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Get Results from Your Yellow Pages Ad
If you're a first-time advertiser on a limited budget, start small and test the results. Begin, for example, with an in-column ad, where you can include some copy and spot color. Then track the response by asking your new customers how they found out about your business or by listing a special discount in the ad. If the in-column listing delivers, move up to a display ad.When you adve

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Advertising's Compound Interest
Every business owner dreams that advertising in a certain medium will net them dozens of clients in the very first week or month. Sometimes those dreams are fulfilled, but most of the time they are not. If advertising was a sure thing, there would be less of it. It would be more expensive. Every business would be successful. There would be no small businesses.There are many ways yo

This month, we wanted to share some general tips relating to your graphic design that we've come up with over the past year:

Always include an address on your business card, even if you are operating a small business out of your home — it greatly increases your credibility and makes you look

Compassion: Bringing Your Humanity to Work
Compassion is one of five principles of the Skilled Facilitator approach. (It's also one of the four core values of the approach.) I have already written about the other four principles: curiosity, commitment, accountability, and transparency.Compassion means temporarily suspending judgment so that you can appreciate others' perspectives or situations when they are different from your

your graphic design that we've come up with over the past year:

Always include an address on your business card, even if you are operating a small business out of your home — it greatly increases your credibility and makes you loo

Musings on the Restaurant Business
Did you know restaurant services in the US is a $430 Billion per year industry? I didn’t.Common sense would suggest that good restaurants be placed in high-income areas such as Silicon Valley. Why then does PaloAlto - Menlo Park - Los Altos have so little to offer? After all, the population here eats out a lot, and with the tech-generated wealth in the hands of relatively younger peop

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Always include an address on your business card, even if you are operating a small business out of your home — it greatly increases your credibility and makes you loo

Greatness and the Silicon Valley Gold Rush
Imagine you are rich. Very rich. Obscenely rich.Normal people in normal parts of the world only imagine being that rich at an abstract level. They don’t really believe it is possible. Or at least, they don’t structure their lives around the expectation of being obscenely rich.In the mid-nineties, a phenomenon happened here in Silicon Valley, which defied all laws of market econ

ven if you are operating a small business out of your home — it greatly increases your credibility and makes you loo

System Integration: Will You Handle It Yourself?
When you need system integration, do you handle it yourself or pass it on to a specializing firm? If you are one of the many that handle this process yourself, you may want to rethink just why you do this and if it is the right choice for you. Many skilled individuals even pass off the process to others simply because of the time and investment that is needed. What do you do with your sys

— it greatly increases your credibility and makes you look much more established! If you're concerned about privacy, a Post Office box is a great way to go. When signing up for a Post Office box, consider using a "Mailboxes" store instead of the Post Office — you'll get a street address instead

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An S corporation is a type of corporation that the IRS recognizes. S corporations follow taxation rules that differ from those that regular corporations follow. A main difference is that S corporations are exempt from double taxation. This is because the owner declares the income a corporation receives in individual tax returns. Corporations are not subjected to taxation of the income. The taxation rules follow those of sole proprietorship and partnership businesses. However, they enjoy the limited liability (protection) corporations receive.

Warehouses use a special kind of highly durable bar code labels to maintain a list of their inventories. The basic types of warehouse bar code labels are reflective, location, floor and pallet.

Great business ideas and bold marketing plans are useless if you do not budget carefully. In this article we explore some of the most common budgeting mistakes and how you can avoid them.

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