Garage sales can be intimidating if you've never organized one before. Follow these 10 simple steps and you'll be on your way to having your own successful garage sale.
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By understanding the expected value concept, and making realistic assessments of your odds of success, you can make better decisions about how to allocate limited resources.
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Good management practices are far more important to your success than big piles of cash are. Here are a dozen tips to help you start and grow your business with little or no money.
Your financial statements may not make the bestseller list, but they do tell an intriguing story — at least to a banker. Unfortunately, the tale they tell may be misleading.
When potential customers decided to purchase products from lower-cost sources, one regional business decided to go luxury instead...with great results.
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10 Simple Steps To A Successful Garage Sale
Garage sales can be intimidating if you've never organized one before. Follow these 10 simple steps and you'll be on your way to having your own successful garage sale.
17 Resources to Improve Your Small Business
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Financial Benchmarking: How Do You Compare to Your Competitors
Benchmarking your performance against that of your competitors can propel you to greatness.
How Health Care Reform Will Impact Your Small Business
The new health insurance reform legislation adds both new requirements and perks for small businesses.
Expected Value: How to Play the Odds and Come Out Ahead
By understanding the expected value concept, and making realistic assessments of your odds of success, you can make better decisions about how to allocate limited resources.
Efficient Expense Reports: Building a System
As your business grows, you'll likely have other people paying money out. Tracking those expenses and, if need be, reimbursing them, requires a system that you can sign off on a
How to Think Like a Bootstrapper
Good management practices are far more important to your success than big piles of cash are. Here are a dozen tips to help you start and grow your business with little or no money.
How Bazaarvoice Beat the Odds
Austin has a thriving tech startup community, and there is perhaps no better representative of its unique entrepreneurial culture than Bazaarvoice.
12 Ways Your Financial Statements Tell Lenders the Wrong Story
Your financial statements may not make the bestseller list, but they do tell an intriguing story — at least to a banker. Unfortunately, the tale they tell may be misleading.
How to Become a Premier Local Brand
When potential customers decided to purchase products from lower-cost sources, one regional business decided to go luxury instead...with great results.
The Dilemma of Entrepreneurial Decision-Making
Are you the type who takes candy now or who holds out for cake? Learn why both decisions can be valuable, and how to figure out whether it's better to act now or wait.
Free Advertising: The Magic of Getting Media Attention
Think your business is too boring to snag journalists with a press release? Nope. With a little creativity, any business can get free advertising through PR.
5 Ways to Earn More Every Week
Pursue a few modest sales and marketing efforts each week and by year's end you'll enjoy a healthier bottom line.
Putting a Value on Conferences
Conventions and conferences are great for networking and boosting exposure. But are they good investments of time and money?
27 Real-Life Small Business Mistakes...and What They Learned
Do as these entrepreneurs say and not as they did to learn 27 common, and hard-earned, lessons the easy way.
How To Put An End To Cash Flow Surprises
You can't predict the future. Or can you?
Can You Survive a Double Dip Recession?
Five questions you should be asking before the double dip arrives.
56,000 Money Saving Ideas from Uncle Sam
Take a page from the White House and reward employees who come up with clever ways to save money.
Why Showing Your Customers The Love Is More Important Than The Sale
If you give your customers reasons to love you, they will. Here are six.