If I want to make and sell a family recipe what steps do I need to follow to make it legal? -

It s my mom s receipe and she wants the two of us to jar it and sell it, what do I do to make it legal. The product would have a name but not a company name....any tips would be great

You d have to check with your state s Board of Health to find out what the regulations are for selling food. Most states don t let you use your home kitchen for commercial products, so the first thing you ll need to do is find a kitchen to rent to make whatever it is you re planning to sell. There are also specific laws about how you have to label food for sale -- again, this depends on your state regulations as well as federal ones.Your state s Web site would be the first place to start. They can probably advise you what to do next.

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Go to LegalZoom.com It will tell you what to do.

You re not going to make a fortune off of it, just ask a friend or someone if they want to buy it.

I m doing trading business cotton pro? -

i want to sela cotton products such as towels, bed sheet etc can u help me

Sure, what do you need help with?

What is an acceptable hourly wage to copy articles using a copy machine? -

I have been offered a job to copy articles for someone until those articles are all copied. As far as I am concerned, this is an under-the-table job, so no taxes will be taken out. The employer has offered to negotiate the hourly wage with me, and I want to get the maximum possible, but not overshoot it. I live in America, so the minimum wage is $7.25/hr (the Pennsylvania, although obsolete, is $7.15/hr) Thoughts appreciated. Thanks!

well i presume they provide all the copy machine and all the materials to you so based on the cost of other places such as office max or other copy centers that do this for set fee of $50 or $100 depending on size of the job you hourly rate should be based on that !taking into account they have the cost of ink and paper i can copy articles at office max simple B W 8 X 11 pages for 7 cents each in less than an hour 1000 pages cost me $70 plus tax would be $74.90 so based on the size of the job which you dont say it is your hourly rate shoud be in figuring with how many pages your copying rembering that they have the cost of the ink and copy machine and paper ! I would say around $5 an hr for you especially since it s under the table figuring maybe 5 hrs time or even 10 hrs ! becuase at $7.15 an hour that would be the taxable wage so you lose like 30% of 7.15 an hour $71.50 for 10 hrs minus taxes leaves you with $50.05

Buying used excavators, where to find? -

Buying used excavators, where to find?

http://www.infoexcavator.comhttp://the-excavator.commore used excavators information,used Excavator Suppliers, used hydraulic excavator,used Crawler Excavator,Used Excavators for sales and so on.

Can you name three things you did to boost your salon business? Revenue is low. Help!? -

3 things1.Use Facebook and social networks- Had all of our stylists and employees create facebook accounts and created a business page, invited all clients to teh page and continually post images, videos of our work. Keep the network involved.2. Marketed our services to popular persons in the community. Example- radio djs, politicians, tv personalities, waitresses, bar tenders, all persons with high exposure. We have them advertise with us, doing promotional kick backs based on referals...3. Spend the $1000 on a girls night out event in your area. Events with mutiple vendors that generates 500 or more persons in traffic to your booth. THEN show up with a unique concept. There are many hair salons out there, they all offer hair services... What makes you stand out? Create something fun. Give away hair extensions, do a charity extension for $10- pink hair for hope... Great exposure worth the money. My salon has a photo studio connected, so we set up a photoshoot at the event and offered make-up touch ups, hairstyling and a complimentary digital image, emailed to them (now we have emails for mailing list- we let people know they will end up on our mailing list- they can opt out.) Approx 10% opt out, most end up staying on your mailing list. About 30% end up coming to us as clients.

we built a web site. to insure we would pop up first when people looked on the internet for a salon in our area we created a google ad-word account. we get a TON of business through the web site, so its maintained and updated on a daily basis.we also have a facebook and myspace account.the third (and most expensive thing we do) is advertise on a local radio station. one week out of the month our ad plays on scattered time slots through out the day. unfortunately the saying you have to spend money to make money is some what true. we definitely get the most biz from the web but i believe these things combined have kept us afloat when so many others around us have gone out of business!

Dear for this or any business you must keep in mind three things:1st one is quality, 2nd one is your behavior towards your clients and 3rd one is your business location.I had launch my website http://www.bathhardware-bathroomaccessories.com/.you can find out many more things for your saloon.

hold a ladies night once a weeks where ladies can get together and have their hair etc done and have a bit of champagn and mingle with other women, offer them a a ear to listen and talk about problems they are having just stuff like that

You are going to have to find cheap ways to spread word of your business. Maybe referrals get people $5 off. Send out e-mails. Post up in free local newspapers your business.

Do something crazy to draw in business

If i want to start my business, who should i approach to? is it business consultancy or law firm? -

thank you for ur answers

Try the Small Business Administration (www.sba.gov) or SCORE (www.SCORE.org) for FREE, confidential, business advice and one-on-one counseling.Good Luck!

Vijay,Id love to help you. We are an Incorporation service and specialize in business start ups. We are not a law firm and cannot give you legal or financial advice. Check the link below and feel free to contact us with any questions.

How does one open and close a reception area? -

Hi,Im writing a standard operating procedure on how one would open and close a reception area in a main office.Could anyone assist?

The reception area is the area that has information regarding the whole office or building, this is the place which is the first to open and last to close, in some cases like in an apartment complex, it never closes.

What do I need to do to make at least $100 a month from Amway? -

A friend (of course) told me about this amway thing and i signed up...it all seems a little too good to be true to make money and perhaps a MLM scheme...BUT i have not completely lost faith in it. what do I need to do to make 100 or 200 bucks a month? how many people do I need under me? how much pv do I need to order for myself? thanks!

don t get involved. you just end up losing money in the end unless your the the TOP upline of the supposed team you are under.They are the ones who pressure you into going to meetings and trainings that involve out of pocket travel expenses and other events you have to pay out of pocket attendance fees. They also entice weak minded people by showing you a fake bonus paycheck and claim that expenses are tax deductible. There is also a lot of learning and training material that you have to buy from amway, but in reality the learning tools are the real way they profit (the upline of your upline). I read parts of a very good book when I was introduced to this mysterious business . I dropped out immediately but my friend who tried to recruit me stayed 3 years until they came to their senses. The author was in amway a long time ago (80s and 90s) but the culture of amway and the series of events that transpire are pretty accurate and were similar to what my friend ultimately experienced. I feel sorry for your friend. don t get fired up!

Just for your information, it is not perhaps a MLM but Amway is a MLM. Your friend who recruited you should have told you the compensation plan. If he or she doesn t, then he or she is not doing a good job. That is the requirement of being a leader in any MLM or to be nicer, network marketing company. PLEASE!PLEASE!PLEASE!DO NOT ORDER FOR YOURSELF...You will be wasting money. If you find the products good, use them as a consumer but DO NOT stock up products.I have friends who did this way and lost a lot of money. They will tell that by buying products to keep makes you committed and motivated to recruit more people so you can get rid of the products for yourself. But please do not do this. I learn this from investing and that is the risk/reward ratio. If the reward that you are gaining is not as good as your risk, then that ratio is against you and you should not do it. So do your sums, if you require to pay $500-$1000 to make $100-$200 every month. That means your risk is bigger than your reward. And if I just take $500 per month for example..You have to invest $500 to get $200 (ideal example). This means that you are paying $300 extra every month to the company for nothing. Think about this. All the best..

Nobody s buying Amway anymore, the economy got rid of most of everyone s surplus cash for luxury items. The Amway thing is like a pyramid, the person who recruits you gets a cut of what you sell, you end up with very little. Might as well get out of it while you can and return the materials.

A catchy cool business name for photo editing and designs? -

Sooooo...I m starting my own business that deals with mainly retouching photos, minor-major retouches, like taking out backgrounds, adding text/other things to images, making personalized calenders and cards for the holidays or bridal showers or other occasions. I also specialize in restoration of old photographs and adding color to black and white. I also design business cards, logos, and newsletters. I ve been experienced in the program Photoshop for 5 years and am currently in school at the Art Institute so I am learning the other programs like Illustrator (which Im getting pretty good at) but I am not experienced in making websites unless it s just a banner or buttons. I m not HTML or CSS experienced yet..but basically anything else in the field of graphic design and photography retouching I can do..and I can do it quite well. So please help me think of a SWEET business name! My name is Amanda Leigh Ragen but I really dont want to use my last name. I was thinking Mandy s designs but that sounds to original. So whatcha think???

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