Factoring and Cash Flow Management ...

Factoring leverages your customer's credit. This is important if you need fast cash and you don't have assets to pledge to a bank. (e.g., IT services, janitorial, Staffing Services, etc.)

My recommendation is not only to get cash quickly, you should look at your cash flow management processes to keep more of your own money flowing as possible.

Here's a blog post on the cash flow management process:
http://donaldhunterfinancial.com/2009/11/17/discover-how-to-avoid-titanic-cash-flowtm-disaster-before-it-strikes/ ...

What is her motive?!

Like the rest of you I realize she is incorrect and way off base about cheching your own credit score but not only that she must be intentionally lieng to everyone! The reason I say that is she throws us numbers saying he went from the mid-700's down to the 500's IN ONE MONTH just by checking his score?!?! Does she even believe what she is saying?This makes no sence at all.

New law Cans Spam.

As expected, President Bush has signed into law the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, creating the first federal restrictions on unsolicited commercial e-mail. Later this year, the Federal Trade Commission will set regulations implementing the law and defining commercial electronic mail message.

Based on conversations with key staff from the committees of jurisdiction on Capitol Hill, ASAE believes that e-mails between nonprofit ...

lawyers ...

Public Speaking can change any circumstance ...

This discussion on public speaking is very astute and relevant to any corporate and even personal scenario. I run an Advertising Agency and have had to set it up in a new market (foreign country to where I grew up). The bulk of the clients that we have been able to rope in have been sold on us through an ability that I have to speak. One secret, which helps me to improve as time keeps going is the desire to ensure that when I speak, even to a hundred people, each person must feel that I am talking to them. Its not easy but striving for it helps you to be innovative in creating rapport with the audience.

Great discussion!!

Your Tips Need a Real Test ...

Lynette,
Your tips are generally good but lack a real test of the business idea. There is no way around market testing a business idea. The aspiring entrepreneurs should talk to potential customers to receive feedback on the business idea. They should get a sense of the patterns of feedback and whether their idea resonates with the customer. When the customer says the business idea will solve their problem, then they can move on to the preparation you describe. Hopefully Part 2 of this post can incorporate some of this.