business plan

How to Ensure You’re on the Right Side of the Law Starting a business is a big undertaking, and it comes with many legal considerations. To ensure you’re on the right side of the law and protect your business, knowing what legal steps to take when setting up your business is essential. The fines for Read more

The construction industry is dynamic, fast-paced, and challenging. You’ll need to stay on your game to succeed as a business owner. Construction contracting generally involves working with clients to complete construction projects and sometimes as a sub-contractor helping to fill a smaller niche within a larger job. As such, you may have limited control over Read more

By Brittany Spencer, Nexstar Network Business Coach This is it, everybody: it’s business planning season. Plenty of companies in the trades are building their business plans and gearing up to put them to work. Budgets are being made; goals are being set. As a business coach, I see a lot of the same issues crop Read more

If you want to be a successful business owner, you shouldn’t just jump into the job without thinking about it. It’s important to take your time and plan exactly what you’ll do and how you’ll do it. You should try to make a business plan that helps you narrow down your options and learn a Read more

There is nothing better than knowing you have a small business that you are running yourself, but there are so many hats you have to store in your closet! You will have to consider your marketing, sales, customer service and administration, business development, HR and accounting. It’s a lot and when you also have to Read more