Blogging for Business
If you’re considering turning your manufacturing and/or shipping over to an order fulfillment service you may be both excited and nervous about the prospect. Whether your business is large, small, or run out of your home with you as the only employee, there are both benefits and drawbacks to using an order fulfillment service to [...]
When you first set out to get your enterprise off the ground, you likely have a solid business plan in place to help you figure out both the amount of capital needed to start your business and sustain it until you begin earning, as well as how soon you might see an income and how [...]
It used to be that all business was conducted on paper. Contracts had to be printed and signed, invoices and payments were processed by hand, and communications were sent via snail mail. These days it’s a different story. Electronic signatures are now acceptable. Payroll is automatically processed by computers and deposits are made directly into [...]
Simply put, this may not be the best time to start a new business. The mortgage lending crisis led to a lot of changes in the banking industry, and it has unfortunately resulted in a lot less loans, even for qualified businesses. But there are other ways to secure the capital you need to launch [...]
I have been reading a bit of Business Ethics in Action: Seeking Human Excellence in Organizations and I wonder if there can be such a thing as an ethical business. By its very nature a business exists to make a profit. The main aim of any Plc. is profit – if it is not the [...]
There was an entrepreneur in the United States famous for appearing in TV commercials and declaring “I liked the product so much, I bought the company.” That same saying could apply to the website BizSugar.com and me. Back in early 2008 I’d seen the site and fell in love with it — if you can [...]