Give readers (small business owners living and working in India) tips on how to find a mentor and explain how a mentor can be useful when you're starting a business or trying to grow your business. There are numerous consultancy agencies that offer mentoring, but there are also charitable groups. Cover both. Potentially mention how you may want to use accounting software to save time on those tasks, so that you can focus on your professional development. The second resource has general tips on choosing a mentor... don't overlap, but instead go into greater detail on how to find a mentor.Read more

Define salary increments and explain why they are important to small business owners who have employees. Detail when increments can be used (for awarding bonuses, giving raises, etc.) Also mention that salary increments are not the only thing to consider (see resource 3).Read more

When you're a small business owner, work can threaten to take over your whole life. Give readers (Indian entrepreneurs and small business owners in India) tips on how to balance work and life. Ideas might include sticking to a set schedule, finding managers you can trust so you can take time off, having set times where you turn off the phone and everything else to focus on yourself or your family, and automating tasks to save time with tools such as QB. There's a lot of articles online about the unique challenges Indian entrepreneurs, in particular, face trying to achieve this balance.Read more

Give readers tips on how to craft a strong script for telephone sales. Write this post toward Indian entrepreneurs living and working in India. Go over general elements that should be in the script and provide examples when possible... for instance, you may want to say "include a warm greeting to disarm the person answering the phone" and then give an example of text that accomplishes that feat. Mention how once the sales start rolling in, QB can be an essential resource for tracking the numbers.Read more

Discuss different strategies business owners can use to get more Instagram followers. Suggestions include: using Instagram's advertising platform to get in front of new people, using the right hashtags, posting at specific times, using geotags to boost local discovery. Tie the article to QB by talking about how QB makes it easy to track marketing expenses.Read more

Freelancers may think that their business is too small to warrant assessing GST, but in fact, these professionals may have to pay this tax. Write this post toward Indian freelancers who live and work in India, and create a guide to all the information they need to know about this tax. Some sections you may want to include are how not paying GST can affect your clients, GST rates for services that freelancers may offer or products they may sell, how to register, etc.

Provide a definition of what competitive analysis is, its purpose and describe its benefits. From here, explain what business owners should look for and how they might go about competitive analysis or what should be included. Talk about when or how often someone might want to do a competitive analysis.

Discuss steps to starting a small business in India that makes sales online only. Focus on registering the company, compiling the necessary documents, and reserving a business name.