How to Find the Best Location for Your Business

This week we discuss how to find the best location for your business. This isn’t a difficult process, but will require some homework on your part. You can use a commercial realtor to help you scout for locations, but the real research you must do yourself.

It’s Not All About “Location, Location, Location!”

No matter what your product or service the key to finding a great location is through good old fashioned legwork. You can use a commercial realtor to help identify potential locations, but you should take it upon yourself to visit each location at different times of the day, on different days of the week, to make sure it’s truly the best location for your particular business.

How to Get Free Press

There are thousands of articles being published every single day on blogs, newspapers, and magazines. Bloggers, writers, and journalists have pages to fill and all of them are actively looking for interesting topics to write about. Getting picked up can be as simple as finding out what kind of stories they’re working on and see what you can do to help them.

What’s Stopping You From Starting Your Own Small Business?

Whether doing my weekly radio show, teaching entrepreneurial classes, or doing personal coaching, I talk to a lot of would-be entrepreneurs these days and I’m discovering that many of them are suffering from what I call, “I Don’t Syndrome” or IDS. IDS is a sad malady that affects many people who claim they want to start their own business, but never seem to get beyond just talking about it. Worse still is that this is a preventable disease that can be cured by facing it head on, or accepting the fact that not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur.

Do You Have What it Takes to Be the Boss

While you may secretly harbor dreams of running your own business, do you have what it takes to be the boss? Starting a business, while one of the hallmarks of the American Dream, isn’t for the faint of heart. Before you decide to quit your day job and plunk down a chunk of money on a business-in-a-box, or try to start your own firm from scratch, there are a few questions you had better ask yourself.