Admit it. As a new business owner, you think a lot about your business’s logo. Every business needs one, even if it’s just plain words with no artwork. Having a logo makes your business look just a little bit more official. So, you probably want to know where you can ...

Ever heard of the Google Sandbox Effect? We hadn't either, up until very recently. And, by the time we learned about it, it was too late for us to avoid it. That’s why we’re inserting this blog post earlier into the timeline for our step-by-step guide on how to start ...

As a new small business owner, you’ve probably heard “ask an accountant” a lot. Well, you don’t have an accountant. And unless someone in your family or a friend is an accountant, you probably don’t even know where to find one. So, we’re here to share some tips on how ...

For any new business that will operate from a physical location—be it an office, a storefront, or a kitchen—you’ll have to sign a commercial lease agreement. And, let’s face it, these agreements often are boring to read and hard to understand. So, you just get a lawyer to review the ...

First impressions are important. This is why you’ll need great product photos, especially if you plan to sell anything on the internet. But not everyone has money to hire a professional photographer. You might need to take the photos yourself. So, in this next series of articles, we’ll show you ...

It’s a statistic cited almost too often: about half of new businesses don’t survive the first five years. But what the statistic doesn’t show is how many people think about starting a new business but never do. So what stops them from being an entrepreneur? In my experience, it’s I ...

We’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but we all do it anyway. That’s why some businesses put a lot of thought into product packaging. In fact, quite often, the packaging costs more than the product itself. So, what should you think about when deciding on your ...

Everyone loved those chocolate chip cookies you made from Grandma’s secret recipe. They even said you should sell them. For sure, you’d make a ton. So, what do you need to do to start a small food business? Can you make the cookies from home and sell them over the ...

Most people can’t resist slipping a table scrap or two to their pooch. In fact, some dogs eat as well as, if not better than, their people. So, if dogs often eat people food and you can start a people food business from home, can you start a dog food ...

Maybe you’re a great baker and want to sell cupcakes made in your home kitchen. Or maybe you’re an excellent woodworker and you’re thinking about selling those wooden toys you made for fun. You took nice, almost professional level product photos of your products. Now, you’re ready to open for ...

As a part of our journey to start a small business, let’s take a quick look at what’s involved to build an app and then sell it on the Apple App Store and the Google Play store. Our last series of articles looked at online places where you can build ...

I don’t know about you, but I’ve had angry and desperate bosses yell in meetings that everyone needs to “Think outside the box!!!” More and more, I suspect those bosses actually had no idea how to think outside the box. Not only that, had they seen an idea that was ...