Topics D - L




Direct Marketing

Direct marketing is the name given to the process where the marketing of a product or service is made directly to the consumer with no middle person involved ...


Disaster Prevention

The one guarantee, if you go into business, is that you will experience changes and sometimes disaster. Many businesses fold simply because they failed to recover from some disaster ...



ECommerce

Electronic Commerce (e-Commerce) is the act of doing business electronically. This means that all your transactions are paperless and you use electronic means such as ...


Entrepreneur

The meaning of entrepreneur in French is a ‘risk taker’. An entrepreneur is someone who is a self-starter, someone who is self motivated, someone who has the passion and determination ...



Family Business

A family business is basically any business in which the majority of the ownership or control lies within a family. Involvement of members of family in a business can bring with it its own complexities ...


Financing

Whether you are starting up your own business or buying into an existing one, most people would need some sort of financing. Getting sufficient finance is obviously an important element ...



Franchising

A franchise is a legal business relationship between the owner of a business system (which can involve trademarks, trade names, logos, etc) and a person or group that wishes to use the system ...


Franchising Your Business

Franchising provides your business with an excellent opportunity to expand rapidly without you having to outlay a lot of capital. The Franchising system allows you to conserve your capital ...



Importing

Many people have the wrong image as to what is associated with importing. All they see are big profits, the glamour of visiting countries overseas and being able to deal with interesting people ...


Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property, (also abbreviated as IP), is property that is created with intellect. You may have developed a design or written a manual or created a program ...



Internet

The Internet is made up of the total of millions and millions of computers used by businesses, people, schools, universities, organisations, government, military etc ...