Ultimately, analyzing trends is a vital part of the sustainability of your business. What trends are impacting your business today? One of the toughest challenges for many business owners is to not miss a great opportunity through being caught up in the day-to-day demands of running the business. In times of rapid change it’s more than just useful, it’s vital to sit back and consider how certain trends may impact your business. Think of the way ebooks are impacting on hard print publications for bookstore owners to appreciate what we mean about how important it is to look at trends. (more…)
Business Development
Putting Together A Pricing Strategy
For many small businesses pricing products and services is more a matter of guesswork than logic. Mindful of competitor pricing, they make the mistake of simply undercutting to win business rather than carefully working out the price they need to charge – a price that not only covers the cost of doing business, but makes all the hard work worthwhile by returning a reasonable profit. (more…)
The 4 Ways To Grow Your Business webinar
Date: 2010-08-26 Time: 01:00 – 02:00
It may sound a little simplistic, but there are really only 4 fundamental ways to successfully grow your business-in other words, make it more valuable:
- Increase the number of customers of the type you want to have
- Increase the number of times customers come back
- Increase the average value of each sale
- Increase the effectiveness of each process in the business
This topic looks at some of the key strategies within each of these 4 ways that you can use to make your business more valueable. It also looks at how they should be used synergistically in order to capture the greatest value and not miss out on opportunities to grow the business.
Register now: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/807816731
Time: 1PM-2PM ET Price: No-cost
Dates:
2010-08-26| Click to Register
Con Artists Target the Unemployed
Federal officials have recently warned that employment-related scams are soaring. As the economy struggles and unemployment grows, ads for bogus jobs are on the rise. The ads are popping up everywhere from local newspapers to signs on the corner telephone pole. The Internet makes it easy for con artists to defraud victims with e-mail pitches and online job boards. (more…)
Follow IRA Withdrawal Rules
“You put your money in, and you take your money out.” Unfortunately, the rules for taking withdrawals from your IRA are not as simple as those for performing the classic children’s dance. (more…)
Should Your Business Operate as an LLC?
You’ve beaten the odds. Your business has succeeded and your profits are growing. But you struggle with the uncertainty of whether you are operating under the right legal form. (more…)
Two Financing Options for your Business: Equity and Debt
Start-up businesses and long-established firms share common ground in at least one respect: the need for financing. Managers of fledgling companies often debate the best way to obtain funds for buying inventory, heavy equipment, and buildings for making widgets. (more…)
Being Smart About Loans
Most businesses operate to some extent on borrowed money, but borrowing too much means you’re paying more in interest than you need to. Borrowing too little means you’re under financed and won’t have enough capital to accomplish what you want to do. (more…)
Keep Your Sales Pipeline Flowing
Business owners spend a great deal of time and money marketing to many, in the hope of attracting the few to their business. This process can be likened to a pipeline with a wide mouth narrowing as it goes along. (more…)
