I am on the verge of starting my own business. I am looking to sell upscale clothing in a boutique. I have been doing a lot of research and I am sure it would do well in the town where I live, as there is nothing quite like it available for customers around here.
For […]
Beautiful in design, simple in execution, the Apple iPod is a marketing success. Commanding the leading share of the MP3 player market, Apple has taken a simple idea and turned it into a thriving segment of its’ core business.
The concept is simple really: give the customers to listen to the music they want to wherever […]
If you look around your business or workplace, you will notice one thing - there are promotional products everywhere. From the coffee mug you won from your local radio station, to the free beer shirt you are wearing, these items are doing one thing - they are marketing a business or a product.
What is the […]
There is one basic thing a business does: it provides the solution to a need or problem. Take a car wash for example - cars get dirty so they need to be cleaned, hence the need for a car wash.
My father drilled this concept into my head since I was a child. You see, he […]
If you look at many wealthy people that have made their own fortunes, they invest in two different things: real estate and businesses. Today I am not going to talk about real estate - rather I would like to talk about business investing.
Most of these people either have created their own businesses or have invested […]
I have had the opportunity to hire a few people in my lifetime. It all starts by looking over their resumes and deciding whether or not it would be worth taking the time to interview them. Sadly, most of their resumes don’t make the cut.
Quite a few of the resumes are rejected because you can […]
As some of you know, I have a home business. Needless to say, the past year or so, the business has grown beyond my ability to do it all myself. So, I am going to hire my first employee - and I need to setup some office space for them.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any extra […]
We are on the verge of opening a home for special needs adults. We have most of the home already setup. One thing we have left to do is install a wheelchair stair lift.
The home will house eight people with three of them in wheelchairs. Since it will be used often, we found out that […]
Business owners are usually busy. Too busy. To be honest, most of us don’t have the time to make all our appointments and do everything that we set out to do. I am always on the lookout to find new ways to leverage my time and increase the power of it. Today I found something […]
This Sunday was different than most Sundays for me. You see I am involved in a small corporation where we are considering expanding our business. We had a board meeting today to discuss and finalize our plans regarding obtaining the necessary equipment for our new restaurant.
There are just five of us in our group and […]
