Common mistakes made by small business owners 25 Articles

by Jimmyvanilla

FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION! According to the US Small Business Association 2/3 small businesses are out of business within 2 years and from those remaining only 44% survive the next 2! This is a dire statistic for those c...read more

by Matt Mahan

Today, in America, the failure rate for new businesses is astronomical. If you start a restaurant or any type of food establishment, those rates climb even further. Why do so many businesses fail within the first year of o...read more

by Diane Palmer

Not doing enough research. This is the most common mistake for small home businesses. You get so excited about a great business idea, there is nothing going to stop you, so you barrel forward and skip the research part...read more

by Pamela Hayden

There are many common mistakes made by small business owners from not doing enough research to overextending yourself financially. The first mistake made when a business is in the infant stages is not doing enough resear...read more

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by Ronald Benson

There are over 50 million internet marketers. Everyone one of them has a product or service he/ she is selling and he/ she makes it sound like it is the best opportunity on the web. Proceed with caution before you act....read more

by Mona Gallagher

There are many things to consider when starting a small business. The entrepreneur has a limited amount of money for operations, equipment, human resources and Marketing. How does on divide up these costs for the business?...read more

by Kate McGee

Pricing mistakes Recently I've been caught out and called an idiot by the pricing of some of my products. I fell into an old trap, one that many of us make. I priced my products way too low. A lot of us do it, too many ...read more

by Richard Stephens

Protecting Your Multi-Family Real Estate Investment Business: Setting Up an LLC As you go about finalizing a deal on the purchase of a multi-family real estate investment, you need to take into consideration whether or ...read more

by Teh Jess

In business, image is everything. You hear a lot of talk about "branding" and "marketing". Everyone is striving for a professional image that will help customers to trust them and want to do business with them. Most busine...read more

by Felex Tan

You read a lot of success Internet marketer that earning tons of money from Internet,then you tried to make online by spending time on searching the best way to make money online,sign up all home based business opportunity...read more

by Kim Long

Many experts confirm the fact that family-owned businesses rarely extend beyond the founder of the business. Most founders of family-owned businesses are often so busy executing the task of building and growing the busines...read more

by Elaine Swift

Not spending enough time developing your business leads to periods of inactivity and therefore stress. Constantly making sure your pipeline of leads is full isn't easy when you're busy trying to look after the needs of th...read more

by Michael Crozier

Small business owners often make their biggest mistakes before they even open their doors. These tend to be costly mistakes and the reasons why between 90% and 95% of new businesses fail during the first year. Before s...read more

by Patricia Faulhaber

Planning - planning - planning The secret to success in real estate is and always has been location - location - location. The secret to success in starting a small or home business is planning - planning - planning. ...read more

by Magu Nguru

It is interesting to listen to how most people got into the businesses they are in especially in Kenya. The story normally goes like this; "One day I was with some friends at a kiosk when I noticed that people delivering m...read more

by Neelie

I am the owner of Professional Office Services and have my own website to promote my services, www.proofficeservices.net, however this blog is some of the things I learned being in this field. Business owners hire offic...read more

by John Dispada

When researching the common mistakes that it is possible for you to make as a small business owner the most important mistake the researcher makes is forgetting the primary heading in their research. That heading is the ...read more

by Timothy M. Murphy

Common Mistakes Made by Small Business Owners You've spent many agonizing hours thinking about opening your own small business. You've considered whether your business is suitable for the small or home office environm...read more

by Michael Ugulini

Not Actively Promoting Your Business Before It Opens You've set up shop and are ready to ring up sales. The problem is no one, except for that stray dog passing your storefront knows you exist. For the past few month...read more

by Maddie Morgan

One of the most common mistakes made by small business owners is the use and reliance on conventional sales techniques. Not only do conventional sales techniques not work for small businesses, they may actually prevent sal...read more