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Re: T-shirt Business Help
With the T-shirt biz, you have to have a plan in place first and foremost. Beyond the funding (which helps aid the plan), know your market and your target buyer. Then create your plan of not only designing/making the shirts, but keeping your overall costs down low and the advertising efforts way high. It goes so far beyond… -
Re: Revival of a long dead company.
So...what`s this product, why did it disappear, and is it still relevant to modern society and culture? From the early 60`s to the late 80`s there was a boat company in business called Sidewinder Boats. If you are around boating you may have heard of them. They got bought by Thomson Boats in the early 80`s and they built… -
Re: Please critique my websites
Tracy, First of all I would like to say that your websites look very good. You also have some decent page ranks both sites (3). Your page presentations look professional and thought out. It makes it easy for people to navigate without seeing too much information. Here are a few key points for GivernyOnline.com:Homepage… -
Five Common Startup Money Mistakes
Figuring out the financial details of a new venture can seem a mix of aspiration (How much I'd like to make. . .) and folly (I need borrow how much?). But writing down numbers on paper and as accurately as possible is important. It can provide a map to show where you are trying to go and what it will take to get there. It… -
Failed again, need a shoulder, advice,and a pep talk
This is a long post, but I`m going thru a lot right now and the only thing I can think to do is lay it all out there and see what comes back. So here goes. I have always had good organizational skills, creativity, ambition and the desire to run my own business. I thought it would be something involving entertainment early… -
Community Guidelines/Terms of Service Has Been Updated
Hello, all: Just a quick note! Our Community Guidelines (Terms of Service) has been updated. It will live on the footer of the website eventually, but I just wanted to post these now, so that everybody knows what is appropriate, and what is not, within our community. Remember guys, this is YOUR community. Treat it that… -
Community Guidelines
Community Guidelines: *Disclaimer 1: By posting in the community, you are giving consent to StartupNation to reuse, repurpose, quote or otherwise use information, statistics, articles, etc., at its will. *Disclaimer 2: This is a free-posting community. The views of StartupNation are not necessarily reflected by the… -
Business Planning is Very Important for Business
A good Business Plan is the most important (and often overlooked) part of running or starting a business, expanding a business or obtaining finance for a business. If a Business Plan is written properly, starting, expanding or running a business, and / or obtaining finance, is much easier, leaving less room for error and… -
Re: Gathering useful consumer data
Who is your customer? This, is what I am trying to determine, for the most part it is more than likely going to be someone who more than likely is going to be between the ages of 18-24 and 25-34. I do not believe I will attempt to attract anyone in the older categories, mainly because I believe there is a trust barrier… -
The 10 things great salespeople do
1. Have a sales process You should have a sales process in place so you can measure and repeat the steps that work, and weed out ones that don’t. If you’re going in without a plan you’ll never truly know what works and what doesn’t, you won’t be able to test changes. Think about a website, if you changed something on it…
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