If you have a food business, you need to seriously consider tapping the Web to sell your food items. Learn how other small businesses are selling food on the Internet via their online storefronts.
Follow @powerhomebizTips on How to Launch a Business During a Recession
March 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Robert Tuchman, successful entrepreneur and author of the new book YOUNG GUNS: The Fearless Entrepreneur’s Guide to Chasing Your Dreams and Breaking Out on Your Own gives out eight steps on how to start a business that actually makes money, even in this tough economy: 1. Start with self-financing. 2. Borrow, but with caution. 3. [...]
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March 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Web may have no borders, but an increasing number of users are looking for products and services available in their local areas. Hence, it is important that you take time to ensure that local customers can find your business when they look at local resources. Here are some tips on how to ensure that [...]
Follow @powerhomebizHow can Shipping Costs Affect Your Business?
March 19, 2009 By 1 Comment
Someone asked me an interesting question about the impact of shipping costs to the bottomline. The asker has developed a product that is considerably better and resolves the problems of the main competitor’s product. This new entrant will also offer more with the product in terms of features and size. The competitor’s product is simplier [...]
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March 17, 2009 By 1 Comment
I typically do not blog about politics or government. But like a growing number of people, I am outraged by the huge bonuses AIG will give its derivative traders — basically our tax dollars after getting significant chunks of the bailout monies. They should have just given all the AIG bailout money to small businesses! [...]
Follow @powerhomebizHow to Overcome Fear When Starting a Business – Especially During a Recession
March 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Overcoming your fear is one of the most difficult hurdles of starting a business. Starting a new business is such a leap of faith that it can scare the wits out of you; more so when you are leaving the comfort and security of a salaried employee. Add to that the fact that we are [...]
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March 10, 2009 By 17 Comments
If you have a passion for working with computers and have the technical knowhow to make it work and trouble shoot problems, you may want to consider starting you own computer repair business. With computers now an integral and commonplace equipment in both businesses and homes, computer repair is one of the fastest growing industries [...]
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March 4, 2009 By 3 Comments
Entrepreneurship is all about taking risks. As much as you want everything to go as smoothly as possible, there’s really no “sure thing” in business and a million and one things could go wrong when starting a business. Plus of course, there’s always the possibility of failure. The key, however, is to manage and reduce [...]
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March 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Someone asked me what is the best tool to learn how to start a small business. My answer is simple: It depends on what you think you need and what works for you. 1. For some people, they need to sit in a classroom and listen to the lectures of a teacher on how to [...]
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