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Working Capital Analysis: Take Stock of Your Working Capital to Make Sure Your Business Can Meet Its Financial Needs: Working capital is one of the most difficult financial concepts to understand for the small-business owner. In fact, the term means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. By definition, working capital is the amount by which current assets exceed current liabilities. A useful tool for...; Tags: Managerial accounting, Operational accounting, Entrepreneur.com Inc., working capital, accounts receivable, small business, accounts payable, financial, asset, tool; White papers
Squeezing Value From Site Traffic: First and foremost, a successful sales process ensures that benefits are highly visible to visitors, preferably within the first fold of the home page, and strategically guides them with explicit "Do this next" directions. So if a person would like to increase the value of a single visitor to the...; Tags: Entrepreneur.com Inc., benefit, Web site, sales, Web; White papers
How to Run a Successful, Legal E-Mail Marketing Campaign: E-mail marketing is an affordable, effective way to convert interested prospects into customers and develop valuable relationships with existing customer base. And it can be very profitable. But if one does not follow a few basic rules, the e-mail promotions could actually wind up costing him money- or worse. Send...; Tags: Marketing research, Entrepreneur.com Inc., email marketing, e-mail; White papers
Smart Marketing Tips for Your Website: To compete successfully online, today's firms must maximize their web presence. This means leveraging one's Web site, integrating online and offline marketing efforts, and communicating effectively online. In a few simple steps, the authors' will unravel the mysteries of effective online marketing and help one get the best returns from...; Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Channel management, Marketing research, Entrepreneur.com Inc., marketing, Web site, Web; White papers
Is Their Perception Your Reality?: Find Out If Your Branding Efforts Are Making A Positive Impact: Many small businesses are good at pursuing a relationship with customers, but they aren't as good at nurturing it. Nurturing a relationship allows you to reinforce your brand and increase brand loyalty. This also helps to weather the storms of increasing competition. This paper explains easy, inexpensive ways to boost...; Tags: Entrepreneur.com Inc., brand, brand loyalty, branding, small business; White papers 2007-12-19

Appraising Employee Performance: Taking Time To Review Your Employees Is Important To Their Success: Business owners have been evaluating the performance of their employees for as long as businesses have existed. But not all entrepreneurs take the time to review their employees, and even when they do, the reviews are often done in a haphazard way or on an irregular basis or are instigated...; Tags: Entrepreneurship, Performance management, Entrepreneur.com Inc., encounter, entrepreneur, Performance Appraisal, performance, tool; White papers 2005-10-03
Exit Strategies For Your Business: Strategic alignment means lining up the details on the ground with the strategy up in the sky. Revamping the physical location to create a long and inviting service counter is strategic alignment. Staffing it with friendly technicians in white service coats, like the auto dealers, is strategic alignment. You can...; Tags: Entrepreneur.com Inc., pyramid, strategy, staffing; White papers 2007-12-01
10 Cheap Ways To Build Your Brand: Learn Why Branding Reinforcement Is Important For Your Business: Sizzle can be created by dazzling marketing campaigns, by the look of an operation or by the rapid growth of a particular market segment. Sizzle can come from innovative systems that bring additional profits to a tired industry, a wonderful recipe that drives customers to your door or from the...; Tags: Entrepreneur.com Inc., brand, branding, marketing, industry, software; White papers 2007-11-14
Training At The Frontline, Success At The Bottom Line: Employee training and education are the most reliable tools companies can use to keep an edge over the competition. This paper explores how a firm's commitment to workplace learning is directly linked to its bottom line because in an age when workers are in short supply, talented employees are a...; Tags: Entrepreneur.com Inc., workplace, leadership, vision, worker, training, team, tool; White papers 2007-08-01
When Procrastinating Can Pay Off: Time doesn't play favorites. No matter how productive we are or how much we accomplish, there remain only 24 hours in a day. As entrepreneurs, we see our to-do lists quickly expanding. Whether it's responding to e-mails or making a long-delayed call to a colleague, we must choose which tasks...; Tags: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur.com Inc., e-mail; White papers 2006-09-01
Building A Strategy Pyramid: Need Help Implementing Your Ideas?: To assess a firm's strategic position, its managers must collect and interpret data regarding the firm itself, its competitors, its stakeholders, and the industry. Having implemented a strategy based on that information, the managers further must measure that strategy's effects. The "Competitive-edge model" presented in this paper provides a series...; Tags: Entrepreneur.com Inc., strategy, decision-making, industry; White papers 2007-06-13
Protecting Your Brand With Trademarks: Nowadays, integrated communication needs to be viewed from a global perspective. Given the speed, span and reach of electronic communication, there are technically no local or national firms, only global ones. The reality is that organizations no longer have any choice. Corporations or firms are brands in their own right....; Tags: Branding, Entrepreneur.com Inc., brand, electronic communication; White papers 2007-04-16
How Hectic Working Moms Can Stay Professional: For busy, working mothers, managing the craziness of children can put pressure on professionalism. With 10.4 million woman-owned firms in the U.S. (that's 4 in10 privately held businesses), more women need to balance managing their home and work lives. Entrepreneur.com's "mompreneur" Lisa Druxman offers tips on how to remain professional...; Tags: Jessica Stillman; Blog posts 2007-07-23
In Good Time: Getting your entrepreneurial tasks done in a reasonable amount of time is what time management is all about. This paper explains some tips on how to fit your everyday business tasks, both large and small, into your tight schedule: get a system; schedule "Do not disturb" time; take action; create...; Tags: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur.com Inc., entrepreneurial, time management; White papers 2005-12-01
A Timely Product Innovation: An innovation is disruptive when it impacts the hegemony of the market-leading company, companies, or prevailing technologies for a specific market. Among the many examples of disruptive products are digital photography technologies, which replaced photographic film. An understanding of the economics of the product innovation in the context of the...; Tags: Digital cameras, Entrepreneur.com Inc., digital photography, pricing strategy; White papers 2007-02-01
10 Biz Plan Blunders: In the more than 30 years the author has been involved with business planning, he has seen styles and fashion of plans change a lot, but the fundamentals remain fairly constant. To help you craft a plan that hits all the right notes, this paper explains list of some of...; Tags: Operational planning, Entrepreneur.com Inc., business planning; White papers 2007-06-06
Stop Procrastinating!: Call it what you like. Procrastination. Fear. Necessary preparation. Regardless, the fact is that many new business owners fall into the trap of spending days, weeks and months staying "Busy" without actually doing business. Designing business cards and setting up spreadsheets are just some of the tasks that, though necessary,...; Tags: Entrepreneur.com Inc., cold calling, font, spreadsheet; White papers 2006-06-01
Top Advertising Blunders: The simple truth is, most advertisers feel just like you do, but their pride won't let them admit it. Unfortunately, the author doesn't have a "Success pill" for you to swallow, but he can describe each of the most common mistakes you will need to avoid. Spending all your money...; Tags: Entrepreneur.com Inc., advertisement; White papers 2007-05-03
33 Marketing Success Tips: Part of the guerrilla marketing mindset suggests that you should be thinking about marketing all the time. Not just quarterly, not just monthly, not just weekly, but every single day. Really, it's not as hard as it sounds - there are quite a few ways you can incorporate marketing into...; Tags: Marketing research, Entrepreneur.com Inc., marketing; White papers 2007-05-03
Creating Sales Forecasts: If you're like most entrepreneurs, you hate to make forecasts for your business. People don't like forecasting because predicting the future greatly enhances their chances of being wrong. So what can you do? The answer is educated guessing. Like the weather forecaster, you get all the data you can, think...; Tags: Sales force management, Entrepreneur.com Inc., forecasting, sales forecast, sales; White papers 2007-04-27