10 things you must know before starting your own business

Having your own business and becoming your own boss is an exciting reverie every employee may dream of. But before you leave your job, which gives you a fixed monthly salary and a variety of nice monetary and non-monetary benefits, you should carefully consider the following things before you start your new business.

1. It’s harder than we thought. Thinking business is so exciting, but doing it is a different story. Along the way to your entrepreneurial journey awaits your worst nightmares (bankruptcy, shame, frustrations, isolation, despair and depressions). Sounds horrible? But don’t worry – the saying “no pain no gain” may not be absolute anyway. Just like body building, you should do warm-up first and make a perfect program to achieve your goal.  There’s no need to hurry, instead, you need to do things according to your strategic plan. It’s indeed hard and it takes a right process. But you should not lose patience, hard work and intelligence to avoid the pains of doing business and eventually become a successful businessman. Read more

Business management tip: Directing people in an organization

Directing is considered as the most humane function of management. It is also called as the heart of management. This function involves influencing human behavior through motivation, communication, coaching, leadership, discipline, development of interpersonal skills and assistance for the achievement of individual’s personal goals. In this function, managers are transforming into good leaders – that is, they are considering not only the organizational goals but also the personal objectives of their people. Directing tries to align the future of the organization and its people. The philosophy behind this is that, the organization cannot be considered as successful if its members are failing. Read more

101 blog tips I’ve learned (Part 2)

I hope you have already absorbed and digested productively the first part of my 101 blog tips (1 to 50) in the previous post. Now it’s time to digest the last part of these blog vitamins. Enjoy!

51. Write what you really know

52. Write what you really love

53. Write what you really hate

54. Innovate

55. Learn guerilla marketing and viral marketing

56. Learn basic html, php, java script, css, photoshop (understand what your are copying and pasting)

57. Invest in useful scripts and softwares (a premium wordpress theme is an example)

58. Outsource jobs where you are not expert to do so Read more

101 blog tips I’ve learned (Part 1)

It’s been six months now since I first put this blog live online. BusinessAccent is not my first blog. I was blogging a page-ranked four Philosophy blog back when I was a new passer as an accountant and was searching for my first employment job. I lost that blog because I just don’t have extra money to renew my blog’s domain and pay my web hosting – plus I was already very busy with my first employer during that time. After a year, I started blogging again – with this blog as my comeback blog. For six months of running this blog, I already learned a lot from my own experiences and from the other great bloggers out there. Some of the following blog tips are lessons that I still need to apply since I don’t have enough time to blog (I’m still a full time public accounting practitioner).

I have broken the following 101 blog tips into two parts. I believe that… a gradual intake of words will result into a better digestion of knowledge. Enjoy the first part of the list! Read more

How to Get More Customers and Increase Your Sales

So how will you get more customers and increase your sales? How about getting more customers without thinking too much to increase your sales? The point is, if you want to get more customers, think more of them rather than thinking too much about your self. Think what your customers are thinking. Dream of what your customers are dreaming. And finally, strive to achieve what are your customers want to achieve. To detail more of this study, the following are some good tips on how to get more clients and customers. Read more

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