Friday, May 24, 2013

How to compete with giants

How can we compete with those big giant monopoly companies that have almost 90% of total market?
How can you compete with starbucks? how can you compete with mcdonalds?
Have you seen how the big companies has been focusing on great seats and to put relaxing room around you while you are eating?
This is the secret people do not come only for a great bite but also for the seats!
And a small niche can be that people can get a small bite and go away fast for the people with big haste this is a great option but for the relaxing people without haste that goes to mcdonalds and starbucks need to have relaxing options .
They want to relax and have a great room around them to represent a great service .

In order to compete with one of these giants we need to be creative some coffee shops are getting more artistic with coffee art.
those people attract more and more people to compete with the giant .
So when you are competing against them be creative and smart have a great service and many products give your clients the ability to order things they want or need .
Let them charge their laptops or phones if you are attracting these people buy some adapters if they forgot theirs. Or put in a television with a relaxing channel or news .
And if you are attracting wall street people be sure to have the ability to watch their stocks on a small lcd screen or something like that.

In business everything is possible just remember you don't need to focus on earning money but instead think what your clients need and your business will take care of your wallet.

Friday, May 17, 2013

Stress at work



Stress at work is as common as a Chinese restaurant in your neighborhood (i know this sounded very racist hahahah )  anyway when you are working very hard at work your boss don't appreciate your work and when you are working more and more hours which most of those hours he doesn't pay you .
This is a very common mistake that most businesses do to be honest my dad works like 50 hours a week which 10 of those hours he doesn't get paid!
I'm really sure he doesn't like his work makes me very sad to see that such companies exist .
And when they ask him to help them out with new projects he is int very happy to say yes .

When you are a company leader please take care of your employees or else somebody else will!!
Its the same as your wife if you don't take care of your wife and family somebody else will.
Create a amazing environment for your employees and you will be rewarded with great idea's motivation and very helpful employees .

Threat your employees like they are your family dont stress them too much reward them with  just saying thanks and instead of letting them take coffee for you you bring coffee for them.
And they will respect you as a great leader that takes care of them .
You take care of the company and the company will take care of you.

Did you know that google for example takes great care of their employees and they reward google with great ideas such as gmail , drive etc. they just invested a small amount of their money to make a great office playground for them and they make millions for google.
Every great programmer wants to work for google  .
Because they are really great with their employees they constantly improve their workplace and to make it stress free .

So take care of the stress at work , of course when you are someone that works with stress and you are no business leader just let your boss know that its lowering down his business to abuse his employees.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

How to become a writer





Did you know that becoming a writer doesn't require that much as in the early days like a major deal from a publisher .
nowadays you can become a writer with just word and a online e-book publisher .
just make sure that your grammar is good enough and you can write something what people like or need. 


Selling your e-books online

You can sell your e-book on lulu or any other e-book marketplace .
only thing you need is to make a pdf or write it in a word document .
Just be sure to advertise  your eBook within a blog or youtube video .
Without marketing you will not sell your ebook so be sure to have a great strategy.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Biggest businesses in the world list



The list!

1. Exxon mobil (oil & gas)
2. Royal dutch shell (oil & gas)
3. Walmart (Retail)
4. Sinopec group  (oil & gas)
5. BP (oil & gas)
6. China National Petroleum (oil & gas)
7. Suadi Aramco (oil & gas)
8. Vitol (commodities)
9. State grid Corparation of china (Electric utility)
10. Chevron (oil & gas)
11. ConocoPhillips  (oil & gas)
12. Toyota (automotive)
13. Total (oil & gas)
14. Volkswagen (Automotive)
15. Japan post holdings
16. Samsung Electronics (Electronic)
17. Glencore (Commodities)
18. Gazprom (oil & gas)
19. Apple (Electronics)
20. General motors (Automotive)

As you can see biggest companies in the world all involve oil and gas some include electronics and commodities However many people  think this will change pretty soon since oil prices are very likely to rise instead of drop . So this list either needs to invest into energy or fail during the next generation.
They killed every other competitors with their destructive way of business .

Is it time for new companies or will these giants live on ?
Let's see what will happen , apple also came to this list pretty short.
And i personally think more and more energy companies will rise to this list however i could be wrong since these companies have a very big power over companies and people .
I personally hope we keep this planet alive and not dead we really need to reduce oil use.

Tesla went up 10% today !!!!!


Amazing how tesla motors went up with 10% yesterday . 

Their new model is the car of the year with their electronic ways to power their cars .
They are trying to change the minds of people they are now changing people to drive electronic instead of oil , gas so if this really is the new future of cars invest in power companies now .
This means that the old black gold (oil) will be less worth and electronic companies will rise .
So invest now in power companies this is a advice don't sue me if this will go wrong.
I'm just thinking right we had the dot com bubble now a crises and oil is a very old way to power machines maybe its time to invest in power! in energy companies .
Maybe energy will be the next gold for couple of years and then it will drop again but still there is alot to earn!
If you have many millions in your bank invest in electronic recharge stations where all these cars have to recharge their batteries on you could earn billions from this if you do it right of course .

Start up company tips


when you start a company you need to have enough potential and allot of energy .
I will give you all the tips you need to have a successful start up company .

1. Website
These days a company can't live without a website .
When you tell your potential clients about that new business you they will first check your website.
They will check if it is professional and very easy answers to their questions .
They want satisfaction they want quality and you need to provide them the best quality .

2. Social skills (Networking)
A website alone is not enough these times there are millions of millions of websites .
You need to tell a lot of people about your new business you need to tell them how amazing your new business or products are or how you can help their business grow .
So go out to business meetings go to websites with business meetings .

3. Physical Advertising
Online advertising is not enough when you are a startup you need to compete with those big gorrila companies and you need to tell many people about your business with flyers , posters and other ways in order to create leads to your company .

4. Online Advertising
Online advertising requires a lot of money right?  well you are wrong !
Youtube creates  a lot of leads to your company for free !!!
Did you know some big businesses have introduction movies on youtube and well i don't be suprised if they got 10% of their new clients with youtube alone .

Friday, May 10, 2013

Earning on youtube

Earning income on youtube is not that difficult as most people think .
so lets take the basic steps to earn income on youtube .

1. make a google account 

make a google account where you have access to .

2. Sign in into youtube.com 

sign in into youtube with your new google account

3.upload a video 

Upload a video which you think can make some views but it must be original content .
So no copyrighted material unless its yours .
But even people with some cams on their computer with video logs earn a decent amount of money.

4. monetize your videos 

Monetize your videos there is a dollar sign in the video manager on every upload you have.
Just press on monetize and Google's engine will check if your videos do not contain copyrighted material .

Thursday, May 9, 2013

What to do in this crises


Well this is a question we all ask these days what we need to do in this crises !
How can we earn more income instead of losing everything do those banks that destroyed our lives .
How can we earn more income these days if everybody wants to pick money out of our pockets instead of putting income in our pockets.

What to do when we have no job 

So what we need toyour  do is either find a job or a fast side business so we can live .
Few options are 
Coaching
E-commerce website / E-commerce business
E-book
Youtube
Services

If you currently have no job be social talk to anyone anywhere anyplace its a famous saying .
If you struggle financially be more social money flows through  people .

When i was broke i started to talk more to people i started to talk to all those companies in the neighborhood . i started to talk to the garages i started to talk to every friend i knew to sell them websites / webdesign services and now things are getting better and better its getting better slow but still its getting better its better then nothing. 

What to do with our money 

What to do with our money well most people think putting their money into their banks are secure well some are some not .
You need to take a bit more risks in these days you need to put your money into either the market or a more safer way to increase your income . just like many brokers they put their money now into gold or real estate and its not a bad idea .
Its a brillant way to increase your income in these days .
They earn while many loses their money.
And don't be a moron to think that if you buy a house you will sell it double the price in a few years it could be but don't be confident it will .

Be sure to have backup plans to do something with your money .

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Earning income with Coaching



So did you know you can earn income with coaching i din't its amazing where people can earn their money with.
Í have been reading online for more ways to earn income well because most of you guys i find it great to create multiple income streams .
And with coaching you can create amazing income stream lets take a example .
You have few friends that need your help with their business let's say you are very great with administration  and you can convert this into a side business . If you can help your friends with their business you can help others also for a price of course .

Its not that difficult to make a business like this this is also a very social depended business .
The more people you know , and they know how good you are with this they will ask you soon or later or you need to ask them if you can help them. And with a blog or a website you can even find more clients .




Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Economic cars

So one of the first rules of business is decreasing your costs .
And with what can you do it better then to start with your car!

So i will list couple of the most economical cars in the world!


1. Vauxhall Ampera Chevrolet Volt - 27 g / km
With the award of best European car of the year is this car on of the best cars in the world.
With their very genius design of electronic drive with petrol powered electricity generator it is a ideal car to reduce your oil costs







2. Toyota Prius Plug-in- 49g/km
Toyota has additional battaries that can be charged by putting it into a electricity supply . And with few extra battaries you can store more electricity


3. Fisker Karma – 53g/km, 62.4mpg
This amazing hybrid car can not only do 0-60 mph within 6.3 seconds its also a very economical car . 

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

The perfect office

What should be a perfect office ? 

So when you want to design your employees office you will need enough space , stress free environment and enough recourses.
Be sure to have enough recourses for your employees such as books to constanly improve production and knowledge in your office. 
You will improve your whole business with this many people make mistakes with this. 
Because this is a tech area a knowledge area the time of arrogant apes and dominant apes are over. 
The smart people are taking over more knowledge more power. 
 We humans are tools makers without it we can't survive .
Tigers have speed, big claws while we only have tools and we still outperform them with our inventions. And you need to understand this you will only defeat your competition with tools and hard work . 
 
 

Monday, April 22, 2013

Salary


I know many of you guys are very happy when you get your salary but is it something that makes you rich? Lets see

the top paying jobs in america are :

surgeons = $219.770 a year
Anesthesiologists = $211.750 a year
Oral & maxillofacial surgeons = $210.710 a year
Orthodontists = $206.190 a year
Obstetricians = $204.470
Internists = $183.990
Physicians $173.860
Chief executives $167.280
Psychiatrists $163.660
pediatricians $161.410
Dentists $156.850
Lawyers $129.020
Engineering managers $122.810
Computer & information system managers $120.640
Sales manager $111.570

Salary into more money

The problem is with high paying salaries its constant if you want to earn more you need to improvise.
What a lot of people do is that they put money into wall street so brokers can put their money into company shares or gold etc. While the market can go up it also can go down so if you really want to earn money with your normal salary just put some risks if you can afford to lose money to make money.

You can also invest in a start up company it may grow into something or it could fail check if the company owner is a trustworthy person and check if he is a person that never gives up don't matter the circumstances . He will need a person like that since beginning a company is very difficult thats why you need a person like that.


Sunday, April 21, 2013

what is profit


When we are talking about profit we are talking about the money you will get directly into your pockets .
You must take notice that you also have costs in your company or personal finance you must provide yourself or your family food and a house you need to live somewhere.
In a company you need to pay taxes you need to pay your employees ,advertising costs etc.
And a company profit can become larger by selling more or to decrease costs.
As you can see in the news many companies decide to decrease costs by firing employees .

This is one of the worst things you could do you are driving your company power to minimal .
In crises you will need all the man power you could get.
And when you have a company be sure that you can make monthly balance sheets of your company so you indeed know that you are making a profit out of your business .
I will make a balance sheet article pretty soon if it don't exist already I will explain you everything about making balance sheets of your business.

Ways to increase profit

1.Decrease costs (employees , advertising , operating costs , product production )
  1. Increase product selling
  2. Better website
  3. Product quality

of course there are many more ways to increase profit you could also get the attention of a news website with a creative way its free adverting for your company!

Currency

a currency is a very wide description of money all over the world .
And in every country there is a specific currency of money .
In America there is the dollar but in Europe there is the euro so here is a small list of many currencies around the world.


Euro : Europe
Dollar  : America 
Yen : Japan
Pound: UK 
Peso : South-america 



When traveling 

When traveling make sure you bring enough money for that country both their currency and yours.
Be sure to be prepared for any things that might happen like theft , loss so always have a decent amount of money in your hotel not too much of course . 


what is finance

what is finance well i will tell you exactly what finance is .


Assets & liabilities 







So like you know there are things that bring money into your pocket and things that take money out of your pocket.
Assets are the things that bring money into your pocket while a liability takes money out of your pocket.
And that is very important to remember . So lets make an example shall we.

As you can see this is the assets and liability of most people in this world.
They work and have many liabilities which takes money out of their pockets. in order to become rich you will need to have more assets then liabilities .
A good example of this is google itself they have a assets business model they get income from a lot of services they sell . so their assets and liabilities look something more like this
i did not put in employees in the liabilities section because its a very small part of what they earn .
So as you can see they have a lot of assets which bring income into their pockets everyday .
And if their asset falls like a new Google pops up they still have YouTube android system and some other amazing products.



how i make money

Some people want to know how i make my money .
So i here i will explain everything about how i earned my money .
The only rule is that i won't tell you how much i earn at this time .
Because of many personal reasons i will not tell you now at this moment how much i earn .
Maybe in the future i will tell you how much i earn with everything but for now i will just say how .


 How i earn it

So i earn income from a webhosting company i made with php and mysql .
I sell people webspace and many other applications .
and i have a ebook and i earn income from youtube also.
so i have 3 main income streams company , youtube , ebooks


What i needed to learn 

I needed to learn php , mysql , html , javascript , jquery , social skills  
I needed to learn all these skills in order to make all of my businesses successful .
And i also believe that if you have just 1 business you can succeed alot faster then a multiple business owner. 
But its not a problem if you have multiple businesses but you could lose control alot faster then someone with just 1 . 

Guys let me know how you guys earn income :) on the reactions !  

Saturday, April 20, 2013

what is important in your business


i have been asking this question to myself for far too long.
And i came up during many researching that this are the most important things in business of course it depends on which business you have .

1. product quality
2. Economy
3.On-time delivery products
4.Advice
5.Closeness to clients
6.Service
7.Delivery flexibility
8. Price
9. Distribution
10. Cooperation with vendors
11. Patents
12. Advertising

the funny thing about this all 

the funny thing about this is that advertising is last . 
And you see very often companies to put in their money into advertising .
But as you can see they could improve their product quality and improve sales that they otherwise could not get.

So work hard and improve your product quality as much as possible and minimize the advertising costs . i don't say you must not put money into advertising but just minimize it . a perfect example of this is McDonald everybody knows them already so they only need to advertise new products so people go to their restaurants and get a new product. But on the background many people started talking bad about McDonald food they thought that the hamburgers had a kind of chemicals and water in it which decreases the value of product quality and decreases sales.
if they just improved their product quality they could sell a lot more  .
they should not even hire those 14 year old kids that makes their food they need a professional hamburger designer! that makes the most beautiful hamburgers ever .

guys also check out www.hosthob.com   
they have great webhosting they also help your website to succeed so check them out!

Earning income on the internet



So many people asks this question how can I earn income on the internet ?
I will list as much options as I can .
And together we will earn more and more income based on how much work we want to put into it. If you have any suggestions let me know and I will put it on this list.

E book
you can write anything from a very simple novel to a advanced programming book. Just make sure when you are going to make one that you will make it in word because many websites these days have word to epub convertors . And they convert it to epub format so every client can buy your ebook and read it in a mobile platform.
Here are some websites where you can publish your book on.

blogs
When writing blogs on the internet you have few choices you can make it on blogger.com and putting ads on it or you can make and register a domain and webhosting . And then make your website on your own just look below on this article for advertising programs

flash game
You can make a flash game and either sell it to a game website or to post it on their website for ad revenue. You can have several tactics you can also put the game on a games website to drive traffic to your website.


forum
you can also create a forum where people can discuss many topics however don't think its easy to make a successful forum . You need people to start making topics you need to let people know that your website exist and many more but don't but don't give up and your new forum could be a really great website.

YouTube
The web is changing and changing and a big proof of that is youtube . Nowadays you can do what you love with a camera and post it on youtube and earn big bucks!
Many people on youtube are successful including people that make videos of in dept tour in new cars to comedy people that make video logs about their lives but also animations and tutorials .
Just be sure when you post your videos to monetize it in your video manager options don't forget it! Or else you won't get income.
selling web design’s
Can you make beautiful web design templates ? Then you can sell it for a low price at a webdesign template store or make one yourself. And of course for every sale you make you earn income.

selling on ebay
You can sell just about anything on ebay I won't be surprised if you can sell even a toothpick on ebay .
But just make sure you can sell something that people want and have a list of people who bought from you if possible .
And when you are selling new products you can email them that you have a new product with a link.

selling stock photos
To sell stock photos you will only need a photo camera and a computer and that’s it . You can upload all your photos so people will buy them.

Selling affiliate products
When selling your own products you need to invest money with this you don't need any budget you can just sell products of others good examples are godaddy affiliate products and some others .

Selling t-shirts
You can make a website where you sell your own designed websites or you can sell them at a website and they sell your t shirts . Or last your own software where people can design their own t shirts and you print them and send it to them.

Virtual assistant
so you can also help others with their work administration , finances and some other work . There are enough websites that want you as a virtual assistant.

Earning with twitter
Yes you can earn income with twitter I know … its ridicules but times changes and we can use it to earn at least some income.

Mobile app tester
You can earn some income as a mobile app tester you must test and test it until you drop to look for bugs in the system.

Freelance work
If you have a kind of talent like programming or drawing or any kind of talent people want to hire you for.
You can put your talent for hire on many freelance websites.

Tutoring
There are a lot of people with struggles with math , language and some others if you can do any of them you are able to help these people and ofcourse you can ask a price for your service and you can help them online .

Niche store
When we talk about a niche store I mean a store with a limited source of competition and some amount of potential clients.
Just like a hole in a market.


Advertising programs
Google Adsense
www.google.com/adsense

infolinks
www.infolinks.com

Bidvertiser
www.bidvertiser.com

Clicksor
www.clicksor.com

creamaid
www.creamaid.com

Websites where you can earn income from




Guys also check out my new e book about earning income

http://www.lulu.com/shop/egbert-jalink/earning-income-with-programming/ebook/product-20981058.html

Creating a internet business

So when creating a business you need to plan everything for better performance.
Create a business plan for yourself to know where you need to start and where you need to end.
You also need a business model so you know where to focus you need to know to who you need to sell and what of course.
There are many things you need to do when creating a business you need to email a lot of people so they know your business and very flexible.
When your business is not selling a lot you need to be very creative with selling products and sell more and more everyday.
A business can be a great Revenue stream for you or a liability of course .
And don't begin to big but also not too little just a perfect size of your comfort.
Be aware of that your plan could fail or succeed but always have a backup plan just in case.

So a business need to have value for costumers .
You can either focus on one of these markets


Mass market
A mass market is a large group of customers while you are filling their needs with your products. When you are focusing on a mass market you need to have a great relationship with them because in a mass market the best market is the mouth of the mass market.

Niche market
When targeting a niche market you have specific targeted customers .

Segmented
When focusing on a segmented market you choose to seperate your customers in sections just like a webhosting company has webhosting for individuals and for businesses other solutions . They put some sections like businesses , individuals , people who can't program , people who can program and so on.

Starting a company
when starting a company always think about cost reduction .
If you can reduce the costs of your startup do it!
Even facebook did it in the beginning they used cloud services to start facebook .
Which costed around $58 a month.
And later on when they got enough income they decided that it was time to get their own servers.
With costs reduction you also reduce the risk of failing .
So don't start to big but also not too little because if you start too little it may influence your business growth and you may get less growth then normall.

Easy to use
Always make your products ,software easy to use so easy that your grandma can use it or your mom someone without technical knowledge .
So that’s why usability is so important always in those useability lessons they tell you to use a 3d lookalike button since it will reduce the time of brains interruption.
But it also needs to be very simple and effective a good example is apple's one button concept.
They use just one button on a lot of their products the iphone has one button the imac mouse has one button and so one .
Its so easy to use because it only has one button .
So you can take that concept into your own business and make things a lot more easier.

Always improve
Always improve your business be aware of why people don't want to buy your software or product and well update it! .
When I first began my first business people always told my that the design wasn’t that beautiful. So with a lot of coffee and no sleep I began designing everything all over again and again and again always improve and my sales gone up by 33% .
So its a very good way to improve by asking your customers what they like and what they don't like .

Service
Service has always been very important your business mostly will get into problems soon or later. And you will need a very solid and kind support team or yourself of course .
And they might be your clients a lot longer.
Also have a kind of manual for your employees and in that manual you can write the rules of picking up the phone .
This is an example of one

  1. Be kind and always answer polite
  2. When problems with products last option refund
  3. Ask what we can do better and write it down
  4. Always say thank you
  5. Listing to the costumer and never interrupt him or her


Self-service
When having a self-service service be sure that your clients can access everything they need when needed .
So just like facebook they have a great help documents on their website what you can access when you have trouble with facebook plugins
So be sure you have something like that .

Revenue streams
To create multiple revenue streams you need fill the needs of your clients in another way or represent your product as another fulfilling product .
You have the choice to create more products , software .
Just like how google created more and more products such as online web solutions and advertising options , office products .
They created more and more revenue streams thru the way they made more and more products.

You can create extra services
Such as some jeweler companies they offer more services on the internet such as polishing , putting a extra color , and so on .

But you can also create a revenue stream from the same client such as subscription fees products like web hosting , domains , web builders , office products , lesson videos such as lynda.com .

You can also lend a tool to your clients such as cars tools etc.
Or usage fees such as phone services and advertising services on those services you will need to pay more on the amount you use the phone or advertising .

Partnerships
When partnerships are available you can reduce or improve your risks depends on which business and the intention of those partnerships.
But with partnerships you can achieve great product production .
If you plan to start a software company that makes security software for example .
You can partner up with a browser company to include their browser on your installment of your software and on every installment the browser company will pay you a little bit of money. Or you can partner up with a web hosting company or a software selling website to include your product on their website and they will get a small percentage.

Costs
so remember that you have costs in your business put all of those costs in order and keep them in watch have more income then your costs . Especially in the beginning when you are making a website note that you have server costs and domain costs .

Internet Strategy
When your business is on the internet you will need a internet strategy what I did what multiple traffic streams from different sites I will explain this in a bit .

This is the “Black hole traffic ” why I call this the black hole traffic is because we want to suck up every bit of traffic from a very big radius .
So for that we need to suck traffic from youtube , facebook , google , Bing , yahoo directories as many as possible .

So we want to do something like this :

youtube → your website
Linkexchange seo → your website
mobile → your website
Free advertisements → your website
Google & yahoo & bing and others → your website
Physical advertisements → your website
Multiple Versions of your website → your website


Internal growth
So now you have outer growth in your company but how do you have internal growth?
Hiring employees and finding more and more effective ways to work ?
Its actually more then just hiring more employees.
You can hire a thousand more employees and still have no internal growth.
So you need to have effective ways to increase work flow and speed .
So lets take an example if you have a printing business and people can order business cars at your business you can increase your work flow with a better and faster printer .
You need to lower costs and improve profit depending on your business model of course .


Employees happiness
Which business don't want this?
It increases work flow , speed , culture
The question is now how? How can we increase our employees happiness?
Well that depends on which people you actually hired .
If you have gamers employees be sure that when they have breaks they can play games, another example is for those people with passion and ideas give them the ability to use their talent . For example 20% of their time they may work on something else than their usually work .
Google uses this tactic and with that they made gmail , office products and some others .
And those products are very successful so its worth a try.

Company culture
So your company culture is very important its the core drive of your company .
Your business is like a space shuttle and your company culture is your engine your income is your fuel and you are the captain .
You need to constantly improve your engine and oh yeah your engine has emotions .

So you need to take care of it too! Do do that we need to fill it up with fuel first .
Then every time we say to the engine you have to run and to this task!
We say thank you engine for doing this you are doing a great job!
And we let the engine have some free time to rest because when a engine is very hot it will overheat and if you want to overrun your engine right because sometimes its necessary with very tight projects you will need to install a inter-cooler in your engine so it wont get a burnout .
So this inter-cooler can be a new television on the hall in your company or a catering or just something very simple as a new mouse for the computer .




Financial and business growth
To increase your business growth we need to do one of the following .
We can sell more of the products you already have or we can make new products or lowering costs.
And if you followed the news of very big companies then you see that they choose the last choice at least many do .
And like we know those are the companies that are doing bad!
They are reducing their engine power on the time they really need it!
They are reducing the things that they really need and the things they don't need there they put in more money.

Have you ever seen google or microsoft on the news of super firing statements .
No because their employees are earning money for them they make ideas create new dreams and make more and more possible .
They don't reduce their engine power even when there are harder times they don't.
They can reduce it a bit but not a lot of it and then invest millions in advertising while everybody knows that they exist but when a customer calls support they don't answer kindly . So they lose and win costumers at the same time!
Its crazy so be sure to think very good about your company and think about costs but employee cuts must be considered the last option.


Competition
competition is deadly !
Be sure to take an eye on them not every step but enough to know what to do when they take a action.

Business And investors
This is something you really need to be deciding yourself .
But be aware that most investors are selfish .
And they don't really care about your business they care about the money they can get out of the deals .
So they can make or break your business too they can give you an angel investment but be sure that you have the upper hand be sure that you can hold your company .
Don't let them fire you from your business! If you give them too much power they can fire you from your own business that is what happened to Steve jobs in apple in the early days.

So be sure to handle right too be sure to get the maximum out of the deal because your company is worth of what you think its worth. When microsoft wanted to buy facebook what did facebook told microsoft? Well they told them that the company is a lot more worth. And microsoft bought a 1.6 % in 240 million dollar range . So they bought a very little part for so much money.