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Examining Legal Structures for Your Business
When you start a new business, you must choose a legal structure for it. No business legal structure is inherently better than another legal structure; you just need to decide which one is right for your [more…]
How to Establish Your Advertising Budget
When you open your new business, set an advertising budget at the outset; your business needs enough working capital to afford to tell the world about what your business offers. Most small businesses spend [more…]
How to Establish Your Business's Vision, Mission, and Values
Establish your business's vision, mission, and values to tell the world about your business accomplishes. Even if you have your business's vision, mission, and values in mind, you need to commit those [more…]
Copyrighting Your Business's Creations
A copyright is a form of protection provided to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works, both published and [more…]
Protecting Your Business's Creations with a Patent
Patents allow the patent holder (in this case, your business) an exclusive right to obtain the full financial benefits of your business's patented invention before others are allowed to help themselves [more…]
Dealing with Zoning Laws for Your Home-Based Business
Zoning laws are, among other things, the government’s favorite way of trying to keep residential areas residential and business areas business. Local government's zoning laws make everyone [more…]
Finding Information about Licenses and Permits for Your Business
You can find a business license or permit for most any occasion. Which licenses and permits does your business need? The kind of licenses and permits you need really depends on in which city, county, and [more…]
How to Choose a Lawyer to Work with Your Business
Believe it or not, most lawyers are nice people, and a lawyer can help you start and maintain your small business. Any business — even a home-based business — needs an attorney on its support team. [more…]
How to Create a Strong Business Partnership
A partnership is when two or more people team up in the ownership and operation of a business. When a partnership works, the business will run like a well-played symphony. When it doesn’t, things will [more…]
Buying into a Business Franchise
A franchise is an agreement in which one business buys the right to distribute another business's products or services. The business buying into the franchise wants the right to use that successful and [more…]
Direct-Selling Businesses
A business based on direct selling, well, sells consumer product or services in a face-to-face manner. Direct-selling businesses have taken the world by storm. [more…]
How to Buy a Business Opportunity
Business opportunities that you can buy into come in all shapes and sizes. In general, a business opportunity can be an idea, product, system, or service that someone has developed and offers to sell to [more…]
Business to Take Care of before You Open Your Bed & Breakfast
Your bed & breakfast is a business, so you need to get your ducks in a row and necessary forms filled out and filed before you open your doors to guests. Use the following list [more…]
Important Phone Numbers to Keep Handy for Your Bed & Breakfast
Even the best-run bed & breakfast suffers an occasional crisis, and the time to search for a drain-cleaning service is not when you have guests waiting for breakfast. Record telephone numbers for the following [more…]
High-Tech and High-Touch Ways to Earn Your Living from Home
Whether you like working with the latest technology or you prefer working with people, you’re sure to find a home business opportunity that meets all your wants and needs. If you want to start a business [more…]
How to Avoid Work-at-Home Scams
Many companies hire home-based employees to sell goods or provide services for them. Although the vast majority of work-at-home opportunities are legitimate, plenty of them aren’t. For every opportunity [more…]
How to Be Productive When You’re Working from Home
When you’re working from home, separating your home life from your work life can be a real challenge. Your home-based business is a real business, and, as such, it demands both a professional environment [more…]
Home-Based Business For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Working from home is all about setting up a good home business. If you spend time now researching the best business for your talents, creating an effective business Web site, recognizing scams that prey [more…]
Basic Financial Statements for Your Business Plan
A large part of your business plan includes your financial statements. Financial statements are formal records of your business’s financial activities; they provide a summary [more…]
Writing Business Plans: How to Identify Customers and Competitors
A critical part of a successful business plan is identifying your customers and the competition. Solid business plans incorporate research on potential customers and competitors. Begin by asking the following [more…]
How to Avoid Business Failure
Two big mistakes while developing your business plan can cause your new business to fail: lack of research and lack of preparedness. Avoid becoming a failed business by making sure you don't commit those [more…]
Making a Business Plan Work
A business plan is a strategy for survival that looks at your company today (understanding your surroundings) and then into the future. Your business plan will help you prepare if you include these elements [more…]
Basic Parts of a Business Plan
When you’re putting together a business plan, divide the plan into these basic sections — which every quality business plan should have: [more…]
Business-Planning Checklist
You have a number of essential tasks to complete before you write your business plan. Having a clear picture of your goals and how to attain them is at the core; but consider the other factors on this [more…]
Business Plans For Dummies Cheat Sheet
A well-developed business plan is critical for any start-up business. To develop a thorough business plan, research your customers and competition; avoid mistakes that lead to business failure; and know [more…]
