Business Trends

STOP Prejudging! Again, STOP Prejudging. 95% of people in direct sales and marketing fail, and here’s the reason why. They “Prejudge” their Prospects and change their presentations to better fit that particular prospect.

Here are just a few ways to increase and diversify your income from your consulting business. 1. Sell More Services to Your Existing Clients Instead of spending all that time and money trying to get new business, why not try to sell more services to your existing client base? If you are an accounting and tax consulting firm, for example, you likely have clients who need some assistance in their record keeping and documentation. In addition to your year-end tax servic...

Businesses are everywhere. They are the units that perform most of the economic activity in our economy. Most businesses exist to generate a profit.

No matter how big or small your business, there are things that an owner should do to make his business grow. At one time or another, every business owner has stayed awake at night and said, "What do I do now." For some reason, things aren't going as well as you think that they should.

Prices are going up, up, up and just about everybody is needing a little extra cash these days. This is probably the best time ever for you to own your own small business. Now before you start thinking you'll have to get a bank loan, remember that you can own a small home-based business for just a few dollars--or even FREE. You can easily run your home business from your kitchen table and, frankly, you can finance your business from a few bucks you save out of the groce...

Many businesses both large and small use toll free or 800 phone service to deliver a better customer experience. Although these toll free services are used more on the sales side for ordering, some businesses, in the interest of better customer support also provide toll free contact for support and warranty issues also.

Preparing a business plan is the most important part of starting a business. So much rests on the business plan, from financing to suppliers. A business plan shows that you are prepared, educated, and dedicated to your business. A good business plan will define what your business is about, where you expect it to go in the future and how you will get there. The following outline the essentials of a good business plan. 1. Executive Summary - This explains about everything th...

Business franchise refers to the arrangement entered upon by the owner of a certain business with another party who is interested in running same business under its name.

Picking up office cleaning contracts is very easy to do, but only if you understand how. Below you will see some ways of generating more office cleaning contracts for your office cleaning business, or janitorial company.

Let’s analyze how these common vices can affect your business and your overall income. You may think that the concept of deadly sins is a religious one and do not apply to you, but you may call them negative tendencies if you want. The fact is that you can find them in more or less intensity within most people.