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Navigating Car Insurance Across State Lines: What You Need to Know

The Startup Magazine

Factors like state laws, regional risks, and even local driving habits can influence both the cost and the coverage options available to you. Why Costs Vary So Much by State Its no secret that car insurance premiums can differ widely depending on your ZIP code. In Texas, Sarah paid about $1,200 annually for her car insurance.

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How Kip Lewis of Austin, Texas Found Success After Failure

The Startup Magazine

Austin, Texas, USA downtown skyline. Since that time, Kip Lewis has repeated the process with more than 2,000 other RV and mobile home parks in and around Austin, Texas. A quick decision combined with a lack of action ended up costing Lewis dearly. The One Business Failure That Kip Lewis Cannot Forget.

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How To Cut Costs In Your Business, Without Hurting It

Mike Michalowicz

You fix your bottom line by increasing revenue or cutting costs or both. We cling to our expenses, believing we will need all those costs the moment we land that big client. Costs pile up predictably. Many costs are static and recurring, meaning they happen every month for the same amount regardless of your revenue.

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Don’t Follow The Buzzwords For Small Business Technology

YoungUpstarts

Rather than focusing on technology as a cost centre, businesses should regard it as an innovation centre. If an IT investment does not increase productivity, drive sales, makes a company more efficient, reduce costs or opens up bigger markets, then it is incurring costs that are actually reducing profits.

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The 5 Best States In America For New Business

YoungUpstarts

Utah businesses benefit from low corporate taxes, business friendly regulations and energy costs 29 percent lower than the national average. Prospective business owners can get the best of everything in Texas. The Texas Enterprise Fund also helps startups gain necessary funding.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Or "crickets chirping" but in Texas the cicadas are louder.). Yeah yeah, nowadays marketing is about "relationships" and "authority" and other things which cost time but not money. Of course it's not that simple, and many business plans I've seen (unintentionally) omit many of the true costs of acquisition. Advertising ??

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Hibu’s Smart Solutions Spark Local Business Success Stories – Sponsored

The Startup Magazine

Back then, there was no reliable way to measure ROI, yet the costs kept climbing year after year.” When a Texas-based heating and cooling repair company owner first heard about the agency, he dismissed them outright. Believe it or not, I used to handwrite addresses on flyers to send to past customers the first 10!