoting each other’s business. Both parties agree to endorse each others service or products on their website, in their newsletters or mailings. ...

Running Your Own Business: The Options
Very few people ever got rich by working for someone else. Leaving aside pop musicians, sportsmen and similarly gifted people, the only way to acquire wealth by work is to build a business of your own. The type of business you decide upon will ...

The 80/20 Rule In Business
Although it has been talked about again and again in business circles, the 80/20 rule never ceases to amaze me. You may be amazed too. If you're not up to speed on the 80/20 Rule yet, read on. You may also know it as the ‘Pareto Principle' after...

Grinding Out the Perfect Small Business Blend
There’s nothing romantic about much of what it takes to build a successful small business. You just have to grind it out - literally. Taking all the ingredients and finding the perfect blend to match your taste of what you want out of your small...

Steps to Home Business Success
There we have the Internet. One doesn't have to go to malls for the sake of shopping. You can buy almost anything from the Internet, from food to clothing, from house to real states, from gadgets to cars, et cetera. But wait! How about...

Begin Your Home Based Business Today
Do you feel as if you live in the world of "I won't think about this today, I'll worry about it tomorrow" with your home based business? Are you afraid to begin? You don't know what to do, therefore it is just easier not to think about it? Just...

Start Your Own Internet Business
Join with the millions of internet business owners and start your own internet business! If you have ever wanted to own your own business and be your own boss, then this is a perfect opportunity to live your dream. Whatever your business plans,...

Finding a Home Business
There are so many Home Based Business out there on the internet to try, it is so hard to tell which ones work and which ones are just a waste of time and money. You may have to try out a couple different ones until you find the one that works best...

Tips to Supercharge Your Small Online Business
Copyright 2005 Monique Hawkins Are you planning to start your own small business? Are you beginning an online business or turning an offline brick and mortar business into an online business as well? What do you need to know to get started on the...

5 TIPS for Home-Based Business Entrepreneurs
Have you ever heard that only a small part (5%) of 'all' Home-Based Business entrepreneurs achieve success? Do an online research on your favorite Search Engine and you will understand what I mean. In this article I'm going to show you the KEY to...

How To Choose The Proper Business Entity?
Choosing your business structure is just as important - if not more important - than marketing. You should consult with your accountant or your attorney in forming your business. The process in setting up your company is as follows; these are...

How To Start An Arcade Game Business
You probably have been to arcade game establishments and saw how great an arcade game business can be. It is always filled with people who are interested to play. You will always hear the cash registers sound “ding” as indication of another...

Be Supported In Your Business
When you are in business for yourself, you wear many, if not all of the hats. It’s a lot of work to be all things to your business, and be its biggest fan. To make your business run smoothly you must be sure you are getting the support you need....

Entrepreneurship - Business Startups The Easy Way
Before I begin, ask yourself the following 3 questions: 1.) How do I define success? 2.) What are my goals in life? 3.) How do I plan to achieve those goals? If you can answer those 3 questions definitively; meaning you didn't provide answers...

How To Start A Lawn Care Business
Ok, you are driving around your hometown. It's the middle of the day, and it's hot. You can't help but notice all the trucks carrying trailers containing professional lawn care equipment. Most advertise their business name and phone number with a...

VOIP For Business, Unleashed!
For the past several years a rapidly growing group of consumers have been getting rid of their traditional phone service in favor of internet telephony systems commonly called VoIP or Voice Over Internet Protocol. These new phone...

Why Start Your Own MLM Business?
Have you ever wanted to start your own MLM business? Maybe you want to be like those people who have already done so and are earning the amount of money you can only dream about. There is a substantial amount of money to be made every single month...

Beware of Opposition to your Business!
Any time you make changes in your life you are going to be met with opposition from people who would prefer you to stay exactly as you are. Sadly, these people are often the ones that love you the most; your family, friends, partners and even work...

If You Have a Business, Get A Business Card!
Many working individuals, especially those who involved in their own businesses, make the mistake of purchasing office supplies and paying for their business related expenses (dinners and representation) on their personal credit cards. For purposes...

Financial Issues in Business Startup
A primary inhibitor of business start-up is that few people have the financial cushion to give up a job for the uncertain income of a start-up venture. In a recent survey, about 30% of new business founders identified inadequate funding as their...

Become a Business Brain Surgeon
Copyright 2005 Empower Business Solutions Are you working longer and taking home less than your staff? Are you working all hours of the day and night and still barely managing to keep your customers happy? Are you unable to delegate or outsource...

: : How To Choose The Right Internet Business ?
How do I choose the best home business among the millions of internet business opportunities ? There are litterally millions of them on the internet. Where do i start ? And how do i know if this or this home business is the right one for me ? ...

The Truth About Online Business
Online Business is not a difficult thing to do, and really anybody can do it, but if you don't know how, then regardless of the nature of the business, it will be hard for you to achieve your goals even if you have the magical product or service. I...

What is a Home Business?
First, let me clarify what kind of Home Business I’m discussing. There are many different kinds including just about anything that you could do from your home. I’m specifically talking about the kind of home business you do from your computer on the...

A Free Online Business Is Not Necessarily "Free"
Almost every hour of every day, the Internet turns up with more advertisements to entice people who are interested in starting up their own online business. Why not start an online business, indeed? First off, it is quite lucrative, once you know...

Small Business Marketing - Clarify Success
When you hear the word “success” does it bring on visions of fame and fortune for your business? Have you clarified and articulated what that success will look like for your business and how you’ll know when you’ve achieved it? What’s the...

Using a Business Mortgage to Grow your Business
So you want to be a Player? The real movers and shakers of America are always looking to move up the ladder of success. They also have a particular penchant for desiring to display their success through their purchasing power. You may have...

Harnessing the Power of Business Roundtables
As a business owner, how often do you have the opportunity to talk one-on-one with other owners or executives about ideas? Many small- and medium-sized company owners and executives frequently feel they are working in a vacuum because they rarely...

What is a Business Blog?
Although Blog was the most requested word of 2004 as per Merriam Webster Dictionary Online, there are quite a few people, for whom the word Blog is still unknown. Blog is an online journal of events, raves, rants of the people. When blog first...

A Simple Business Plan
Do you want to start a business on a small scale? Pay as you go and not borrow any money? Basically you want to test the idea out and see if it has potential. Then why do you need a business plan? The most important reason is this. If...

Home Based Business Tax Tips
Running a home based business reaps many wonderful tax deductions that other businesses some times may not claim. Unfortunately to many small business owners end up paying the government taxes every year because they are unaware or several small...

7 Ways To Get Financing For Your Home Business
Thinking about starting a home business? Do you already own a home business but need cash? Perhaps you can qualify for a small business loan. However, before you attempt to borrow any money, you first have to figure out how much money you need....

Shopping For Small Business Services
Should you be in the early stages of a business start-up then there are elements to your personal business banking service which you should be looking for – and if you haven’t yet set up an account now is the time to take a deep breath and go...

The Basics of Borrowing Money to Start A Business
Are you thinking about starting a business but have no money to do it with? Well, you're not alone. This article will tell you the basics of borrowing money. A loan is money that is borrowed, and has to be paid back along with interest. If...

How To Bring Originality To Your Business Ideas
If you are immersed in the world of internet marketing, you have probably heard many times the advice: don’t re-invent the wheel, follow someone successful. But simply copying a business idea is sloppy and might not get you the results you are...

Winning A Losing Battle In Online Business
The concept of home based business came as savior to many entrepreneurs who could not achieve their goals of creating and running their own business. We all know that financial reasons were at the top of the obstacles that were overcome by the home...

Women and Small Business
In the book Women and Small Business author gives all the guidelines and tools need to start, operate and succeed in a business of their own. In the mentioned book she tried in the fist part to explain how has changed the role of women in the...

Financing A Business Purchase - What Are Your Options?
Financing a business purchase, or getting cash for a down payment can take many forms. Hopefully the options listed below will give you some ideas where you can find the money to buy a business! Credit Cards - any buyers these days are...

Future business key element in sales
A challenge facing many businesses is how to maintain a constant stream of customers in order to provide a regular cash flow. One method is to choose a location that ensures a steady flow of traffic past the door, creating a constant awareness of...

The Joy of The Perfect Home Business ­ Mail-Order
Much has been written about working from your own home. Many people seem suspicious when they think about ideas that they can "work" whilst at home -- I'm not sure why; housewives and househusbands have been doing it for years! For some people,...

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