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Do you know anything about this topic? Share your expertise with our thousands of visitors each day by submitting your quality, informative 'Small Business' article, and if you become a member we will pay you for your unique and original work (note that all submissions are reviewed by our editors). Your Small Business Guide is Michael Russell. Recent articles submitted to your independent guide to Small Business 1. Marketing Strategy For Small Business - By: Michael Russell Marketing has been the most popular and successful method of making sales and creating awareness of any product or event from time immemorial. It is the most effective and efficient way to promote any business. There are hundreds of different marketing methods and promotions now being us... Featured ArticleSuccessfully Obtaining A Small Business Loan Working with a bank to obtain a small business loan can be aneasy or difficult process, depending on how prepared you are tomeet with the lender and discuss your business' situation andneeds. One of the leading causes of business failure is insufficientstart-up capital. Ironically, though, lenders rarely approveloan requests for the businesses that have the highest need fora small business loan. Instead, lenders tend to prefer to offersmall business loans to those businesses th ...
Read full story 2. Small Business Niche Marketing - Online Or Offline - By: Michael Russell Small Business Niche Marketing - Getting Started How can your local, real-life, bricks and mortar small business successfully promote their capabilities on or off the Internet? For a look at how one entrepreneur does it, we will follow a startup Remodeling Contractor in L.A. as he works ... 3. Small Business - The Importance Of A Customer List - By: Michael Russell When starting or developing an Internet business you must have a list of people whom you can contact in order to promote your business and products to potential customers. This is known as `Building A List`. One of the first things you must decide in the early stages of your business plan is how you... 4. Presentations - Questions And Answers - By: Michael Russell The final segment of this short course on presentations covers the summing up and the question and answer session. When you have finished your main presentation it is always advisable to give a comprehensive summing up. Summarising your main points helps to re-enforce the benefits that... 5. Presentations - Delivery And Benefits - By: Michael Russell After you have prepared your presentation, checked all the equipment you need, set out the venue and finalised the guest list you are now ready to give your presentation. This is your opportunity to gain credibility in your career. You must use this opportunity to build your credibilit... 6. Presentations - Equipment And Handouts - By: Michael Russell This follows our earlier article which covered the preparation and choosing of the venue for your presentationEquipment With all the equipment available today it is possible to prepare, check, amend and polish a presentation before you enter the venue. No matter what format and equipment... 7. Points For Great Presentations - By: Michael Russell Purpose. There are many reasons and purposes for presentations. At some time in their career most managers will have to give a presentation of one kind or another. It is therefore essential that the person who gives the presentation should have all the information at his fingertips... 8. What Accounting Records Are Necessary For Small Business - By: Michael Russell Most people prefer not to do a whole lot of bookkeeping or accounting within their normal lives; however, if you are running a small business, or any business for that matter, keeping records and logs are a necessity. So what is the difference between personal and business accounting and recor... 9. Free Advertising - Does It Work? - By: Michael Russell Placing free ads on FFA sites and safelists used to be a very successful way of advertising your URLs and promoting your products. If you didn't make too many sales, at least you built up a mailing list, but probably not a very responsive one. However, things have changed and they no l... 10. Administration In A Small Business - By: Michael Russell You are in business to make a profit. It is worth repeating here that profit equals revenue minus overheads. The most important part is the generation of revenue, whether you are selling something, making a product, servicing customers or any other activity. It is in the inte... 11. Business Premises - Choose Wisely - By: Michael Russell Owners of businesses, regardless of type, will need premises of some kind. It may be that they can work from home in a spare room or garage (some say the kitchen table!!). Others may need a shop, office, workshop or warehouse, but a decision will have to be made as to where to locate the... 12. Staff - Cost- Effectiveness And Training - By: Michael Russell Staff are one of your largest overhead costs and therefore must be used to the greatest possible benefit. This means getting the best out of your staff by obtaining maximum productivity, loyalty and job commitment. In some case this is no easy task but it can be done by astute management... 13. Overheads -the Importance Of Control - By: Michael Russell The overheads of any business must be identified, examined and controlled at all times. As we all know Income minus Overheads equals Profit. Obviously if you were to reduce your overheads you would increase your profit without increasing your income. So if you reduce overheads and ... 14. Forecasting For Profits - How To Do It - By: Michael Russell It is important to forecast the income and expenditure of any business as accurately and realistically as possible. Once done, comparisons can be made with the forecast against the actual results achieved and timely remedial action taken with any wide variations. This applies to all inco... 15. Business Planning Is Very Important - By: Michael Russell If you do not plan your business strategy in the greatest possible detail you are needlessly handicapping yourself. Plans made in the initial stages of business, whether it be start up, development or expansion will throw up some possible problems and situations that can be resolved before the... 16. The Reason For Business Is To Make A Profit - By: Michael Russell Starting a business needs a great deal of research, planning, forecasting, knowledge, common sense and a great deal more. Luck can play a part when starting up or running a business, but as we all know, Luck can be very fickle. Every effort should be made to eliminate the need for the in... 17. Keeping Your Profits - By: Michael Russell Of course there are many different types of business that generate profit in various ways and it is up to each business owner to determine the relevant profit centres of the business. It is, however, unfortunately, quite common for profit opportunities to be:- Missed. Not ... 18. Advertising Online - By: Michael Russell Ok, so you're new to marketing online, and you need to find out what resources are the best for advertising. You're at a loss as to which way to turn. What do you do? First of all, step back and take a few deep breaths. This is not rocket science, and stressing over it won't help at all and... 19. Common Sense Tips For Starting A Home Business - By: Michael Russell In this article I am going to go over the monumental task of setting up and running a home based business. With all the mounds of information and misinformation that's out there I am not going to beat this subject to death because it has already been through the ringer and rung out. There is very li... 20. All About Small Business Funding - By: Antony Eldwin Many of you have dream big, and want to turn them into reality. Quite a few of you don’t possess the knowledge about funding process that can help you do exactly that. What follows is some of must knows of funding for small business. Business Loan—Which One? Normally busi... 21. Unsecured Small Business Loan To People Who Want To Start From Scratch - By: Andrew Baker Some people get it all they do not have to work for it. The majority of people though have to make it happen through different means. The best way is that of through small business. With the availability of unsecured small business loan and governments full support it is a perfect way to... 22. Take Low Cost Finance Through Commercial Small Business Loan - By: Celeste Parker People, who do business on small scale, often are at the mercy of lenders in availing much required finance. Lenders see offering loan to these business persons as risky. This is because small scale businesses are generally labeled as unstable. These people can take resort in commercial ... 23. Successfully Obtaining A Small Business Loan - By: Rebecca Game Working with a bank to obtain a small business loan can be aneasy or difficult process, depending on how prepared you are tomeet with the lender and discuss your business' situation andneeds. One of the leading causes of business failure is insufficientstart-up capital. Ironically, thoug... 24. Strengthen Your Trading With Small Business Loans - By: Michael Brian Business requires apt flow of funds to function smoothly. Business yields profit and profit caters to the financial needs of business and this cycle follows on and on. But sometimes it happens that capital deficit arises due to some unexpected loss or any other reason. If you fail to arr... 25. Start With A Small Business Loan - By: Adam Smith Starting a small business? Having troubling finding financing?If you answered yes to the preceding questions don't getfrustrated. You are not alone. Fortunately, there is hope forfinding financing. 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