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Cost of Living as a Factor in Business Relocation
According to the United States Census Bureau, 40 million Americans move each year. There are no hard statistics on the number of businesses that relocate, but there is a growing trend towards businesses relocating outside of major metropolitan areas to cut costs for themselves and their employees.There are five main reasons why companies decide to relocate, according to economic development resear ...
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Disaster Planning for Small Business
No one knows just how many small businesses owners lost everything in Hurricane Katrina. No one knows how many will be able to come back from disaster. But the odds are that the ones who successfully rebuild there businesses will be the ones who had a disaster plan in place before the hurricane struck. A solid small business disaster plan has three components, protecting human resources, protectin ...
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Resources for Entrepreneurs
So, you've decided you want to start your own business. You have a novel product to sell or an expert service to deliver. You're sure of your abilities to produce products or deliver services. But you're a little intimidated by the other rolls you must learn as a small business owner: salesman, marketer, accountant, human resources manager an ...
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Where are the Facts About Outsourcing
Outsourcing of jobs to offshore companies has been a hot-button issue since the 1960s when the United States began losing automotive manufacturing jobs to Japan. In recent years, the outsourcing of technical jobs has revived the debate which became one of the top issues in the 2004 presidential campaign. However, actual facts and statistics about the effect of outsourcing on the American economy a ...
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Facts About Small Business
Everyone agrees on a broad level that small businesses are vital to the American economy. However, most people would be surprised to know just how important. The United States Small Business Administration keeps records and statistics on small business in the United States and some of their findings are surprising.First, the typical perception of a small business as a mom and pop operation with ju ...
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Making An Effective Business Plan
When it comes to success in a small business, planning properly is single-handedly the most important aspect to consider. In this article, we'll offer up some tips about how to manage your business as efficiently as possible.- First, you really need to take a step back and realize exactly what it is that you want to achieve through your business. The more definable your goals ...
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Getting Online
The Internet has recently celebrated its thirty-sixth anniversary. Originally designed around 1969 to allow the exchange of packets of bits between computers, it remained for a long time restricted to the exchange of scientific data between scientists and secure information within governments. Then electronic mail and bulletin boards became increasingly popular among those with access to it. Actua ...
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The New Billionaires
In its annual report on the biggest billionaires of our time, the authoritative Forbes magazine once again named Bill Gates as the richest man in the world with a net worth of $50 billion. This is the twelfth straight year that Gates has been accorded this honor. It may be true that Gates is less active in Microsoft these days, but the founding father of this mammoth corporation is still very much ...
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Investing in Business
The traditional concept of investing for most people involves buying stocks and shares, or investing in a company on some equity basis. Investing in business is one of the highest yielding yet most risky investment strategies you can take. Placing your money in the hands of other people is always going to be concerning, especially considering the ever-present risk of insolvency. ...
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