Welcome to a new series that we’ll be starting here at the BlueFur blog. Business 101 will be similar in scope to Marketing 101 (Thursdays), except it will focus on the key elements to starting a successful business. We hope to go through many of the important steps that someone should take when starting a business for the first time, whether it be a brick-and-mortar store or some dot com venture.

Before we get started, I figured that it might be useful to ask the BlueFur community if there are any topics in particular that they would like to see covered in Business 101. We could go through everything from finding a good business card designer to officially registering your business for tax purposes. It might also be useful to talk about human resources practices, accounting programs, and so forth. Anything that has to do with running a business is fair game!

So, let us hear it. Chime in with your suggestions using the comment form below and we’ll do our best to include your suggested topics in a future edition of Business 101.