Short Essay: How to Start a Small Business


Becoming an entrepreneur is a worthwhile endeavor. The desire to start your own small business is both admirable and terrifying simultaneously. If you don’t know what you are getting yourself into, you could be looking at a lot of disappointment in the future. However, if you are willing to take the risks and steps necessary to learn how to start a small business, there is the potential for great personal satisfaction.

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4 Step Action Plan to Start a Business after Setback

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Many people dread going back to work after they have suffered an injury. They may have received compensation, but they may not be able to go back to their old job due to injury. Starting your own business with the compensation received may seem like an attractive idea for many. While this is certainly possible, you do need to be careful and do your research before jumping n with both feet. There are number of steps you need to take care of before you can open the door for business. The 4-step action plan described below will help you alleviate some of the jitters associated with starting a business.

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Does Your Startup Need a Financial Advisor?

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Starting a new business is always exciting. The economy is growing at a steady rate, which means your startup is enjoying more businesses and getting bigger by the day. At some point, however, you may need to start thinking about your startup’s finances and whether you need a financial advisor.

So, does your startup need a financial advisor? The answer is most definitely a big YES. We are going to take a look at how an experienced financial advisor can help your startup grow at a healthy rate and reach new heights.

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How is GPS Technology Impacting Today’s Businesses

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While consumer applications of GPS technology usually dominate the headlines, it’s the business applications that have transformed the ability of organizations to compete, whether they are small businesses or multinational corporations.

Once, you may have paid several hundred dollars for a single GPS unit to provide directions and traffic reports. Today, emboldened by decreasing costs and increasing power, GPS comes with everything from smartphones to route plan systems.

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7 Easy Ways to Get Your Small Business Up and Running

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If you’ve always dreamed of starting your own business and being your own boss, you may be daunted by the amount of red tape and hassle it takes to begin your own venture. You may not want to deal with filling out the paperwork, renting out a business space, hiring employees, and other expensive steps that are necessary for some new companies. If you’re not sure your business idea is going to be a hit, it’s tricky to take that risk. It can also be expensive. Instead, try one of these easy, inexpensive small business ideas to start creating income.

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6 Startup Clichés You Should Avoid to Succeed in Long-term

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Startups are inherently risky. If you strike it rich you can be next Jeff Bezos. On the other hand there is equal, probably more, probability of your startup shutting doors after few years. One reason many of them end up this way has to do with the founders not paying attention to the right things and instead going after frivolous items that don’t help them in the long-term. They chase what I term certain clichés that look good on surface, but ends up hurting them. So how do you avoid being another startup that ends up in the dumpster. Read on to learn those clichés and how to avoid them.

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3 Successful Tactics to Get Your Startup Booming

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We all stand in awe of the successful startup. The path from zero to a thriving business appears almost magical to outsiders – the founders were once regular working Joes and then, a short time later, they are entrepreneurial rock stars running some of the largest firms.

Many business owners do not fully understand how to progress from zero to booming, but there are specific things that successful entrepreneurs do to grow their firms that we all can learn from. Below, we will discuss 3 tactics you can deploy to propel your startup business!

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25 Best Work from Home Jobs of 2016

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Many people dream of being an entrepreneur. At the same time they are turned off by the demand that entrepreneur lifestyle puts on them. The stress of building the business from ground up, need to travel around the country to build customer base takes lot of toll on their person lives. However, there is a middle ground that can help balance the personal life with entrepreneurship. Many work from home jobs do not have as much stress as full-blown entrepreneurship and you can still earn decent income and build respectable business. Our friends at Multiple Streams have done a fabulous job of identifying 25 best work from home jobs. Click here to find out what they are and get details on how to go about starting one.

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What Options Are Available to Get into Business Yourself

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Maybe you grew up helping your parents in their own corner store. Maybe you genuinely love customer service. Perhaps you make something super awesome and you want to build a business around it. Whatever the reason, you want to have your own business, but you’re not sure where to start. Here are some tips on various options available to you to start the business and how to get there.

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Startup Tips for Tailor Dressmaker and Alteration Business

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Are you the go-to seamstress for family and friends? If you’re one of those talented people who are sought out every time someone needs their pants taken-in or the one who always makes the killer costume every Halloween, maybe it’s time you took your abilities public by opening your own shop. Chances are you already have the basic tools of the trade right in your home sewing kit, but what else does it take to turn your part-time passion into a viable small business?

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