This week’s top stories include small business advice covering the following four topics:
- Make 2021 the Year of the Customer
- 3 Reasons to Quit Your Corporate Job and Become a Restaurant Franchisee
- The Best Loans for Franchises
- Key Marketing Mistakes Entrepreneurs And Small Business Owners Should Avoid
Each week we scour all the top business-related magazines and newspapers for articles with the best advice for the small business owner, so you do not have to.
For most inventors with a new product idea, they are far better to license their idea to a manufacturer than to raise the capital to manufacture and distribute the product themselves.
When a business approaches a lending institution about debt financing, the lender conducts an evaluation of the borrower using a method known as the 5 C's of Credit
When considering key partners, you must consider the following questions:
- Who are your key partners and who are your suppliers?
- Which key resources are you acquiring from key partners and suppliers?
- What key activities do your key partners and suppliers perform?
What is operating leverage and why should you care? Ignoring the financial mumbo-jumbo, operating leverage represents how having debt can affect a company's bottom line profit. In some cases, Operating leverage can improve a company's profits and in others, it can destroy it.
A franchise investment isn’t as high as most people think, especially when you put the investment cost into context and compare it with starting a business from scratch. There are eight factors that determine a franchise's investment costs.
There is a huge difference between consumer credit and business credit. Consumer credit funds consumptions while business credit is known as “leverage” and is applied to the purchase of an income-producing asset. As individuals, consumer credit is generally a method we use to obtain what we desire sooner than if we were forced to save […]
while the government may understand the importance of small business in the overall economy, its definition often differs from the way most entrepreneurs may define them. As a result, the methods in which the government can inject money are primarily limited to guaranteeing loans and creating projects for a narrow slice of the business community.
Several weeks ago, Sara Pope of ConsumerAffairs.com, reached out to me and asked if I could review a step by step guide to business loans and financing that her company had produced. My initial reaction was to just say no. My inclination to decline her offer was based on my experience with hundreds of nascent entrepreneurs. […]
