The Top 5 Reasons to Avoid Sole Proprietorship

How to determine if sole proprietorship is the appropriate form of business to protect you, your company and your assets.

How to Get Unstuck and Regain Momentum

Running your own business, especially alone, you're bound to get stuck and feel like you've reached a plateau or worse still, you feel as if you just can't gain forward-moving motion. The danger is not in getting stuck, but in prolonged inactivity - inertia. This phenomenon is frequently observed in entrepreneurs starting a new business.

How To Turn Your Knowledge & Skills Into a 1-Person-School & Earn a Fortune

It doesn't matter what your talents and skills are. Somewhere there is a hungry market for your skill. You just need to find that market and give them what they are looking for your skill.

How Do You Rate on Sales Etiquette?

First impressions are critical and it's imperative when you approach others that you watch their behavior. It's a great learning tool. You will easily learn the wrong and right ways of conducting business to improve your business image. Read 37 Tips for calls, events and dining.

Basic Foundation in Freelancing - Start-Up Tips

So you decided to enter the world of freelancing. This article will outline the basic foundation in freelancing or starting out a new project.

Getting A Temporary Revenue While Your Home Business Is Not Going Too Well!

Starting a home business requires a lot of work, and sometimes it takes a lot more time to really get it going. But during the downtime, what can you do to still keep a good income coming in?

What are You Doing to Create a Thriving Business?

Could your business survive any obstacle thrown at it, including the ultimate obstacle of your death. What considerations should you be making for your business in the event of owner death or owner absenteeism to ensure business growth and business success. Creating a business manual or office procedures manual is a crucial first step to allowing your business to prosper and reach its full potential. Does your business have a plan in place? Have you left instructions for running your business should something happen to you?

Get Out Of Your Home Office And Run For Mayor!

In my first days, alone, in a new start up business, I had joined the growing ranks of entrepreneurs who work from home. Work from home had become the new buzz words for the baby boomer generation who have money and are disillusioned with the corporate world and were forced by a younger competition for our job to sacrifice our families and to limit the time to enjoy the fruits of our labor having to work long hours in the globalization of the economy.

Out of the Cubicle and Into Business - Book Review

This is a fantastic reference if you are planning to go into business and want the rigor and discipline to ask yourself all the challenging questions before you start. Includes 114 questions to get you off on the right foot!

Smart Artists Use the Internet to Increase Recognition and Sales

Many of us have dreamed about making a living doing something we love, enjoying each day to the fullest and living that content, peaceful life we long for. For many of us, becoming a professional artist would be our highest aspiration, but even for those lucky enough to have the talent, making a good living as an artist can be extremely difficult.

Turning New Coaching Clients Down

When you're marketing a life coaching practice, you want to attract clients, not turn them down.

Become A Copywriter - Home Office Supplies For Freelance Copywriters

There are certain things you need to have to be able to effectively do your work as a professional freelance copywriter.

Become A Copywriter - Receiving Payments and Using Contracts

To keep track of your clients and payments owed I suggest you use a simple computer program. I use QuickBooks to handle all of my invoices and balances due, overdue, and paid. It even has a feature that allows me to send an email invoice directly to my client's email address.

Imagery & Affirmations - Five Natural Laws for Creating Success

THE LAW OF DESIRE is a primary key for achieving the results you want. It states that any thought you hold in your mind and charge with emotion is rapidly accepted by your subconscious mind, turning inner thought into outer reality. The only limit to creating what you want is how intensely you really want it! The depth of your desire to get what you want determines your destiny.

Can Family Business Consultation Improve Your Business

Do you know what family business consultation is? First let me tell you what it's not - family business consultation is not therapy. Instead of focusing on the past and all the problems of the family, he focus is on improving the function of your business (which may of course also improve family relationships)