Akron Has It...
A new home for your local area business.
We develop support and promote the Akron based small business community
Working together even the smallest business can have a head start over other
cities and communities who have yet to realize the potential of networking
together and co-op promoting and advertising each others business.
The internet offers us a great potential to advance each business quickly at
little or no up front costs.
By cross promoting each business. Advertising expenses are minimal yet the
returns compared to other types of advertising can be easily justified when your
clients have an easy way to learn so much more about the services or products
that your business can offer them. Accessibility to your business information 24
hours a day builds client confidence when they can find you in an instant using
their home computer.
The Akron Has It network will let your Akron based business be your doorway to
the potential clients available in the Akron area. Placing your business on the
Akron Has It web site can bring many new leads directly to your business as all
businesses will be linked to the central hub of Akron Has It where visitors can
go directly to your information on your own
www.yourname.Has.It web-site.
Things to consider:
Advertising ROI's Returns On Investments. How effective has your
conventional advertising been so far? How much does it cost per year? Does it
have to ability to reach millions of potential customers ever day? Can people
find your advertising or business information twenty-four hours a day? Can
people find your business on any of the major search engines? Like Google, MSN,
AOL, Yahoo, etc. Does your business card have your web site address on it?
Did you answer no to any of the questions above? If so, we may have such a
solution that is cost effective and can answer each question above YES. And it
may actually cost less per year than what you currently are paying. Consumers
search the internet every day for information about services in their local area
when they need them. It is quicker and easier than digging out the old phone
book if they can even find where they put it. The phone book gets lost, the kids
play with it, it's big, heavy and awkward to hold while trying to dial.
Having a web site on the Akron Has It network is like have a billboard sign
on the internet highway. The internet is traveled by hundreds of millions of
people every day. Can your current advertising program compare?
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Essential Tools for Starting and
Maintaining a Small Business
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by:
Ryan Hough
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We believe that there are
3 factors that drive the success of small businesses.
1) Acquiring start-up capital
2) Finding customers
3) Accounting for, budgeting and controlling sales and expenses
The following resources will help your small business achieve these success
factors.
 Acquiring Start-Up Capital
An adequate supply of capital is essential as many profitable businesses
fail because they don’t have enough cash to pay their employees and
suppliers. But what is an adequate supply of capital? The only way to tell
is by doing a significant amount of research on your potential market and
formally documenting this in a business plan. I’m sure you know that a
business plan is a very important document that is crucial to convincing
your banker to lend you money.
There are two ways to obtain a business plan.
1) Do it yourself by amending a business plan template, or
2) Hire a professional to do it for you.
Obviously obtain 1) will be a great deal cheaper.
Our research led to a website that has over 60 high quality and free
business plan templates. We also found a directory that you can use to
easily find a business plan writer in your city – where ever you live in the
world.
Finding Customers
Finding customers is a difficult and expensive task for service business
owners such as accountants, lawyers and plumbers. We believe that a cost
effective marketing strategy for service business owners is to simply give
all their personal contacts a few business cards.
Our research led to a few websites that have pre-designed business card
templates. We felt that the diversity and quality of these designs was
outstanding. In addition, we found that you can obtain a significant saving
by finding a printing service on the Internet. We found that you could get
2,000 full color business cards for as little as US $150.
Accounting For, Budgeting and Controlling Revenue and Expenses
Accurate accounting is very important for small business owners. It’s
essential that you have timely access to information that could make or
break your business. If stocks are running low – you need to know about it.
If a large proportion of your debtors haven’t paid – you need to know about
it. If you do not react to these situations quickly you may have a situation
where you don’t have enough money to pay your employees – or worse still
someone is stealing cash out the till.
Our research led to a website that compares and reviews top accounting
software for small businesses. The cheapest software cost US $89.99 and the
most expensive software cost US $1,499. It was interesting to note that the
top 3 ranked websites were not the most expensive and cost between US $250 -
US $300.
Hopefully you now have an idea of some of the tools that you can use to grow
and maintain your small business. If you would like to benefit from our
research please visit our website. We do not charge for this research and
offer the content freely on our website.
About the author:
http://www.best-quality-small-business-resources.com/
Ryan Hough is the webmaster of best quality small business resources.com,
who's aim is to help you save time and money by finding reviews and case
studies that will enable you to choose the best resources at the right
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