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Friendly, honest business tips for entrepreneur beginners
I’ve devoted this page to a variety of business tips. These tips revolve around things that I’ve personally found useful as an entrepreneur. The business tips range from a number of small business resources, through personal development and small business marketing and personal technology, all the way up to business coaching. I’ve grouped the tips that follow into what I hope you’ll find as a logical order, and divided this page up into headline sections, with a short description of each, together with links to my sources of further information. If I haven’t quite completed a link page yet, you’ll see the words “LINK COMING SOON”. I’m working on each of these for you, just as fast I can... I promise :)
Personal technology - useful devices to
enhance your entrepreneurial lifestyle
I’ve found that there are a number of items of personal technology that are virtually indispensable for the entrepreneur. These range from the obvious - such as laptop computers and mobile phones, to PDA’s and even the latest e-book readers that are great to use, even in direct sunlight. Clicking on the following link will take you to my personal technology page, where I suggest some items that have been useful to me, and review some recommended devices for you in some depth...
Entrepreneurbeginner's Personal Technology Tips Page
Branding - the importance of a logo and slogan
People trust brands. Branding your idea, or promoting the branding element in something that you’re buying into as an entrepreneur, is an important part of developing a visible and successful business.If you’re working on your own idea, then until you have a brand name and a logo, you don’t really have a product to sell. Click this link to my page on branding, where I discuss the value of branding and offer some strategies for designing and developing your own unique logo and slogan...
Entrepreneurbeginner logo and branding help and advice
Trademark law - how to protect your designs
Trademark law leads neatly on from branding. Once you’ve actually developed a logo and slogan, I advise you to protect it, and you can do this by applying for registration. Click this link where I discuss trademark law in some depth (LINK COMING SOON), and point you in the right direction, making this previously bewildering task, fairly straightforward.
Copyright - a simple and safe route through
the intellectual property minefield
If you find yourself creating new things as you develop as an entrepreneur, then you’ll need to have a simple understanding of how copyright works. Today, copyright has become a complicated subject, largely due to the opportunities for things like the printed word, music, photographs and films, to become digitized and delivered worldwide through the Internet. Click this copyright link,(LINK COMING SOON) where I try to simplify and unravel the complexities for you, and give you a useful, cost-efficient, copyright strategy to follow.
Business software and business tools:
How to get more done in less time
We all find ourselves using business software and business tools these days. There’s so much more out there than the good old word processor and the spreadsheet now. But what do you spend your money on? As an entrepreneur, I’ve used a wide range of business software and business tools, some good, some that “seemed liked a good idea at the time”, and others that have turned out to unfortunately have been no benefit whatsoever. What I’ve tried to do for you on my business software and business tools link page (LINK COMING SOON), is to give you some guidance into considering some of the most useful essentials for making your entrepreneurial career simpler and easier. My goal is to try to help you to be more productive and organized, and to present some ways to enable you to get more done in less time. So, Here’s the link to my business software and business tools help and guidance page (LINK COMING SOON).
Small business marketing:
Let your customers know you exist
However good your small business idea or entrepreneurial scheme is, if people don’t know that you exist, then they won’t be able to buy from you. Small business marketing is one of the most crucial elements in your quest for success.I’ve worked with entrepreneurs who have started off treating small business marketing as a “add on”, as something that they must “get around to doing,” or “save up for.” This approach is a recipe for disaster, and I’ve often had to work hard to change their mindset before it’s too late. I want to save you from that on entrepreneurbeginner.com. You see, small business marketing absolutely MUST be central to your business plan, and you need integrate it into everything that you do. But where do you start? What can you do? I can’t pretend to have all the answers, but I do have 25 years experience of using low-cost, small business marketing strategies to grow customer demand. Click on this small business marketing link (LINK COMING SOON), and I’ll share my ideas with you in depth.
Free publicity - and how to get it
With careful planning and thought, your business can gain valuable free publicity. The term often used is PR, which is short for “public relations”. The ultimate goal is to persuade the media (often local newspapers and magazines in your trading area, or websites in your niche) to write articles about you - FREE.My rockschool franchise network has gained an absolute TON of this PR, and I train my new franchisees very carefully in techniques that have worked successfully. Click this free publicity link (LINK COMING SOON) and I’ll unlock my treasure trove of free publicity secrets. I’m sure some of them will work for you! If you’d like to see the huge range of free publicity that my franchise business, Clive’s Easylearn Pop Music Schools have gained, then click this
free publicity from Clive’s Easylearn Pop Music Schools link
Personal development and creative visualisation: Peace, tranquillity and creativity...
Personal development is often overlooked by entrepreneur beginners. We’re often focused so much on the business, that we forget all about ourselves.Sometimes we find ourselves running “mental movies” in our minds for most of the day - inventing scenarios that may never happen, having imaginary conversations with ourselves, filling our heads with fear and worry... Living in the future or the past in our heads, and forgetting all about what’s important... the NOW. On my personal development and creative visualisation page (LINK COMING SOON), I try to help you get your life back, enjoy your entrepreneurial challenge and regain the underlying peace and tranquility that this modern business world seeks to suck out of you. If you don’t feel great, find yourself worrying about the future and dwelling on the past, then click this personal development and creative visualisation link (LINK COMING SOON), where I try to help you regain a natural balance, and direct you towards some sources of wisdom that I have personally used very successfully.
Business management: Blueprints for success
Business management is essential as you develop as an entrepreneur. Successful business management is much more than struggling through a “to do” list every day...Good business management revolves around developing strategic systems to ensure that you and your people can get things done quickly and efficiently, time and again, in a predictable, structured and cost-effective way. In my experience, I’ve noticed that a lot of so-called “business management” is actually not management at all. It’s dysfunctional, and huge amounts of resources and money are wasted unnecessarily. I’ve had a lot of success getting to grips with this problem, often quite quickly and easily, by placing simple, repeatable systems in place for people and processes and giving people more life. Click on this business management link (LINK COMING SOON) where I try to provide my thinking behind this, and offer what I hope will be some useful blueprints for you to modify and use, to help manage your own personal entrepreneurial situation better.
Small business resources
The Internet is crawling with so-called small business resources. What I have attempted to do is trawl through dozens of them and bring you the most useful links, to save you the bother, and allow you to stay focused on building your business. So, here’s a link to my page of small business resources for you (LINK COMING SOON)
Business coaching: Learning from others
In my business coaching page (LINK COMING SOON), I endeavor to introduce you to a range of useful business coaching help and advice, from books and courses that I’ve personally found helpful in my development, to full-blown business mentoring.If that’s not enough, then I also provide you, as an entrepreneur beginner, with the opportunity to have me personally working with you on some business coaching, to help get your business idea off the ground. Here’s the link to my business coaching page again (LINK COMING SOON).
Business articles - Presenting the most useful
reading material to you in one place
There’s a staggering range of business articles on the Internet. On my business articles page (LINK COMING SOON), I’ve carefully researched what’s out there, and brought together a set of reading material for you that I personally think is useful and worthy of your valuable time and attention. My goal here has been to keep you focused and moving forward, and save you having to wade through a ton of generally unhelpful sales-pitch based nonsense. Here’s the link to my business articles page (LINK COMING SOON)
Black enterprise: Opportunities and links
There are now tremendous opportunities for black enterprise across the world, and the Internet has opened up a range of possibilities that weren’t necessarily so evident before. What I’ve tried to do is bring together in one place, some of the most useful sources of further information on black enterprise, in an effort to save you time and point you in the right direction. I hope you’ll find it useful. here’s the link to my black enterprise page (LINK COMING SOON)
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