For those of you who want to start your own small business on the cheap, but are worried about seemingly insufficient funds, here are a few ways you can become a successful entrepreneur despite an almost non-existent budget. 1. Start With Home. With Apple and Facebook leading the pack, almost all small business owners begin by working from home. A … Read More
DFW CPAs Share Tips For New Businesses
Whether it’s ensuring your customers are happy or it’s perfecting your products and services, you’ll need to keep pushing on with a new business. With that said, there’s one area that’s often overlooked by small business owners: accounting. Even if you aren’t a financial expert, it’s absolutely necessary that you have some basic accounting knowledge so you can keep your … Read More
Flower Mound, TX CPA: How To Beat Small Biz Dog Days
This time of the year is the “dog days” of summer – sizzling temperatures, a slower pace. Unless you run a seasonal business that benefits from tourism, you’re probably finding that your business is slowing down during this season. The phones aren’t ringing that much. Foot traffic has slowed down. Major clients might be out of office on vacation and … Read More
Successful Small Business Leaders Offer Advice
Sometimes the most valuable advice comes from fellow small business entrepreneurs, not the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Behind every business is a person, and behind every person is a story. That’s why we asked entrepreneurs to give their advice about the importance of serving their customers, their communities, and each other. Here are a few of our favorite … Read More
Small Business Coach: Know Your Clients First
For different reasons, individuals and small businesses rarely do a thorough background and credit check of their business clients. This creates a large information gap when it comes to knowing exactly who you’re dealing with. Small Business Coach: Know Your Clients First Everyday information about a business and even looking up reviews is easy to do. However, this type of … Read More
Small Business Coach: Summer Reading List
The right words of advice can get you closer to a goal. They can also inspire you to be a better leader. Josh Linkner is the author of the best-selling “The Road to Reinvention,” which urges businesses to go beyond the status quo for success, as well as a relatively new book, “Hacking Innovation,” which explores how insights from computer hackers can … Read More
Business Management Consultant: Building From Ground Up
So, you’re ready to start a company. You have a great product or service you think people will really like, and you’re ready to get started. There’s just one question: Where do you start? Building a company from scratch is not easy, especially if you intend for that company to reach beyond “small business” status. As Guy Kawasaki, Alltop co-founder and entrepreneur, has … Read More
Small Business Consulting: Finding the Why
Surely you had an inspiration when you decided to start your business. Was it to provide a service or product better, faster or cheaper than what was currently available? Was it to fill a gap in the marketplace? Perhaps you were inspired to run a business that people enjoyed working for? Or maybe to have one that had environmentally and … Read More
Certified Public Accountant To Clients: Keep Your Brand Alive
Do you remember Blockbuster? At one time, the chain of 9,000 video-rental stores seemed to be everywhere. Families spent their Saturday or Friday evenings perusing the shelves for the latest releases or old classics. However, as the industry and world changed, and movie-renting habits evolved, Blockbuster failed to adapt, even at one time declining an offer to partner with an … Read More
DFW Business Advisor: Remember Your Purpose
In a recent Harvard commencement speech, Mark Zuckerberg explained how some big companies wanted to buy Facebook a couple years into his venture. Everyone around him told him to take the money and run. But Zuckerberg held onto his business a little longer. He felt it was destined for something better, but he was plagued by doubt. “That was my … Read More