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The following are a few articles about electronic engineering, embedded systems programming, and
entrepreneurship and home-based businesses for engineers and consultants.
Getting Started
- Five Steps to An Effective Business Plan - You have an idea for a business. You know what you want to sell, who you can sell it to, and how much you stand to earn from it. There's just one more thing you need: a business plan.
- Get Rich Doing What Others Don't - The quickest way to wealth that I've found to be true; Is to stick out your chest, give your best, and do what others don't like to do!
- How To Realistically Set Your Fees - There are many factors which need to be examined in setting your fees, such as billable hours, the effect of expenses, the effect of benefits, and the effect of bad debts.
- Is a Home Business Right for You? - Every morning as people wake up and make the commute to work, many dream of the day when they will finally work for themselves.
- It's Easier Becoming An Infopreneur - Internet information publishing is the most accessible entrepreneurial opportunity you will see in your lifetime. Best of all, you can do it on your terms.
- Seven Characteristics To Foster Your Entrepreneurial Spirit - Being an entrepreneur requires foreseeing an opportunity before anyone else does and taking the bait while understanding full well that opportunities are not entirely without some risk. A successful entrepreneur accepts that everyone makes mistakes but knows that learning from mistakes is extremely important.
- Should You be a "Jack of all Trades" or a Specialist? - Which is better, to be a generalist or a specialist? A "jack of all trades" is under higher stress and greater probability of being pushed into a supervisory or managerial position. Specialists may receive more respect and higher salaries.
Promoting Your Business
- Explaining What You Do in 15 Seconds - You're in the elevator and your friend John introduces you to Barbara who is the CEO of one of the companies you'd like to do business with. Barbara asks what you do. Here is your chance -- what do you say?
- Overcoming Your Biggest Marketing Obstacle - At times, no matter what you do your marketing is stuck and you're not attracting new clients quickly enough. What is it that's keeping you from growing your business and your revenue?
- Simple Steps For Super Proposals - There generally comes the time in the life of any successful business owner when s/he must prepare a proposal in response to a request for quote (RFQ or RFP) for a prospective client. While the task can be intimidating for the inexperienced entrepreneur, there are some basic elements that will ensure your proposal answers any potential questions your prospect may have.
Running Your Business
- 25 Valuable Phone Numbers For Small Businesses Success - Starting and growing a small business can be a daunting and sometimes lonely process we have compiled a list of 25 helpful phone numbers for agencies and services that work with small businesses. They can give you information, ideas, and resources to help you be more successful.
- Cash Flow Management - Cash. Most people want more. When running a small business it's particularly important to monitor how cash is coming in and how much cash is going out.
- How to Effectively Manage Your Time With A Home Business - Are you spending too much time with your home business and not achieving the results you desire? Focusing too much of your time and efforts on your business and achieving poor results can have detrimental effects on your business, your personal relationships, physical and mental health, and overall happiness in life.
- Tax Advantages In A Home Business - Tax deductions are one of the beauties of engaging in a home business, you can deduct business expenses such as supplies, subscriptions to professional journals, and an allowance for the business use of your vehicle and house.
- Tax Information for Small Businesses - The IRS publishes a lot of tax information to help small business owners and there are many ways to get it. You can always visit an IRS office to pick up copies of IRS forms and publications, although the IRS continues to make it easier for you to get these materials without leaving your office or maybe even your home.
- The Importance of Good Business Etiquette - Etiquette is a very important factor in determining the success or failure of a business or a person. Practicing and following these tips for business etiquette will have a remarkable effect in improving business and build contacts necessary for your business.
- The Top Five Technical Documentation Mistakes - Weak technical documentation is very common, yet a company's entire future can depend on the amount of attention they pay to this very important issue.
Other Articles
- Six Tips For A Better Engineering Resume - One of thet key elements of success in a job search is the resume and the engineering resume can often be one of the more difficult documents to develop.
- Attitude Is More Important Than Age To A Home Business Entrepreneur - Your attitude plays a very important in determining whether you can be a successful Home Business Entrepreneur.
- Listen To Me Lad Says Jack - As an apprentice engineer I learned some very sage advice: Remember that you get paid just as much to rub out as you do to draw in the first place, so don't you be frightened to make a few mistakes.
- The Power of Passion - A vital attitude for you to constantly improve is YOUR PASSION. This one attitude can change your entire life for the better. Improving this attitude affects everyone around you. They believe in you, trust you and want to support you.
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