Romisky Business Blog: April 2017

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

3 Types of Insurance You Need for Your Import/Export Business

You’ll need insurance for many aspects of your import/export business, from employees to cargo. Read on to find out more.

Insuring your employees

Once you hire employees, you’ll need to think about caring for them. Workers’ compensation insurance laws vary among states; check with your insurance agent for details in your area. Workers’ comp covers you for any illness or injury your employees might incur on the job. If your employees work in your home office and get injured there, your homeowners’ insurance may refuse to pay on the grounds that it’s actually a workers’ comp case. Check with your insurance agent regarding what you need, then make an informed decision.

Saturday, April 8, 2017

How to Get and Register a Domain Name

So you’ve decided that you want to do business online. The very first thing you need to do is get and register a domain name so your new website will have an Internet address.

Under the Domain Name System (DNS), domain names are composed of four elements; a server prefix, a domain name, a domain suffix (or extension), and a country code (the only optional element). For instance, www.susanward.com is an example of a domain name where “www” is the server prefix, “susanward” is the domain name and “com” is the domain suffix.

“Dot-com” is an example of a Top Level Domain. There are both generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs). Currently, there are 239 country code top level domains. Canada’s ccTLD is dot-ca.
Important Points About Domain Names for Businesses

Business Advice and Tips for Success

Business ideas alone are worth very little. If you want to start a business and become successful with it, you need to solve meaningful problems. Execution is everything in business.
Don’t start a business unless you’ll be doing something you truly love and are good at, or unless you can dedicate yourself to becoming that expert over the coming years.
Becoming successful in business is more about your mentality, psychology and determination than it is about finding little tips, tricks, hacks and exploitations in the marketplace.
Start today. The only true way to learn is by doing and you can’t afford to sit around waiting for funding, hoping someone else will come along to help you execute on your idea or complain that you don’t have the time. Making excuses won’t help you start a business and it sure as hell won’t help you create the lifestyle you want for yourself.
Launch before you feel ready. If you wait until your product or service feels perfect, someone else will already be doing a better job of helping your customers solve their problems. Validate your business idea by launching fast, bringing on a small group of paying customers and adapting to make your solution great for them over time.
How you choose to manage your time and decide which opportunities to pursue will greatly impact your success when starting a business. Outsource everything you can, so that you can focus on doing what only you can do in your business.
Do everything in your power to avoid spending money when you start a business. Build a lean solution that provides value to your customers and only spend money on the absolute essentials at the moment you need them.