How Numbers Helped Save One Venerable Magazine

Among publishers, advertisers, and other business folk, the idea that Americans hate numbers is almost proverbial. One publishing-industry dictum holds that each equation an author puts in a book’s manuscript will cut that book’s sales in half. Pundits decry slipping American math scores, suggesting that such math illiteracy may indicate threats to future American dominance in business and industry. And, in business school, teachers warn their students against “data-dumping,”... Read more »

Moving My Business to Costa Rica

For a number of years I have been doing business in Costa Rica. I have established quite a few solid business contacts, a few personal friends and have found this small island country to be ripe for new business. There are many reasons to move a business to another country. The ease of doing business in countries unencumbered by rigid import and export regulations and tax laws are top reasons. I find that I will need to use corporate relocation services to move the whole company. Employees have... Read more »

Nevada Vs Wyoming, In Which State Should I Incorporate?

Like Nevada, Wyoming does not impose a state corporate income tax or other taxes. And like Nevada, the key is you must have nexus in the state of Wyoming in order to qualify for the tax savings, otherwise your Wyoming Corporation or LLC will need to register (or qualify) to do business in the state where you live and operate your business. This will negate any tax savings that Wyoming may have to offer. Even an Internet business must determine where nexus is created in the operation of their business.... Read more »

Guide To Effective Business Plan Layouts

Success in business comes as a result of planning. You have to have a detailed, written plan that shows you what the ultimate goal is, the reason for the goal, and each milestone that must be passed in order to reach your goal. A business plan is a written definition of, and an operational plan for achieving your goal. You need a complete business tool in order to define your basic product, income objectives and specific operating procedures. You have to have a business plan to attract investors,... Read more »

Backlinking To Build Your Online Business

Backlinking is an easy way to increase the number of visitors to your blog or website (and also increase search engine rankings). This is nothing more than having your site address listed on other websites generating traffic back to your site. Backlinking can be done in a number of ways. Following is a short list of ideas to get you started. Defining technically backlinks are the inbound links on the website. They are the links placed on other webpage?s and are directed towards your website, these... Read more »

Video Marketing Creates Free Website Traffic And Product Awareness

Video marketing is hot for your online business and for good reason. When compared to traditional sales messages, video is the hands-down winner for grabbing the reader?s attention. If your return on investment (ROI) is not converting enough cash, you need a stronger call-to-action. Adding video to your website may just be the shot in the arm your sagging sales need. There are many ways to use video on the Internet to market your practice. The first is adding video to your exisiting website and... Read more »

Planning For Financial Success

If you want to be financially free and rich, you may need to have a good financial success system and also possess a sound financial intelligence. Financial success eludes so many of us, just because we have been incapable of attaining it in the first place. Financial success is a painstakingly slow process, which takes years to achieve and access. Though there are plenty of opportunities to achieve financial success, most of us are simply not equipped to catch one of them to realize our financial... Read more »

Make Sure You Have a Strategy for Your Internet Business

Having a strategy for your Internet business means plotting out your ideas progress before you actually implement it. That may mean writing an outline of steps to take or creating a mind map of ideas you have to generate a profit for your business. An alternative for writing your own business plan is to find someone who has had success, and is willing to share their system or plan with you. They may charge you a flat fee or a monthly fee for access to their system, but consider it an investment... Read more »

My Advice on Day Care Center Planning

You might find, if you have your day care center business plan in order, that a church or labour union will sponsor your business, or even offer financial backing. Arranging some sort of partnership or sponsorship agreement with an established local organization will solve a lot of problems for you, not only in the area of space but in assistance with start-up costs and city-father approval. Incidentally, a day care center is perhaps the ideal business for absentee ownership or a group of professional... Read more »

Great Credit Counselling Business Strategy

It’s generally not worthwhile to advertise a credit counselling business on radio and TV, unless you do so, on a ‘per inquiry’ basis. After any free radio and TV talk shows, and newspaper feature stories about your business, the next best method of spreading the word about your business will be via the guest speaker route at civic club meetings. And don’t forget the women’s clubs. Your talk to these groups should be ’scripted’, simply explaining the alarming... Read more »