Small Business University

A visit to this blog is like attending Small Business University ("SBU") while sitting at your computer anywhere in the world!!! The mini-courses cover:

1. How to start a small business.

2. Basic marketing strategies for a small business.

3. Business is for making money, not for making friends and pleasing your family.

4. Obtaining a Small Business Loan from the SBA (Small Business Administration)

5. Year-end tax planning for a Small Business.

6. Exit Strategies for Small to Medium Business owners.

7. Now is the time to improve your management team.

8. Cash Flow Forecasting

9. Improving your Sales and Marketing for your Small to Medium Sized Business.

10. Sales is working in your business while Marketing is working on your business.

11. Reducing the cost of Insurance for small businesses.

12. Better techniques for collecting your accounts receivables.

13. Cash Management tips for Small business owners.

14. How to reduce your health and medical insurance costs.

15. Ten tips on how to stay in business with this bad economy.

16. How to find and hire the right attorney for a small business owner.

17. How to find and hire the right outside accountant.

18. How to find and hire the right tax professional for a small business owner.

19. How to find and hire the right insurance agent.

20. How to find and work with the right banker for a small business owner.

21. How to use Linkedin and other social networking websites as a tool to market your business.

22. How to find and hire the right consultant.

23. How to downsize your business in a down economy!

There will be other topics for mini-courses within this blog that will help Small Business Owners with improving the profits of their business. Small businesses for this blog will be defined as businesses with annual sales of under $10 million. Medium sized businesses will be businesses with annual sales of over $10 million and under $25 million.