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Bookkeeping Basics E-Zine, Issue #007 -- Good Goals For Business

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Bookkeeping Basics E-Zine

ARTICLES

1) Good Goals For Business

NEWS


1) Review of Bookkeeping Practices

RESOURCES

1) Free Make Your Price Sell Masters Course

2) SBI! Now Only $29.99 a Month!

3) Inviting You To Join Me

4) QuickBooks Exclusive Offers

5) Accounting Definitions

6) Executive Search Online

7) Paychex Payroll Provider

In every issue....

1) Questions and Answers

2) Quote of the Month

3) Sitesearch

4) Contact Me

1) Good Goals For Business

There are many good goals for business. Establishing goals for your business is a must. Determining the best goals to focus on for your individual business can feel unnerving, as you obviously want to succeed and thus spend your time wisely. Here we will focus in on the top three good goals for business.

Although there are many good goals for business, the top three good goals for business are:

1) Provide quality products and/or services to your customers.

2) Maintain adequate records of income and expenses.

2) Incur a net profit within the first three years of starting business.

The products and services that you provide will be your overall bread and butter. The success of a business depends in large part upon the quality of your products and services and the trust this quality induces in your customers. A customer that trusts you will become a repeat customer and even refer others to you as well.

In order to stay on top of your revenue and expenses, it is extremely important to maintain adequate records of income and expenses. It is highly recommended that a computer software program is used and that business bank and credit cards, loans etc. are setup so that all business transactions are recorded and accounts are able to be reconciled monthly.

An annual net profit is an obvious goal as a business is typically started to earn an income. It is a good goal to try to incur a net profit within the first three years of starting business especially as the IRS may determine your business to be a hobby if it is not making a profit within this amount of time.

There are many good goals for business, but the top three good goals for business are quality of products and/or services, maintain adequate records, and incur a net profit within 3 years.

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1) Review of Bookkeeping Practices

Good bookkeeping article regarding doing an annual review of your bookkeeping practices.

The basic points are: Success and bookkeeping are essential to every business. Each business will have varying levels of success – and failure – and each level will often coincide with the efficiency of your bookkeeping department...

Click here to read the entire Review of Bookkeeping Practices article.

1) Free Make Your Price Sell Masters Course

Price Your Product for Maximal Profits

How do you know if you have chosen the perfect price for your product or service?

Pricing is risky for any business, but it's even more so for the online small business owner. Your anxious-to-please competitor is only a click away...

Are you leaving money on the table?

Or, even worse, is your price turning away potential customers?

How do you know if that new product or service that you are developing (or are planning to sell) has a reasonably-sized, interested target group? In other words, are there enough people who will pay enough money?...

•If no, you'll never build a profitable income stream.

•If yes, what's the perfect price that maximizes that stream?

Is your pricing up-to-date, reflecting current marketing conditions?

How do you know... how do you know for sure... that you have the right price?

Perfect pricing answers all of the above questions. "Make Your Price Sell!, The Masters Course" provides the information and strategies you need to determine the "Perfect Price." The course covers background pricing theory, key business models, target market profiling, the importance of the perceived value of your product or service, and much more... exactly what you need to make a profitable pricing decision.

And best news of all... "Make Your Price Sell!, The Masters Course" is itself priced perfectly...

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"Make Your Price Sell!, The Masters Course" shows you how to maximize profit for both you... and your customers!

Yes, your prospective customers must feel that they will personally profit by buying your product or service. In other words, they must feel that the value you offer equals or exceeds the cost. If they don't, credit cards remain securely tucked away in their wallets.

Bottom line... You must price it right.

With the help of the easy-to-follow "Make Your Price Sell!, The Masters Course," you can price successfully and confidently... on your own!

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Pricing is the most important of the classical 4Ps of "Marketing 101" (Price, Product, Place, Promotion). And it's the only one of the four that actually generates income. The other Ps generate expenses upfront, in order to generate income later.

Choosing the price for your product or service is the marketing decision that can make or break you.

"Make Your Price Sell! Masters Course" will give you a solid pricing foundation so that you can price precisely and worry-free!

Download your free copy of the course today.

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5) Accounting Definitions

There are 100's of accounting definitions and bookkeeping terms in my bookkeeping glossary for your use. Use it as an accounting resource to help improve your bookkeeping knowledge.

Click here to go to the Accounting Definitions Page.

Then, just pick a letter to go directly to the bookkeeping terms associated with that letter. Or, use the Search Engine below to search the entire website.

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Here is a recent posting on the Balance Sheet Page:

The Balance Sheet

Why do liabilities equal to total assests in the balance sheet?

It's actually Liabilities PLUS Equity equals Assets. This is because the difference between assets and liabilities will show whether or not you have positive or negative equity in the business.

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- Ben Franklin

See you next month!

Stephanie

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