This week’s top stories include small business advice covering the following four topics:
- 11 Fears Every Entrepreneur Must Overcome
- 10 Ways to Make Working From Home More Productive (and Free Up More Time For Yourself) |
- A Beginner's Guide to Digital Marketing
- Do You Need to Start Outsourcing? Here’s How to Tell!
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.
This week’s top stories include small business advice covering the following four topics:
- Grow Your Audience With These Website Traffic Tips
- Sales of small businesses are going through the roof
- 10 Work Tasks You Should Pay Someone Else to Do
- The Top 10 Franchises You Can Buy for Less Than $100,000
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.
Businesses have to make money and turn a profit to survive. While personal consumption can be influenced by personal ideals and values, in business, it is all about making a profit.
Many nascent entrepreneurs simply roll up their sleeves and try to do everything themselves in the hopes that it will save them money. Unfortunately, the most valuable asset entrepreneurs have is their time. Doing tasks that can be done by less expensive experts prevents entrepreneurs from focusing on the most important aspects of their business. Freelancing platforms exist to help the business owner outsource non-key tasks to experts in their fields for a fraction of what most experts cost locally.
Recently, I was teaching a course, “Going Pro – Moving from Hobby to Business” and one of the students was a jewelry designer looking to take her hobby of making jewelry, mostly as gifts for friends and family, and turn it into a paying business. I suggested she focus her jewelry design on a profitable […]
One has to ask “Are corporations past their prime?” Corporations came into being to allow multiple investors to invest a portion of their capital across several risky, but potentially highly profitable endeavors. Corporations Come Into Existence When sailing ships were constructed to carry on world trading, it was a highly lucrative proposition but was fraught […]
Most people think that to create personal wealth requires hard work. These same people work hard from 9-5 and get paid for their results. Consider the construction worker or waitress who engages in hard physical labor for their wages. They believe that building wealth is a solitary effort and they crave recognition for the efforts […]
Labor is a major component cost of any product or service. The lower the labor costs, either the wider the margin or the cheaper the price of the product or service. Cheap labor can be had by either opening our borders to immigrants who are willing to work for less, or by outsourcing. I contend […]
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