4 Tech Tips to Keep Ahead of the Game

Thinking about starting a business or trying to make some cash out of the web? Technology can enable people and it can just as easily distract. We’ve got a few tips for you to consider to cut down on ...Full Article

The Right Way to Build Up Your Small Business

Large conglomerates have similarly large advertising budgets allowing forays into all sorts of marketing avenues. Small businesses do not have such luxuries. They must make every advertising dollar co...Full Article

Top Ten Marketing Mistakes Made By Small Businesses

Even the most marketing-oriented firms make mistakes. Most of us remember the turmoil at Coca Cola when it decided to abandon its successful cola formula and the real thing disappeared from store shel...Full Article

How to Find Good Ideas for Business and Life

Finding ideas is not easy, but finding good ideas is even more difficult. So how can we find good ideas? There is a lesson about it I learned from the book On Writing Well: You should always collect m...Full Article

Five Ways Small Businesses Can Combat Cyber Crime

Small business owners should create a culture of securityAs small businesses increasingly rely on new Internet technologies to remain competitive within the local and global marketplace, they are also...Full Article

10 Cheap Ways to Build Your Brand

Learn why branding reinforcement is important for your business. Many small businesses are good at pursuing a relationship with customers, but they arent as good at nurturing it. Nurturing a relations...Full Article

Make Lives Easier Through Design

Functional, stylish products are the hallmark of inclusive design. And with 50 million Americans with some sort of physical limitation, the market is there for this new business niche.  Fift...Full Article

Buying a Business? Don't Buy Garbage

A business is a living, breathing entity, and it is subject to certain life cycles, which I describe as “Three G’s to the Top of the Hill.” The bottom of the hill is Garbage, the middle of the hill is...Full Article

Starting a New Business in a Small Town

Q. I am a former pastor who left the ministry after sixteen years to spend more time with my family. We moved to a very small town (less than ten thousand people) and I want to start an internet caf b...Full Article

The Misconceptions of the Value Of Disclosures in Franchising

Disclosure laws in franchising are suppose to help the consumer. They dont. The FTC, which over sees franchising has in fact created a rule, which makes 5 lb. Disclosure documents for franchise buyers...Full Article

Franchise Buyers from Hell

I ran a franchise company for many years, a car wash franchise, and we use to get the most ridiculous franchise buyers who thought they wanted a franchise. It seems we had to deal with these Kookoo bi...Full Article

Bogus Investor and Consumer Complaints and Consumer Misrepresentation

Like most regulatory bodies in the United States, the Federal Trade Commission gets investor and consumer complaints. But how much of these are actually real? These agencies then act on such complaint...Full Article

Franchise Buyers Lying On Forms

The Federal Trade Commission which governs the franchise industry thru the franchise rule, which enforces Franchise Disclosure laws seems to think that consumers need to be protected even when they li...Full Article

Cleaning Grain Silos, Towers, Containers, and Combines

If you run a pressure washing company in a rural market you will need to learn how to wash agricultural industry equipment and infrastructure. In our company The Tractor Wash Guys, we We have several ...Full Article

Politics, Environmental Rules, and Mobile Car Washes

During the California Recall Election, I was very interested. Without getting into the political scene at all; my entire company, The Car Wash Guys, and all our staff and franchisees were closely watc...Full Article

Why The Carwash Industry is Stagnant; What You Can Do to Change Your Field

Many years ago, I had warned the carwash industry of problems brewing in customer dissatisfaction as we continued to grow our car wash company into a National Franchise Chain. I warned of environmenta...Full Article

Make Your Business More Profitable

More sales and more profit. Isnt that what you want from your business? Its not hard to achieve if you follow these 4 simple tips.1. Keep Adding More New MarketsEvery new market you open captures a ne...Full Article

Pressure Washing Business and Post Fire Cleanups

Many have not experienced a fire up close. One year about 15 years ago I almost lost my house as did our neighbors to a wild fire. It moved so fast and the sky so black, with cinders everywhere and so...Full Article

Franchise Companies Come and Go

Each day we hear of companies entering the franchising industry. This is good news for America, right? Well, yes and know. Yes, because franchising is the closest thing to the spirit of free enterpris...Full Article

432 Page Franchise Report by the FTC

The Federal Trade Commission is upgrading the franchise law and they have made a report. Recently I have been reviewing the FTCs franchise rule report page by page. I have was shocked to learn that af...Full Article