Planning for success when starting your own business

When you are starting a business there are so many decisions, process, and planing that should be put into place before you hang your open sign.  Your greatest success will happen when you plan how you want your business to run before you start your business before you plan!

Some of the decisions and process you will have to complete before you begin...

• Identifying your customers
• Assessing the real risks of starting your own business
• Choosing a name
• Deciding on a legal structure
• Getting licenses, permits, and tax and employer numbers
• Financial basics: selling on credit vs. cash-sales, getting funding, estimating start-up costs
• Marketing and more

We will be posting articles, downloads and resources we find, from time to time in hopes to help others plan to suceed when starting their business.

Download - Tips and advice for entrepreneurs from business planning expert Tim Berry"