Today I want to look at some successful tips for anyone thinking of starting up their own business, be it your own home based business, or one involving a store or shop front. DO WHAT YOU LOVE if you are going to start a business  and you are going to *live and breathe it* and hopefully have and run it for a long time, it has to be something you love to do! Don’t open a florist if you suffer from hay-fever and don’t open a bait shop if you can’t stand the smell of fish! If you love something you have a passion for it, and sharing that passion, feeling confident, and, having co

Congratulations, you have launched a successful start-up company. Everything so far is going according to your well written and comprehensive business plan, but how do you ensure that things continue to progress in a positive way and in accordance with your company’s goals and policies? The first step is to look at your business plan itself and determine if it in fact has projections beyond the first couple of months of the company’s inception. In other words, does the plan account for what will happen in the next three or even five years and does it have contingencies in place for