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Workshop: How To Sell & Value A Small Business

WORKSHOP TITLE: How To Sell & Value A Small Business
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:70% of all California small and mid-sized businesses never sell when they are put on the market. Selling a business is not like selling a piece of real estate or any other type of asset. This webinar is designed for California small and mid-sized […]

How to Avoid Being Audited When You’re Self Employed

The following is a guest post from Jimmy Atkinson of Ask the Advisor, where it was originally published.
The IRS states that most people who are picked for audits are selected by computer analysis, an entirely random affair. The number of audits is low, and your chances of an audit are actually slim. Plus, a knock-on-the-door […]

Why Isn’t the Video Resume More Popular?

I’ve always thought that this was a fantastic idea. What’s wrong with it?
Freakonomics Blog:
Why, in a world of excellent, cheap, and fast technology, hasn’t the video resume become more popular? It’s certainly not unheard-of, and maybe one infamously over-the-top video resume scared some people off. But I am still surprised that we are relying […]

Top 25 Alternatives To Venture Capital

BusinessFund.com:
Angels
Private Placement
Initial Public Offering
Bootstrap Financing
Fund From Operations
Licensing
Launch Customers
Vendor Financing
Sweat Equity
Self Funding
SBA Loans
SBIR and STTR Programs
State Funding
Home Equity Loans
Community Banks
Microloans
Finance Debt
Silent Partner
Friends
Family
Form A Strategic Alliance
Sell Some Assets
Business Lines of Credit
Personal Credit Cards
Business Credit Cards
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Original post by Dane and software by Elliott Back

How Not to Get the Sale

Attention: Door to door solictors
My wife just slammed the door in the face of an another unsuspecting salesman because he asked “Are you parent’s home?”
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Original post by Dane and software by Elliott Back

Menu Master Launches National Expansion Program

Menu Master, one of the largest providers of free menus and placemats to restaurants, has finalized its national expansion plans and will offer franchises across America. Founded in 1995, the Pennsylvania-based company began casually offering franchises last year. With franchises now in three states, the goal is to have 25 franchises within four years.
“Menu Master […]

Searching for Clients From Above

Wall Street Journal:
When a customer recently inquired about roofing five apartment buildings in Grass Valley, Calif., Jay Saber didn’t bother to jump in his truck to drive out and take measurements.
Mr. Saber, the owner of Saber Roofing Inc. in Redwood City, Calif., instead punched the addresses into Google Inc.’s free Earth software to pull up […]

Build-A-Bear with Wheels

Business Week:
In 2005, Larry Andreini approached two entertainment producers about a possible television show, but their meeting didn’t lead to a TV hit. Instead, the pair gave Andreini the concept that would become his next business: Ridemakerz, a do-it-yourself custom model car retailer.
At the time, the pair, Gillian MacKenzie and Jane Startz, had been hammering […]

Making Money With Clever T-shirt

Gizmodo:
Some clever Brits at the Harry Potter Plot Enlightenment Project have come up with a product that piggybacks on the fanaticism of the final Harry Potter book.
They have produced a spoilsport T-Shirt that will make children cry and their parents call you every name under the sun. It contains spoilers from the final book.
The T-shirt […]

in-jean-ius

Inc.:
With a lifelong interest in fashion, Alison Barnard used the skills she learned while attending Babson’s business school to start in-jean-ius, her own retail store, centered around the one must-have clothing item for women: the perfect-fitting pair of jeans.
Barnard stocks the store, which is located in Boston’s newest hip neighborhood, the North End, with more […]