How to Start a Small Business in Kansas USA By:Daryl Des Marais

Are you looking to start a small business in the state of Kansas but unsure of where to find information quickly. Here are a few resources that will help you get started.

Access Kansas.org

This site has complete information including; a training calendar, withholding tax, corporation name search, business tax application, non-resident contractor bond, resale exemption certificate and secretary of state filing forms.

University of Kansas Small Business Centre

This site has a great amount of information for entrepreneurs wanting to start their own business. It has links to 8 small business centers in the state. They can help you with start-up assistance, one-to-one counselling, training sessions, how to access financing, marketing, strategic planning, human resources, and research to grants among many other services.

SBA. gov Kansas State Site

This is a great resource for locals to find information on legal business structuring, taxes, employee standards and hiring information. It also has a wide variety of legal guidelines for doing business in the State. There is information on small business events and upcoming seminars in the region. There is also a link for Springfield branch office financing, certified lenders, micro loan partners and a wide variety of other financial information on financing. There are also investment firms through the SBIC program.

kcsmallbiz.com

How about a site for entrepreneurs with an online subscription to a monthly ezine? They have business resources, media kits, and articles from their online magazine. They cover such topics as strategy, selling, legal information, seasonal business concerns, HSA's, money, travel and a wide variety of other excellent topics relevant to local small business owners.

Dont Let Your Dream of Starting Up Your Own Small Business Be Derailed by Fear By:Mark Bergman

So you would like to startup a new small business, but find a million and one reasons not to. To name just a few:

• The economy is bad right now. I'll wait until things get better
• You feel you don't have the funding or perhaps do not have access to funding
• The lack of experience running your own small business
• You do not have enough time
• Will this small business make enough money to be able to feed my family
• The working hours needed to run the business will be too long

The real underlying reason is actually more simple, but very powerful. Fear. It paralysis us all and prevents us from moving forwards.
Fear is found in many guises. One such form of fear you may feel is the fear of failure. This is very common. What will your friends and family think of you. You gave up what seemed like a good job and start this new small business and it just does not work out as you expected. Can you ever face anyone ever again?


As President Roosevelt once told the US nation? "we have nothing to fear but fear itself." How true, but no less difficult to overcome.


There are a number of ways to overcome this fear of starting up. One way is planning and preparation. Do your homework. Find out as much as you can about the products you wish to sell, the markets, the competition and really get to understand what you are getting yourself into. Understand the expected costs, the expected issues, the amount of time that will be required of you to make it work. Perhaps this may take the form of a very detailed business plan. If you are to get funding from a financial institution they will want one anyway. A good understanding and a solid plan will help you get a better sense of perspective, so that you can give the new startup a fair chance of success.


What overcoming fear boils down to is confidence. Confidence in one's own ability to startup on your own. Although it seems trite and overused today, the ability to have a positive attitude is essential. Seeing the glass half full instead of half empty. As much as one wishes it, starting up a new small business will have its ups and downs and one needs to have a fair bit of emotional fortitude to weather the storms, and realize that there is light at the end of the tunnel.


Being able to view your startup business in the correct perspective is another essential element. You need to be ?able to understand at what stage your business is at and that certain issues and events are just part of the norm when running a new business and that these are almost to be expected.


Finally the statistics speak volumes when it comes to small business startups. More than half of businesses in the USA today are small businesses. No large corporation ever started out being large. Once, someone had the vision to start up and the perseverance to hang in to make it happen. Remember that it has been done before countless times in the past and will be done countless times in the future. So don't let fear take hold and prevent you from getting on with it!