Biz Plan Hacks

Some people look at business planning as a means to an end. They just want to create a business plan in order to qualify for business loans, for example, and don't see it as being very useful beyo…

Beverly Malooley is the Director of Small Business and Development at Illinois Valley Community College. With years of experience as a retail business owner, a degree in business, as well as real-esta…

Are you about to present your business pitch to a group of investors?

This can be a very nerve wrecking time. Your pitch could potentially land you with an injection of cash for your business, whic…

Often your ideas will not go as you have planned it. It is important to create a business plan that also has a contingency in case anything does go wrong. If it is your first small business, you might…

How dependent are you?

If you haven't noticed, there were no postings on this blog for the last couple of days and this because my high speed internet service went down and was out for about 3…

There is a great article in the New York Times about specialty shoe stores and how things are beginning to change in the marketplace.

While I have said before that the newspaper takes the most pessim…

Do you know what your liability exposure is?

The Risky Business Blog recommends that you go through your place of business and find anything that might cause someone to get hurt, or to damage their …

Will your kids be running the company in the future?

The Small Business Trends website has six tips for getting children involved with the business. One of the positive things about the list is that…

What are the risks involved in your proposed business?

Do you have any idea what risks you will face as you open your business? The Babe of Business blog has a posting on some places you can search t…

Here is another example of how you as a small business can be ahead of the big competitors and it is happening to me right now.

I currently sit in the lobby of the hotel in Miami that am spending th…