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to the "Biz Corner", the NBA's weekly E-newsletter.
November
12, 2009
1. Find Your Micro-Niche - And Succeed!
2.
What Every Start Up Business Must Do To Guarantee Success
3. SBA Launches
New Online Training Course:
Winning Federal Contracts – A Guide for Women
Entrepreneurs
4. NBA Benefit Provider - Operating Plan Forecast
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1.
Find Your Micro-Niche - And Succeed!
by Malcolm Leyshon
http://www.malcolmleyshon.com
©
2009
A common mistake that new internet marketers make
is failing to find
and market to a clearly defined micro-niche market. This
is the cause
of a large proportion of small internet business failures. There
are many
well established businesses in broad markets like "internet
marketing"
or "self improvement." If you do not narrow down
your market, you will
put yourself against very tough competition, which includes
the most
established, most experienced and most successful marketers on
the
internet.
Up your odds for success by micro defining your
market, here is how:
http://www.nationalbusiness.org/NBAWEB/Newsletter2009/2739.htm
2. What Every Start Up Business Must Do To Guarantee Success
by
Derek O'Dwyer
http://www.havingthebestday.com?t=a8
©
2009
You enthusiastically launch into your new business
and approach it with
energy and vigor for the next few weeks. Like every new
business, you
are gung ho, dealing with inquiries, orders, deliveries and
ordering
supplies. Then suddenly your bank manager calls you to say that you
are running out of money on the same day that your supplier calls you
looking
for cash. Yikes!
Know your numbers to impact your success:
http://www.nationalbusiness.org/NBAWEB/Newsletter2009/2740.htm
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Washington Watch ***
3. SBA Launches New Online
Training Course:
Winning Federal Contracts – A Guide for Women Entrepreneurs
Women
who own small businesses will be able to use a new online
U.S. Small Business
Administration training course to learn how to
identify and take advantage
of federal contracting opportunities. The
new training course, Winning Federal
Contracts: A Guide for Women
Entrepreneurs, is part of an ongoing government-wide
initiative to
promote opportunities for women-owned businesses in the area
of
government contracting.
The Winning Federal Contracts
course is available for you, learn more:
http://www.nationalbusiness.org/NBAWEB/Newsletter2009/2741.htm
*** Lets Get Business Started! ***
4.
NBA Benefit Provider - Operating Plan Forecast
NBA Operating
Plan Forecast (OPF) or Projected Profit & Loss
Statement, is an excellent
tool for the small business owner. The
forecast plan will not only show you
what to expect in profits, it will
also forewarn you of impending problems.
This program will allow
you to complete "What If" types of analyses.
It was designed so
that you can customize the forecast plan for your own business
which will better prepare you when requesting funding from a
financial
or government institution.
Available for download from the National Business
Association.
Click here for more
information about this NBA Benefit Provider:
http://www.nationalbusiness.org/NBAWEB/Member_Benefits/E314.htm
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