How to Start a Business, Finances and Marketing

To ask them is free and they will quote you a price depending on how complex the website you want is. A single page will be very cheap. A few pages with a booking feature, for example, would be more expensive.


Decide what you want and then speak to a few different web designers to get a good price. Ask to see examples of their work and for their ideas on how your website should be.

You could find a website you like for another bar and restaurant and contact the designers of that.

It depends on where you are. In our small town the charge is 350 and up. In the city prices start at 550 and go up.

• Do you have any college age kids working for you?
  If so, ask them.
  You would be surprised and they might now already how to set up a site.
  Quite a bit of kids know how to do this.
  I'm basically and idiot and I went and got a book called
  Creating a website for Dummies.
  Very simple book. It's not a hard process to create your own or get a kid to do it

it costs nothing to "ASK"

to actually create one - it depends on what yuo want - for a restaurant, all you would need are a couple of pages - main page with picture of restaurant, address, telephone number, hours you are open, a link to google maps so people can find you

page 2 - your menu

bingo - you're done

you could probably get a high school kid to create it for $50 -100
monthly website hosting can be as low as $5-10/month and probably $60 annual charge or less for your domainname

Advertising as a in mainstream media like TV/newspapers/radio can only incite awareness, interest. Information not really - most people surf the internet for more info, refer to friends who bought it. The ad can point a website where the info can be obtained.

Advertising can make a particular product a must-have, trendy. So I can't say I agree with your argument. The pillar in advertising is the belief that you can change behaviour.

For eg. "Hot dog is a sausage" is an information statement. "XYZ hot dogs are so yummy" and you show people enjoying it - is advertising. And when a human sees another eating a hot dog, they want one, even though before then, they were thinking of snacking on fries for eg. But that's a TV Ad. Sale Ad in newspapers are the ones that can influence behaviour. After all, what makes you go and queue up for 70% off even though you don't know what's on offer.

Advertorials on the other hand are information based and so is press releases/public relations.

Advertising can influence attitude. It has to do with the human reward response system. Successful companies communicate these rewards effectively. When we perceive a reward, our brain emits dopamine into a particular part of the prefrontal cortext which is responsible for attitudes, emotions, and personality. Communicating the reward will create positive brain activity, making us feel good.

For example, someone mentioned a face cream. If the company shows a person using the product and gaining the rewards, the customer is more likely to have a positive outlook on the product.

People will react positively to products and ads that best fit them.

You mean for groceries/household items? I Subscribe to Coupon Bug (couponbug.com). Free to join. The coupons change monthly and always feature coupons for grcery/household items that I'm going to buy anyway. No issues with surveys or spam.

There are a bunch more sites, but I find that they all seem to feature the same coupons at the same time, so I see no sense in signing up for several.

Also....go to the websites of the products that you plan to buy. Some real "gems" can be found. Many times I find coupons on the company site that you don't see offered anywhere else.

Other sources:

Clip coupons from Sunday paper. I save at least $15 just from manufacturers coupons each week. Here's a tip: If the barcode of a coupon begins with the #9, it will not double. However, if it begins with the #5, it will automatically double, even it it the coupon states "DO NOT DOUBLE".

Store coupons. At my store, they hand them out when they hand me my receipt. Some of those are big savers, too.

Get the store sale circular and "do your homework" BEFORE going to the store. Absolutely a must. Build your grocery list (and meals for the week) around the sale items. Yes, I said "list". NEVER go grocery shopping without a prepared list. It's just stupid. The night before I go shopping, I have in front of me at the kitchen table: Store circular, all of my coupons, my "list in progress", and a cold beverage. Plan your meals, snacks, and beverages around sale items. It's so easy. If something is not on sale this week, it, or something similar, will likely be on sale next week, so buy it then.

Learn your store's "patterns." It becomes very predictable as to when something will go on sale, stretching your coupons even further.

my husband and i want to buy a house within the next year. we talked to a lender and my bubbys credit is not bad, but he virtually has no credit at all.

we dont want to take on a car payment, we have a nice car thats already paid off. we are goin to apply for credit cards. any other ideas? any input would be greatly appreciated. thanks!

Have it your way

Credit is important because this is how lenders see you. All you have to do is MAINTAIN A GOOD CREDIT REPORT. Credit report will have bunch of your information in the database like SSS, address,bills paid on time, employment history, how many credit cards you applied and you have.

no such thing as building fast credit - especially the kind of credit needed to buy a house

credit is one thing - will you have enough CASH?? - 10-25% of house price will be needed

and you won;t be able to get a mortgage any bigger than 2.5 times your annual incoem - are there houses IN THAT PRICE RANGE where you live?

if you open too many credit accts at one time, that will hurt your credit score for awhile

and taking on new debt like a car loan will definitely hurt you because it will reduce your available mortgage eligibility

What you stated is the best way to build credit, Make small purchases and pay them right when the bills comes. Credit will not build up fast but it will build up.

It is not possibly to build a credit rating "fast." He'll need at least 12 months....more like 24 months of on time payments to build a credit history.