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After working in Mexico City as a manufacturer’s representative for two years, Elizabeth Helsley thought about returning to her hometown of San Diego to start her own company. Then she ran the numbers and discovered that bootstrapping her business in Mexico would drastically reduce her overhead
I’ve got a bone to pick with our congressmen and congresswomen! You know how legislators sneak unrelated provisions into major bills? Yeah, well, they did it again. Section 9006 of the massive Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act will mean yet another huge paperwork burden for small business.
Small businesses are not just in competition for customers. It’s a fight to attract and keep employees, too.Offering a retirement plan is one incentive that can make the difference. Yes, it will cost you, but it may be the best investment you can make in the future of your business.”Cost is even more of a problem with the scheduled increases in taxes and health care about to hit small business in 2011,” says Rick Kahler, a certified financial planner with Kahler Financial Group in Rapid City, S.D.
This article has been excerpted from The Power of Loyalty by Roger L. Brooks , available from Entrepreneur Press .
Rachel Sadon With advances in technology redefining the advertising market, small and medium-size businesses are benefiting from new opportunities to reach consumers–from reduced costs in traditional media to online, mobile, and social networking opportunities.The Los Angeles Times reported that mom-and-pop businesses are taking advantage of a depressed media market and increased access to technology to produce successful marketing campaigns. Once prohibitively expensive, spots on TV and billboards are seeing growth from small businesses that can now afford to produce and run advertisements. Content Continues Below In the case of a commercial for a local diner, Eat at Joe’s, a small agency shot high-definition video with a digital camera, edited the material at home, and charged the restaurant owner a mere $5,000.
How do your customers use the web? It’s a simple question, but a question many small-business owners forget to discuss when working on their website.
By Monte EnbyskSo you want your website to make you look big. More power to you.But the business experts I talked to recently say small is cool with customers, too
Most problems that occur in small businesses trace back to one fatal characteristic: lack of adequate ownership and leadership.I’m a big proponent of the “just view me as god” school of management.
You have the perfect home business idea. You can’t believe no one has thought of it before.
The latest statistics from the Small Business Administration show that new businesses have a 50 percent chance of surviving five years or more. While this dispels some longstanding beliefs that 95 percent of businesses fail within five years, the odds of success are still a coin toss.Common factors contributing to business failures include insufficient capital, poor management and lack of planning, just to name a few. However, a stealth enemy can also doom business success.
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