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Perhaps the most difficult part in any endeavour is the start-up phase. Indeed, this idea applies to any business venture. To reduce risk, a detailed plan must be prepared for proper guidance. This pre-opening strategy will help in defining goals and setting targets.A business plan contains information on company's strategic actions, resources for financing and specific guidance in operations. Today, modern technology has offered variety of business plan software to serve individual business needs....

Payment processing is a key part of every small business' operations, from local retail to business-to-business services. As most modern retail stores and restaurants have made the transition from cash and check payments to cash and credit card, check processing is still an issue from time to time. Should retail businesses accept checks? If they do, they face the hassle of depositing these checks along with the risk of accepting checks that may be backed by insufficient funds. Business to business companies, educational institutions, utility companies and many others routinely accept large volumes of checks, which greatly increases the risk of insufficient funds and time that must be spent processing these checks....

"Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back."
John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory, Chapter 24, last paragraph

The madmen in authority today are distilling their frenzy from Keynes, just as he predicted. From my perspective, Keynes is the most misread, misinterpreted, misquoted and misunderstood economist of modern times....

The modern car is widely regarded to have been invented in 1885 by a man named Karl Benz. Today this man is considered to be the father of the modern automobile. Many people may be familiar with his last name - Benz - he is one of the founding fathers of that prestigious automobile brand. He had a fondness for bicycles and a passion for inventing "horseless carriages." Both interests gave birth to the first modern working automobile - the Benz Patent Motorwagen. From then on, the automobile evolved into what it is now today - modern society's primary means of transportation. Through financial products like used car loans and used auto loan services, many people now get to share in Benz's passion....

Unless you've been hiding under a rock in a location with no access to modern technology, you've likely at least heard of Google Plus. But what is it and is there anything that Google Plus for your corporate website can offer that other social media cannot? We're just being introduced to Google Plus, but already the social networking site has more than 40 million users. Clearly, regardless of whether Google Plus is a hit or a miss, it is garnering a lot of international attention; and any betting person will probably tell you it's here to stay, so it might be just about time to jump on the bandwagon....