In the wake of the recession that hit in 2007, a lot of businesses, both mom and pop ventures as well established names on Wall Street, were hit hard. It’s as if we have gotten used to the excesses of the 1980′s all over again, when greed was good and the cashflow never seemed to [...]
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Common Mistakes that Startups Make
“The process of creation is less of an established procedure and more of a trial by error.” Those of us whose profession involves creating or establishing something know this for a fact. Thomas Edison had to go through thousands of lightbulb designs before he discovered the perfect one. Famous authors go through countless manuscripts and [...]
Providing Motivation
A lot has been said about how a businessman should try and operate his enterprise in the early goings. The advice can cover everything from how to manage finances to how to plan for the long-term when avoiding IRS audits. There are even those who feel free to offer their wisdom on how to determine [...]
Modernize Your Business with ACN’s Small Business Solutions
When you do business, you mean business. Operating a small business venture is similar to large companies in terms of client management and support services. You want to get in touch with your clients and customers without glitches and require smooth day-to-day operations. Likewise, it’s important to you that as you work to grow your [...]
Spinach: A Japanese Secret to Business Success
Foreign language lesson: the Japanese word for spinach is hourensou. It is also a term that describes a Japanese corporate philosophy towards both internal communication and improvement of products or services. The term takes the first character of three different words: hou-koku, ren-raku, and sou-dan. These three translate as “reporting,” “informing,” and “consulting,” respecti
On Angel Investors
Money is perhaps the biggest problem that many entrepreneurs will face, particularly in today’s economy. More often than not, there is a distinct lack of financial resources available for anyone to push ahead with a business for very long. Combine that with the fact that most businesses die out within a year and the result [...]
The Japanese Business of Recovery
It is a testament to the resiliency of the Japanese people and the faith of the financial market in that resiliency that Japan’s Nikkei Index raised a full 10% in the wake of the earthquake, tsunami and the ongoing nuclear crisis. Most national economies would have a hard time hitting that kind of growth in [...]
Seizing the Opportunity in Cloud Computing
When it comes to business processes, SMEs usually can’t compete with big businesses. One such area is IT infrastructure. Every business needs computing resources, business applications, and the network to manage them. Typically, smaller businesses needed to build up resources with much time, effort and expense, just to afford the operation and maintenance of having [...]
Social Media Promotions
Promoting a new business is always hard. There never seems to be enough room in the budget to really push a marketing or advertising plan forward. There’s always something else that’s more immediate and more important to maintaining operations that gets in the way. This is understandable: not everyone will have the money to keep [...]
10 Places to Get a Free Business Education Online
You don’t have to invest a lot of money to get quality business education. There are a lot of online schools offering business courses. Here are some fine examples of why studying college online can be beneficial for you. 1. MIT OpenCourseWare – Sloan School of Management (mit.edu) MIT OpenCourseWare is your best option for [...]