Starting A Business: Choosing a Business Structure for Your New Company

This post continues the series on Starting A Business. This installment deals with choosing a business structure for the formation of your new company. Choosing the right business structure for your personal situation is one of the first decisions you will have to make when you start a business. Just like daughters are different than […]

Starting A Business: Naming Your New Business

Having done both (more than once), I am going to make the argument that choosing a name for your business is even more difficult than choosing a name for your child. While you don’t have to factor in things like people in your past that had that name, in-laws, and what will happen to your […]

Knowing When To Cut Your Losses and Stop Building A New Business

I know it has been a couple months since I posted anything, but I am back. In the two long months since my last posting, I have learned many new lessons and re-learned a few old ones. In the coming posts, I plan to share a lot of what I have learned. You will also […]

The Best Home Based Business Ideas Come From Identifying, Then Filling A WANT

Ready, Fire, Aim! This is how most people start a home based business. This is how most people start any business; how most companies launch a product. This is how I did things when I first started along my entrepreneurial path, and let me tell you, it is one of the most expensive and important […]

5 Ways To Guarantee Your New Business Will Fail

Here are five things you can do get off to a bad start, waste your time and money, and frustrate yourself in your quest for financial and career independence. 1. Forget About Niching Down Whether you are starting an online venture or a real world, brick-and-mortar business, it is very important to find your niche. […]