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Growing a business means increasing the number of customers or the amount of sales.

To do this we can, for example, create new sales promotions, train staff, improve production processes, designing new products or redesign we already have, offer extra services, etc.

But when it comes to growing a business, generally refers to a significant increase in customers or sales.

And the main tools for achieving this are: partnering with other companies, serve new types of consumers, increase sales points, to venture into foreign markets, improve customer service and increase advertising.

See below an explanation of each of these strategies:

Partnering with other companies

Partnering is to make alliances with other companies in order to provide benefits to both which, if not through an association could not be obtained.

These partnerships might include, for example, in agreements to combine resources (e.g. financial, human, technological), combine functions (e.g., production processes, product distribution), information sharing (e.g., market knowledge) share distribution channels or outlets, or customers (for example, if two companies have different kinds of products, but similar types of customers, and this allows us to offer our products to their customers, and her products to ours), etc..

The idea of partnering is finding businesses the same size as us, and with similar aspirations for growth that somehow, through an agreement, is capable of greater profitability for both, or a competitive advantage over other rival firms.

Address new types of consumers

Address new types of consumers means directing our products or services so that they are targeting different types of consumers who are already taking, but without neglecting the latter.

For example, if our products or services are dedicated to people of a certain age range and a certain socioeconomic status, could also choose to target people in other age ranges and other socioeconomic levels.

This may be necessary to create new goods or services, or simply adapt the products we already have, so they too can meet the needs or desires of other consumers.

Increase sales points

Increase sales points are to increase the places where we can offer or sell our products to final consumers.

The idea of increasing sales points is to expand our market and reach consumers of the same type that we are treating, but are in locations that were not distributed our products.

To increase the points of sales, we open new stores, stores, branches or franchises, we can make use of new brokers or dealers, or we can create new sales channels such as the creation of a website where we offer and sell our products.

Seek external markets

Export is a variation of the previous strategy, is to address new markets, but they are abroad.

In order to export must seek to make contact with foreign intermediaries that want to distribute or sell our products, or look for customers who buy from us directly.

The easiest way to achieve this is by creating our website and promoting our products on the Internet, another way to start exporting is participating in international fairs.

But before that we must consider that the first requirement to export is to have a good quality product.

Improve customer service

Provide good customer service is the most efficient way to grow a business. Is to provide a good service, great staff, comply with treatment and promises to provide prompt attention, personalized service, etc.

This involves training all our staff, especially one who has to interact constantly with the customer.

Providing good customer service allows us to grow, because not only we get the client to buy or visit again, but that we also recommend our products or services to other consumers.

Increase advertising

Finally, another way to grow a business is increasing investment in advertising, for which you do not need to spend much money.

To increase the publicity we can, for example, make use of flyers, posters, brochures, business cards, participate in fairs, set up a website and advertising on the Internet, giving gifts to the printed name of our company, etc.

But always bearing in mind that the best advertising is word of mouth, which is to create or provide a product or service of high quality, to the point that allows us to always be recommended by our customers.

The concepts of business and company are somewhat subjective, each employer has its own concept of what a business can mean a company, and for example, some are different concepts, while others simply mean the same thing.

Let’s look at what is in our opinion the definition of a business and an enterprise, then, what we think is the difference between them.

Business

A business is an activity, system, method or way to get money in exchange for providing some form of benefit to others.

An example would be the creation of a website where we offer free advice on business, and earn money by advertising we place on it. Another example would be applying for funding, travel to a foreign country, buying a used car lot and then sell them in one’s country.

But a business is an entity created or organized in order to obtain money for production activities (for example, a furniture factory), marketing (for example, a car parts store or a distributor) or services (for example, a restaurant or a garage), to benefit others.

Company

Now for the definition of enterprise: an enterprise is an entity created or organized in order to obtain money for production activities, trading or services that benefit others.

As we can see the difference between a business and a company lies in the first definition given of a business, i.e. a business is similar to a company, with the difference that a business can also include activities, systems or methods to obtain money in exchange for providing some benefit.

An example that could plot the difference between these concepts is that of a business that involves buying a house and then make money by renting or selling at a higher price, and a company engaged in buying homes and then rent or sell at a higher price.

In the first case, the business of buying a home and then rent it or sell it, is a method or way to earn money for providing a benefit to others, while the company dedicated to buy homes and then rent or sell is an entity formed to conduct this type of business (real estate company).

These concepts can be confused, thinking that a business is a small company (which is commonly thought), however, this is not correct, as in the example, the business is a method, while the company is an entity that these methods. Besides taking into account the second concept that we in a business, the real estate company could also be considered as a business. In this case, a real estate business.

Below is a list of some of the businesses that we believe would be most profitable to create today, taking into account the present.

Small Business Consulting

Every day you create hundreds of new small businesses, most of whom have trained entrepreneurs with the necessary experience to tackle any difficulties that may mean creating and managing a business.

So a good idea for a profitable business could be the creation of a consultancy focused exclusively on small business.

This consultancy would cover topics such as business formation, marketing, advertising, human resources, accounting, finance and Internet sales.

To create this business, we can begin installing a small office at home, and start our promotion creating a website where we could provide free advice for small queries and, thus, engage the customer to then hire our services to major consultations.

Being able to start this business at home and start promoting it online, make our business into more profitable business and low investment.

Health Food Restaurant

More and more people with an obsessive quest to stay healthy and feel good, and increasingly are creating the awareness that to achieve this, one major factor is the consumption of healthy foods.

As today is giving a tendency for the consumption of healthy snacks, and against junk food or highly processed.

So a good profitable business idea could be to create a restaurant or store that offers this kind of light and healthy food.

This light and healthy food need not be a dietary or vegetarian, but what you are looking lunches today is healthier, yet tasty.

An example of this type of healthy food while tasty could be the Japanese, which seems to be becoming more popular.

Fitness

Similar to the search that is given today by staying healthy, it is the quest to achieve a sexy body and in good physical condition.

As a business idea to meet this demand would be the creation of a gym. For which we should have a large room, which must be conditioned with weight machines and cardio equipment for spinning, aerobics, etc.

Spa

Similarly, and given the quest to maintain a good health and ensure precise fit, too, increasingly people are looking for physical beauty and relaxation.

As a business idea that meets this demand would be the creation of a spa, where toast body and facial treatments and relaxation therapies or services or massage.

Virtual store

The market of Internet users in Latin America is growing at a rapid pace, more and more are increasing the number of web surfers, and increasingly are becoming common Internet shopping.

As a good business idea would be to create a virtual store.

The number of people shopping online is increasing; however, there is still some distrust to use this medium for shopping.

So our store would have to start offering products that users consider there is no risk at the time of purchase. Also, as a way to gain confidence in users, we can create a system of guarantees or seek to obtain a quality certificate.

Some products that we could have a good reception in a store are books or manuals, tech accessories, spirits, software, etc.

Technology shop

Technology advances by leaps and bounds, and the life cycle of technology products is growing shorter. A technological product fashion moves quickly whenever there is a new model.

And it’s a consumer trend, which quickly dispose of their technology products, and go running to the store in search of new model.

As a profitable business idea would be to create a store where we offer products such as phones, computers, laptops, iPods, digital cameras and other technology products and accessories.

Also, our store of technology products could be a virtual store, which would not have to invest much money, which could manage from the comfort of our home.

Let’s look at some business ideas you can do at home:

Martial arts classes

If you are a practitioner of martial arts such as Karate, Kung fu, Taekwondo, etc., You can choose to enable any room in your house, and provide classes in these disciplines.

It is not necessary to be an expert or master in these disciplines, just enough to know the art, and you are willing to teach and share what they learned.

If you do not feel as prepared to teach these disciplines, start teaching children, while instructing you go again, and it later when you feel more confident, you can teach people of all ages and any level of instruction.

Business consulting

Are you an expert in some field of business, for example, business creation, marketing, advertising, personnel management, finance, etc.., a good idea of home-based business may be creating business consulting.

You can start only to a particular business area, such as the creation or establishment of businesses, and it later when you acquire more education and experience, to cover other areas.

Similarly, for starters you can focus on small businesses or businesses, and later as you grow your experience, cover all types of businesses.

Childcare

Today, because both parents work outside the home, sometimes have nowhere to leave the care of their young children, so a good home business idea would be to create a nursery.

For this you must vacate a large compartment in your home, and enable it with games that children can be entertained. Then you have to paint the front of your home with striking reasons for children, as do the schools for young children.

To start you can offer day care to family, friends and neighbors, so that they will gradually be recommending.

Computer Repair

If you’re good repairing computers, you can choose to put a small repair shop at home.

You can start this business almost as a hobby by offering this service to friends and acquaintances, and as more customers making fences, formalize the business and may even hire more staff.

English classes

If you master English, a good idea of home-based business may be offering tutorials on this subject.

There will always be people interested in learning or improving proficiency in this language.

Depending on the domain you have the language, you can choose to focus on children (who seem to be the greatest demand these tutorials), or by people of any age in a beginners, intermediate or advanced.

You can even choose to talk groups, which helps a lot to learn the language, and which is seldom found in schools.

The surest way to succeed with a business is committed to doing what we enjoy doing, and if we like to do is write, we know that in Internet there are several ways to earn money for doing it.

Let’s look at what are the main ways to make money by writing articles on the Internet:

Write articles on your own website

The first way is to write articles on your own website as a portal, an online journal, blog, etc., And then make money through various methods, mainly:

* Rent advertising space: give the possibility to other people or companies to place their ads or banners on our website in exchange for a periodic payment.
* Use advertising methods: using a system such as Adsense advertising, allowing us to place ads on our site and make money for the times that ads are viewed or how many times visitors click on them.
* Sell products, sell products themselves or promote third party products, for example, by joining any affiliate program.

As a main requirement to make money with this method, our website should have a good visitor traffic, which can achieve by publishing articles constantly, and to ensure that they are of good quality.

Write articles on sites that pay us commissions

Is to write articles on special websites which pay commissions or a percentage of their earnings from advertising.

The process to make money with this method starts with registering or creating an account at these sites, write and publish an article on any topic allowed, and then receive a commission or a percentage of the profits that these sites get the publicity that placed on the page where is located this article.

To make money with this method and that our articles must be of good quality in order to attract a good number of readers, we publish a lot of them.

Writing for other media

Another way to make money online writing is to write articles for others, either for a portal, an online journal, blog, etc.

This way of making money, basically consists of working as a freelance or self employed, and earn money according to the articles we write for others.

To start earning money with this method, we can look for job offers directories, leave our profile in special sites such as LinkedIn and wait for a proposal, or take the initiative and offer our services to some sites that we want to work, sending our application along with some of our work.