I listen to people making excuses everyday as to the fact that they weren’t able to start their own businesses and even if they had tried once, they couldn’t do much but write it off as one- of -those -things- that -happen -to -us. Among a lot of reasons, myths and laziness-induced excuses, some people still emerge as likely candidates to start their own businesses after all and probably for the second time now and if you had just been a discerning young about-to-jump-ship business junior, this is just as relevant to you as it is for anyone else.

We have figured out 5 ways to nurture your start-up effectively :

1. Start-up in your part-time by parting time : One of the strongest reasons as to why people don’t start their own businesses is the fact that they would have to let go of their juicy paycheck. Hell, why did you even have to think about it in the first place? Why not have the best of both? But just like you’d pay more for an expensive car, good things come with fat price tags – You’ll end up working like a dog and try to manage both your day job and your part-time business – I think that’s fine. The good part is that you still haven’t let go of your trousers and that paycheck is still yours. You will get to experiment and you will get to write it off, if it didn’t work. That’s neat if you ask me.

It is so tired to be “ordinary”. It is such a pain to see all that effort going into living one’s life to see that the results are far from extra ordinary. It is almost a sin of you let your life be just as everyone else’s life is. Simply put: if you don’t have spunk and dare to do something different; you suck”
Harsh it might be, but ask this question again. Munch on a cookie and tell yourself that you are happy munching it like everyone does? Or have …

What is the one single biggest investment anyone would ever make, anywhere in the world? It would be a home! A home strikes an emotional chord with many people and is probably one of those few assets which has a string emotions attached to it – not just the owners but even their families. Owning a home is like owning a few square feet of bliss; of an inexplicable sensation of freedom.
More than anything else, owning a home also gives you this possibility of dropping anchor at a set …

Do me a favor — forget whatever you knew about businesses — starting one; running it; marketing it and even selling it. Forget the fancy degrees and whatever else you did to get around to even THINK about business. Remember just one thing:
Cash In Must be More than your Cash out.
That’s the corner stone to business success. You won’t exist without it. Never.
Not just business, it will work for Investing and saving money too. So even if you are really Interested about businesses, look at your personal financial situation …

Everyone keeps doling out ideas by the dozen but perhaps it is time to give you the ingredients and allow YOU to think — see what makes for a great business model.
1. A no over head business : I don’t see myself having fun when I still need to pay for the rent, employee salaries and huge over heads while the profit I stand to make on any given sale is miniscule. Without overheads, my profits are pure gold.
2. A Service Business : Because it gives me an …

There are numerous people who dream of being rich and to be able to do all those things the rich do – like travel and be anywhere at any time — but somehow, these very people never get to be where they aspire to be. They get stuck with the steady, mundane corporate grind and the more time they spend doing this, the more it becomes impossible for them to get out of it — or so it seems.

Here’s the fodder for your brain — one thing you don’t have …

Young and dashing, ambitious but foolish — if you are about to be boxed into this category, take stock and think. You have been earning money but not saving? Have you even thought of long term implications of such nonchalance? Would you like to let your feet touch the blue waters of the beaches in Maldives or Bora-Bora? You need to get away from the grind and plan your finances well for all those dreams to come true and don’t let anyone tell you anything else that sounds like …

I had this in mind for a long time now and finally, I see some authoritative entry on the WSJ about how “lousy” buy a car, really is.
Here is an excerpt from the article on the Wall Street Journal :
The fact is that for most of us after our houses and maybe college educations for the kids (at a really, really good college) cars will take more of our money than anything else. And Detroit (and Nagoya and Stuttgart) want as much of that money as they can possibly get.
Hence …

I see numerous reports online that explain how one must get out of debt and an endless flood of advice on how to best deal with your financial situation. First, lets look at the numbers :
The U.S. Federal Reserve Board has numbers stating that the household debt has topped the $2-trillion mark in the U.S. – and that doesn’t include mortgage debt. Apart from this, Americans are exceedingly splurging away on credit cards and thereby face a staggering amount of debt from these cards alone.
When the time …

One of the most common excuses for most people to start their own businesses, full-time or part-time is the fact that they don’t seem to be able to come to a conclusion about that all-too-important-biz-idea. I was just thinking maybe I should pitch in as an unsolicited small business consultant
These ideas just flashed by in my mind while I keep dreaming or conjuring up thousands of ideas.

Domestic Services : People are yearning to spend on domestic help. I don’t know if you had ever realized it but walk …

 
Look around you and notice businesses — both big and small. What do you see? I don’t know about you, but I see a wide gaping hole that tells me something interesting. People do know how to render services and manufacture products, but they do not know how to sell. Some people might be natural marketers at heart, but they don’t want to the dirty work of going out there and doing the sales act.
 
Where so many of my fellow men are giving up on this idea, I am tempted …

Something beautiful happened to me recently. I came across this site called Dailyarticle.com which is an article directory basically. But very much unlike the free directories you find aplenty — webmasters can purchase originally written articles, written by a huge number of writers empaneled therein. All of these articles are scrutinized before being posted to check for re-hashed, duplicated content and are thoroughly proof-read.
However, the point isn’t that. My articles get sold there — and that’s what I wanted to rant about. My pay pal never looked so full ever. …

I was consulting a client on proper advertising mechanics the other day and I noticed a major flaw that some-how was a common string attached to most other companies pertaining to the message that is reaching to the consumers.

Surprising Non-chalance : Most companies are incredulously non-chalant about the mssage that is going through their marketing efforts. Stale, laid-back, impassionate and uninteresting messages on top of the fact that the consumers today give two hoots about your names and brands and your fancy logos.
No fire, only fart : Either the message …

I just realized the other day that “living in a state of apparent ease” isn’t such a bright idea after all. Everyone has a money crunch but how you come of that rut is perhaps the most important thought you would have – practically speaking. You see, I was pushed to a stage wherein I didn’t have much to fall back on. I had two choices – let it eat me up or I do something about it. I did something about it.
I am not bill gates yet, but I …

Every body keeps talking about why you should be IN business. Here are reasons why you shouldn’t be :
1.You can never go back – the point of no return: take this with a pinch of salt, once you take this step, you have sauntered beyond the point of no return. You can never get back to the corporate world — I mean, perhaps, you might ! But then, it is never going to be the same again.
2. You will have to cajole people to make money for themselves …