BizOp Blogs

Many small business owners face the dilemma of adding employees to their payroll versus contracting the job with an outside source. It is an important decision, and one which should be made only after weighing all of the factors on both sides. Darrell Zahorsky wrote a good article posing the pros and... More

Boston Herald: Vinod Bagdwal, who started bagging ice by hand in a garage in Pennsylvania three years ago, recently started selling bagged ice to Stop & Shop Supermarkets because he showed up at a trade show looking for customers. In an age where the Internet has made it easier to reach vast numbers... More

1. What is your brand’s vision? 2. What are the good attributes of your brand (or company, or product, or service)? 3. What are the practical benefits associated with your brand? 4. What are the bad aspects of your brand, and how can you fix them? 5. What emotions are behind customer purchases... More

Temp 24-7: You may be in Mail Order, Direct Mail, or you may be a local merchant with 150 employees; whichever, however or whatever – you’ve got to know how to keep your business alive during economic recessions. Anytime the cash flow in a business, large or small, starts to tighten up, the... More

Andrew Grant: One of the greatest benefits that comes from technology is that the cost of communicating with your customers and prospects keeps getting lower and the number of opportunities to interact with them keeps increasing. E-mail and websites are an incredibly cheap resource and once you have... More

PR Web: David Neagle, known as the Master of Success, is changing lives every day – and selling out seminar seats worth $4000 a piece. But now he’s hosting a one day event in Baltimore on June 7, 2008 – for free – to share his valuable wealth and success generation secrets to... More

BizThreads: When you planned to start your small business, you probably set up some expectations as to what you could achieve in a particular period time. Here are some ways to ensure that you get what you want from your best-laid plans. * Draw Up A Time-Based Business Plan. Until you have a business... More

Novice Affiliate Marketing Blog: Unfortunately we live in a world that sometimes discriminates against females in the business world, and sometimes even in social settings. Women are often overlooked for being strong and successful in their specific career fields and have been dismissed from their posts... More

You’ve heard it! You may have even said it a few times–”If you want anything done right, you have to do it yourself.” While that philosophy may hold some truth, there is also a large dose of poison in it for small business owners. Most small business owners have arrived where... More

Here are some really good questions to ask yourself from Chris Cardell– The following are 30 questions that will immediately pinpoint where your business is doing well – and where you can take action that will produce rapid results. These are the questions that I ask my clients – and my experience... More

Kansas City Star: Award-winning Bo Lings Fine Chinese Cuisine, with about 150 employees at six area restaurants, has mastered the art of Chinese cooking. But owners Richard and Theresa Ng have found that operating the business can sometimes present stressful challenges. Last year, for example, the Ngs... More

In a CNNmoney.com article, Herman Wong is answering a question posed by a small construction business owner who wanted to know how to attract new customers and make more profit. Here is some of what he says: About 80,000 companies vie for their morsel of the $450 billion U.S. commercial construction... More

TheStreet.com: From January through March, the U.S. Department of Labor says businesses have cut an estimated 232,000 jobs. Over the past 12 months, the retail industry has shed roughly 107,000 jobs. For a business owner trying to stay afloat, these numbers sound grim – it’s no fun swinging... More

I have cited articles from Chris Cardell in the past. Cardell is a world leader in Advanced Thinking and is renowned for being able to show small and medium sized businesses how to increase their profits by 100-300% using powerful, proven strategies. Here iswhat he says about motivations in business... More