What Best-Kept Secrets Small Business Can Learn from the Best Companies
Over at Business 2.0, an article titled “Best-kept secrets of the world’s best companies” shows just how big business goes through the trials and tribulations of getting to their “big and successful” stage - remembering that every big business was once a small business looking to find their feet.
Not even the most successful companies in the world are managed by the book. Great management formulas aren’t handed down on stone tablets, or found in the writings or speeches of gurus and consultants. They emerge from years of experimentation, trial and error, regime change, reorganizations, crises, and employee suggestions.
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(via DuctTapeMarketing)
What is the Meaning of Business?
Recruiting.com poses the question, what is the meaning of business, and once again all the good stuff is in the comments…
Successful businesses are successful because they focus on cash flow and profit. They do this by solving their customers’ problems. Most self-made, successful business people got this way by solving their customers’ problems
Another commenter…
Peter Drucker said that the purpose of business is to create a customer. Yes he added that if you don’t make a profit you are wasting society’e resources. But ultimately the purpose of a business should be finding, keeping, and growing customers.
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(via BusinessPundit.com)
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Accepting Credit Cards
BizCradle (a Know More Media blog) discusses the complexities surrounding accepting credit cards in your small business.
There are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of third-party credit card processing companies in existence. What a maze going through and trying to compare them!
The article goes into quite detail explaining some of the potential fees involved in obtaining merchant facilities.
Read the BizCradle article in full…
Is Your WiFi Secure?
eCommerceTimes reports on the huge growth in wireless networks (WiFi) in the home but they also warn of the gaping security hole many have left themesleves open to…
Some 25 million households in the nation have a wireless network, and that number is growing. So, too, is the number of home networks without a lick of security on them.
One of the reasons reported in the article…
That’s because, for most consumers, activating the security features included with their WiFi hardware is frustrating and confusing.
Read the eCommerceTimes article…
Small Business Can Seek Tax Extensions
The myth for generations is that the IRS is tough, unfair, hard to deal with and goes after you at the drop of a hat.
BusinessWeek shatters this myth…
Getting an extension is quite easy; it’s a matter of filing a short form with the IRS and, if you’re going to owe taxes, estimating what your bill will be and paying it … The great myth about extensions is that they are a flag to the IRS that make taxpayers vulnerable to being audited. Tax professionals say this myth has no basis in reality — an estimated 9 million taxpayers receive extensions each year, and the government doesn’t have the resources to audit all those people.
Read the full BusinessWeek article…
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I’d like to welcome all to the launch of SmallOfficeMedia.com - your one stop place on the web, if you like, for all things to do with small business.
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