business race on a blue trackWe believe that there are 3 factors that determine the success of small businesses.

  1. The acquisition of seed
  2. Finding customers
  3. Accounting for, budgeting and controlling sales and expenses

The following resources will help your small business achieve these success factors.

The acquisition of seed

An adequate supply of capital is essential as many profitable businesses fail because they are not enough cash to pay their workers and suppliers. But what is an adequate supply of capital? The only way to tell is by doing a significant amount of research on your potential market and formally documenting this in a business plan. I’m sure you know that a business plan is a very important document that is crucial to convincing your banker to lend you money. There are two ways to obtain a business plan.

  1. Do it yourself
  2. Hire a professional to do for you.

Obviously obtain DIY will be a lot cheaper. Our research has led to a website that has more than 60 high quality and free business plan templates. We also found a folder that you can use to easily create a business plan writer in your city wherever you live in the world.

Customers find

Finding customers is a difficult and expensive task for business owners, services like accountants, lawyers and plumbers. We believe that a cost effective marketing strategy for service business owners is to simply give all their personal contacts a few business cards.

Our research has led to a few sites previously designed business card templates. We found that the diversity and quality of these designs was outstanding. Furthermore, we found that you can obtain a significant saving by finding a printing service on the Internet. We found that you could get 2000 full color business cards for just U.S. $ 150.

Accounting For, Budgeting and Controlling Revenue and Expenditure

Accurate accounting is very important for small businesses. It is essential that you have timely access to information that can make or break your business. If the stock low – you should know about. If a large proportion of your debtors have not paid – you should know about. If you do not respond to these situations quickly create a situation where you do not have enough money to pay your employees – or worse still someone to steal money from the cash register may have.

Our research has led to a site that compares and reviews top accounting software for small businesses. The cheapest software cost U.S. $ 89.99 and the most expensive software cost U.S. $ 1499. It was interesting to note that the top 3 ranked websites were not the most expensive and cost between U.S. $ 250 – U.S. $ 300.

Hopefully you now have an idea of some of the tools you can use to grow and maintain your small business. To take advantage of our research is available on our website. We do not charge for this research and offer the content freely on our website.

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Red cross haiti: Crooks discovered to take profit from Haiti’s Misery by trying to steal donations intended for the Haiti’s terrible earthquake victims. These dirt bag scammers are already using web sites and email to pass themselves off as well-known donation or charity organization to raise money for totally fictitious charities.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has found more than 4,000 bagus scam web sites and 60% of them are based overseas. Users are advised to make sure dollars reach at the right hand by contributing to the “Haiti Relief and Development” fund of the American Red Cross, Red cross haiti or visit Forbes magazine which identified and created links to 22 other major American charities that announced to be the real Haiti relief programs.

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34525Paypal had just released their application for Blackberry smartphone user. You can now send money to friends, family at almost anytime in the word. It has never been faster, easier and secured.

With the Paypal application run in Blackberry mobile phone, all you need to do is to log in, enter the amount of recipient’s phone number or email address, and send out the money, even in 23 different countries.

You can also choose to send money directly from your contact list with Paypal, and most of all, this application is free!

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intel_ftcThe Feaderal Trade Commision (FTC) is allerging a stifled competition in the microprocessor market towards Santa Clara, California based chipmaker, Intel.

“Intel has engaged in a deliberate campaign to hamstring competitive threats to its monopoly,” Richard A. Feinstein, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition, said in a press release. “It’s been running roughshod over the principles of fair play and the laws protecting competition on the merits. The Commission’s action today seeks to remedy the damage that Intel has done to competition, innovation, and, ultimately, the American consumer.”

From InformationWeek:

The FTC claimed Intel bullied computer manufacturers, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell, into using its chips in their systems instead of offerings from rivals such as Advanced Micro Devices. It also claimed Intel used a tactic known as restrictive dealing to prevent system builders from marketing non-Intel machines.

The FTC’s complaint further alleges that Intel redesigned its compiler software in a way that hampered the performance of competitors’ microchips.

Intel corporation however denied the claims and asserting that it was a completed faily and lawfully. The company called the FTC’s case misguided and Intel suggested that it was based on claims that had not been fully investigated yet. Intel added that, the case was not based on existing law, but the intention of new rule in conducting business regulations.

“This case could have, and should have, been settled. Settlement talks had progressed very far but stalled when the FTC insisted on unprecedented remedies – including the restrictions on lawful price competition and enforcement of intellectual property rights set forth in the complaint — that would make it impossible for Intel to conduct business,” Intel senior vice president and general counsel, Doug Melamed said in an Intel press release.

Meanwhile, according to a commission press release, the FTC is said to look in implementing provisions that may hinder Intel’s ability to encourage exclusive deals and price manipulation. From the FTC statement:

To remedy the anticompetitive damage alleged in the complaint, the FTC is seeking an order which includes provisions that would prevent Intel from using threats, bundled prices, or other offers to encourage exclusive deals, hamper competition, or unfairly manipulate the prices of its CPU or GPU chips. The FTC also may seek an order prohibiting Intel from unreasonably excluding or inhibiting the sale of competitive CPUs or GPUs, and prohibiting Intel from making or distributing products that impair the performance–or apparent performance–of non-Intel CPUs or GPUs.

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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 30 million Americans are jobless. But just because it does not work (or a lot of work), does not mean you are officially registered as unemployed in the dark, but funny video credits to this matter. Now look at this stunning graphical presentation of the way unemployment has risen over the past few years.

Is a district-by-county look like the spread of unemployment in every corner of the country, from January 2007 to October 2009. In October, the national unemployment rate peaked at 10.2% – the first time it has been in double digits since 1983. Although decreased to 10.0% in November, and most economists expect unemployment remains well above 9% in most of the year 2010.

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