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Author :: Robert Berman  |
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| Article Title :: New Opportunity For Vending Cart Operators! |
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| It is not often that new markets just appear in any industry and in the food industry - it is unheard of. A new, quite lucrative, market is opening for vending cart operators and surprisingly it is a market that does not require any additional investment in capital equipment.Historically the basic operating methodology for a vending cart operator has been to identify a location that day in and day out had heavy pedestrian or vehicular (providing a parking location is readily available) traffic, set-up their cart and wait for their first customer to stop and buy something. Location has always been the primary key to success.The new blossoming market for vending cart operato (read full article) |
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Author :: W. Dave Free |
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| Article Title :: Small businesses main problem? They need more customers. |
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| In September of 2005 our company sponsored a survey of small businesses in the service areas. The purpose of the survey was to ask the business owners, many of them franchise owners, what their significant business hurdles were. The key areas of the survey were customers, growth, technology and research, and employees. You can see the complete results at http://seedsofgrowth.com/service-business-owner-survey-results-fall-2005.
There are many things to be learned by studying the results that you can see here, and I hope you'll find them interesting and helpful. It will probably come as no surprise that the common problems facing service businesses are:
1. Finding new (read full article) |
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Author :: Peter Alderton |
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| Article Title :: Used Vending Machines – Cut Down On Your Initial Investment |
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| When buying used vending machines, the best ones to buy are the ones that are 100% metal. When you see a used vending machine on sale, the price is usually a lot lower than if you purchased it new, which is a great way to get started in the vending machine business. If you are looking for a home business that you can work on your own time and for which you don’t need to hire staff, then take a look at some of the used vending machines that are available.
You have to be careful when buying used vending machines. This is because the coin receptacle doesn’t usually get replaced if the currency changes, such as dollar bills being changed to coins. This is something that you do (read full article) |
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Author :: Leanne Hoagland-Smith |
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| Article Title :: Coaching Your Business To The Next Level Series Part 5 – Work Your Plan |
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| What continues to vex most small business owners, executives and entrepreneurs is taking action or implementation. Planning is a good thing much like the well known expression "Knowledge is Power," but implementation is the next level. For without applied knowledge or working the plan, very little focused and forward progress is made toward the desired results or goals.Work Your PlanMistake: Pay for a strategic plan and leave it on a shelf or in a desk drawer. A plan’s purpose is action. Without action, the plan is useless and the dollars along with the other resources of time and energy invested in creating the plan are wasted.As a sma (read full article) |
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| Category :: Small Business Articles |
Author :: Leanne Hoagland-Smith |
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| Article Title :: Coaching Your Business To The Next Level Series Part 6 - Invest in Your People |
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| Many companies say their people are number one. Yet, looking at the surveys and the actual dollars spent in training and development ($1,500 nationally per person in late 1990's), there appears to be a gap between the desire and reality.Invest In Your PeopleMistake: Spending dollars on things such as technology and not people. People make the business. They create the loyal customers or disloyal ones. Employees don’t come to work thinking how they can mess up the company. Invest in people development and watch your investment quickly multiply.People development is critical now more than ever given that we are in a knowledge base economy. (read full article) |
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| Category :: Small Business Articles |
Author :: Michael Lindley |
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| Article Title :: Maze or Bagatelle? Do you need Online Navigation Buttons? |
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| This content should provoke you into reviewing your online visitor navigation if you are marketing just a few products.If you are actively marketing to find your perfect customer (Niche Marketing) your primary information must link into your contact's main interest, like two entwined horse-shoe magnets.Now you've attracted your potential customer, does your business operate inside a maze system or a bagatelle?Let's consider your online site, with different pages with different showcases. In comes a visitor to enquire about your high energy food for rocking horses. Thrust a catalogue into the hand and allow your browsing visitor to wander the reception (home page) and (read full article) |
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| Category :: Small Business Articles |
Author :: Judy May |
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| Article Title :: Converting Consultations into New Business! |
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| First, I find that too many design professionals display a lack of confidence. Notice I said “display” a lack of confidence. You may feel that you ARE confident and, in fact, you very well may be. However, you may not realize how your body language, facial expression, the tone of your voice, etc. is “coming off” to prospective clients. Remember: a person’s perception is that person’s reality. Put another way, if someone perceives your actions, speech and mannerisms as lacking confidence, that is what they will think of you – regardless of whether their perception of you is true or not. Their perception of you IS true for THEM.Before you get out of your car to g (read full article) |
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| Category :: Small Business Articles |
Author :: Sean D'Souza |
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| Article Title :: Endless Customers: Sobering Lessons from Harvard University |
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| I stopped. I stared.Something in the display window caught my eye.
There was a picture of Muhammad Ali swinging his
fists and grimacing like only Ali can. But it wasn't
so much the picture that caught my attention.
It was the words.Here's what the words said:
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Impossible is just a big word thrown around by
small men Who find it easier to live in the world
they've been given than to explore the power they
have to change it.Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion.
It's not a declaration. It's a dare.Impossible is potential.
Impossible is temporary.
Impossible is nothing.
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Do you b (read full article) |
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| Category :: Small Business Articles |
Author :: Colby Callahan |
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| Article Title :: A True Net Operating Income |
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| It is not uncommon for owners to under-report income and over-report expenses. This is especially true when it comes to filing taxes. The net operating income number is the key number in multifamily investments. This number is used to determine value, profitability, and overall strength of the multifamily unit.Net operating income is the gross income less the operating expenses. Depreciation and mortgage interest are not considered in the calculation. A different calculation will be used with consideration to proposed mortgage payments to determine a maximum loan size. This called a “Debt Service Coverage Ratio” calculation.It is typical of the industry to consider (read full article) |
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| Category :: Small Business Articles |
Author :: Brian Turner |
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| Article Title :: Introducing Small Office Equipment |
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| There are core types of office equipment available for the small business - each type is intended to make your job easier.This short article is intended to introduce you to some of the main types of office equipment, so that you can make a purchasing decision on them:Paper ShreddersPaper shredders are used to destroy paper documents, usually using one of two major methods of shredding.The main reason for shredding paper is to prevent confidential information being retrieved and stolen, such as business operations information. This has made paper shredders relatively common in business use.Fax MachinesA fax machine (read full article) |
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