Archive for October, 2009:

Raising Capital For Your Business – How Long Does it Take?

Most companies vastly underestimate the time commitment necessary to successfully complete a financing. In actuality, a company seeking financing needs to budget between 500 to 1000 work-hours to the capital-raising process, spread out over a 6-9 month time period.

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Finding a Venture Capital Firm

Many ventures are faced with the challenging task of raising venture capital. The first part of this process is finding the right venture capital firm (VC). While this may seem simple, it isn’t. There are thousands of venture capital firms in the United States alone, and going after the wrong ones is one of the most common reasons why companies fail to raise the capital they need.

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How to Overcome Your Business Rivals

The business world is tough and for this reason it calls for an entrepreneur to be aggressive, innovative and focused in order to make money. The economic recession has not made things any better. Big and small businesses are reeling from the effects of the economic slump with some even closing shop. It therefore becomes [...]

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9 Killer Internet Home Business Ideas To Increase Your Website Sales

alThese internet home business ideas cannot be measured separately but as a group, they form a successful formula for a long term growth.

1.Show Your Prospects How Enthusiastic You Are.
Enthusiasm is one of the strongest tactics to share positive feelings and to make the prospect to start or run his own internet home business ideas. Enthusiasm [...]

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Why Some M&A Fail To Succeed

To read part 1 and understand what a merger and acquisition is, please go to: https://ivoireconsultancy.org/blogs/ivoire_article_view.php?id=54
Limitations of M&A
One should know that M&A as a strategy for rapid growth can be risky and uncertain. Shareholders of acquired firms are likely to earn above-average returns, while shareholders of acquiring firms’ shares fall as soon as an intention [...]

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Parenting – What Happens When You Just Don’t Feel Like Being A Parent Some Days?

I had all the answers. I was well into my thirties when my first child was born and had been working with children, studying about childrearing practices, had many hours of babysitting behind me, and was more than ready to be a parent. When my first child was born I was instantly a mother of [...]

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Learn To Push Buttons Like Henry Ford And Explode Your Business

One of the biggest benefits of outsourcing is tapping into someone else’s expertise. If you try to become everything to everyone, you won’t get the results you want. There are so many sources of automatic training available to tap into it’s almost ridiculous to think that anyone would have to spend time training reps themselves.Without [...]

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Starting a Home Business Begins With Your Mind Set

After being involved with network marketing for a while now, I’ve learned a few things that can help you to succeed. There are many books to learn from, but there is much more to it than just picking up a book and just reading it. Below I will talk about a few things that need [...]

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Choosing the Right Business Model for Your Startup

There are many ways to set up a business model, and more are developed every day with the growth of the world wide web. The classic brick-and-mortar storefronts, pure service ventures, and manufacturing and warehouse models still exist, but have been expanded from their classic versions to remain competitive in today’s environment. In addition, purely [...]

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Annoying Customer Behavior

Your ticket to industry leadership
Be grateful to those who cause you difficulty, they offer the greatest opportunity for learning. – The Dalai Lama, Ethics for the New Millennium
We’re not talking about the customers from hell, the ones who are never satisfied no matter what you do.  The best advice I’ve heard for dealing with these [...]

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