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		<title>Questions You Need to Answer Before Starting a Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Martin</dc:creator>
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People are often so anxious to try out their idea for starting a business that they don&#8217;t think about what it really will take to fulfill their dream. Before you make the leap, sit down and do a self-assessment. Make a list of the things you love to do. It doesn’t matter what they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early Cash Flow – The Secret to Business Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Martin</dc:creator>
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Lots of new businesses fail because the owners don&#8217;t take into account how long it takes to start bringing in any money at all, let alone enough dough to keep themselves and their business going. Why does this happen?
The Problem – Too Much Time
 New and even experienced business owners often don&#8217;t realize that there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Sales Forecasting &#8211; A Useful Tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Martin</dc:creator>
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Want to know how your business is doing? Look at your sales. But for them to make any sense you need to have something to compare them to so you can measure how you are doing. That is where a sales forecast comes in.
Making a sales forecast isn&#8217;t hard, especially when you understand you don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Problems with Small Business Credit Cards</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Martin</dc:creator>
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Aleksandra Todorova has an interesting article at Entrepreneur.com talking about an unforeseen risk you face when you have a small business credit card.
You&#8217;ve probably seen the offers for small business credit cards. They often have attractive rates and terms, and have been a useful way for cash-strapped small businesses to  manage cash flow. But now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Succeed by Knowing Where to Focus</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Martin</dc:creator>
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Common sense says you can grow our business by looking for new markets and ideas. If you are struggling, then naturally you should look at the things that are going wrong or broken and fix them. Obvious, right?
Not so fast
Not necessarily so. Let&#8217;s look at the situation from the other side. What if instead of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solving Small Business Problems the Kaizen Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Martin</dc:creator>
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Running a business means you constantly run into all kinds of problems, both big and small, serious and time consuming, annoying and costly. The question is how do you tackle them? How do you know which ones to fix, ignore or band-aid over?
Kaizens Can Help
I learned about the power of the kaizen (rhymes with dry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Businesses Grow Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Martin</dc:creator>
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It used to be that having a home business meant that you sold something out of your garage or at flea markets, or maybe you had an office in your den where you sold insurance or did taxes. Times have changed, though. The SBA says there are now over 15 million home businesses in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enjoy Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Martin</dc:creator>
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Most of the articles and blogs I read deal with problems and troubles people have with starting and running their businesses. Or there are articles about how to improve yourself and how you work. Find ways to work harder, be bigger, grow faster. Change this, do that. Seems like the whole Internet is build around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s The Mission of a Mission Statement?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Martin</dc:creator>
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A mission statement is a handy thing to have for any type of small, home or micro business. Its job simply is to state what you are trying to do with your business. It looks at the here and now. It doesn&#8217;t get all dreamy eyed about hopes and aspirations, like a vision statement can. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Really Need a Vision for Your Small Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Martin</dc:creator>
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Business start-up coaches and experts tell us a small business needs to have a vision statement else it will be lost, without direction. With a vision statement a business owner has the a map for success which can inspire, energize and paint a bold picture of where to take the business in the future. Business [...]]]></description>
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