Category: Small Businesses

Factors to Consider Before Starting A Small-Scale Business

Real easy to start a business. Register your business name at the Companies Commission of Malaysia known as SSM and in about 45 minutes, you already have a business. However, a short business registration process…

Selling Ads in the West Point Bugle Notes – How Email Marketing Turned Annual Dread to Delight

I’ve been selling ads for the famous annual military book, the West Point Bugle Notes, for at least 16 years (that’s since 1995 or before). Selling ads for this publication has been a thorn in…

Importance Of Translation And Interpreter Services On Business Trips

In today’s globalized economy, one cannot down play the significance of translation services during overseas trips. To make your business trip a success you need to communicate with your potential customers in their own language.…

Why is Good Employee Communication So Important During an Economic Downturn?

Maintain staff productivity No news is definitely not good news from an employee communications perspective. October 2008 research from Weber Shandwick showed that 71% of people felt that their company should be communicating more about…

The Importance of Digital Marketing

In today’s economy, it is easy to justify making cutbacks. With so many companies hard up for cash, finding areas to cut corners seems like the right approach. Statistics show that when companies look to…

Tax HELP For Independent Contractors

Entrepreneurs and self-employed people who want to maximize their income tax deductions would do well to remember the acronym HELP at tax time. It stands for Home Office + Equipment + Logbook + Postage, four…

Understanding the Importance of Quality in Manufacturing and Services

Why it should be foremost given the current political atmosphere. It’s something that’s heard all the time now: “They don’t make ’em like they used to” or “Another product made outside of the United States.”…

The Importance of Import and Export

No matter how rich a country is, how small or big it is, no nation is self-sufficient. It will never be totally independent from the rest and have everything it needs. Every country, no matter…

The Importance of Market Research in Repairing the World Economy, BRIC by BRIC

We all know about the BRIC countries, Brazil, Russia, India and China. These countries are widely regarded as a one way ticket to prosperity, in a world where most of the G8 have taken multiple…

Eight Steps To The Next Level – The Business Plan, "The Engine of Small Business Development"

This is the second of a series of articles describing how small business owners and managers can drive their business growth and profitable development through the creation and implementation of a business plan. I know…