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Many new Small Businesses fail during the early years and one of the reasons attributed for the failure is their inability to beat the competition.

To be successful in your business and to be acknowledged as a successful small business entrepreneur, you have to adopt certain strategies that will enable you to outsmart your competitors and beat them. 1. Go Shopping Yourself:

If you are a manufacturer of certain products, you should go shopping yourself at least once a fortnight. By doing this you will be able to see how and where these products are being displayed, the price at which your competitors are selling their products and the type of packaging used. In fact purchasing of your competitors products on regular basis, testing them and comparing them with your products will be a very useful and productive exercise.2. Become a member of a Professional Association:

As an entrepreneur it is very important that you become a member of a professional association related to your business or industry. Never, ever think that you can operate in a vacuum and succeed. By regularly attending their meetings, you will get the opportunity of meeting like minded people and your competitors too. Opportunities for gathering vital information and secrets abound in such meetings. Be watchful, grab them and implement them in your small business. 3. Gather Information about Your Competition:  Read Full Story...

So Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England has pronounced the ‘nice’ decade over. Apparently we can now look forward to global trading uncertainty, the spiralling prices of natural resources, increases in home repossessions, and the massive restriction of credit.

Meanwhile politicians on both sides of the pond seem to be nasal gazing, wondering about their own individual political futures.

Is all this worrying you?

The neurotic will point out that the complete collapse of world economics is the least of our problems as we’re all going to be blown up by terrorists in any case. Of course if that doomsday scenario doesn’t hold true then the storms, tsunamis, droughts, plagues or famines that we’re all promised will certainly get you.

So against this less than cheery backdrop, is anybody going to believe that right now is a great time to be starting, or building, a business as an entrepreneur?  Read Full Story...

You want to know how to become an entrepreneur? It’s simple… but not easy. If it were easy everyone would work for themselves building businesses.Four Cornerstones to Become an Entrepreneur  Read Full Story...

The Foundation Everis has decided to convene an award that encourages the emergence of new entrepreneurs guaranteed or discovered by renowned scholars and to facilitate the financing of business projects with clear objectives of innovation, feasibility and benefit to society.

The Everis foundation considers necessary to promote the entrepreneurship

in spanish academic and scientific field , where there is a great quality in the investigation but in which scarce entrepreneurial talent capable of implementing projects with commercial value.

To help meet this need for Spanish society, the Everis ation has economically endowed the Entrepreneurs prize, also has decided to get involved in the development of projects awarded each year to contribute their knowledge and collaboration during the early stages.

The HSBC Young Entrepreneur Awards, is a regional business plan writing competition that invites talented post-secondary students from Hong Kong and other Asian countries to display their creativity and business acumen.

Gold Award winners from each country or territory will compete for the Best of the Best Awards in Hong Kong in June 2008. The team that wins the regional competition will be awarded a business development fund of HK$100,000.  Read Full Story...

Raise your hand if you’re heard these snippets of wisdom before: you should always dress for success; you only get one chance to make a first impression; and of course the ever-popular: you can’t judge a book by its cover.

        Megan graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Civil Engineering and went to work for the construction arm of chevron in her early twenties, until a few years later with an experience with a business coach lit the fire of entrepreneurship in her own furnace. Within a short time Megan, who is from the small town of Union Grove, was back in Alabama seeking the right business opportunity for her. To make a long story short, Megan purchased the BNI franchise for North Alabama at the age of 28 and formally launched her career as an entrepreneur. BNI is a networking organization that serves to bring entrepreneurs from all industries. You would never suspect it by looking at her now, but there is a couple of things that you should know about Megan before we continue: Megan grew up a self-professed tomboy and started her business after years in the construction industry, so her standard manner of dress was khaki pants and button down skirts. She didn’t mention steel-toed work boots, so I’ll leave her footwear to your imagination. By her own words, her hair was “long, straight, and air-dried” and she wasn’t a big user of makeup. So when she started attending  networking functions and chamber mixers to promote her business she noticed that she wasn’t getting the warm response from other entrepreneurs that she expected.  Read Full Story...