Small Business Development Centers  

Brenda Stone - June 24, 2006 - Texas-Signing-Agent.com

 This is going to sound like an advertisement for my employer, the Brazos Valley Small Business Development Center, but as you know, I promote things I believe in and I will not give the "TexNotary Tried and True" status to things I know nothing about.   (For locals who may read this article, the Brazos Valley Small Business Development Center is located in Bryan, Texas on 29th Street in the same shopping center along with Tuesday Mornings where I enjoy spending my lunch time browsing.) 

I am just fortunate enough to have found a job that meets my financial needs in place I love to learn from. This is not by accident and I will mention more about this in the "Focus on Success" article at the end of this newsletter.

The article I will reference is one of the many fertile resources my bosses use to educate the people who are savvy enough to tap into these free business consulting services. I cannot say this enough, if you have not plugged into this resource in your area, you are missing a bet. Go to this website: http://sba.gov and seek the office of your choice to find a plethora of free information on being in business for yourself.

Even before I worked for BV-SBDC I wrote articles and posted information for notaries which said that local SBA partners were the first stop to make for a person seeking to establish a business who did not know where to get started.

The way I came upon the referenced article on pricing   is quite mundane.  And, it just goes to show you that honest work is not always the worst thing that can happen to you--especially if you think like an entrepreneur!

While I was making copies and preparing folders for the value-packed and inexpensively priced training that my office does. In our office we have three consultants who understand what it takes to get a business off the ground. 

I read a reprinted article I am using to write the pricing article in this week's edition of my newsletter. (Yes, I am basically a part-time secretary and lucky as heck to be in that position)  when I was perusing the article, I wanted to do a little happy dance right there at the copier because it was so good.  Immediately,  I wanted to share it with you.

The author, a marketing guru named David Frey wrote an his artcile which validated my own business sense. (You can read the entire article here.   It is entitled "How to Price Your Services for Maximum Profit."

I know some people have trouble making the jump from straight business articles to knowing how to apply it to their own signing business. That's what I am going to attempt to do for you with the article on pricing.

Remember while reading that I have not been the original source of the ideas behind the article, but I am applying it to our business and pulling out some points which I feel might impact your strategy. All credit should go to the original author, David Frey, except, of course, where I have re-introduced the theories and applied them to our notary business. For brevity's sake I will leave it at that and move along not continually referring back to Frey's article except where it is effective for our purpose.   You can jump to the pricing article here.
 

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