Business credit bureaus provide reporting on the creditworthiness of business clients. It’s funny how businesses who extend credit to an individual will routinely run a credit check, but they will extend credit to a business without taking the same precaution. Here’s how you can run a credit check on a potential business client:

In this video, Larry Hicks from O’Sullivan Creel explains some of the depreciation tax breaks that you can take thanks to the 2009 stimulus package. See http://physicianentrepreneur.com/?p=666 for the full video and for more business and personal planning topics.

With all the bad news about the economy it sounds like this is a terrible time to start a business, but if you keep track of current trends and understand how to leverage them, this may turn out to be a good time to start certain businesses.

In our last article on Help a Reporter out (HARO) we talked about leveraging expertise to create a brand for yourself via expert requests.
This article focuses on leveraging the expertise of others to create an expert platform for yourself. Continued - click here >>

Here are some good reasons why a recession can be a good time to start a business, and some factors that will help you succeed as an entrepreneur. See the full article at physicianentrepreneur.com

Here are some ways you can start your own business while still working at your day job.

Two-thirds of new US businesses survive at least two years, 44% survive at least four years, and 31% survive at least seven years. Here are some of the key factors that increase the odds that your business will stay in business:

Here are some thoughts about the value of a mentor and why finding a mentor is one of the first things you should do when getting started in business.

When dark economic clouds gather over your business or professional practice, here are some ways you can find a silver lining and improve its chances of survival.

Business costs are one of the key areas entrepreneurs can make mistakes – mistakes that are costly in both money, and sometimes, more importantly time. So understanding HOW start-up costs are evaluated, and how to create your own assessment of business costs, that apply to start-ups and more established businesses will place you in a better position to evaluate the cash flow needs of your projects. Here are some of the key points to cover when preparing or evaluating the start-up costs for a new business: