The Microbusiness Entrepreneur
A blog for people with big ideas running 1 or 2 person businesses
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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Step 1: Planning Come up with product ideas Evaluate them Plan a business around the best Set up your company Prototype and test your product/service Step 2: Build the business Build your product/service Build the website that supports it Get [...]
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Click here to listen Who’d be a school/college/university leaver today? Well, I would for one as the range of possibilities open to people these days is exponentially greater than when I left school. At that time (in the 1980s), on leaving college you had two choices: get a job or go onto University (at which [...]
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My general recommendation is to include your main keywords in your business name (and certainly in your URL) but there are occasions when you might want to break this rule. In that case, you might want an English-sounding name that has no specific meaning. The website Wordoid will generate such names for you and indicate [...]
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One of the most often asked questions is “How do I come up with an idea for my small business?”. Bear in mind, from the start, that coming up with an idea is just the first step in a long process – once you have an idea, you need to research it before deciding to [...]
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If you’re looking for inspiration when it comes to starting and running a business I suggest you download this PDF, flip to a random page, read and consider… What Matters Now …by some of the most important thinkers both in and out of business.
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Choosing a name for your business can be one of the most important, and frustrating, of tasks. It’s especially important for internet businesses or businesses where the website is an important part of the marketing effort (in other words, most businesses). Why? It’s likely that your potential customers will look for you by typing a [...]
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There are, broadly speaking, two types of business: Sole Traders and Limited Companies. Sole Traders Essentially this means that you and the business are one. From the point of view of Revenue and Excise, it is you that owes tax on the income generated by the business – you complete a personal tax return at [...]
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If you’re hiring serviced offices then networking will be taken care of for you but if you work from home, you’ll need some way of reliably connecting to the internet from your home office/spare room and accessing extra storage. Having additional storage means you can keep project files on that storage device and then access [...]
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