Archive for the 'Business Start Up' Category

I was telling someone a few weeks ago, I needed to ramp up my online work in 2010. I’d had some distractions last year and I wanted to do better this year. I’ve talked about that in some previous blog posts like the one “So What’s Your Plan for 2010″ So since then, I’ve taken [...]

Fox Business reported yesterday that the IRS is planning to regulate tax preparers. This is an interesting bit of news for several reasons. For one, tax preparation has always been a field that allowed for relatively easy entry, especially since would be tax preparers could purchase packaged software and open shop. But on the cynical [...]

Time Magazine asks: Can MicroFinance Make It In America? World wide, micro finance is lifting many people from poverty to at least a level of self-sufficiency. These small loans have created a wave of home based businesses across the globe. These business loans provide funds for people working at home to sell simple things – eggs, [...]

So much of the incentive and discussion to start your own work at home business is centered on what you lack. You lack money. You lack time with your children. You lack freedom. You lack enjoyment in your “day job”. You lack a Ferrari or other adult toy. You lack freedom from debt. The solution [...]

Here are the hottest research topics in 2009 from the Kauffman Foundation. Perhaps they’re questions you had about entrepreneurship too? In 2009, some of the most in-demand reports from the Kauffman Foundation were: Where Will the Jobs Come From? showed that newly created and young companies are the primary drivers of job creation in the [...]

If you’re trying to raise start up capital, you want to run a local recycling business, or you want to help fund a local charity, it’s possible to do just that when you sell cell phones for cash! Whether you’re an individual, small business or charity, Gazelle (affiliate link) is a leading provider of cash [...]

Over the past few years, we have heard many small business owners talk about their need for small business loans. These are loans that they need in order to obtain credit, get out of debt, buy new equipment, new marketing and advertising and more. However, the problem that most small business owners have is not [...]

Sure, it’s attractive to day dream about freelancing. It seems you have a client or two lined up, you think about keeping all of what your company charges for your hourly work. You think… “why not keep it all myself?” You run some numbers. It seems to make sense. But before you leap, here are [...]

Business Pundit takes on the “10 Insidious Lies about the Internet Lifestyle”, though there’s an important disclaimer at the end. Here are the “lies” they enumerate with my comments: 1. “The Internet” Can Make You Money The Internet is just a medium. It can connect you with a customer allowing you to make money, just [...]

A New Study claims to have discovered the “secret” of being a successful entrepreneur. It’s from the Kauffman Foundation a resource I trust on the matter. In other words, the successful entrepreneurs built on what they already possessed or had acquired through life experience, work experience, and combined it with a willingness to take a [...]