Business Opportunities: Success and Failure Statistics as Well as Possible Prevention

Written by Vishal P. Rao


Let's face it, business opportunities are a rather quick, easy way to start a business. They are usually "turnkey" operations, where someone that buys into a program either online or offline is provided with allrepparttar necessary elements of immediately being in business for themselves. Business opportunity programs can also be cost effective, as many abound, and finding one within a restricted budget is rather easy.

The biggest challenges faced when choosing a business opportunity program arerepparttar 135769 following:

1. Choosing one that suits an entrepreneur's needs and skills as well as interests.

2. Choosing one that pays enough in commissions on goods or services that makes it lucrative enough to turn a healthy profit.

3. Choosing one that is wanted and needed by customers/clients.

4. Choosing one that does not exist in an already glutted market. This would lead to too many choices of other providers and a rather limited market forrepparttar 135770 business owner.

The sad facts are that because ofrepparttar 135771 easy start up, andrepparttar 135772 rather quick "fix" that business opportunities present to potential entrepreneurs, business opportunity members can quickly enter a business and just as quickly leave it. Turnover can be quite a problem. Since little initial investment is required, many members "jump into" a business opportunity at whim, and quickly find that running a business is a whole heck of a lot of work!

The reason forrepparttar 135773 failure rate is also attributable to certain outlooks and requirements that many business opportunity "joiners" fail to consider when joining:

1. Isrepparttar 135774 business opportunity nothing more than empty promises,repparttar 135775 old "too good to be true" adage? Unfortunately, these types of offerings run rampant both online and offline.

2. Isrepparttar 135776 business opportunity catering to a dying market? Markets can fluctuate, so due diligence is needed. Research into markets, just as with any other business is paramount.

3. Isrepparttar 135777 business opportunity solvent? Talk to other members, and do research. Become aware of any problems in payments/revenues before you join.

4. Isrepparttar 135778 business opportunity flexible? Doesrepparttar 135779 Biz Op restrict members in their advertising methods, or are they inflexible and "distant" in their approach to members' concerns/problems.

5. Isrepparttar 135780 business opportunity viable? Viability should be financial as well as personal. In other words, doesrepparttar 135781 Biz Op have a great financial track record and does it meetrepparttar 135782 needs of "you" personally, as far as personal satisfaction and approaches to sales and marketing?

Backup and Save your business!

Written by Fred Farah


There you are busily typing away on your PC or your Laptop, and all of a suddenrepparttar strangest thing happens. The screen goes black, extinquished like a candle inrepparttar 135668 wind.

A message appears saying: "The file hal.dll is missing or corrupt. Windows can not start." Well you know that 95% of computer glitches are solved by a simple reboot, so click…oops, can't click, no Windows. Ok then, you reset, and you think you are sure to be OK whenrepparttar 135669 reboot completes.

Wrong! The same error message appears "The file hal.dll is missing or corrupt. Windows can not start." How is it possible for one measly file to kill your system?

DISASTER…What to do now? Phone your tech friend and ask his advice. He tells yourepparttar 135670 bad news. You are obliged to re-install Windows fromrepparttar 135671 original disc! Oh My God! Will I lose all my programs and data? Yes, you will have to re- install all your programs. No your data may be safe, but only if you don't have to reformat your hard disc.

But, your friend asks, I hope you have all your backups.

DO YOU, because that isrepparttar 135672 key to saving your business. You know that in today's business world, 95% of your business information is stored on your computer. This applies not only to online businesses, but also to offline ones. In this paperless society of ours, business people are printing less and less of all their transactions.

Think hard. Whererepparttar 135673 heck did I hide my original Windows disc? Really, are you organized enough that you can easily find your original installation discs, along withrepparttar 135674 code numbers they need to re-install.

You own some programs you downloaded offrepparttar 135675 Net, but they are stored on your hard drive. Are they backed up? When isrepparttar 135676 last time you backed up your data,repparttar 135677 lifeblood of your business.

What backup system do you use? Do you userepparttar 135678 old- fashioned tape systems, or do you backup to CD or DVD? Whichever one you use,repparttar 135679 key is that your backups must be frequent enough to keep you out of major trouble.

Program backups do not have to be constantly repeated like Data does. Programs do not change, unless you downloaded an update. Then your update must be saved on your hard drive, and also backed up.

Data includes so many different things that it's easy to forget to back up some items. 'My Documents' contains much ofrepparttar 135680 data, but not nearly all. Do you know where your Favorite links are stored? Where is your email that you saved? Along with your email address book, Microsoft hides these files quite well.

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