Taking Your Online Business Seriously
Online business is business. Business is business, online or elsewhere. If you’re serious about making your living online, you need to follow the same strategies you would for running any…
Is There Still Room to Compete Online?
“How can my business compete online with eBay and Amazon?”“How can I compete with all those big stores?”“Aren’t there too many online stores already?”“There’s no room left to compete online!”…
Getting Legal
Business Name Registration and Sales Tax In order to work with real wholesale suppliers and to qualify for other business related services (and tax write-offs of course), you have to…
Sourcing for Independence! Getting Started [2]
This is the second post in our Sourcing for Independence series! Welcome back! Did you miss the first one? Click here to check it out. Getting Started: Whether you are…
Do I Need a Business Plan?
We get this question from time to time. Some of our members comment that other websites and tutorials tell them to write up a business plan, but we don’t talk…
Step 1: Starting an Online Business – Identify
Selling online is very popular these days, and there is a lot of competition out there. So you can’t expect trying to just “sell anything” and wait to see if…
Can I Start an Online Business?
So you are thinking about starting an online business, right? But you are struggling to know if it’s a good idea, or if you can be successful at it? Well,…
Drop the Win-Lose Mentality
Do you know someone that has a win-lose mentality? Or perhaps you have this belief? You believe that if someone else is successful or doing the same thing that you…
Merchant Processing 101
Shopping Carts, Gateways and Payment Processors Years ago, an exchange of cash was all it took for a customer to buy from a merchant. How things have changed! Today, most…
Going Separate Ways: How to Protect Your Personal Credit
Too many times, small business owners lump personal and business credit together. This presents several problems: 1. Your business experiences ups and downs and those downs can put your personal…