Starting A Small Business - Part 3 - The First Year

Now that you’ve got your business put together, funded and up and running, you’ll be faced with a whole slough of new challenges; constantly innovating, generating profits, planning for the future and more. Here’s a few things to expect and to plan for in the crucial first year of your new business.

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Starting A Small Business - Part 2 - Launching Your Business

Starting a small business is a big process, but in this article we’ll focus on some of the finer details of launching your business. You can have a perfect business plan, all your fundraising completed and all of your paperwork and legal documents ironed out, but if you duff it in the first weeks and months, your business will fail or at the very best, struggle.

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Starting A Small Business - Part 1 - Before You Start

Starting a small business is a big endeavor that no one should enter into lightly, but if done well, it can be one of the most rewarding and financially beneficial decision of your entire life. If you’re itching to start a small business, chances are you’ve got at least a bit of entrepreneur in you, so here’s some things to keep in mind as you prepare to start your own business.

Let us help you Choose The Right Type Of Business, Craft The Perfect Business Plan, and Start Fundraising.

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IBO - Ameriplan USA Joins Home Business Bug

About IBO - Ameriplan USA 

Since 1992, AmeriPlan has helped thousands of families make hundreds of millions of dollars.

Our Promise: Make a difference in the lives of the people who work with us as well as in the lives of the customers we serve.

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Our company has been in business since 1992; has been featured in the Dallas Business Journal and the Medical Review Board; and is a Member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Dunn & Bradstreet, Direct Selling Association, National Association of Dental Plans and the Consumer Health Alliance.

We Have Thousands of Homeworkers Nationwide!

Visit some of our team members by entering this site! AmeriPlan pioneered with a Discount Dental Plan and we have significantly expanded our discount offerings in multiple areas.

We are Seeking People Just Like You.

We have daily, weekly and repeat monthly residual income potential. Work your own hours with NO selling, NO cold calling, full training provided at no extra cost and a complete benefits package available.

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La Bella Baskets Joins Home Business Bug

About La Bella Baskets

Join A Growing Industry That Offers Amazing Results - It's Fun, Easy and highly profitable!

With La Bella Baskets you will receive training to become a professional gift basket consultant.

Not only will you be able to help people save money and time on their gifts, you will save 20% on your gifting needs! Imagine never paying full price for gift baskets sent to friends and family again!!

The gift business is an industry with tremendous "fun" potential. You get to help people pick affordable gifts for their loved ones and provide a gift that delivers infinite pleasure to the recipient. Both givers and receivers of the gift appreciate the gift.

How Does Our Program Work?

1. We provide you with a beautiful website with hundreds of gourmet and specialty gift baskets.

These gifts are loaded onto your La Bella Baskets giftstore with your own shopping cart. No need to figure out all the details. Within minutes you can start taking orders.

2. Customers visit your La Bella Baskets store.

They can shop for affordable, beautiful gifts and place their orders on your personalized web-store. No more running around trying to find out what to buy for birthdays, holidays and special occasions.

3. We ship to your customer within 24-48 hours.

We work behind the scenes in the warehouse taking the shipping, assembly of gifts and other burdens off your shoulders. We also make sure all packages are professionally prepared.

You DO NOT have to stock any inventory

You DO NOT have to buy any products

You DO NOT have to deal with shipping

You DO NOT have to collect money

4. You generate a nice income! See income potential.

That's it! Pretty simple!

You Enjoy...

• Bi-weekly payout checks
• Flexible Hours
• Enjoy 20% discounts on your gifting needs
• Imagine not having to pay full price on your gifting needs!
• Referral Bonuses and Gift Baskets Contests
• Free Prescription Card (entire household)
• Free Pet Prescription Card
• 20% commission on new orders and repeat customer's orders 

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MLM or Pyramid Scheme?

MLM stands for Multi-Level-Marketing. Such a program starts with a product or service to sell, yet the way to grow your business is to build a network. If you enlist 3 friends, you receive a percentage of their sales. If they each enlist 3 friends, you are now receiving a percentage of sales from 12 people (the original 3, plus the 9 they brought on).

There are plenty of articles online that will educate you on what to look for in an MLM. A simple search for “What is an MLM?” in Google will probably yield enough results in the first two pages to give you most of what you need. One of my favorite resources is About.com, which has lists of relevant articles under the Entrepreneur section. For starters, check out “Too Good To Be True?” by About.com contributor Scott Allen, which defines 6 criteria you should look for in an MLM. While there, peruse around for more valuable resources.

Most information you will find will heed the warnings of multi-level-marketing. A few to review are at Vandruff.com, and http://www.mlm-thetruth.com. And with good reason. There’s a standard pitch that seems to can prey on what everyone looks for in an opportunity – no selling, unlimited potential, free time to enjoy your new boat.

However, don’t think that all MLM opportunities are ones to stay away from. There have been many companies that implemented this structure and were very successful in doing so. Two examples are Avon and Mary Kay. The best test is to ask yourself if the product or service on its own appears to be valuable and profitable. In other words, do you feel confident in the business of selling the product or service alone without creating a network? If not, then you should dig deeper into its potential.

Other resources I recommend visiting are http://www.mlmwatch.org/ or http://www.mlm.com/.

As we’ve mentioned elsewhere, please understand that HomeBusinessBug.com will not limit a company’s ability to advertise based on negative feedback we have heard or come across. Reputable companies have had negative press, and even those that appear to have more negative press than usual may have just as many people that they are successful for. The internet makes additional research very accessible. Let HomeBusinessBug.com be just your first stop in gathering the information you need to owning your own business.

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