Business: Taking The Next Step With Your Business

Taking The Next Step With Your Business

Written by Paul Sanford

The years of hard work and sacrifice have finally started paying off. What began with a dream and huge gamble with your savings account—not to mention repparttar

countless hours of hard work and sweat—is now a viable and financially stable enterprise. Where once you only worried about making enough money to pay your salary now there are employees and their benefits to take care of. In short, your small business has grown up and now it is time to take repparttar 135218

next logical step: protecting your assets.

In partnerships or sole proprietorships, repparttar 135219 personal assets of repparttar 135220 owner(s) may be attached by creditors. Worse still, in today’s litigation-frenzied atmosphere where anyone with any substantial assets has a legitimate concern over being sued and losing everything that they have worked so hard to gain, personal property may be used to settle a lawsuit filed against repparttar 135221 person’s business! When there was little to lose there was less concern about such matters but those days are over and now you have to do what is necessary to ensure that your home and personal assets are not stripped away from you by some frivolous lawsuit that somehow got way out of control!

Are We Having Fun Yet?

Written by Judith Kallos

You'd better be!

If you want your online business to survive and thrive, you need to be having fun! At least several times each week, potential clients call me for business ideas or suggestions for "things to sell" online. They don't have a business concept or a product they believe in. They are just looking for some way to jump on repparttar online bandwagon and get their hands on repparttar 135190 supposed riches everyone else is making.

When asked this question, I tell them my story about how I got into repparttar 135191 whole Web/Internet thing in repparttar 135192 first place. Back in early 1994 when most folks hadn't heard of "online" and there were things like IRC, bulletin boards and very slow modems, I got hooked on CompuServe.

I remember telling anyone who would listen how much fun it was to use (the speed of connectivity wasn't an issue back then) and how I just knew that this technology would change business and our world forever. I got used to repparttar 135193 "deer in repparttar 135194 headlights" look that came over their faces.

Needless to say my family, friends and most of repparttar 135195 folks on repparttar 135196 block thought I was nuts! Their eyes would glaze over after 10 seconds of me trying to explain how it worked and what repparttar 135197 potential was. I didn't care, it was so much fun, I could burst! My better half at repparttar 135198 time and to this day was repparttar 135199 only one who recognized that sparkle in my eye to know that I was on to something.

So, I opened my little studio in a small rural town's downtown district in December of 1994. They didn't want me there. They thought repparttar 135200 Internet was "evil" and I was about hooking up children with pedophiles, credit card fraud and creating adult Web sites. But I didn't care - I was having fun! You name repparttar 135201 stereotype and I was confronted with it. Regardless of repparttar 135202 resistance I couldn't wait to get up and get to repparttar 135203 office and enjoy each moment of every day.

Even if it meant dealing with those who would stop by with comments such as "you really think this fad is going to last?" To which I would reply "Fad? I'll catch you in 10 years when this technology has changed repparttar 135204 world as you know it!" The time flew by and each day was a blur. My better half would have to give me a call around 7-8pm reminding me it was time to come home.

Starting my business, growing it and keeping it healthy in an online arena saturated with experts and gurus hasn't been easy. But I am having fun! Incorporating and filling out all those legal documents and quarterly returns for repparttar 135205 past 10 years has been a real pain. But it doesn't matter; I'm having fun! Dealing with skeptics, criticism and repparttar 135206 ongoing challenges that having any business will entail are all there. Who cares? I'm having fun!

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