Accounting & Financial Management, Employees, Ethics, Foreign Markets, Getting Organized, Growth Strategies, Healthcare, Insurance, Inventory Management, Outsourcing, Real Estate, Shipping, Taxes, Travel
Does My Small Business Need a Budget?
For many small business owners, the word "budget" is something for the bigger company - maybe they'll have one when their business "grows up." ... The goal of having a budget is to stay in control of your finances in advance.
Ideas, How-To's, & Choosing: Brick-and-Mortar Business, Home Business, Social Entrepreneurship, Web-Based Business, etc.
10 Easy Tips to Help You Profit From Your Website
Hundreds of thousands of webmasters across the world make money online with their websites. Why not you? Here are 10 easy tips that you can use on your website to make it profitable. As with any good website however, you first need quality original content!
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9 Reasons For Having A Website
While promoting my website design business I contact many small and medium size enterprises who don't have a website. Sometimes it is the perceived cost of a website that puts them off, but more often it is the belief that no one will want to contact them via the internet. The same companies would be horrified at the thought of not being in the telephone directory, but they don't appreciate how pervasive the internet has become and how important it is to have a presence.
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Avoid Being Scammed with Work At Home Opportunities
Working at home online is expanding rapidly as is the Internet.....Unfortunately, there are a number of people on the Internet that are out to scam you and take your money without giving you any value or what they promised.
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5 Profitable Home Based Business Ideas
After you've done your research on how to start your own home based business, you should be ready to be a home based business owner. Here are 5 kinds of home based business ideas worth thinking about ...
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Business Startup Costs, Business Structure, Financing, Legal, Market Research & Analysis, Mentors, Strategic Partnerships, Writing a Business Plan
Avoiding Common Business Loan Mistakes
Surveys show that 94.7% of small business owners feel their only lending resources are local banks or personal credit cards. Avoid these common business loan mistakes with some common sense advice.
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Design Your Plan to Fit Your Business
Business planning is about results. For every business plan, you need to make the contents of your plan match your purpose. Don't accept a standard outline just because it's there.
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Business Plan Mistakes
Often you may hear about what a business plan consists of. While including the necessary items is very important, you also want to make sure you don't commit some common business plan mistakes.
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Business Plan Maintenance
A business plan is not a one-time document, at least it shouldn't be. Ultimately, a business plan is about results, about making your business better. If you don't think doing a business plan will improve your business, then don't do one. Planning for planning's sake is a waste of time.
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Gathering Information For Your Plan
A common problem people encounter when writing their business plan is finding information about their business industry and competitive companies. Fortunately, in recent years the Internet has made information gathering simple and easy, but sometimes the best information is found much closer to home, with real people, in real time.
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Business Plan Basics
A great business plan not only helps you have raised the money to start or expand your business, but it will serve as a road map for your business.
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Do I need a business plan?
A business plan should prove that your business will generate enough revenue to cover your expenses, but a business plan may vary depending upon whom your audience is.
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Guides, Tips, & Samples for College Admission, Graduate School Admission, Business School Admission, Scholarship Essays, Academic Essays, Resumes, Cover Letters, Interviewing & more.
Vision Directed Interviews: How to Succeed within Interviews
In this article, you are encouraged to follow your authentic Career Vision so that you're more likely to successfully, and authentically, manage job interviews.
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The Importance Of Keeping Your Resume Updated
Whether or not you're on the hunt for a new job, keeping your resume up-to-date is important. There's nothing worse than scrambling to come up with an accurate and interesting resume when you have two days to make the submission deadline for a job opening. Tips on what you should track.
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Land Your Dream Job With A Professionally Written Resume
Is the thought of writing your resume keeping you from starting the job search? In today’s ultra-competitive job market, your resume needs to be polished to lead to results. A certified professional resume writer can help you turn your experience and credentials into a self-marketing masterpiece.
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How to Gain Admission to Your Top Business School
It’s all in the admission essay – your one opportunity to give a unique perspective on what makes you better than all the other candidates and why you will be an asset to their program. The admission essay not only must prove your commitment, intelligence, talent and integrity, it must also make the reader respect you and feel compelled to admit you.
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Business School Admissions Essay Samples
Business School Essay Samples - Why MBA? Essay; Uniqueness Essay; Qualifications Essay
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Scholarship Essay Guide
Scholarship essays vary dramatically in subject. However, most of them require a recounting of personal experience.
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Scholarship Essay Samples
Two sample essay by actual scholardhip winners.
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Grad School Admission Tips
The best way to approach your personal statement for graduate school is to imagine that you have five minutes with someone from the admissions committee. How would you go about making the best case for yourself while holding the listener's interest? What would you include and omit in your story? Figuring out the answer to these questions is critical to successfully preparing an effective statement.
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Grad School Essay Samples
Five sample graduate school essay samples.
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College Application Essay Tips
Each year, Harvard rejects four out of five valedictorians and hundreds of students with perfect SAT scores, leaving applicants and parents wondering what went wrong. While there is no secret formula for gaining admission to a top school, there are many ways to ensure rejection, and the most common by far is taking the admissions essay lightly.
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College Admissions Essay Samples
Five College Admissions Essay Samples
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Advertising & Promotion, Affiliate Marketing, Branding Strategy, Business Blogging, Customer Service, Email Marketing, Sales Strategy
Sorting vs. Selling
If you are thinking that you have to find people and convince them to join your business, good luck! ... How to not waste your time trying to sell anyone on your opportunity.
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Sell More The First Time - Juice the Front End
How to sell more of anything via effective, cheap, useful, fruitful and intelligent advertising. Specific strategies to increase your sales in any type of business, online or off, without spending a fortune on copywriting.
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All About Business Cards
Business cards are a great way for your business to get it's name out into the world. Small, and convenient, these little cards provide your customers with your name and all your contact information, and because they're portable, your customers will be able to take your name with them wherever they go (an advantage over online advertising).
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Public Relations Marketing
Public Relations involves a variety of programs designed to maintain or enhance a company's image and the products and services it offers. Successful implementation of an effective public relations strategy can be a critical component to a marketing plan.
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The Essential Contents of a Marketing Plan
Every marketing plan has to fit the needs and situation. Even so, there are standard components you just can't do without. A marketing plan should always have a situation analysis, marketing strategy, sales forecast, and expense budget.
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Entrepreneurs’ Stories - Start Up Inspiration, Staying Motivated, Dealing with Stress, Business Failure, etc.
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Budgeting & Bookkeeping, Wills, Insurance, Organization, Personal Taxes. etc.
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