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How to Know If You’re Financially Ready to Start a Business

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How would you describe your product or service offering? suppliers, margins, and so forth). After all, without cash flow and a solid financial plan that includes costs and expenses, you won’t be able to get your business off the ground. Either way, go through your bills and determine where you can cut personal expenses.

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Tackling Business Strategy: 6 Tenets of Building a Scalable Brand

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It only takes you a couple of hours per day, but your product is great. But they are time-consuming and expensive. Revisiting our example of Emma’s Dog Treats, pet health and happiness should be key in her values media. Her brand also reflects values of pet love, health and well-being. Now, you bake twice as many treats.

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Top 5 Tips on Building a 6 Month Cash Reserve

The Small Business Blog

Add up all your monthly expenses so you can estimate how much money you will have left each month. The best tip from my point of view would be to avoid unnecessary expenses. Then try and remove or refinance the most expensive lending. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name.

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Reducing Overheads Can Save A Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Shop around : Make sure you are getting the best deals from all you suppliers- right down to your electricity, broadband and gas bills. If your business has an inventory make sure you source the best suppliers at the right price, and don’t be afraid to haggle ! Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name.

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Top 5 Basic Advertising Tips

The Small Business Blog

Try to focus on the benefits of what your product can do for the buyer, rather than its features. Learn everything you can about your competition, their products and how they advertise. Web development as well can be pretty expensive. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name.

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Small Business News World Round-up – 2009/12/08

The Small Business Blog

Senate bill won’t change small biz premiums: The Congressional Budget Office predicts the Senate health care reform bill would provide better, but more expensive, coverage in the individual insurance market, while having little impact on premiums for employer-based coverage. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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How Working From Home Can Work For You

The Small Business Blog

While your competitors have to pay out for expensive office space that they don’t need as clients dry up, your business can continue to thrive. An ideal example of people in this category are parents, childcare is hugely expensive and allowing people the flexibility to work from home means you can gain the staff others are missing out on!

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