John Vanhara on September 23rd, 2007

When I started one of my businesses I needed to hire a fulfillment company to take care of shipment and warehousing of my products. What is a fulfillment company? Fulfillment, also known as order fulfillment or product fulfillment, is the process where by a person or company fulfills their obligations to send a person an [...]

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John Vanhara on September 21st, 2007

I just went through IRS audit. There are couple of things I learned. 1. Keeping corporate records about shareholder and directors meeting is very important. Also keeping corporate minutes from all important decisions by board of directors and shareholders. It doesn’t matter if you have one man company. You still have to do meetings and keep [...]

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John Vanhara on September 16th, 2007

Guerrilla marketing,  is an unconventional way of performing promotional activities on a very low budget. Such promotions are sometimes designed so that the target audience is left unaware they have been marketed to and may therefore be a form of undercover marketing (also called stealth marketing).  It is up to the guerrilla marketer to be [...]

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John Vanhara on September 16th, 2007

1. Blog is an easy publishing system. Anyone without HTML knowledge can post articles on your website. 2. Free advertising: Blogs are loved by Google and other search engines. You will automatically get visitors just because you post regularly in your blog. 3. Blogs are free. You can sign up online for account on blogger.com [...]

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John Vanhara on September 10th, 2007

Many small business owners forget that there are certain requirements you have to meet when setting up corporation. One of such requirement is to held regular meeting of shareholders and directors. All important matters are decided on such meetings and the written document from such meeting is called Minutes. Wikipedia definition of Minutes: Minutes are [...]

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John Vanhara on September 1st, 2007

I use Paypal on all my e-commerce websites. I kind of have love-hate relationship with PayPal. I use it a lot. We do at least $30,000 in transactions per month through Paypal through one website. If I combine it all together we might be doing over $50,000 in transactions per month.   Paypal is simple enough, but some [...]

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