Business and Law Advocates

How many times have we heard of the supports that exist for small and medium businesses for a number of institutions and federal, state, municipal, chambers and business organizations, trusts, etc., Represented by institutions such as Nafin, Bancomext, Financiera Rural grows, Ministry of Economy, Fira, Canacintra Coparmex, Aguascalientes Fund, OPEX, SEDEC, etc. And you have been busy analyzing what types of support are provided by them and how much money is behind this support, both for administration and for its operation.

Well, most of them are aimed to improve production processes, or administration, or staff training, or for market research or suppliers, or tax advice, legal, accounting and other requirements that may have the company in areas of production, administrative or training, and in most cases, companies provide a portion of the costs or expenses of the service they require.

But in a country like Mexico, where you must create an environment of trust, security and long-term survival for new, small and medium enterprises and facilitating procedures for business creation, first to meet the labor demand of approximately million people who enter the economy each year, second to seek to raise the purchasing power of the workforce in general, and third to create the conditions for a healthy economy growing and stable over time. Read the rest of this entry »

We will now address the basic requirements involved in the success or failure of the small business world.

A good location is the cause of the success of small businesses:

Good management is the factor determining the survival and success. On the contrary, if the address is bad, failure is guaranteed.

Remember that external factors such as economic climate, competition, fickle customers or bad luck, rarely are those that determine the failure.

Good management is the ability to understand , manage and monitor and govern a company in the best possible way.

You can learn to effectively manage the company before the trip again and again with the same stones. Also remember that being at the head of a small business does not have many opportunities to make mistakes before they take it to failure …

Good management is based on the sum of the principal activities of daily living (attitudes, thoughts and knowledge).

The following questions are based on what one thinks and knows:

· Make what is important to the success of the company.

· How to conceive their role and specific responsibilities as a director or owner.

• Which extension of the business landscape and to what extent perceived captures or creates opportunities to develop or improve business.

• Which part of their business is uncontrollable and which may direct.

· Where how and when to allocate resources to achieve the best performance.

New technologies and small enterprises: the silent revolution
Surprisingly imaginative and innovative capacity of small and medium enterprises in the use of Internet and ICT in general. Although often spoken of the negative effects of globalization, the truth is that every time we see a new generation of entrepreneurs immersed in the idea of ??the need to continuously innovate. This philosophy is key to the survival of small businesses. A key to enter the competition in a market increasingly demanding and fast in incorporating the changes.

Open source philosophy and ideas open
On the Internet it is irrelevant that the ideas are original or not. What is important in the philosophy of “open source” is to further develop an idea where others left off. An apparent disorganization productive around the chaos that seems to work quite well, judging by the results. The symbol of the browser Firefox, faster and more secure than Microsoft Internet Explorer , adds hundreds of free applications that developers are responsible for half the world to put on the network. Martin Varsavsky proposed revolution via FON WiFi sharing a cable or ADSL and inviting users to enjoy wireless access to telephone or Internet connection anywhere in the world.

Operators, large telecommunications companies, software giants were unable to imagine the technological advances introduced with great benefits would end up putting at risk its supremacy through the development of a dispersed and unorganized community located in tens of thousands of cities across the globe. Read the rest of this entry »

If you are interested in opening a small business in addition to knowing what products or services shall offer, you must know which is the market for that product and what is the competition that exists. Compression of the market is going beyond “I sell coffee so my market are coffee drinkers.”

The market must be broken down so that you can get a clear picture of who your ideal customers. Some of these questions will help you define who is your primary market:

1. “Where are your customers?

2. How they work, having fun?

3. What are their meeting places?

4. Where do they get money? Ie if your market is teen must look at the parents

5. What are the characteristics?

6. What are your common goals?

7. What things influence your decisions?

You also need to define their competition. Sector and find out if those who are doing something in the same area. There are two main ways to find your competitors.

1. Google

2. Asking

Google search market. Consider what are the major players, have a look at their sites. Check the paid advertisements that appear on Google itself, to see as they present these in public.

Get out there and find out who is the best in the business. Go where your potential customers are buying products and services sector.

Find out what else is missing and that things can make your products or services better. The market speaks, start listening.