Problems you face when seeking investors for your business idea

Venture capital firms, business angels, and investors are people who make money by investing in future or established businesses in exchange for a stake in the company. Finding a good investor to back your business idea can be a big help, especially if you still control most of your business, but it’s also considerably more difficult than finding a small […]

Integrative Business Planning: Managing Complexity

Introduction Business planning is typically done when a business plan is needed for financial purposes or to be used as a guide for running and growing a business (such as a start-up or for the next period of time). Many crucial features of a business must be addressed and balanced in this planning process. Various options, issues, and risks associated […]

Top 10 Small Business Ideas for 2012

Starting a small business requires a lot of planning and the ability to execute your business plans. Although it does not require huge capital for a small business, however, you cannot lose your capital as this will cause a serious problem on the financial front at the same time as your future expansion plans. If you have knowledge on how […]

Small Business Loans for Women

The Small Business Administration reports that women-owned businesses in the United States continue to rise, and today these businesses employ more than 27 million people and contribute more than $3.5 trillion to the economy. But the same agency also reports that women entrepreneurs still face great challenges in gaining support from financial institutions to achieve their goals. Nowhere is this […]

Test the business process: make sure it works

Before joining a gym for a year, you might want to take up a 30-day trial offer and test it out to make sure it meets your needs. Similarly, before you introduce a new and improved business process to an organization, you should test it and resolve any bugs before implementing the change on a large scale. To do this, […]

Five rules on how to write a business letter

Business letters are used by companies or two people to communicate in a formal way. It is different from the personal letter because it must follow certain rules. These letters usually need to persuade or inform the recipients. There are rules on how to write a business letter. 1. The first rule is to analyze why you want to write […]

The CRM Story: Going Beyond the Customer Database

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is one of those great concepts who swept the business world in the 1990s with the promise of forever changing the way companies small and large interact with their customer bases. In it in the short term, however, it turned out to be an unwieldy process that was best in theory than in practice for various […]

MLM Team Building: Six Components to Turning Prospects into Business Partners

Although network marketers like to think otherwise, this industry is a sales business and they are the product. Yes, we are selling our opportunities or products, but truly, network marketing involves branding oneself more than anything else. Building trust is a critical element as we develop relationships with our prospects. When this factor is absent, so is our equipment and […]