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

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suppliers, margins, and so forth). Do I have a good handle on my personal finances? You can do this via online resources like BrightPlan or Mint, or by printing out the past six months of statements from your bank accounts and credit card accounts. What’s your mission statement? Who are your target customers?

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How To Make This Recession Work For Your Small Home Business.

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If the supplier knows you are ready to buy for the right price they will cut you a deal. Promise to buy from one supplier for better payment terms, like 60 or 90 days. Lets says business was bad three months running, do your tips apply to non business related credit etc. Get better payment terms by negotiation.

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Small Business World News Round-up - 2009/11/17

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WinWeb’s UK Customers Can Save With MasterCard Business Savings : The credit card organisation MasterCard and Winweb have joined forces and bring a 10% saving to all WinWeb customers. Restructuring – a word used by BIG Business to lower cost, fire employees and squeeze suppliers. — ST.

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Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/12/15

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RBI draws flank from panel : The carte blanche given to private and foreign banks by the Reserve Bank of India to charge interest rates on credit cards at their whims and fancy has come in for severe criticism by the parliamentary standing committee on finance. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Small Business World News Round-up - 2009/11/03

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Small Businesses Faces Sharp Rise in Cost of Health Care : As Congress nears votes on legislation that would overhaul the health care system, many small businesses say they are facing the steepest rise in insurance premiums they have seen in recent years. Hit the plastic. — ST. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Small Business Failure – Reason: Funding | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

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Anyway here are the small business health check questions you need to ask yourself: What do I need the money for? Thanks Rob Smorfitt Said on September 2nd, 2007 at 9:13 pm Is a lack of finance not a symptom rather than the cause of SME failure. Is a lack of finance not due to poor planning, uncontrolled growth or a poor business?

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Small Business World News Round-up - 2009/11/10

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Small Business Crunches Numbers : Small business has fought the health-care bill as too costly. FPB and Accept Cards LTD help firms save money an merchant services : The FPB is helping small businesses cut adrift by the providers of credit card merchant services or struggling with the cost of processing card payments.

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