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Top 7 Tips on Selling a Franchised Business If you own a franchised business there will come a time when perhaps you wish to sell your franchise. Top 7 Tips on Hiring a Business Lawyer Hiring a lawyer means spending money. Spending money on something that does not help your bottom line or profitability. Top 7 Tips on Community Based Marketing It behooves all businesses to support the community, which supports them. Top 7 Tips in Hiring a Business Consultant Have you ever considered hiring a business consultant to assist you in your business expansion? Top 7 Similarities of Business and War Business Strategy and capturing market share is somewhat similar in many regards to war strategy Top 7 Similarities of Business and Politics Politics and Business are so similar in many ways. Top 7 Similarities of Business and Sports It is so very interesting that some of the best entrepreneurs have some sports in their background. Top 7 or Top 6.66 Similarities to Franchise Businesses and World Religions Many people probably do not liken World Religions to a business model and yet many world religions are much like a franchise system. Top 7 Tips to Recognizing Bogus Expert Business Articles How can you spot an expert business article writer or knowledgeable business consultant from a wannabe pretender self-proclaimed marketing guru? It is difficult to separate those with actual business experience from those who are self-promoters of nothingness. Top 7 Tips to Prevent Lawsuits in Your Business All businesses worry about lawsuits because we live in such a ridiculous litigious society. It is truly unfortunate and yet this is what happens, business owners live in fear. Top 7 Tips to Beating the Bureaucracy in Business If you own a business then surely you realize that there are so many ridiculous rules and regulations to business that it is difficult to turn a profit. 7 Top Secrets to Business Article Online Writing If you have expertise in a certain field or industry then you should write a business article to tell of it and then put your byline at the bottom of the article so people can contact you. Top 7 New Ways to Promote Your Business Is your marketing less than you wish it to be? Is your marketing simply not pulling in the clientele you wish it would? Is your marketing not living up to your business or marketing plan? Is your marketing proper as per the MBA textbooks, but it is simply not working to your expectations? Do you feel these expectations are reasonable and achievable and yet you are not getting the results you planned for and expect? Top 7 Ways to Smoke the Competition There are many ways to smoke the competition and become the number one leader of your industry. For 27 years I ran a company and never in a market did we ever run second-place and if by chance we did, well it was not for long. Second place is for losers and that is no place for meat or my company. It is no place for my country, my family, my business or myself. Top 7 Mistakes Your Competitors Make and How to Capitalize On Them Most of your business competitors out there will make serious mistakes from time to time and if you were watching closely you can capitalize on these mistakes and propel your company in the marketplace further and have your brand in the customer’s mind ahead of the competition. Top 7 Business Reasons to Quit College and Start Your Own Business When recently asked to a speech by a rather well-known business college professor and asked to give my reasons why an entrepreneur should stay in college and go on to get an MBA. It seemed like a nice request but then the flashes kept coming into my mind of all the entrepreneurs who left college or even top Universities. Top 7 Tips to Starting Your Own Business When starting your own business it pays to jot down a business plan and that is not too hard considering that many of the business plans are already out there for the type of business which you will probably be starting. Top 7 Tips to Making a Business Plan If you are considering starting a business making a business plan is a good idea. A professional business plan can help you become more successful in your business. All businesses plans have an executive summary. Top 7 Tips to Ditching Sales People If you are in a small business you probably hate all the salespeople constantly harassing you and I especially hate it; how about you? Top 7 Tips for the Car Wash Business If you are going to start a carwash business you need to understand that over 80 percent of your customers will come in from a ten mile radius of your location. You should also be aware that generally in the carwash industry only 15 to 20 percent of your customers will be regular; that is to say they will wash their car with your carwash two to four times per week. Top 7 Tips for Starting a Truck Wash Business When starting a truck wash business it makes sense to be as close to a major truck stop and a major interchange of two major freeways as possible. Top 7 Tips for Marketing Trade Journal Public Relations Articles When marketing industry information and articles in trade journals it makes sense to be certain that the information going into the trade journal fits the trade journal’s readership and offers new information to the industry that cannot be gotten in other places. Top 7 Tips for Designing a Marketing Plan There is a professional way to making a marketing plan, which is outlined in MBA textbooks. Now then, I want you to take your MBA textbooks marketing plan and shitcan it. Top 7 Tips for Business Newsletters If you are sending out corporate communication to your employees, vendors and team members there are some things that you need to know. One is that you must send them out on a regular basis and a consistent basis. Top 7 Tips for Auto Detailing Business Auto detailing businesses should always strive to exceed customer expectations in order to maximize referrals. Auto detailing companies should not overspend in yellow pages advertising. Auto detailing companies might wish to consider paying each one of the auto detailing technicians in their business a percentage of the jobs that they get done. Top 7 Tips for Aircraft Cleaning Companies If you own an aircraft cleaning and detailing company perhaps you have had trouble getting new clientele. However getting clientele for aircraft detailing company is not as difficult as you might think. Top 7 Things Your Business Can Do to Survive a Hurricane During the 2005 Atlantic tropical hurricane season we saw many small businesses and large corporations in the regions that were devastated or destroyed go out of business. It is necessary for your business no matter what size to have a disaster preparedness plan and a continuation plan so that such a large catastrophic hurricane will not impact your business. Sure, such large mother nature events of this size will impact your business somewhat but there are things you can do in your business so your business can survive a hurricane just like you and your family did. Top 7 Considerations to Sales During Hurricane Evacuations If your business has a team of salespeople who continually handle customers outside the region and you are facing a large category hurricane coming in to your region and everyone is forced by mandatory evacuation to leave. You need to provide sales tools, such as cell phones and contact information to decision-makers in your company so your salespeople can continue to do sales and make arrangements with customers and get those arrangements okayed by your management team. Top 7 Advertising Tip Myths of Marketing Self-Proclaimed Experts Have you ever bought a book on business marketing to help you in your own business? Well many of us have and we have probably also bought tapes and other helpful materials to help us in our advertising. After reading hundreds and hundreds of marketing books over the 27-years in my business, it became rather obvious that much of what these marketing gurus proclaimed simply was not so.