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Top 5 Leadership Problems in Small Business
- Posted: August 11, 2010 by Stacey Abler
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The leader of a small business is the person that the other employees look to for guidance and motivation. A weak leader can cause an entire business to collapse regardless of how strong the employees of the business are. Problems [...]
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Small Business Equipment Necessities
- Posted: August 4, 2010 by Stacey Abler
When setting up a small office, business owners must choose the equipment that will be necessary for the office to run efficiently. When the small business is new, it is important not to go overboard in buying every piece of equipment or the most expensive equipment that is on the market. Small business owners should [...]
How to Write a Business Plan: Financial Statements
- Posted: July 29, 2010 by Stacey Abler
We’re wrapping up the series on how to write a business plan. This last installment covers the financial statements part of the business plan.
If your business is brand new, this section of the business plan will include projections for the business. While these projections should be based on as much fact as possible, most [...]
How to Write a Business Plan: Marketing Strategy
- Posted: July 21, 2010 by Stacey Abler
The marketing strategy part of the business plan covers how the business will sell its products and services to its target markets. The marketing strategy should be well defined keeping in mind the overall marketing budget that the company has allotted towards the sales process.
Larger businesses may need to write a completely separate marketing [...]
How to Write a Business Plan: Market Analysis
- Posted: July 13, 2010 by Stacey Abler
The market analysis part of the business plan is one of the most time consuming parts of writing a business plan. This is because much of the information for this section of the plan is found outside of the company rather than inside. It requires research into your competitors and searching for information that may [...]
How to Write a Business Plan: Company Description
- Posted: July 1, 2010 by Stacey Abler
When you are writing a business plan, it is important to be able to accurately describe your company. This may also be an excellent place to develop a twenty to thirty second elevator pitch for your business. In an elevator pitch, you describe what your business does and how it out scores the competition in [...]
How to Write a Business Plan: Executive Summary
- Posted: June 30, 2010 by Stacey Abler
The business plan executive summary may be the first section of the plan but you should actually write it last. This is because it is a business plan summary and you can’t summarize what you haven’t written yet, now can you?
The business executive summary gives the reader a brief overview of the entire business plan. [...]
How to Write a Business Plan
- Posted: June 28, 2010 by Stacey Abler
A business plan or business marketing plan gives you guidance for your business. However, many business owners are overwhelmed when it comes to learning how to write a business plan. It is often helpful to break down it down into business plan sections.
In this first blog post about how to write a business plan, we [...]
Optimizing Your Website for Search Engines
- Posted: June 24, 2010 by Stacey Abler
In addition to using keywords in your articles, there are other areas of your website where you need to concentrate on inserting keywords. Follow these tips to make the search engines happy!
How to Use Meta Tags in SEO Articles
Make sure you are using the meta title, meta description and meta keywords for each page on [...]
How to Write Search Engine Optimized (SEO) Articles
- Posted: June 22, 2010 by Stacey Abler
In the last post about conducting keyword research, we identified two major keywords that we wanted to use for an article.
1. army wife
2. army information
In addition to this two keyword phrases, we should also include several other similar words. In this case, it may be “army wives”, “army spouses”, “army resources”, etc. Of course, you [...]