Archives for the ‘Business’ Category

Use a separate phone number

By Chad • Mar 17th, 2008 • Category: Business, Daily Life

If you are doing business from home or use your cell phone for both business and personal calls, consider getting at least a separate number to use for business purposes.
You may be doing business from home, but you want to give callers the impression you are hard at work somewhere in an office. Nothing [...]



Get a custom e-mail address

By Chad • Mar 8th, 2008 • Category: Business, Daily Life

One of the easiest ways you can boost your small business’s image is to get a custom e-mail address for your business.
Many people take the first step and register a domain for their small business, for example janesdaycare.com for Jane’s Daycare, however they continue to use their home e-mail address or a free service for [...]



Why Small Businesses Fail

By Chad • Feb 17th, 2008 • Category: Business

According to a report recently given to the President by the Small Business Administration,
In any given year, about 7 percent of the working age population in the United States is actively engaged in efforts to start a business.
This 7% equates to approximately 10.2 million Americans that have the desire to start a new business. [...]



Understand your business goal

By Chad • Feb 16th, 2008 • Category: Business

In the same manner of knowing the ins and outs of your business idea, you should also make sure you understand your business’s goal. A business goal is similar to the business idea, but is different because it is what you want to accomplish with the business idea.
For example: I recently spoke with someone [...]