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I agree with what billbenson posted. Use what you think is a disadvantage and turn it into an advantage and a point of differentiation from your competitors. Older people, specially in your line of...

Local Marketing or Guerrilla Marketing. Each feature less conventional, more cost efficient, ways to market your business. Depending on your business, these might be more productive than traditional...

Thanks for the info. Good stuff!

Just about every small business owner has been in your situation. Here is my opinion. Marketing solves most problems... but if your shelves are not full (almost overflowing) with merchandise, then...

Accounting, Accounting, Accounting! I thought Quickbooks would make it easier but a good CPA is well worth the money.

My vote is for Amazon too. Just like others I use Godaddy for domain names. Their web hosting leaves much to be desired. AWS is much better, faster, more reliable... but not very user friendly. Kind...

Comedy sure gets your video passed around but not sure it gets the product name to stick in the minds of the consumer all the time. All the same... still funny videos.

If you decide to move forward I would go to LegalZoom.com and create an LLC. It's only like $99 or close and put all your business interests under that name.

Hi Sean,

Prizm is an excellent tool as noted above by Meg. Another way to gauge interest might be to promote a post in Facebook and drill down your market niche to your local area to see how many...

It's a really wide subject that's going to be different depending on each business.
Are you talking about reducing operating costs? Outsourcing customer service? Communications? Hardware and...

Cost reduction is important to everyone. Business or not.
But not everything is about cost.

Thanks for the input Harold. I guess I should have clarified a bit more. Reduce costs WITHOUT reducing...

I have been writing about small business marketing and internet marketing for several years now at Gregg Zban and I would like to create an information product to sell.

While a marketing product...

There are some people who just aren't worth doing business with. If they take up too much of your time for the money you are making bump their project down the "importance" scale and don't worry...

I would bundle a FREE ice cream product with a purchase of a coke or something similar that kids usally buy. Even if you break even on the sale you will most likely git rid of the vendor pretty fast...

Have you tried your local SBA? They offer free advice on all things business.

I agree with DavidDeke. Check out SBA. They can be a huge asset when first starting out. Also, you can create an LLC through a local attorney for about $600 to $700 or you can create it through...

Hi James,

Good to have you here.

I have used PayPal for years because you have access to the money instantly. You don't have to wait a day or two like most payment processing companies. That being said, I have done a good bit of...

I've used MediaFire and DropBox. I prefer DropBox

It the chicken and the egg scenario. You need clients to show work and you need to show work to get clients.

Here is my idea as a work around.

1) Pick niche (chiropractors/ attorneys/...

Haha... point well made!

Just came upon this forum a couple days ago and it looks very informative.

I have been self employed for several years and prior to that had long stints in the beverage and furniture industries. ...

A lot of great points here, but I think the most important part of a business plan is clearly identifying who you are going to market to. Most small businesses fail because they try to be all things...

I might try small "test amounts" of Google Adwords but don't open it up all the way until you find out what works and what doesn't or you will just be throwing your money away. The same thing with...

I agree with Business Attorney in that most vendors are net 15 at minimum, with net 30 or 45 being more common so I doubt any monies given to the seller as a deposit have been paid to the vendors....