Category: Growing a Business

9 Weird Regulations That Could Impact Your Business

9 Weird Regulations That Could Impact Your Business

When running a business, you have a lot to worry about. Between dealing with business finances, credit scores, and actually running your business, you may not have taken the time to read local and state laws that may impact your business. Make sure your business is compliant with all local laws, no matter how silly they seem. Here is a list of some local regulations we were able to dig up that may impact your business. 1. Computer repair requires… Read More
How to Get Your Product Into Whole Foods

How to Get Your Product Into Whole Foods

Whole Foods Market is the largest natural and organic grocer in the United States. The Austin based company runs about 460 stores across the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom. With over $5 billion in sales every month, there’s no wonder local farmers and vendors want to get their products on Whole Foods’s shelves. After Amazon recently announced the acquisition of Whole Foods for $13.7B, there is even more incentive for small and mid-sized businesses to build a relationship. Who knows?… Read More
How an Equipment Lease Was the Key to Unlocking This Consultant’s Success

How an Equipment Lease Was the Key to Unlocking This Consultant’s Success

Miles “Holmes” McGinnis first started his computer consulting business, Amerimart, in the early 1990s. He was a database programmer who consulted for several Fortune 1000 companies, and enjoyed 10 years of solid work with his growing client base. Then, during the Dot-com collapse in the early 2000s, Holmes lost many of his clients because of excessive speculation and growing fears regarding the future of Internet-based companies. Suddenly, he was faced with no work, aging technical skills, a growing pile of… Read More
5 Yelp Mistakes Every New Business Owner Makes

5 Yelp Mistakes Every New Business Owner Makes

Word-of-mouth marketing has always been a valuable tool to business owners, but in recent years, social media has upped the ante. In fact, 82% of adults in the U.S. turn to online reviews before making a purchase. For Yelp, that translates into 84 million desktop users, 73 million mobile web users and 26 million mobile app users. For small business owners across the U.S., those numbers should translate into a definitive need to factor Yelp into your marketing strategy. If… Read More
How Consumer Financing Works

How Consumer Financing Works

There are a variety of payment options that you as a small business owner, could provide to your customers for convenience in acquiring your products and services. By far the most popular forms of payment include: Credit Cards; Debit Cards; Checks; Bank Transfers; And even cash. Despite the many reports stating that cash is dead, cash still represents at least 30% of all transactions conducted at the point of sale. This is in part due to the significant amount of… Read More
9 Congressmen Who Are Also Business Owners

9 Congressmen Who Are Also Business Owners

Many members of congress are quite wealthy. While some of them have family money or married into a sizable fortune, a good number of members of the House of Representatives and United States Senate made their money after starting a business. In fact, some of them still hold their businesses to this day! Here is a list of nine wealthy members of congress and the self-employment that helped them reach the top tiers of wealth. Darrell Issa - California Darrell… Read More