Home and Small Business

How to Start a Profitable Home-Based Business

In these days, it's becoming increasingly difficult to make ends meet with just one source of income. Thus, more and more people are investigating the possibilities of starting their own extra-income business.

How to Succeed in Time Management

When you first begin your business, everything is fine and dandy. It's like bringing home the new baby from the hospital. Everyone visits to see the new baby. Everyone thinks the baby is cute and wants to hold it.

Incorporating a Small Business

Prepared by the Office of the General Counsel U.S. Small Business Administration

Inspiration for an Entrepreneur

It is only natural that when you start a business, you are doing something different than most people.

Legalities & Tax Advantages in a Home Business

Every year, several thousand people develop an interest in "going into business." Many of these people have an idea, a product or a service they hope to promote into an in come producing business which they can operate from their own homes.

Making Time for the Family

When you first begin your business, everything is fine and dandy. It's like bringing home the new baby from the hospital. Everyone visits to see the new baby. Everyone thinks the baby is cute and wants to hold it. Everyone "oohs" and "aahs".

Managing You 1-800 Toll-Free Service

Aside from cost, or the fact that having an outside answer you business calls, there are some smart rules regarding 800-lines and how you should handle them.

Managing Your Time Between Work & Home

When you first begin your business, everything is fine and dandy. It's like bringing home the new baby from the hospital. Everyone visits to see the new baby. Everyone thinks the baby is cute and wants to hold it.

Mini-Offices: Home for Start-Ups

The primary reason businesses start at home, or with a meager P.O. Box is because, renting an office can be very expensive.

Outwitting Bad-Check Passers

Time was when a man's word was as good as his bond. But nowadays, even the signatures of many persons are worthless - especially to retailers who are stuck with bad checks.

Overcoming Start-Up Blues

Most small business owners who have managed to survive the proverbial first 2 years in business probably started out thinking mail order was an easy business to get into.

Own Your Own Million Dollar Corporation in as Little as 4 Weeks

Here again, it is helpful to form your corporation in Delaware. In this state the law allows you to assign any "par-value" to your stock as you like - even though there are no assets to back up your valuation.

Secrets to Successfully Starting Your Own Business

The American Dream is, and always will be, to come up with an idea, start a business and become rich from your own efforts.

Selecting the Right Business Name

Ask 500 people already in business how they decided upon their business name and you will get 500 different answers. Everyone has a story behind how they chose their own business name.

Should You Offer Easy-Payment Plans to Your Customers?

On two different occasions, I attempted to try and offer a Graphico Credit Account to my customers.

Starting an at-Home Big Money Business

When you start a business, like any venture in life, you want it to have the best chance for success. Starting one from your home has unique advantages.

Starting and Managing a Business from Your Home

The cottage industry, an old-fashioned enterprise, is enjoying a revival so strong that it's difficult to find out just how many Americans are now working at home. Estimates range from two to five million and the numbers may double by 1990.

Survival Tips for Small Businesses

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.

Tax Tips For Investors & Entrepreneurs

Tax Tips For Investors & Entrepreneurs

The ABC's of Borrowing

Some small business persons cannot understand why a lending institution refused to lend them money. Others have no trouble getting funds, but they are surprised to find strings attached to their loans.

The Business-Residence

A few years ago there were millions of "mom & pop" businesses across the country. Not a few of them were stores with living quarters attached. There were stores along the highway with houses in back and on city streets with apartments upstairs.

The Disadvantage of Too Much Credit

Of the many business myths which have bad advice associated with them, one of the most prominent has to do with Credit Cards. In fact, it used to be advised that it was good to have a lot of credit cards and to carry a balance on almost all of them.

The Risk of Reality

Do you still believe in magic? Do you think you can pay $24.95 for a mail order program and make $5,000 within 30 days? Do you think you can open a business today and quit your job in 2 weeks?

Tips For Handling Business Phone Calls

Often times, we overlook the power of the telephone. There have been many times when I left the answering machine on to screen my calls. But I discovered that most people don't like to leave a message.