Business Law - Basic Agency Relationship Explained

This business law article discusses the basic legal environment of the agency relationship in the world of business.

Thoughts on Sales and Sales People

A high performance sales person is one of the most valuable assets a company can have.

Simple Thoughts On Mortgage Lending

When you take out a home loan you are literally buying a dollar for three dollars. By the time you are done paying the mortgage you will have paid the lender three times the money they lent you. This is how most businesses work.

Business Basics - Understanding Risk and the Certainty of Uncertainty

Anyone who has been responsible for a business for some amount of time knows or quickly finds out that one of the biggest mistakes a business operator can make is not expecting to make a mistake. It can even get worst at times. Sometimes disaster will strike with no notice and no fault. This potential disaster, this uncertainty, this certainty of uncertainty is known as risk.

This post will outline some potential risks of doing business and more specifically the typical horizons of which risk tends to rise.

Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

Chapter 11 bankruptcy allows businesses to obtain debt relief by restructuring the existing financial obligations of the distressed business. This type of bankruptcy is ideal for businesses that would be profitable if not for unmanageable levels of debt.

Small Business Marketing - A Warning to Small Business Owners

As you may or may not know there are many outlets for dentist, family physicians, lawyers, and any other common local business owners to obtain professional help with advertising, marketing, and related efforts and needs.

What you may not know is that there is most likely no other consumer with in the marketing and advertising industry that is more sought out by marketing firms then this target market.

The reasons behind this is simple.

Articles of Organizaton - LLC

In the wake of the economy and the correlating loss of employment that has effected many Americans more and more professionals are taking matters into their own hands. Folks are going into business on their own and many of these folks plan on starting a LLC to work under.

This is generally a smart decision as a LLC provides some legal protection and limits exposure to both legal and financial liability.

To form a LLC one must first write and file the Articles of Organization.

Long Term Decline in Manufacturing Jobs

There has been a long term trend of declining manufacturing jobs in the United States. This article will discuss the downward trending track of US manufacturing jobs.

Basic Types of Business Operations

List of Catagory and Type of Business Operations with Business Examples

Creating Value through Business Operations

This post discusses creating value through process and operations of businesses.

Challenges of Managing Services

Managing a service based business is complicated through a variety operational characteristics. In this post, I wanted to discuss why and how managing services is challenging.

Business Operations - Productivity

Business Productivity

This article discusses operations productivity and measuring business productivity.

The founder of Godaddy.com is famous for saying that anything watched and measured tends to go up. Keeping track of company productivity is essential to running a successful business venture.

Competitiveness, Strategy, and Productivity

Organizational Strategy Formulation Explained


Businesses compete using operations and more importantly their operational strategy. This article discusses strategy and operations planning.

Operations Management

Core Fundamentals of Operations Management 

This article will discuss the basics of operations management as it pertains to business.

Cash, Credit, or Cell?

"Hey can you cover me I left my charger at work?"

This is how you will sucker your friend in to paying for your night out in a year or two.

Confused?

Yeah... you, Master Card, Visa, and American Express too.

Business Basics - Taking a Look at the Competition

All businesses have competitors. All businesses must compete for customers and their market share. If there is any room for competing firms then you can rest assured that the applicable industry will see new competing firms.

Small Business - Why Most Small Businesses Fail

The vast majority of small businesses fail. Why is this?

Online Retail Sales are Booming

Well business on the Internet has been booming like always. The online retail sales and finance figures for the third quarter of 2010 are in. The figures are very impressive.

Business Basics - Staying Competitive

To survive as an ongoing entity, a business must stay competitive. The free market dictates that if there is room for competition someone, some company, will try to squeeze their way in. That company, or new competition, won't stop there.

Business Basics - The 3 Fundamental Functions of Every Business Explained

No matter what type of business, or organization for that matter, you can rest assured that there are three fundamental functions that run that business and dictate how that business behaves.

This post explains the 3 basic functions of every business. These functions are Finance, Marketing, and Operations.