Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Improve Your Merchandising To Increase Sales in the Business Start Up

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I remember when I was seven (7) years old, there was this small retail store in our city. This small retail store had a really small shelf space, that you would have to inform the sales clerks of your orders and wait for it since they will need to get the stocks from their backyard.

The only thing that I noticed was that, they had this attractive posters that announce brand names and certain promos like "buy 3 soap of brand x and get one for free" or "2% off on all sandwich spreads of brand z".

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

5 Important Tips to Overcome Business Start Up Fears

Just a week ago, I met two of my college friends. It's been four (4) years since we've last seen each other, so we decided to have a cup of coffee to do some catching-up.

We mostly talked about our life back in college, how the school culture has evolved, the people we were with, the education system that our school had, and our careers. Apparently, when we got to talk about our careers, they were so shocked to know that I already had two businesses. They even got more shocked to learn that I have been investing in the stock market, and still kept my day job. (If you knew me during my college days, I bet you'd also be shocked)

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Saturday, April 3, 2010

4 General Ideas For The Business Start Up Stage

In thinking of ideas for business start up companies, it would usually differ from the nature of business you are in. So in this example I will just tackle on the most common business strategies that is crucial on the business start up stage.

1. Equip your employees for their job positions

I've seen many new good business concepts that has a lot of potential and would have done pretty well but have employees that are "half baked" which causes the business to fail in the start up stage.

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