One of the greatest obstacles faced by thousands of returning veterans who are transitioning back into civilian life is in finding long-lasting gainful employment, according to Kevin Humes, the President/CEO of American Veterans Alliance/American Alliance for Disabled Veterans (501 C-3) and co-founder...
Negotiation is something that home-based or other small business, business opportunity or franchise owners need to contend with, like it or not. Unfortunately, far too many of them think it is okay to just wing it. They don't take the time to refine their skills in this area. As a result, they are doing...
If you’re a mom (or even a dad) who is currently making the job of raising kids your full-time job and who is also wrestling with the idea of buying a business opportunity or franchise, the recent raging and politically charged debate about what constitutes a “working” mom may hit close to home. Personally,...
According to yesterday’s WSJ.com, far too many baby-boomer business owners are assuming that, when the time comes, they’ll simply cash out or pass the business on and have what it takes to retire. Not so, according to the experts who specialize in business finance and exit-planning. Things aren’t simple...
The Information Technology Disaster Resource Center (ITDRC) is a non-profit, all-volunteer organization of IT professionals who provide technology continuity and recovery assistance to communities and small businesses that are affected by disasters....
It’s tax time again, time to take a cold hard look at what you make, what you owe and what you need to be doing to save for the future. The trouble is that retirement planning for far too many home-based and other small business, business opportunity or franchise owners in particular just isn’t a priority,...
An unknown author once said that, “In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.” And boy is it ever true, especially if you work from home each and every day where it’s far too easy to get distracted from the job at hand and do something other...
So you think you’re organized? Maybe that’s true of your dusty, messy desk that you cleaned up just the other day. Windex, Pledge, a few file folders and a shredder can work wonders, it’s true. However, have you given the same degree of thought to organizing your time?
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According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, your chances of making it in business for five years or more are roughly 50/50. Okay, so the odds could be better, but they could be a whole lot worse too. As is true with so many things in life, much of how you perceive your odds depends on your...
You’d like to own your business, but you don’t have an MBA. Does this mean you’re making a bad move? Not necessarily.
Earning an MBA appears to be the “thing to do” right now as more and more college graduates opt to continue their education by enrolling in business school. Additionally, more professionals...
Are you living the American Dream by owning your own business? Is your business doing well but you now need to grow? Maybe you aren’t seeing the returns on your business that you thought you would have when you first opened. Maybe you decided to open a home-based business after being laid off or fired?...
If you’ve ever operated a home-based business opportunity or even a large franchise you know that setting goals is critical to gagging your success. Setting goals should be an integral part of your overall business strategy from the very first day. Taking advice on what those goals should be can be...
For many, it is no secret that the economy isn’t doing as well on the recovery side as planned. As a result, this affords you the chance to take a few small steps back to make some revised or new plans.
Question: Assuming you wrote one when you purchased your business opportunity, home-based business...
If you’re like me, then you must have been wondering your entire business career what you’ll be like and where you’ll be in a year, five, ten or even twenty years. All my life I thought that I’d be self-employed until two years ago when I met the owners of this web site and decided to work for them....
In business, if you don’t know where you’ve been or where you’re going how do you know when you’ve arrived? The simple answer is that you don’t and need a well-established road map in getting there. I have seen many people struggle when buying a business opportunity or small franchise. They rely too...
Seeking new types of customers should be something you do each week as a basic exercise for your budding home-based business, distributorship, or small franchise. I dislike the cliché “think outside the box” however; it does seem to apply here. If you don’t consistently expand your prospects and/or...
One really easy thing you can do to make more money while being more efficient with your valuable time is getting organized as much as possible before you start any task. If you own a home-based business or an online internet business operated from your home, staying focused is key. However, did you...
If you want to get noticed by the media, you need a media kit. A media kit is a packet of information about your business, product or service that is created for use by the press. Its purpose is to provide media members with the necessary data to report on your business. In many cases, your media...
If you haven’t assessed how your home-based business stacks up against your competition it's time you faced that challenge. It’s critical to first find your competition (you can probably do that pretty easily). A slightly more difficult, yet equally important task is knowing what to look for when you...
If you don’t know how to track your existing website traffic, you’re missing out on a critical marketing element that can aid you in many ways, not the least of which is sales. You can turn visitors into customers using a few easy tools. You just need to know what they are and how to apply them.
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This comes up a lot when people who are thinking of expanding their home-based business start to think about a new hire, but don’t want to invest in doing a background check. The refrains are all too familiar…“They’re a close friend of the family.” “I’ve known this person for years.” “I don’t need...
A well-written press release is nothing without the distribution channels that “gets the word out”. In some cases, this can cost you a pretty penny if you don’t know where to source free methods.
Often, for home-based business owners it is a matter of “how much and for what you get in return” that...
Advertising programs, and especially lead generation programs, take time to develop. In some cases, you need to be committed for a long period of time to determine how it develops before drawing conclusions in terms of its efficacy.
For over two years now, I've discovered while working in the Business...
With every venture large and small there comes a time when you can’t do it all. It’s at this juncture, as you are reaching a critical mass, that you can potentially make a tremendous costly mistake that can come back to haunt you for many a moon.
Many home-based business owners start out on their...
Starting a home-based business is a lot easier than you might think. You can start with your own, or even buy an existing one. But the real challenge comes not in running the business, but in making it grow.
The main perk I love about a home-based business is the flexibility it gives you. However,...
If you’re trying to be all things to all people you could be missing the boat and tossing money right out the window.
Buying a Home Based business can be an easy proposition these days. For instance, BusinessOppotunity.com has dozens of Home Based businesses...
Starting a home based business requires passion, time, money, faith, and a lot of hard work. It is not an easy thing to do and success is not a given. However, there are certain practices that can help your home based business be successful. Whether you want to grow into a worldwide, multi-million...
There are many factors that go into whether or not a small or home based business is a success or a failure. Competition, the economy, or just bad luck could all play a factor in how far a business goes. The most important element however is still the person or group of people that started the business...
If you're reading this, it's safe to say you have spent a great deal of time researching many different Home Based Business Opportunities trying to find the one that is the best fit for you. This can be a daunting task as there are 1000's upon 1000's of opportunities out there and it's very easy to be...
Ed Lewellen is the Senior Vice President of Talent Acquisition for Employers Edge, Inc., a company that uses its own highly successful and proven business model to improve the performance of other companies―coaching,...
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