BizSugar.com › User › ThomasPickering › Upcoming

Your objective is to hire qualified applicants. A job description will help you accomplish this objective. Read More

There’s not a whole lot of point speaking to people who don’t want to speak to you. If you are involved in advertising in daily newspapers, general interest publications, direct mail to diverse mailing lists or even billboards, you are probably wasting a good percentage of your advertising dollar. Unless you’re overall goal is awareness, then this is a luxury best avoided. Read More

If you’ve ever seen a minimum sale price for credit card purchases posted near a cash register, you know that accepting credit cards is expensive. With an ecommerce Web site, your business will suffer if you don’t accept credit card payments. Credit card companies know that you’ll gain more in sales by accepting their cards than you’ll lose in fees, so you can’t avoid them completely. But with so Read More

Years of managing household expenses may have paid off for women in this severe recession. The below survey findings indicate women have been more successful at cutting expenses across categories recently. Women are more likely to pinch pennies in a down economy. Read More

Do you think this green thing will take a back seat now that money is tight?” I now hear this question more than any other. Times are uncertain, so who really knows what corporate priorities will be over the next year or two? But at the risk of being dead wrong very soon, I’ll venture some opinions. First, if there’s a deep, prolonged recession, the green movement slows down because everything sl Read More

How can I do it and how much business startup capital is required? The typical entrepreneur can get started on anything from no money down knocking on doors for work to less than $1,000. Today, many Fortune 1,000 CEOs launched businesses with $10,000 or less. And more than a third of those CEO... Read More

Starting your own business is one of the most challenging but rewarding experiences you will ever embark on. While there is no way to eliminate all the risks involved, careful planning and research can improve your chances of success.
Read More

Financing is available if you know how and where to look. Here are 10 tips to turn your requests for financing into money in the bank. Read More

At a perspective, a business is just like an egg that has not yet hatched. You need to incubate first and supply enough heat before it will hatch. Oftentimes, the incubation process requires you to shell out money. It is sometimes expensive. Read More

Over and over we hear about a shortage of workers in this country. Companies have to turn down work because of the shortage. Now, in many areas, there is a shortage of experienced appraisers.
We can't hire people off the street, as in the past, due to licensing requirements. Other industries can use temp agencies or hire foreign professionals, but we don't have that option.
We all remem Read More