This blog shares ideas on improving your home, as well as your business, and here’s an article about good lighting for your dining room. To make your dining atmosphere aesthetically pleasing as well as functional, proper lighting is vital (along with good food). You need to balance different types of lights – yes, indeed, there [...]
Here are factors 5,6, and 7 that help determine where you should open up your small business. Click here to read factors 1 and 2 (Align Product Positioning to Location, and, Being Approachable) and click here for factors 3 and 4 (Do not compromise on civic amenities, and Your Rent Budget) 5. Consider The Location [...]
Here are factors 3 and 4 that help decide where you should open up your small business. Click here to read factors 1 and 2 (Match product positioning and name to location, and, Make the outlet approachable) 3. Do Not Compromise on Civic Amenities To make matters worse for the friend of mine whom I mentioned [...]
Nobody’s ever heard of a successful casino at a graveyard. Why? I won’t answer that because it’s too obvious. But the point is… Location matters. A lot. I’ve seen businesses fail and succeed, merely based on the location of their outlets. Seems a bit far-fetched but here’s one story: A friend of mine invested a [...]
It is no secret that medical facilities are few and far between in developing countries, where the poor have limited access to affordable and safe healthcare (which often do not come together). Oftentimes, the less privileged members of the society resort to traditional herbal medicines for diseases (mis)diagnosed by untrained medical practitioners, such as quacks, [...]
Bad days (and months) are inevitable for your small business: Perhaps the weather kept people indoors, or A new competing brand opened up near you, or A wave of food poisoning spread through town. You only need to rethink your business strategy if the cause of low sales is serious (as in the second case [...]
Perhaps the hardest and most critical part of starting a small business is figuring out which product or service to sell (this has been partly covered under the 7 Ps of marketing). Choices are unlimited but possibilities for success aren’t. Small businesses often start and shut down within a couple of years, which indicates how [...]
They say man became sophisticated the day he learned to draw a straight line (well, I say that, anyway). It requires precision that animals don’t possess, but then again, the same holds true for circles and squares. This article is about using straight lines to furnish your home, so we’ll discard other forms of geometry for now. Your [...]
Even Nostradamus had trouble predicting the future, so any wrong guesses are totally acceptable in my case. When I was born, cell phones didn’t exist - not in my world anyway, and when I was a teenager, my dad got his first mobile phone that weighed nothing less than a kilo and was only good for talking and texting. [...]
We all know children a great copycats, so if grownups have bank accounts, why can’t children? Youth savings accounts, also known as child savings accounts, have gained popularity as our society realizes the importance of financial safety and discipline for the younger lot. Also, greedy bankers have a chance to earn money off a new market, [...]
