When you are a college or university graduate, you have two opportunities: to search for a job (and find it in a good and well-known company probably) or to take some risk and start your own small business. What variant would you choose? Some former students prefer to stay safe […]
Small business
How to Patent Something: Does a "Poor Man's" Patent Exist?
In order to get a patent on an idea or a design for a product or an improvement upon an existing product, a patent application must be filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). This takes time, effort, money, and most often a legal representative, costing even […]
How to Choose Forklift Equipment
Buying industrial equipment for your facility is more than just looking at the price, performance statistics and features. You have to consider your business needs so that you can buy equipment that will meet your exact specifications and requirements. Lift trucks or forklifts will help to enhance performance and improve […]
Going to commit to a business partner? 10 Questions you should ask!
Business partnership is often like a marriage and with more and more people entering the world of entrepreneurship every year, this has definitely become common. Needless to say, a business partnership is one of the crucial decisions in life and deserves all the enthusiasm and expectations; ensuring that nothing goes […]
Tweaks to Boost Sales and Ecommerce Success
What's the purpose of an ecommerce website? To have more sales and more profit earned from online customers. For that, high site traffic and high conversion rate are the essentials. Having high sales volume remains the dream of any ecommerce website owner if the right strategies are not opted for […]
Business Card Tactics for Small Businesses
Take your business card out of your wallet and look closely at it. Are you marveling at its power? No? Maybe you should. If I had to choose just one marketing tool to use the rest of my career, it would be the business card. This little Swiss Army knife […]
The Cult of Shed Working: Starting Up Your New Business in a Room in Your Garden
Working from home has never been more popular - figures show that as many as 4 million of us now do it on a regular or permanent basis, millions more do so occasionally and a further 4.5 million say they'd like to do it more often. The economic downturn seems […]
Work-from-Home Jobs that Actually Work
Working from home is becoming the norm for plenty of people these days. And they aren’t limited to mothers alone. Even people who wish to cut back their commute or plan to open up a new business right from home also find that working from home can be a real […]
Things to Know when Starting a Catering Business
If catering is your thing and you're aspiring to put up your own business in the near future, here are some things you need to know when starting a catering business. Start at the bottom by acquiring personal experience. No matter how hard you study at school to learn the […]
LLC is the Best Business Entity for Real Estate Investing
If you are considering adding real estate to your investment portfolio or selling real estate to boost your income, what business structure should you choose for your company? While there are a few options available to you, the best structure for most people is going to be a LLC or […]
Internet as a Tool for Multi Level Marketing Success
You can call it network marketing, MLM or multi level marketing has terms that are sometimes given a negative impulse in the market. There have been a lot of success stories that we hear and read. Some would consider it a hoax but understanding everything about this type of business […]
Google Services for Small Business
Almost everyone around the world knows Google as the number one search engine, but Google is more than a search engine. It offers more products and almost all of them are free or some require a very small fee. I don't think there is someone out there who doesn't like […]