Business Plan - Setting Realistic Business Goals

Four in five new businesses close shop before their fifth year. Don't let this happen to you, simply because you thought you didn't need to set your business goals down on paper.

How to Open a Clothing Boutique

A boutique is a small retail shop that generally offers specialized products and services. The most common boutiques sell crafts, gifts, accessories and apparel.

A Strategic Plan - A Lot of Money, Without Any Value

A planning is like milk that you leave a day outside the fridge. Luckily, not all milk gets spoiled easily. But even the fact that a plan is overdue before you know it, the ...

Relaxing As You Create A Great Hotel Business Plan

Find information about writing a hotel business plan, using it to help your business succeed. Elements to include in your business plan, including details about what is going on in your local market and listing your plan to attract and keep good employees.

Conducting Market Research From The Back Of A Boat

Market research is one of the most important but often overlooked part of business management. This article highlights many real life analogies to this important business function and provides some excellent advice to entrepreneurs.

Vision Statements that Confuse and Bemuse

Since the 1970s vision statements have adorned the walls of most organisations, being used to communicate the direction in which an organisation is heading. Most are poor vehicles for that communication and serve mainly to confuse or bemuse the employees they are supposed to guide.

Transfer Pricing

There are several ways to determine the transfer price, including cost methods, market price methods, negotiation or even simply using an arbitrary figure. A goal of transfer pricing may be to maximize after-tax revenue by setting transfer prices that reduce the total tax paid.

SevenWays a Business Plan Can Help Your Business Succeed

A good business plan is your road map to your future. Just as you would regularly check your map during any long trip, you should check your business plan frequently to be sure you are on track. Most business consultants also recommend that you update your business plan at least every year. You also must update your business plan if you are seeking new funding for new equipment, remodeling, or other purposes. Any investor or lender will want to see the most currently updated business plan.

Kibbutz Puts Industry To Shame

This year, OJ manufacturers in the USA took a severe blow as orange groves fell victim to heavy frosts and hurricanes. With no oranges to squeeze the American orange juice market fell into a severe recession causing the price of FCOJ to double on the global markets within the space of a few weeks.

Invest in R-pM Corporations that can Manage Your Investment

We invest to get a return. But, the corporations we invest in do not have a systematic way to plan and manage the return on their investments. A new 21st century method is provided by R-pM.

The Small Retailer's Survival Guide - Part 7 - Are You Planning to Refit?

...the refit process itself may go awry. It may overrun and force closure, or partial closure, of your store for an excessive amount of time. Fixtures may not fit correctly. You may find that you open your store with an aisle blocked off from customers due to an unfinished, loose or dangerous fixture. You may also discover that the customer flow around the store has not worked out the way you expected...

The Board See The Crescent - The Workers See The Whole Of The Moon

Picture the scene. The Chief Executive of Endangered PLC, Ms D Point in a doctors surgery in her local village.
• Receptionist: Ms Point, The Business GP will see you now.
• Ms P: Thank you.

Five Easy Steps to Running Your Business

When starting a new business, all tasks look large and insurmountable. It seems as if you have an elephant sitting in your lap and you need to deal with it before it deals with you. Here is how to tame that elephant in 5 eay steps...