Before you go any further with your small business, gather your ideas and aspirations and make a business plan.

Basically a business plan covers where are you now with your business, and what do you want to do ?

Your business plan can be as short as one page; see : “How to create a one page business plan.”.

If you will need a loan to get your business started, you should have a more detailed business plan, such as following the SCORE template guide.

A business plan helps you organize your thoughts about your business.

If you are just thinking about starting your own small business, one source of helpful resources is the United States Small Business Administration website.

Take a look at this page on the SBA website :   http://www.sba.gov/smallbusinessplanner/plan/getready/index.html

The page features  :

• The SBA’s Small Business Start-Up Guide, containing information on more resources, planning, financing, marketing, and more.
• You can download a FREE, helpful Online Business Guidebook (ideas for starting an online business, provided by the Virginia Tech Foundation)
• “Is Entrepreneurship For You?” provides considerations for someone thinking about starting and managing their own enterprize.
• And even FAQs for starting a business, and a glossary of professional business terms.

The Internet has a wealth of information to share.  As my son always says, “Google is your friend.”

The Internet can help people find out about your small, local business.

You want more local people to know about your business. You want popular search engines like

• Google,
• Yahoo,
• Bing,
• and others

to find your website when they search for your product or type of business. Every day thousands of people search the Internet locally for products or services like you offer. So, you want to make your website more popular for your visitors and for search engines.

“Time is money”, so when visitors get to your site, you don’t want them to just look and leave, you want your website to make them want to stay and buy your product, or contact your representative, or make an appointment, etc.

Our SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Social Marketing procedures and practices can help improve your website and bring you more potential customers.

Contact Jax SEO Works today to get started !