Archive for the 'Running Your Business' Category

Protecting Your Assets

If you live in the U.S., consider incorporating or forming an LLC. I formed an LLC while living in South Carolina for only $100. My gains from this relatively small fee were [...]

Advanced Tips for (Almost) Free Marketing

High frequency is important but costly in advertising. To get the locals aware of your virus removal business on the cheap, create and place an ad in local, non-competing businesses. Some businesses, like my local gym and coffee shop, allow this for free. If the business appears to not normally display brochures and business cards, here is a tactic to gain their valuable advertising-space anyway [...]

What it Takes to Start a Virus Removal Business

Don’t rent office space. Here’s what you do need [...]

Is Computer Repair for You?

You are aspiring to start your own tech business, or perhaps leave Geek Squad and quadruple your hourly rate [...]

Start with a Web Page

Perhaps the best return on your money begins with a web page.  If you are a frugal businessman, like I was when I started, then start here.  Come up with your name.  You might simply adapt an out-of-state competitor’s name to your own business; just be sure the name is not registered in your own [...]