How to Determine the Legal Structure of Your Business
Should your business be a proprietorship, partnership, limited partnership, C corporation, S corporation, or LLC? Be informed to help determine the best business structure for you.
How to Expand Your Business with Partners and Investors
Done right, establishing a relationship with partners or investors can enrich your company with material resources and talented, effective human capital. Make the wrong choices, however, and the problems that result could be serious, even fatal, for your company.
How to Delegate Effectively
Managers could greatly reduce their stress by practicing a critical management skill — delegation. The inability to delegate frequently has led to the downfall of many leaders — from presidents to first-line supervisors. This guide helps managers recognize the benefits of delegating, what and to whom one should delegate, and a systematic approach to the delegation process.
How to Create a Long-Range Plan
As successful companies grow, they sometimes lose focus, getting sucked away to peripheral markets that seem attractive at that moment. There is a way to maintain — or regain — the power of your core competencies without curbing your growth.
How to Buy a Business
(Quick-Read, short form) Buying an existing business can help your company expand into new markets and new product lines. Use this Quick-Read to learn the six steps for a successful takeover.
How to Conduct and Prepare a Competitive Analysis
An in-depth investigation and analysis of your competition allows you to assess your competitor’s strengths and weaknesses in your marketplace and helps you to choose and implement effective strategies that will improve your competitive advantagei
How to Create a Newsletter
A newsletter is a promotional tool that provides businesses with an opportunity to enhance their image while increasing sales. It can be two sheets stapled together or eight glossy pages that resemble a magazine. Can it be an appropriate tool for your business growth?n
How to Buy a Business
(Business Builder — long form) Consider buying a business if you want to go into business for yourself but don’t want to go through the hassles of starting one yourself.>
How to Assess Management Fads
The air is always abuzz with new management methods. How do you decide if any particular one will benefit your business? We provide a process for evaluation and tips for implementation.
How Special Project Teams Succeed
Calling in the troops: A short-term force can cut waste, solve problems and expand horizons.