Biz Plan Hacks

Do you love to cook? Why not turn your passion for food into a business enterprise.

It's not hard to develop a reputation as a caterer working out of your own home. But it does require that …

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Born in Israel to a Greek father and Lebanese mother, Tom Gores is an American businessman and a self-made financier. He is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Platinum Equity whi…

Do you ever wish there was a computer program that could generate demand for your products or services? Well there is. It's called demand generation software, and it's fairly common and rel…

I saw a piece recently on a successful small business in Ocean City, Maryland: Ocean City Rentals. That would be the life – running our own business (and setting our own hours) in a beach resort to…

Prepaid credit cards have been a tool for managing personal finances for a long time. But do you think of prepaid credit cards as a business tool?

A lot of businesses have come to think of prepa…

Las Vegas is a city of mixed signals at the moment. Glitz and glamour. Showgirls and poker. And a construction industry reeling from the Bush Recession. More home foreclosures than any place in Ame…

What's the best franchise to get into?

I've seen a lot in the past year about how great franchises are. Lots of support for a new entrepreneur.

If I had to pick a franchise for me… …

Every business hits hard times. Tight cash flow can make you crazy. Money is the life blood of a business; when it stops flowing, things die…

So what do you do? In the business world you have opt…

My Wall Street Journal subscription is one of the luxuries of life that I get the most pleasure out of.

If you don't subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, it's easy to think of the paper …

Forgive the pun, but it seems Clear to me that the day has passed when you could hope to run most businesses without a good Internet connection. And the need for flexibility and mobility within an o…