Has Your Business Hit a Wall? What to Do When Business Slows Down! I doubt that anyone reading this article hasn't at one time or another found his or her business dropping off significantly. For some unknown reason, and without any warning, everything seems to stop. The phone stops ringing, your e-mail box has nothing but advertisements and it appears as if your business has come to an end. What happened and even more important what...more
10 Ways to Build Profit in Your Cleaning Business You may have started your cleaning business to be your own boss, get out of the 9 to 5 rat race, or just because you enjoy cleaning and doing a good job for your customers. But your business will only succeed for a few months or possibly a few years if you are not making a profit. The cleaning industry can be highly competitive and most likely, your profit margins on any particular job, are...more
Small Business Startup - 10 Steps For Practicing Good Business Fundamentals The "Business of Business" has ten fundamentals that if perfected will help improve your chances for success. Athletes have coaches, fans, press, and opponents to quickly remind them when they slip in their sport's fundamentals. Business owners have customers, employees, shareholders/investors, and competitors to remind them when they ignore their industry's fundamentals.The game of business is pretty simple in its most basic form. A 24 hour, credit card only, drive up gas station versus a 24 hour full service, additional services for truckers, restaurant, convenience and tourist store, franchised gas station. The core business for both is the selling of gas to customers. The additional services, benefits to employees, customer niches, variety of items in inventory, types of investors, etc. all add layers of complexity.Complexity is neither good or bad it is just more difficult to manage. Watch the news and you will hear about businesses restructuring to get back to their core business because they have lost their identity in the marketplace.A client of mine, called me in to help him sell his...more
Small Business Consulting - Business Model Before we can focus on the things which make a business model unique to a small business consulting business, let's take a quick look at what information is contained in a business model itself.A business model is simply a way of getting all the ideas which go into the creation of your business down...more
Small Businesses - Measuring Peformance From The Learning and Growth Perspective The learning and growth perspective is the fourth and final perspective of the balanced scorecard approach, as developed by Kaplan and Norton. This perspective focusses on measuring the performance of the business in relation to the organisational learning and...more
Realise the True Benefits of Telepresence As an Essential Tool for Business Success! Media coverage in the last few weeks has been consumed with gloomy headlines about the fallout from £81bn of public spending cuts and a mooted 500,000 public sector job losses; January's VAT rise to £0.20; and worries about the fragility of the US economy; all fuelling further caution amongst the UK's recovering economy.Before we talk ourselves into a double-dip recession, businesses must strive to become more efficient, reduce overheads, focus on growth and drive change.No one is suggesting that video communications will rebalance the UK economy, but the business case for embracing the unified communications revolution becomes difficult to ignore for both public and private sector organisations.The business world is changing, are you?Pervasive globalisation, escalating operating costs, increasing business complexity and growing customer demand for immediacy is all forcing organisations to reassess traditional communication channels.It's not all doom and gloom, business quality video conferencing and telepresence does not cost the earth. Companies are rapidly taking advantage of visual...more
Home based business setup for the entrepreneurial home office Setup Your own Home Based Business Working Environment: • Office Area: Create a specific area to work in which is tranquil and free from potential distractions. • Internet...more
Unsecured Small Business Loan: Assures A Secure Small Business Starting up a small business on your own efforts is not anymore tough. Thanks to the unsecured small business loan that not only the homeowners, non-homeowners too can think of...more
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Is Business Article Marketing Really Worth It? If they expect to survive every business owner knows the importance of advertising. The Internet is somewhat mysterious off line business owners, but they are probably aware of article marketing....more
When most people decide to start a home based business online they usually do so with the intention of being successful by making a lot of money so they can quit their full-time jobs and work from home. It would probably be safe to say that 90% of so...more