A business (an enterprise or a firm) is an organization engaged in the trade of goods and/or services to consumers or other enterprises.
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What's the best book you read about how to chat with a stranger? [closed]
It seems that I need to be good at if I want to be successful at business.
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Preparing for my international trade business. Didn't make any big inroad during the past 3 weeks [closed]
I quitted my job and started to preparing for my international trade business at the beginning of this month. But now almost one month passed, I have not gotten things into shape. I have not make a ...
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How can I combine asking questions on the Internet with money making?
My biggest hobby/interest is to ask questions on the Internet. I have to admit this hobby brings me a lot. I feel I am an innate asker.I'm asking questions on the Internet always every day. I have ...
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How to integrate/combine the process of writing a book with making money? [closed]
I want to write a book. But you know, writing a book requires a long time and I have no idea whether or not my book will sell out after it is written out. I want to make money, to have my own ...
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How to integrate/combine Japanese learning with making money?
I'm teaching myself the Japanese language, in the meantime I need to make money. How can I combine/integrate making money with Japanese language learning?
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Trying to figure out a general business modus operandi. What's yours?
In terms of personal business practice, how do you generally handle things?
To be more specific, do you do the all-eggs-in-one-basket approach? Or, do you diversify with many projects ...
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undecided, really need help
I am thinking of my company for few years now, but what stops me is that i cant decide what am i going to do or what i want to do. I constantly, almost every day, get a new business idea which is ...
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How to Secure A CD Product
I have an idea to launch tutorials on CDs but is it possible to bypass someone being able to just burn the disc? I was thinking: Incorporate something that uses an online account so they must log in ...
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What is the best way to present our business plan to potential investors or to a bank?
We have an excellent Business Plan, for some fantastic mobile ideas. The down side, we need funding to get these ideas developed and to market. What is the best way to meet with potential investors? ...
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How to find business opportunities?
How to find business opportunities? How to find demand or potential demand? How to find good suppliers? How to find the customers? Can anyone share some tips? Or is there a great book in this aspect?
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I'm learning doing business. Is there a good book that can help me?
Is there a good book that teaches how to do business, especially about buying and selling,e-business?
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I'm in China. Is it a good idea to set up an online shop to sell electronic products to Europe? [closed]
I hear that I need to pay Electronic Waste Recycling Fee in advance.
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business ethics: Is un-illegal cheat ok in business?
In business world, many companies,salespersons, businessmen are unethical, they don't tell you the whole picture or they minimize or magnify some aspects, or they ignore some aspects on purpose. Some ...
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What is the contribution of a trade company? Isn't it better for a buyer to buy products from the manufacturer? [closed]
I think a trade company is unnecessary. It only lengths the chain. Many trade companies pretends to be a manufacturer, but actually they are not. What positive a trade company make? Why do we need a ...
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How to reconcile the unethicalness in business activities with my deep-rooted moral?
I want to be rich. But when it comes to do business, I find many people are cheating in business. If you don't cheat, you can't make a lot of money. I feel so sad. On the one hand, I don't want to ...
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Virtual Office help for looking professional? [closed]
I am assuming looking professional and acting professional is extremely important in closing sales or dealing with clients.
So I am thinking of setting up virtual office such as ringcentral.ca but ...
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What are your habitual mistakes you commonly make and how do you avoid them?
So I do the reading, got a feel for what I should and shouldn't do and even have a business education and then find myself circling back with habitual errors. Hey I'm ok making a unique mistake but a ...
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Do you think direct email marketing works for selling professional services?
And what is your opinion on bulk email marketing and would you ever use it for promoting/selling your business service?
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Have the ideas, found the niche…what to do first?
I have found two completely seaprate niches, and identified the target markets for them both. I have comprehensive ideas and details on how the applications should work. I have a developer that I ...
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Do you believe in Blue Ocean Strategy?
Blue Ocean Strategy is a business methodology that says: instead of competing in a market with existing competitors (red oceans), why not create your own market (blue ocean) and dominate it?
Here is ...
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When should I register a LLC/S Corp?
I currently have a website in beta. I am not earning anything (for now) with this site. It doesn't have terms of service or the privacy policy listed on it.
It appears that some people's opinion is ...
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Salary for an Operations Manager
I want to hire an operations manager, what would be the minimum salary, that I need to pay.
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Should I set up a holdings company?
Should I set up a holdings company (an LLC, taxed as an S CORP that we'll call "PARENT") that owns ownership in other entities I work on?
This might not be best place to ask this question, but I lurk ...
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Changing my name for business
I need your opinion on this:
I'm from Europe but live in US for years. My name is a very difficult to pronounce here in US .
Something like Timoleon Karaxtzidakis.
I'm starting an online business ...
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Once BizSpark ends and I'm not making much money with my startup, is there a low cost solution to still get the software?
Once the BizSpark program ends for me is there a low cost solution for getting access to tools like Visual Studio?
I've seen before people talk about $300 or $400 annual subscriptions but I wasn't ...
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Business Owner Validation
If I were to start a business listing, and I want business owners to be able to signup for the service and edit/update their listing, what's the best way to validate that a person that calls is indeed ...
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Want to start a business in Automation
This is Niket Shah here from Gujarat, India.
At present, I am a fresher in Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and communications.
I want to start my own business. I have inquired about few streams ...
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Enterprise software
With the proliferation of web-based applications in the small business sector, it's tough to gauge the purchasing trends for enterprise-level or mid-size business server software.
I'm not referring ...
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How do you know if you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur?
Many professionals want to start their own venture but are scared of failing. Many of them do not know if they have a multi-faceted personality that is needed to run a business successfully. How ...
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Separate Banking for Personal and Business
Are there any advantages to banking at different institutions for your personal and business accounts? If so, what's your strategy?
Are there any disadvantages?
I was initially thinking along the ...
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What are Keogh Plan Implications When Hiring First Employee(s)?
My small business is about to graduate from being a home-based business to moving into a small commercial office space and hiring its first employee(s).
In 2004 and 2005, the business had ...
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Thoughts/Opinions on business naming?
Just curious how people feel about business names. Do you think the name of a company composed of the last names of the owners is "old fashion" (i.e Brown-Smith Web Services, Johnson-Nixon I.T. ...
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Books / Advice on running an outsource software development shop?
So there's tons of documentation and books on project management, agile development, how to manage outsourcing projects, how to send our project offshore, etc...
But I'm on the other side, I'm ...
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Looking for Guidance in running business development arm of a startup
I'm looking to join a very small company (5 employees) and run all of business development/sales and marketing. My professional experience lies in 8 years of Sales in the online media and enterprise ...
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Bootstrapped Startup - What Legal Forms to Put In place
I am looking for a co-founder now for a project that would love to get up and running. As an initial formality are there any documents out there that can outline in basic terms what each person is ...
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What's a great business development / licensing pitch outline?
So you are about to start contacting companies about licensing your product/technology. What would be the general elements of the presentation deck? I know what I've done in the past but am wondering ...
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Should a slogan imply my target market?
I was thinking of including the word "business" in a slogan for a new service but I was wrestling whether or not this is really necessary. I say business because that's the target market I'd like to ...
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Argh! Not knowing how to program holds me back
I have experience in running a business, in marketing, research, strategy, customer service, business development, and I have some very important ideas that I want to transform into businesses. ...
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What % should I give my business partner
Good day,
My wife and I are starting a restaurant and bar seach website for our city. Developing the web site would cost about 8-10k.
We got a partnership offer from a computer company. They would ...
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Brainstorming the idea of Strategic Alliances
I'm reflecting on the ideas of businesses partnering with other businesses who are targeting the same audience. The idea would be to "partner together" and help promote one another.
eg. Business A ...
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Inexpensive or Free Tools to Organize Your Contacts [closed]
I am getting lots of contacts (Law/Accounting/etc). And trying to find a good tool to keep all the phones/emails/notes together.
Ideally, not just text, but something smarter. So it can show me all ...
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Cost-effective but good Business VOIP providers [closed]
Similar topics have been discussed before, but I was wondering what startups are using now for a good reasonably priced VOIP service. I have heard about most of the players in the market, some are ...
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How can non/coders contribute to a startup?
The subject is the question. How can someone who does not know how to code contribute to a startup? Do you recommend that that member attempt to learn some basic coding so as to contribute to the ...
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Why do recruitment websites charge companies(recruiters)? Is it feasible if a recruitment website provides free service for both recruiters and job-seekers?
Is it feasible if a recruitment website provides free service for both recruiters and job-seekers?
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uISV in components business? Is it any good?
I was wondering how good is selling components (.NET, ...) for uISV compared to selling program(s). When I look at the prices of components compared with prices of programs we sell ... Than again this ...
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How Do You Work Out Postal Charge?
If you are selling physical goods, you have to factor in postage charge in your product price calculation.
What are the formula one can use to calculate the postage charge?
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Importance of Competitive Advantage in Tech Companies
I've always been taught to have a competitive advantage. What makes my company special, different, better, etc. What prevents someone from doing what making something that mimics my business. Well, I ...
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The Return Policy for Handmade Craft
I am interested to open an online shop for selling handmade craft ( something like those displayed on etsy), but I afraid that there is a tendency for buyers to return and refund goods at will just ...
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How to estimate the market value of a business?
I want to know, when you come up with an idea and want to implement it and to start business , do you firstly estimate the market value of the business and how can you estimate it? A rough but not too ...
