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20 Small Business Tips, For Success
These are just some general tips to keep in mind as you
design/operate your small business:
1. Take the time out to explore and understand whether or not
you are compatible with running our own business. Some people
are just plain happier...
4 Unfortunate Myths About Online MLM
Experts and newbies are alike in misunderstanding the way online MLM works, and under-estimating the steps involved.
2 examples of common (but untrue) MLM myths are: "An Internet Marketing Expert is an Automatic MLM expert" and "Make a Ton of...
A Small Business Consultant Can Help in Many Ways…But One Thing He Can’t Provide
An owner must realise that the 'oomph' must come from the owner. It is no benefit if all the passion and drive to improve the business comes from the consultant. It will not work that way.
Owners must be excited and driven to succeed. If they...
In Praise of Thinking Small
All your life you've probably been beseeched to "Think Big!", the idea being that if you think big you achieve big, while thinking small gets you nowhere fast. That's probably good advice as a general rule but it shouldn't be taken literally...
Top 10 Business E-mail Basics
When it comes to your business e-mail communications, you need to make an impression that can lend to the determination that you are someone that will be a pleasure to do business with.
For your consideration below are the "Top 10 e-mail...
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The Benefits of Using Seminars and Small Business Management Courses to Build Your Accounting, Consulting or Tax Practice
There are many benefits of using seminars and small business
management courses to help build your accounting, consulting or
tax practice. The primary reason is to build a reputation within
your market - capital that you can profit from on an ongoing
basis.
By providing seminars or small business management courses, you
build your credibility and increase your exposure in the
community. You also increase your profitability. You can
capitalize on your knowledge and expertise in your field by
making it publicly available.
While you may not consider yourself as a speaker or a writer,
but there are plenty of ways to build your own skills so that
you, too, can provide this valuable service to your customers
and clients.
Your clients come to you seeking your guidance and knowledge
about accounting, consulting or taxes, but there is so much more
to it than what you do for them. It's what they can do for
themselves to help their business that they may not realize they
are missing out on.
This is where you come in. By offering a seminar or small
business management course, providing them with the ins and outs
of business and helping them to see ways they can implement your
ideas and knowledge into their own strategies will build your
reputation, and your client list.
There are vendors out there who can help you capitalize on your
knowledge and expertise. They can provide you with materials to
help get you started, help you market your seminar or course,
and find ways that you can corner a specialized market that
needs addressing.
You can find organizations like Toastmasters International
(http://www.toastmasters.org) where you can build your speaking
skills, or services like The Instant Practice Builder
(http://instantpracticebuilder.com) who will provide pre-written
scripts for seminars and small business management courses free
to members.
Your small investment finding help to market, create and
advertise your seminar or small business management course will
prove to be a fruitful investment once your
clientele start
pouring in to sign up for your seminar or course.
You need not go it alone. Help is out there. Finding it isn't as
difficult as you think it may be. There are specialists for this
category much like you are a specialist in your category. We
can't all be good at everything, now can we?
The basics you need for your seminar and small business
management courses are scheduling and location, marketing and
advertising and creating, producing and presenting your course
or seminar.
Your expert knowledge on accounting, consulting or taxes will be
the basis for your course or seminar. Have faith in what you do
and what you know and others will have faith in you. There may
be some material that you require to help get you started, or to
build off of. There are vendors out there who can provide you
with material.
Producing and creating a seminar or small business course is a
technique that does require some skill. There, again, are
vendors and experts out there who can help you get your course
or seminar off the ground. They can also provide you with
different avenues to offer your course, such as a course at your
local community college, an online course, or a teleseminar.
Advertising and marketing are one of the primary targets of your
seminar. Once you have created a seminar or small business
management course and have the tools in place to present your
seminar or course, you have to have students and an audience who
are willing to pay to hear what you have to say and want to
learn what you are teaching.
Marketing and advertising strategists are available to help you
target your market and get you started if you are finding you
don't have the clients, audience or students that make your
seminar or course a profitable venture.
About the author:
Kirk Ward provides business building tools and resources for
accountants and consultants at http://instantpracticebuilder.com.
Or, you can visit http://instantpracticebuilder.com/surveys/ and
tell Kirk what you need from him!
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United States Small Business Administration |
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Small Business Service | Home |
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