Archive for the ‘business resources’ Category

Angel Investing

If you’re a new business, you’ve probably struggled or are currently struggling with finances.

Lack of start-up capital can significantly impact a business in a whole host of ways and can often mean the difference between a runaway success and a dismal failure.  It’s critical to have experienced, professional personnel, a strategically located business location, and the equipment you need to make yourself a success.

But so often financing is the major stumbling…

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Ex-im business

If you are making the leap into the importing and/or exporting business, there are many things you need to take into account before gearing up in full force.  Some things you need to research are international trade regulations, how currency transfers from different countries, as well as how you will track everything.  Here is a quick reference to things you need to consider when going into business as an importer/exporter.

1. Translation of Product—When choosing a product it is

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Online business idea search

Looking for online business idea is not as difficult as you thought. Here is one, single idea that works over and over again for me: Spying on the Flippa marketplace listings.

I love being a spectator. Not because I am too afraid taking any actions on anything, but being a spectator allows me to have bird’s eyes vision on what’s going on right here, right now.

In online business, I enjoy being…

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Merchant services

Whether you run a retail store, restaurant, online business or any other businesses accepting credit cards as one of transaction means, choosing the right credit card merchant services is crucial and may affect your bottom line more than you think.

The key in choosing the right credit card processing partner is to compare, compare and compare. You need to have multiple options to allow you choose the most suitable credit card merchant account company.

What you should look

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Business valuation

Business valuations are one of the least understood tools for a business owner.  There are many reasons to perform a business valuation. These include but are not limited to buying a business, selling a business, financing expansion, estate planning, retirement planning, protecting owner income and equity, modifying ownership and unfortunately, owner divorce.

You should expect to pay over $3,000 for your valuation. Depending on your annual revenue and situation the fee could be closer to $10,000.  It is worth every…

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Google Ad Planner

Google Ad Planner helps website owners to expose their sites better to potential advertisers and help media planners to find the right sites to advertise in. Is it really a great tool or just another so-so tool from Google?

If you are a media planner, looking for websites relevant to your audience is a real challenge. Mis-targeting means a waste of money. Even if you do spot the right ones, how can you…

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Finding a micro niche

In any business endeavour you have today, you must understand one thing – Laser-targeting your potential clients means big business. If you are into online business, I have something I strongly recommend to you.

In many articles I have written on Noobpreneur.com, I always indicate that make money online / online business is the way to go today. Here in this article, I strongly suggest you once more to explore what the Internet can offer you.

Even…

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Marketing material

Ah, year end – a time to celebrate with family and friends. It is also the time for tax preparation and any other things related to your small business.

After working hard developing a powerful marketing plan that you are sure to dominate your niche, you should get your marketing material ready before the New Year. Why? Discounts, discounts and discounts.

Let us take discount printing offered by custom printing providers, for example.

We all know that…

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venture capital

Counted among the nation’s most powerful homegrown companies, AOL, FedEx, Intel and Apple all share another common bond: These multibillion-dollar companies each started thanks to venture capital fostered by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Today, each of those companies generates more than $30 billion in annual revenue. But in the early going, they all turned to small-business funding to get off the ground.

An injection of capital from a Small Business Investment Company fueled the rise of these…

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Cyber Monday shopping

Cyber Monday 2009 – The holiday shopping season continues after a slight improvement in year-on-year Black Friday sales. Again, benefit your small business from the Cyber Monday 2009 deals.

Black Friday 2009 results are in – This year Black Friday sales rises to $10.66 billion – only 0.5 percent year-to-year improvement from last year, as reported by Reuters and ShopperTrak.

The results are not really encouraging, but nevertheless an increase is an increase, indeed.…

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Green web hosting reviews

As almost everything is gearing toward the go-green movement, my most recent project is also involving the sustainable environment as the main driving factor: Green web hosting reviews site.

Please allow me to introduce another Noobpreneur-style project – Green Hosting Estate.

Green Hosting Estate is a site dedicated to the emerging green movement in Web Hosting industry. It contains green web hosting reviews, news and tips – and of course, an informative blog.

This green…

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