Small businesses with the fastest growing revenue know exactly where they are going. According to Inc Magazines 28th 500 fastest growing small businesses list, approximately 88% of them have a statement outlining where they are going. The other 12% are living dangerously.

This is my first article BusinessBlogs.co.nz. I’ll try to tell you what usually remains untold about company management and control.

As responsible business owners, we invest a lot of time answering the “what” question. What will I sell? What should my price be? What kind of marketing should I do?

Remember, you don’t even have to own a business to make money from Joint Venture’s, but it does help to have one.

Internationally renowned Joint Venture Specialist, Robin J. Elliott defines a Joint Venture (Strategic Alliance) as “…a business agreement or partnership …

What makes competition what it is? Why does it matter? Some use competition to work harder, others to give up beforehand.

Last week we tried to give perspective to the idea that being the classic Market Focused entrepreneur isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

You can probably name a few different personality profiling systems. One example is the popular Myers Briggs that many businesses use to evaluate potential employees.

There are some things in life that are supposed to be really complicated; being a parent, learning how to invest and running your own business.

Industry research indicates that over one third of all SME business owners intend to exit their businesses over the next 5 years.

Every entrepreneur who has ever dreamed of setting up or forming their own business start up is fully conversant as to how tricky it can be

Most technology startups start off doing something different than what they ultimately are successful at doing.

Engaging social networks & other ‘free’ technologies costs time & effort. What are some ways to make a financial return from these tools?

Which of these words are you using to run your business? Here’s a way to remember them – “Try” to strike them from your vocabulary, “but” if you “can’t”, you can “settle” for only using a few and make a “goal” of getting rid of the rest “later”, when you’re “alone” and nobody’s watching.

I have written three business plans for my own businesses. Two were for existing businesses and one for a Start up business (BOOST Business Coaching). The two plans written for existing businesses were written entirely on the prompting of Bank Managers as I was borrowing resources to invest in these enterprises.

A disaster plan will allow you to deal and come to terms with the disaster situation in those first critical hours or days rather than deciding on how you are going to deal with it.