Avoid Start-Up Failure

The high mortality rate of start-up businesses is something that we at WinWeb strive to help lower. Most business failures are due to relatively simple errors that occur through lack of experience. With this in mind, consider some of the following common mistakes that a rookie business owner can make.

Don’t become arrogant and …

Exhibit Your Product At A Trade Show

Trade shows are an excellent way of gaining more exposure for your product or business idea. However, they can also be quite a daunting prospect for anybody who has never previously exhibited, so here are a few tips to help you make the most of it.

Make sure that your booth has a high level …

Have You Considered A Franchise?

Making the decision to start your own business is an equally exciting and daunting prospect. One way of significantly reducing the risk is to buy into an existing franchise. A UK survey conducted by NatWest showed that nine out of ten franchise businesses were profitable in 2009 – an astonishing figure considering the …

Could You Leave Behind The 9-5?

Quitting a steady job to start a small business is often a very daunting prospect. The days of receiving a guaranteed salary and having fixed working hours will be behind you, often replaced by financial uncertainty and very long workdays. Despite this risk, the promise of greater rewards and increased job satisfaction drives …

Pursuing Your Entrepreneurial Dream

Being your own boss, being self-reliant and master of your own time – that is what many of us are dreaming about. Running a virtual assistant business from home, not having to commute to work everyday and being more around the kids when they are home, has more than mass-appeal.
Starting this business while still being …

Planning and Starting Your Business The Easy Way

These days many of us are thinking about starting a business and many of us are overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of things to consider – is that how you feel?
It can be a lonely business starting up a new business, especially if you do it for the first time. Like so often in life …

The Best Way To Manage Your Small Business

Managing your business begins actually before you even start your small business, let us explore some of the issues facing the new entrepreneur.
When you analyze the numbers of business failures during the fist 12 months, you will find that about 28% to 34% of businesses close their doors again. While these numbers are horribly high …

Plan Your Business Start-Up With SWOT

During the planning phase of your new start-up business, you have to consider many different aspects of your business idea, yourself and your business environment.
We would like to introduce you to a simple and effective tool to start planning your business pre-start-up online – “SWOT”.
While WinWeb OnlineOffice is primarily designed to help you run your …

Business Start-up Software essential to Business Survival.

Before starting a business, it is essential to plan your business and check the viability of any business idea to avoid costly mistakes.
The minimum requirements are an articulated business idea and an understanding of the associated production and overhead costs involved.
This will allow for the projection of a cash-flow plan. Once the cash-flow plan is …

Advantages Of Family Businesses

Thinking about starting a business? Want to be self-employed, work from home or have a small office? What about help in your business? There is another way to start a business.
Many are starting family businesses in these times to beat the economic downturn. You may wonder what the the benefits may be?

Common …

5 Questions To Consider For Your Pre Business Startup!

Are you thinking about starting a business? Yes? Then you are one of the millions of people who play with this idea every year. Many don’t start their business ever, because they are concerned about all the things that could go wrong.
Starting a business is like so many other things in life, you just simply …

10 People You Should Talk To Before You Start Your Business.

Starting a business, especially the first time, can be a challenging experience – what can you expect to happen? Will it work? Have you forgotten something? All these and more questions worry most business start-up entrepreneurs but help is often closer than you think!
Running a business is not ‘brain surgery’ and just talking about starting …

Assessing Your Business Idea – Pre Business Start-up.

Over 50% of business start-ups fail within only five years, and most of those fail in the first twelve months. There seems to be a commonality in the reasons why businesses fail at this early stage. Question is, does it really have to be like this? We think not!
Below you will find some easy to …

100 Small & Home Business Start-Up Tips For Entrepreneurs

Today many more of us are planning to start a small business and becoming our own boss. Some want to escape the corporate grind and others were made redundant. The motivations are manyfold, while the the things to consider, when starting a business are always the same.
We have compiled a random list of 100 small …

Small Business Set-Up

Now you’ve decided on your business idea, recorded your business goals and started planning your cash-flow you need to set up some essential areas of your business. The 6 steps below with give you a brief insight into what you will need to set up to get on track for running a successful business.
1. Website. …

Small Business Start-Up

The thought of starting a business can be a daunting prospect for anyone, regardless of experience and financial situation.
Breaking down the early stages into manageable steps will help you see it’s not as complicated as you might think. This brief overview will cover a few things you should consider if you are looking to become …