If you’re a bright-eyed young entrepreneur like me, one of your big dreams is to retire early. No one wants to work hard their entire lives. I’m not counting those people who continue to work part-time after retirement just to have something to do. And you certainly don’t want to retire with nothing but what’s…
For Business Success: Learn the Language, Lose the Accent
How many times have you called certain unnamed technical support or customer service numbers only to find they’ve outsourced their call centers to another certain unnamed middle eastern country? Too many times, my friend. Too many times. If you’re from certain unnamed foreign countries where your accent is thick or you find that native people…
Business Recreation: Get Serious About Golf
For any budding young entrepreneur, it’s important to know how to “wine and dine” your clients or potential business partners. For many business people, that means small talk and hanging around the club house after a rousing game of golf. Plus all the walking has natural health benefits. It seems cliché, but it’s true: golf…
Quick Start-up: Prepaid Phone Cards
One of the easiest markets that will always be open and in demand is prepaid phone cards. Now this business is expanding online and more and more consumers are choosing to make their purchases using the convenience of the internet. If you’re like I’ve been for a few months, trying to find the right online…
Health Insurance for Entrepreneurs
Talking about my phone insurance reminded me that for a lot of start-ups, a big question is: Where are you going to get your health insurance from? Normally, the business you work for provides you with health insurance. If so far your business only includes partners and not employees, this is something you’ll all need…
Inventory & Dealer Software
Every business that sells anything tangible needs inventory management. You can’t possibly expect to keep up with demand for your product, ship orders, and know when you need to order more product or supplies to make your product if you don’t know what inventory levels are at. You need reporting, charts, and alerts to keep…
Credit Card Joe: Don’t Spend Any More!
Here’s the number one problem I think most people have with credit: they’re not responsible (I’m guilty here). You have available to you a line of credit either via credit card or just a bank loan, and you have to keep in mind that money is not really yours. Again, here I’m guilty. You have…
The Importance of Good Financing for Start-ups
I’ve blogged about having good financial health before taking out loans for startup capital, but I thought I’d write more in-depth about the importance of researching excellent financing for Business Funding. Every new business needs to be planned thoroughly before execution, or it may be the execution of your business. Review your current funding sources…
Into the Wild
I’ve always thought of exotic vacations as something reserved for really rich business men. Especially something as cool as a safari. Besides being named after an awesome web browser on the Mac, safaris just have the added cool factor of being all about hunting. But not for bears, or deer, or quail. Can you imagine…
A Website for Your Business
There are some businesses where all you need is a bill-board style website. It’s just a place for you to put up a sign that says “Hey! I’m a business. I have real-world brick-and-mortar shop that you should visit. Here’s my contact information.” If you want any sort of customer interactivity or online ordering, you’re…