Accountancy For Business Owners

Archive for February, 2012

I am unemployed and trying to start a home based print business, Please recommend websites or companies, that sell business card printers and supplies. Or anything about silkscreening. Or any tutorial sites. I know very little and need to do some research on pricing and what not. I would really appriciate any info you can share. If you are familiar with this can you recommend a certain type of machine? Thank you. Well, I have your answer right here. My recommendation is don’t bother buying a machine. That’s a huge investment for someone who’s unemployed (and even someone who’s not). The market is already full of great printing places with great prices, so it will be hard for one person with a home machine to compete. Are you familiar with the printing process or design? How to set up files for printing? Do you own any design or page layout programs? If the answer is no, and you are trying to make money right away, then this probably is not the best business choice. If you don’t know what you are doing your customers won’t be coming back. People have been asking this question a lot lately for some reason. Here’s what I recommended to all the other people too: Get a trade account with a professional printer, so you can resell their printing at a markup. You will be able to offer your customers many more products, and if the printer messes up on the job, they eat the cost, not you. You won’t have to buy expensive inks, machines, and paper stocks, You will need to have a resale license, but that’s easy to get and you would need it even if you had your own machine. Here are some trade printers you can try:

Hello friend. I was wondering, do you think dell business computers are more reliable than the home dell computers? The reason I ask is because they are more expensive. I;ve also heard that they use better parts in their business computers. But I don't know if that is really true. Thanks buddy. Essentially — The business class is more robust and reliable than the home units. This is why they cost more. The power supplies are more powerful; the air flow through the boxes is greater so heat problems are less likely; the components are better balanced. The home market is a price driven market more than the busines market which is a performance and reliability driven market.

My husband and I are creating our business plan and we want to know what is the best software for us to use? Other than the SBA and SCORE, what are some practical tools we can use to build our business plan? We have heard of Palo Alto's "Business Plan Pro", is there anything better out there. From what I can tell… I don't recommend anything other then a good word processor. There is no need to purchase software specifically to write the plan. Resources showing what a plan should look like are avaiable at the SBA and Score as you mention, after that using a good word processor should be all you need.