Business Planning
[Business Planning] Seven Ways to Find Demographic Information
Friday, July 11th, 2008If you’re in the process of starting a new business, or if you already have one and you’re trying to expand it, chances are good that you’ve come up against one of the toughest questions in the process:
“What are my customers like?”
Big companies always seem to have exactly the right answer when they’re asked this. [...]
[Business Planning] - Great New Ways of Doing Old Business
Saturday, July 5th, 2008I talk a lot about publishing on this blog, but my research isn’t restricted to the publishing world alone — as a business student, I’ve had the chance to study a lot of companies in a large number of industries. In fact, one thing we get to do in business school is what are called [...]
[Comic Book Publishing] - The Business Side of Comics
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Have you ever thought about creating your own comic book?
If my experiences in the industry reflect the population as a whole, I’d guess that hundreds of thousands of people have. And many of them have actually attempted to do it, whether they’ve created an amateur book to print at Kinko’s or gone through the process [...]
Building a Better Business Plan
Thursday, July 26th, 2007Today, I had an interesting experience — I met with an advisor at my local small business center to talk about my business plan for Army Ant Publishing… and how I can secure more funding to get the company off the ground.
For those who haven’t been following my story, I founded Army Ant Publishing earlier [...]