Archive for October 13th, 2005
StartUpNation: If you’re truly concerned about the competition licking at your heels, check it out thoroughly yourself. You need to experience what customers are experiencing there. See how their pricing or product mix or the overall encounter fares with your own. Certain other ways of spying on your competition can be helpful as well, as [...]
What Small Businesses Need To Know About Market Research
SFGate: Before selling a product or service, it’s important to know the market you will be entering. Research includes finding out what potential customers need, what they want and don’t want and why. Your goal is to build a demographic profile of your customers. A research or business library can prove helpful for studying the [...]
Don’t Let The Paycheck Stop You!
The guarantee of a weekly paycheck is no longer a enough of a reason to not startup a business yourself, as Frank Ross explains in this post, Why People Avoid Starting a Business: While it’s true that a ‘regular job’ can offer a steady paycheck, this argument really has diminishing merit in today’s corporate world. [...]
Business is Hard Work, But Kind of Fun
D. Keith Robinson: As a creative I’ve never been to keen on “the business stuff.� But then again, I wasn’t working for myself. Working for yourself, when you’ve got a serious stake in how things pan out, is incredibly exciting and pretty darn scary at the same time. It’s also hard work and a whole [...]
Ty Tribble on the MLM Business Opportunities Weblog: I have a saying about Network Marketing. Network Marketing isn’t as bad as the critics say, or as good as the promoters say. Keep that in mind when looking for an opportunity.
Welcome Back, Home Based Businesses
I was going to quote all of Jim Blasingame’s recent newsletter article about National Home Business Week, but Anita Campbell has beat me to it, so I’ll just post an excert and let you read the rest on her site: “Passing along Grand River Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, in the rainy, pre-dawn hours of June [...]
Should eBay Sellers Incorporate?
eBay Seller Central: AuctionBytes has posted a very concise, clear and uncomplicated article on incorporation. The author, Barbara Weltman, “is an attorney and nationally-recognized expert on tax and small business who is sought out for her insights into helping small businesses grow and thrive.” It’s called Should You Incorporate Your eBay Business?
Your Idea Isn’t Good Enough To Keep Secret
Ramit Sethi continues his excellent series on personal entrepreneurship today with a topic that all entrepreneurs fret about: Should you keep your idea secret? Ramit and I agree that the answer is no. Ideas are easy, its how you put them into practice that counts: One of the most rookie mistakes young entrepreneurs make is [...]
This week’s Brain Brew Radio episode is online. This week: Futurist, Watts Wacker helps our listeners identify current and future trends during Possibly Profitable Prognostications… Sue of Cincinnati, Ohio looks for advice on how to jump start her dream of owning a small business that does oral histories…
