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The most difficult question before you when you plan to start any new business or wish to expand an already existing business is how to raise capital to fund your business. There is no doubt about it that the task is difficult however, you can manage it when you follow certain set rules for this purpose. Most important things are how good your idea of the business is that you plan to start, and how effectively you present your business plan.

How to Prepare a Good Business Plan:

Many of small business owners would rather focus on making and selling their products than on keeping their books and records. However, bookkeeping is just as important as marketing and doing business. Many a great business ideas has failed due to a poor bookkeeping system. And ultimately, won’t be keeping up if money going out is more than money that is coming in. Apart from business owners desire to stay in business, two other reasons why book keeping system is most important are:

1. Legal requirement.
2. Bookkeeping records are an excellent business management tool.

Some in the business community would argue that so-called “touchy-feely” leadership qualities such as treating people with respect, displaying fairness and communicating openly and honestly with them is nice and everything, but it doesn’t directly impact the bottom line.

I was reminded just how wrong those of that mind are during a phone call I made a few weeks ago to an employee in the PR department of the company I wanted to profile as this month’s Success Story, Texas-based Rackspace Managed Hosting.

Your business inspiration idea comes from you. It’s your passion and you are the player. You are the unique person that plays the biggest part in your success as an entrepreneur. Here’s how to find and develop your business inspiration.

Start with a dream, then visualize, plan, believe and than act! Setting a goal is not difficult. You know what your dream is this will give you the inspiration for a business. Just write it down and visit it often. You know it says, “I want to be the boss, I want to own my own business”.

In the last few weeks a surge of activity has run through my business, and my calendar has become conspicuously absent of white space. This is a good thing and not a coincidence but a matter of law - the law of reciprocity. You can learn how to practice this law too.

There are lots of common expressions used to express this law. Here are some:

• You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.

• Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

• You reap what you sow.

• Judge not lest ye be judged.

Custom design of the home page for a small business client is not much different than making a contract to construct a new brick and mortar home for their private residence. When complete each should be functional according to the owner’s specifications, and each demands interaction between the client and contractor to meet expectations before it’s time to move into that lovely new home.

Let’s have some fun and compare a new house and a website in a way that may help put this relationship into perspective.

The first year of a new business is the toughest. It’s the make-it-or-break-it year. The challenges a new business owner faces on a daily basis require three key survival skills: self-reliance, self-direction, and resilience. No matter how brilliant the business idea, without these three skills entrepreneurs risk failure.

Self-Reliance

It’s a fact of life that every small business owner wears many hats to fill all functions: operations, sales, marketing, finance, human resources-even janitor and chief coffee-maker when needed. Unlike life in corporate America, where each employee has a specialized area of expertise, a new business owner must excel in all of the disciplines required to keep a small business running smoothly. The revenue drain of hiring employees can spell disaster for struggling new businesses.

How often do you wish to be free? Living in America, we’re afforded more freedom than in any other part of the world. We can go anywhere we want without asking permission of our Government. We can hold any job we want for anyone who will hire us, as long as it’s legal of course. We can marry or cohabitate with anyone we want – gender regardless. We can start and run businesses. Our freedom is one of the most coveted rights we have as Americans. Yet we tie ourselves to offices and desks and towns and schools and so on. Why? Why not enjoy more freedom? Why be tied to all of those things if you don’t have to be? Why wish; why not do?

Is this you? You have customers to satisfy, professional goals to deliver on and your personal goals shoved to the back burner… and you and your friends, colleagues, clients and vendors are already talking about ‘next’ year. I’ll admit, I’ve had a few of those days that stretched to weeks with my attention caught in that tension.

If you cannot get a handle on the tug of war for your attention, your future is at risk! The truth is, you will always be bombarded by more information, more ideas and more opportunity than you can follow through on - that’s success!

You know that task sitting over there, on the corner of your desk? Yeah, the one you’ve been avoiding… Or should I say, the one that’s been pre-occupying your mind, distracting you from getting anything else done effectively… The one you’re not getting solved but you’re sure having a lot of mental chatter about.

Back in the days when I was in the Big 8 consulting world (or was it Big 6, 5, 4…) I had to write reports for clients. For hours at a time I was combing through the results of our team’s analytical work and turning it into narrative explanations to support the recommendations we were making.