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About Anne-Marie Moore
Expertise
I have started, managed and sold several businesses. This includes retail outlets in strip malls and starting a home-based business. My specialty is starting and running a residential cleaning business to compete with the franchises. I am an expert in cleaning procedures, cleaning products, hiring and managing employees, subcontracting and expanding a business. I can address questions related to: offline and online marketing, customer relations, how to estimate house cleaning costs, employee hiring and management, subcontracting, office procedures, equipment and supplies, data management, and scheduling.

Experience
I hired and used professional cleaning services for over 15 years. During this time I became aware of the issues they seemed to be unaware of to keep their clients happy. I successfully built a house cleaning business to compete with the franchise services. I eventually sold this business at a nice profit after managing all aspects of the business to run at top efficiency. I also have a background in Human Resources and software.

Education/Credentials
Masters in Business and Human Resources

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Starting a Small Business - Getting Small Buisness Funding

Expert: Anne-Marie Moore - 10/25/2009

Question
Hi,
I have plans to start a home-based small business in which I will be buying old used football helmets and refreshing them to make into collectors items for football fans everywhere to support their favorite teams. My main source of sale will be on ebay. I have watching companies on ebay that already do this and it seems to be very profitable. I have acquired suppliers for everything I need to begin but I do not have the funds to get started. Because of my current credit and employment situation I cannot qualify for a loan. Do you think there are any grants out there for me?

Answer
Hi Robert!

If you're going to start selling on eBay, then very little money is needed. When starting a new business without a loan and without investors, you start with one item to sell and use the profit to reinvest into the business. This is commonly referred to as bootstrapping, or "pulling yourself up by your boot straps." The idea is to start small and reinvest the money into the business to grow.

I am not familiar with using government grants, but suggest you do a Google search on "government grant" to learn more. I noticed there was a link to use about the grants that are available.

Anne-Marie

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