If you are trying to start a small business,my advice is go with the low-hanging fruit,which simply means pretend you are a monkey. Do you want to climb all the way to the top of the tree to find a banana? Maybe, but that’s only because some smarter monkey already grabbed the bananas on the lower part of the tree, … read more »
How To Find Buyers For Your Imported Products The standard way to run a business is to select a product, find the market you can sell to and adapt as necessary to that buying population’s needs. But, you can escape the competition if you disrupt that process and work a better, less exploited angle. Why not go the opposite direction, … read more »
Why would someone buy from you? The best way to get someone to make a purchase from you is if they know you and trust you.That’s why its always a good idea to treat your friends fairly. They don’t know you when you cold call.They don’t know you if you shout at them as they walk by your storefront or … read more »
You Can Easily and Cheaply Open a Bank Account for Your Small Business No matter what form of business organization you choose, you should probably open a bank account dedicated toyour small business. There are nominal costs, my bank charges about 6 bucks a month. If you are importing or exporting,go with a national bank because you may need assistance … read more »
In the previous post about good SEO for your title tag, I answered the big questions about the title tag, showed you where it was and demonstrated its importance. Bona fides established,letsmake a good one. There are a lot of wholesalers and retailers I could pick on for bad title tags, but that’s no fun so I’m going to pick … read more »
A Search Engine Optimized (SEO) Title Tag is the single most important thing you can do to get free traffic to your wholesale web site. Q: What is a title tag? A: The title tag is an informational tag that goes in the <HEAD> section of any web page.It is optional but almost every page has one. On all the … read more »
This is one of those small business topics that someone starting their own business typically pays WAY too much attention to. Yes,you need one,and it certainly assists you in looking more professional, but it is so easy to get an acceptable logo, that you really shouldn’t stress out on it. If you immediately need for your business to place your … read more »
Limited Liability Company The limited liability company (LLC) is a relatively new form of business organization in the US, but is available in every state. You can pay taxes as an individual and you have good liability protection. Check your state, but mostly you must have at least 2 owners to form an LLC. You issue sharesof stock but stock … read more »
The Corporation isn’t just for the Fortune 500 We’ve already covered the 2 types of business organizations that are easy to set up, the partnership and the sole proprietorship. A corporation requires a little more work to formally create but carries separate advantages from these. Unlike the other two,a corporation creates a separate legal entity, (corpus), and it can raise … read more »
A Partnership May Be The Right Organization For You A partnership is as easy to form as a sole proprietorship except that youwould customarily create a formal partnership agreement. You can find sample partnership agreements with a search engine but here is one example of a partnership agreement form. These agreements usually state the contributions of each partner in terms … read more »
