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Free, practical guides to help you run a healthier business.
Starting Up
Writing a Business Plan Without the Jargon
A business plan doesn't need to be a fifty-page document full of buzzwords — it needs to answer a handful of honest questions clearly…
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Pricing Your Products So You Actually Make Money
Pricing too low is one of the quietest ways a business loses money — everything looks busy, but there's not much profit left at…
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How Many Sales Do You Need to Break Even?
"Break-even" sounds technical, but it's really just one simple question: how much do you need to sell before you stop losing money and start…
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Working Out What It’ll Really Cost to Start Up
One of the most common reasons new businesses run into trouble isn't a bad idea — it's underestimating what it actually costs to get…
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Small Changes That Add Up to More Profit
You don't need a huge new customer base to make meaningfully more profit — often, small tweaks to what you're already doing make a…
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Getting Your New Business Off the Ground
Starting a business is exciting, but it's easy to miss something important when there's a hundred things to think about at once. Breaking it…
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Is Your Business Ready to Grow?
Growth sounds like it's always a good thing, but growing before you're ready can put more strain on a business than staying the same…
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Building a Rainy-Day Fund for Your Business
Just like a household, a business is better off with some money set aside for when things don't go to plan. A cash buffer…
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Simple Ways to Get More Done Each Week
Most business owners don't need more hours in the day — they need fewer things eating up the hours they've already got. A bit…
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Building an Online Sales Channel
Selling online removes the geographic ceiling on a business that's doing well locally. Done properly, it's one of the more cost-effective ways to grow…
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Budgeting for Business Expansion
Growth has to be sustainable to justify the extra cost it brings — more equipment, more inventory, more people. The businesses that expand successfully…
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Bootstrapping: Funding Your Start-Up Without Debt
Every dollar you don't need to borrow while starting up is a dollar you're not paying interest on later. Bootstrapping is simply the discipline…
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Protecting Your Business from Credit Card Fraud
Any business that accepts card payments carries some exposure to fraud — the goal isn't to eliminate the risk entirely, but to make your…
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How to Avoid Running Out of Cash
A business can survive a slow month without sales. It can't survive one without cash. The earlier you see a shortfall coming, the more…
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Automating Your Lead Generation
Once your lead numbers start climbing, chasing every prospect manually stops being realistic. Automation isn't about replacing the relationship — it's about making sure…
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A Practical Guide to Asset Finance
If your business depends on expensive equipment or machinery, asset finance lets you get the tools you need without tying up the cash you…
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Testing a New Market Before You Commit
Once you've decided a new market looks viable, the next job is proving it — cheaply, before you've spent the budget that was meant…
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How to Assess a New Growth Market
Expanding into a new market — a new region, a new customer type, or a new product line — is one of the most…
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Funding Alternatives to a Traditional Business Loan
A bank loan isn't the only way to fund growth, and for some businesses it isn't even the best one. Before you approach a…
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Growing Your Business by Acquiring Another
Buying another business — a competitor or a supplier — can compress years of organic growth into a single transaction. It's also one of…
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Building Resilience as a Small Business Owner
Running a small business takes a toll that rarely shows up on the balance sheet. Long hours, constant decisions and the weight of other…
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