In these days of high unemployment and declining home values, people are searching for ways to regain control over their financial lives. For many, that includes paying off debts as quickly as possible. After all, if you no longer have a mortgage, the banker can’t foreclose on your house. If your credit card balances are zero, the collection agency will stop calling. If you’ve retired your auto loan, the repo guy won’t be knocking on your front door. (more…)
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Starting A Business In A Down Economy
High unemployment, beleaguered stock values, corporate and personal bankruptcy — these headlines have become all too familiar. But the same factors that signal a recession can actually highlight a great opportunity for folks hoping to start small businesses. (more…)
How To Work With Vendors When Cash Is Tight
For many small businesses, maintaining adequate cash flow can seem almost impossible. Customers are tightening their belts, lending institutions are rethinking their credit terms, and suppliers are struggling to maintain their own vendor relationships. In today’s economy, many business owners have seen their personal net worth plummet and some are facing bankruptcy. (more…)
Protecting Your Most Important Assets – Intellectual Property Rights
When you think about protecting company assets, several things probably come straight to mind, such as land, buildings, machinery, inventory and vehicles. In many instances companies overlook their intellectual property, which can be one of their most valuable assets. By understanding the different types of intellectual property and how they can be protected against infringement you can help your business stay ahead of the competition. (more…)
When You Buy A House, Check The Paperwork For Tax Benefits
If you buy a house this year, you’ll close the deal by signing a mind-numbing stack of papers. When that’s finished, don’t just file the documents away in a drawer. Hidden in there are some deductions you might be 
able to take this year, and others that could increase your profit when you sell. (more…)
Starting A Business? Avoid These Hiring Mistakes
Challenges that merely annoy an established firm often capsize a start-up company. This is especially true in the area of staffing. When a big corporation makes a hiring mistake, the company suffers, but survives. Committed by a fledgling firm, the same mistake may spell disaster. After all, if your company employs only five people, one wrongly hired employee will make up a fifth of your work force. That person’s incompetence or poor people skills can bludgeon the firm’s bottom line. (more…)
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…)
Protecting Your Business With Credit Policies And Procedures
If you were in the money lending business would you hand over money to people without arranging a repayment contract with them? It doesn’t sound too smart, but most businesses are in the money lending business in just this way. In effect, by offering credit to your customers, you are providing them with a loan. Companies that lack sound credit policies and procedures take unnecessary risks and can jeopardize their very existence. (more…)
Catch The Video Marketing Wave To Success
In the not too distant past, producing and distributing videos to promote your business was costly and time consuming. However, the exponential growth of video sharing sites on the internet, such as YouTube, has now turned video into a very cost-effective marketing method. (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
