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3 Mistakes to Avoid When Naming Your Business

The Startup Magazine

Don’t forget that in the age of social media and the internet, many customers search for businesses by typing names into a search engine. For example, if you are starting a bakery, it would be a mistake to choose a name like “Optica Cleveland”. Other customers may mistake you for an eye clinic.

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3 Mistakes to Avoid When Naming Your Business

The Startup Magazine

Don’t forget that in the age of social media and the internet, many customers search for businesses by typing names into a search engine. For example, if you are starting a bakery, it would be a mistake to choose a name like “Optica Cleveland”. Other customers may mistake you for an eye clinic.

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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

And we did, until the internet came on the scene a couple of years later and left us holding our floppy disks in our hands. She says her idea began to take shape after she went through Bizdom Detroit, an entrepreneurial accelerator program founded by Quicken Loans and Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert.

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Pros and Cons of Being Your Own Boss

Up and Running

How fast is your Internet? Don’t stay in Cleveland if you prefer Klamath Falls. Some bosses are better than others at upgrading the technology, choosing the location, arranging for parking. When you’re the boss, that’s up to you. Do you like a stand-up desk, or any desk? Up to you. A good view? Set your own location.

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Starting A New Business Venture Is Not As Daunting As You Might Think

YoungUpstarts

by Tom Cleveland. There are dozens of helpful websites on the Internet that will guide your early entrepreneurial steps in the process. Tom Cleveland writes for BetterMerchantAccounts.com. Tired of your “6 AM to 6 PM” rut? If you answered “Yes” to the first two questions, but faltered on the last one, then you are not alone.

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Is Now The Right Time To Start A New Business When The Economy Lags?

YoungUpstarts

by Tom Cleveland, SmallBusinessLoansDirect.com. There are many articles on the Internet and in periodicals that will counsel you on “ when to take the plunge ”, but your overall effort will be guided by adhering to the “5 P’s” delineated below: Passion. Tom Cleveland is a writer for SmallBusinessLoansDirect.com.

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Thank you

Startup Lessons Learned

I had really debated about whether there was any value in spending the time and money to fly to San Francisco when there was a perfectly serviceable simulcast going on in Cleveland. All I can tell the folks who attended the simulcasts is that I’m not missing either the time or the money. Take a look and let me know what you think.