For those who are dreaming or planning to start a business of their own. Resources to help you get started.<\/p>\n
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This is an exciting phase. You’re dreaming of starting something new. You’re full of excitement and also apprehension.\u00a0To help get you going, here are some of our best resources:<\/p>\n
I wrote these first two for a friend, when he got his first paying side gigs. He wasn’t sure where to go or what to do.<\/p>\n
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When you’re dreaming of starting a business, ideas can be like candy, or like yeast. You may snack away on them like candy, or they may help your business dreams to rise, like yeast in bread dough. We have a downloadable booklet, with 20 business ideas<\/a>. It also has more ways to dream up your own business ideas.<\/p>\n We also have an entire category of business ideas<\/a> you can borrow or take inspiration from. A couple of examples:<\/p>\n How do you tune your brain to find your own ideas?<\/p>\n When you’re trying to evaluate whether a business idea is a good match, you need some business intelligence.<\/p>\n Too may people get hung up on this. Don’t worry about this part until you have already found the idea and started working on details.<\/p>\n And a couple of related questions, though not really about structure:<\/p>\n Since many credit card processors lock new businesses into multi-year contracts, it’s better to get this right from the start.<\/p>\n New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour<\/a>. Like what you see? Subscribe<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For those who are dreaming or planning to start a business of their own. Resources to help you get started. The Dreaming Stage This is an exciting phase. You’re dreaming of starting something new. You’re full of excitement and also apprehension.\u00a0To help get you going, here are some of our best resources: Checklists for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4708,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11011,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1971\/revisions\/11011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Business Intelligence<\/h3>\n
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Business Plans<\/h3>\n
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Getting Online<\/h3>\n
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Accounting and Bookkeeping<\/h3>\n
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Business Structure<\/h3>\n
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Accepting Credit Cards<\/h3>\n
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