Posts Tagged ‘Starting a Business’
5 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Location for Your Business
When deciding where to locate your startup, there are a number of factors to consider. With no clear right or wrong answer, I’ve put together a list of questions to ask yourself when choosing a location for your startup.
Read More The 4 Best Ways to Maintain a Business Partnership
Starting a business all on your own can prove to be one of the more difficult occupation paths to take on. Thankfully, new entrepreneurs will find that the more people they add to their team from investors to employees and partners, the easier it is to run a business.
Read More Entrepreneur Businesses Are Everywhere
When people find out about the work I do helping small businesses, they often say there are just no more opportunities out there. When I hear this, I try very hard not to laugh, but this statement could not be further from the truth.
Read More Favorite Parts of Doing Business: Tales from a Drop-Shipper
Anthony Buonocore is the owner of Westway Electric Supply, a distributor of over 250,000 electrical supplies in a Philadelphia suburb, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. Tony has had to become a lean, mean, efficient machine and maintain a positive attitude. When this young entrepreneur was asked about his favorite parts of doing business, here is what he had to say.
Read More 10 Top Impediments to Creative Business Thinking
Successful entrepreneurs are the ones who think the most creatively, not only in their initial product or service, but more importantly all through the stages of growth from startup to maturity. But even the best of them can easily slip into some bad decision habits that limit or hurt their business, due to natural human tendencies and the pressures of business challenges.
Read More Create the Work-Life Balance That’s Right for You
As a time coach, I talk to people who want to live a more balanced life on a daily basis—including startup founders. It can be a struggle, but my real-world experience has uncovered that founders can achieve work-life balance IF all five of the following conditions are met.
Read More VIDEO: Picking the Right Business for Your Promotional Personality
Knowing your personality and promotional style is the key to choosing the right business. The better your business fits your promotional style, the more promotion you’ll want to do and the greater the chance that you’ll succeed.
Read More The Best and Worst Traits of an Entrepreneur: Which Do You Have?
You may be an ambitious and energetic person planning to start on your own. But ambition and energy alone aren’t sufficient to take you to the next level. I have met, observed, and studied several entrepreneurs. I have found that they possess some specific traits that played a key role in the eventual success or failure of their businesses.
Read More Is Your Crazy New Business Idea a Home Run or a Dud?
Whether it’s your next big business or a unique marketing campaign, when that next ambitious idea hits, ask yourself these five questions—and if the answer is yes to all five, well, roll up your sleeves and make it happen!
Read More VIDEO: Why There’s No Map for Starting a Business
Some people insist that good planning is the key to reaching any worthwhile goal (like starting a business). Here’s why they may be wrong.
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