Archive for the 'Business Start Up' Category

Robert Stephens is interviewed at the Wall Street Journal online. He’s wildly successful now. You can see his company’s vans parked outside 1000 Best Buy stores when they’re not on the road servicing customers. But he wasn’t always successful to say the least. He started the company with a couple of hundred dollars and got [...]

Recently we received an inquiry about the Field Inspection business. Here’s our reply: Many people are interested in Field Inspection as a possible business opportunity. In answer to your question, “Yes” Field Inspection is a “real” or “legitimate” business. Field inspection generate cash by paying the inspector a small fee per inspection. These inspections may [...]

I’ve been in the home based business field for about 15 years give or take. When I was trying to sell financial products to people, I realized most of the people I saw didn’t have money to put into these products. If they were going to do it, it would be through a payroll deduction [...]

“Start A Home Based Food Business” is a title I ran across at Amazon recently and I thought I’d comment on it. Of course the main start up cost is the capital investment of a professional kitchen space that will pass local health ordinances. It might cost $10,000 but it may be more or less [...]

Here’s the question I got today: “How do I become a private investigator? I heard I had to be a lawyer?” Answer: If you had to be a lawyer, there wouldn’t be many. And lawyers make better money than private investigators on average, so why would they waste their time? To find out what you [...]

Do you think your town is too small to support your business? Think again. It may be you just lack the vision and the necessary information. Check out this article from the Sirolli Institute: Rural counties persevere despite low population Lack of a soda machine helped inspire Regina Calderwood to open new businesses for her [...]

Did you hear the news? Retailers Launch Their Own Stimulus Packages For some, this could be the right time to launch a business. What strikes me as the most interesting about the article is this note about Sam’s Clubs – Sam’s began testing the program in May and will soon start marketing S.B.A. loans of [...]

How do you know if you should start a tutoring business? 1. Is your area’s economy fairly resilient? Poor people don’t pay for paid tutors. 2. Do a significant number of people in your area value higher education? Dumb people don’t want paid tutors. 3. Are there a significant number of universities nearby? Athletes often [...]

How To Determine If Your Online Business Has A Chance Of Success Well, if you’re already DOING business online, the first key is to ask if you’re making more money than you’re spending. The second thing to check is, after expenses, is that money enough to make a difference in your life? In MLM, as [...]

Usually the problem with work at home businesses is isolation, lack of resources, inability to achieve “economies of scale”,etc. Yesterday, someone lead me to check out this entry at Wikipedia on the Mondragon Corporation. It’s like no “corporation” you’re used to hearing about. Started in 1956 with 5 employee owners, in under 50 years, quite [...]