You Can Start a Restaurant Business - Here's HowThose looking to start a restaurant business need to be properly equipped with the right information. Everywhere you look; there is another magazine or a book that promises to help you along the way. But who can you trust? The good news is that there are some simple steps that anyone can take to make sure that you get started on the right foot. Here are four steps that you can start on today...more
The strongest houses are built on the strongest foundations. No matter how well-constructed and reinforced the walls and roof are, none of it will stand under stress if the foundation is weak. Conversely, a strong foundation will help strengthen an imperfect structure.The success of individuals on your sales team and the direction of your sales efforts are directly linked to the strength of the foundation of expectations the sales manager...more
Even the hardest-hitting corporate executives sometimes need to punch up their presentation skills. Nick Paulus, an executive and business coach who offers online articles on effective business presentations, recently recounted his observations during an event sponsored by a highly esteemed investment bank. According to Paulus, "Although it was a big event, it was still lacking some of the basics." At the event, Paulus found four mistakes that are all too common in today's business presentations:1. The presenter - who was the company CEO - stood behind a conference lectern. While this traditional approach provides the speaker with a certain image and level of comfort, a conference lectern places a barrier between the speaker and his audience. It's much more effective - particularly when using PowerPoint presentations - to have a headset microphone or a wireless lapel microphone, and engage your audience by utilizing the entire area of the stage.2. Adorning the wall behind the CEO was a giant banner trumpeting the name and logo of the investment bank. If the event were being covered by the media, you'd want the company's name and logo broadcast and photographed....more
If you've ever applied for a loan or credit card, chances are your lender acquired and examined a copy of your credit report before deciding whether or not to grant you credit. Your "Credit Report" is a record of your credit history and it's prepared by agencies called "Credit Bureaus", or "Consumer Reporting Agencies." These are private...more
A certified public accountant (CPA) is a professional individual who works on their own or is a part of an accounting firm. A certified public accountant (CPA) is generally in charge of monitoring and keeping track of the financial records of an individual or business. Each year millions of Americans wonder if they should hire an certified public...more
Key points to remember in understanding what your company is worth The asset approach considers the underlying tangible assets of an enterprise individually. The sum of the fair values of each asset, after netting out the aggregate total of the company's tangible liabilities, represents the asset value of a company. This approach is most appropriate for companies with significant tangible assets, such as real estate holding companies or natural resource companies.The market comparison approach compares your company's operations and financial performance with that of: - similar publicly traded companies- recent sales transactions involving like private companies.Since you are estimating the value of your company for acquisition purposes, the merger markets will generally provide a more accurate benchmark than a comparison with publicly traded companies.The income capitalization approach (or 'discounted cash-flow model') is based on the present worth of the future economic benefits to be derived by an acquirer. This approach attempts to determine the net present value of a company's expected future earnings stream over a certain...more
Perhaps you've decided to relocate. Or maybe you've outgrown your home and need to find homes for sale that will accommodate your growing family. Or perhaps your children are grown, you've made the decision to downsize, and are in the...more
When an individual files their tax returns each year they are able to claim a number of tax deductions. Many times a tax deduction can reduce the amount of money that is owed to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or it can create a larger tax refund....more
Year after year, the lack of managerial experience and aptitude has accounted for more than 90 percent of all failures.Many factors may adversely affect individual firms over which owners have little control. In such cases, the astute manager can...more
The beautiful thing about being a real estate investor is that there are unlimited ways to make BIG cash all the time in any type of economy. Real Estate is one of those things that everybody needs. It is not quite water, but it is something that...more
Why do people come to your site, stay on your page and then leave without buying your product?? This is the same question that was bothering me for almost 6 months! I was selling an ebook about affiliate advertising, and I could get people to come...more
If you're like many small business owners, you log at least 50 -- possibly closer to 60 or 70 -- hours a week in the harness. You may put in a few late nights each week... spend some hours on Saturday (perhaps even Sunday) wrapping up...more