http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=MaryAnn+Shank Business MaryAnn Shank Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=539370&ca=Business You need to write a great business plan because a mediocre one just will not do. Not any more. Not in this turbulent financial time. Banks are stingy. Venture capitalists are stingier. And angel investors are probably the stingiest of all. Approaching any one of these entities without having a great... Business Management MaryAnn Shank Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=303228&ca=Business+Management Do existing businesses need money? Probably. Is this a time to start a business? Maybe. In either case, the business plan you write today will be different than the one you wrote five years ago. Five years ago money was available. It is still there, but it is a lot harder to find, and to tie down. H... Business MaryAnn Shank Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=302003&ca=Business Stop writing that business plan! You don't need it. There are only two reasons to go through the hullabaloo of writing a business plan: To raise financing or to go on an ego trip. What else is there? Well, there are internal studies of all sorts, some with great diagrams and lots of verbiage. But th... Business MaryAnn Shank Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=298781&ca=Business Mix them and match them any way you want. There are still 8 basic parts to a business plan. Here they are. 1. COVER Is the cover of the business plan really part of it? Good grief, guys. Yes, it is. Just as the cover of any magazine is part of it. Or the cover of any annual report. It's absolutely t... Business MaryAnn Shank Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=298037&ca=Business Writing a business plan can be pretty tedious. There's the cover, the table of contents, some 20-25 pages of content and the back cover. The innards are typically long paragraphs punctuated with bold font sprinkled hither and yon. And it's all a big bore. There's a reason for this. The "how to write... Writing MaryAnn Shank Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=251668&ca=Writing Systemize! Strip it down! Eliminate! Accentuate! It sounds like a college cheer. Rah! Rah! Rah-Rah-Rah! Actually, it’s a lot more than a college cheer. It is the way professional editors polish writing. Even Asimov and Hemmingway had editors. In fact, without their editors, they wouldn’t be the accl... Internet MaryAnn Shank Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=251670&ca=Internet The best network marketing products have a few things in common. First, there are plenty of items to go around. An original oil, no matter how beautiful, just doesn’t qualify here. A quality giclee reproduction does count. Second, there is solid profit in it. You can either make a lot of money from... Marketing MaryAnn Shank Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=244031&ca=Marketing Network marketing success is sitting there, waiting for those with the vision and determination to go after it. No, this isn’t MLM. There’s no chasing anyone down dark alleys. This is marketing on the internet, via advertising, affiliate sales, ebooks, ebay, Amazon, videos, courses, services, and lo... Internet MaryAnn Shank Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=231986&ca=Internet “Network marketing” used to be a dirty word. It used to mean MLM. Period. Not so any more. “Network marketing” is a whole new game. Simply put, it is a dynamic way of building an internet business with multiple streams of income. For example, let’s take a basic online store. Perhaps a book store spe... Business MaryAnn Shank Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=229676&ca=Business Psssst. Hey, you. How would you like a few billion dollars in business funding? Guess what. It is there. Waiting patiently for the right project to come along. $44.8 million funded from venture capital today. $77.1 million funded yesterday. $63.3 million funded the day before. These numbers are not...