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The cupcake is so yesterday. I hear tell whoopie pies are the new rage. Scouting out locations for your new venture? Fagettaboutit. Buy yourself a step van and cruise the streets to sell your wares. Mall kiosks are history, designing your own website is old school and even eBay is passé.

It changes in a nanosecond. Opportunities for budding entrepreneurs to make money in business have never been more accessible. You can open an online store within hours on sites like Etsy or Shopify. If you have a skill or talent to offer, register with Elance. Are you creative in the kitchen? Organic snacks are a growing industry according to Inc. magazine.

Tools abound for you to find financial success in business. Doing nothing when faced with money problems, encourages hopelessness and saps the energy from your body. With a solid plan and a willing spirit you can create your destiny.

- Susan Diamond

Entrepreneur

I am waiting and waiting.
I am always getting ready.
Standing in this unemployment line,
I know I must renew my strength.
I have to go out and get what I want.
I have to make opportunities for myself.
You gave me a vision for a new business—
show me how to create it.
I will never receive all that You have for me
if I keep waiting and getting ready.
I praise You while I move forward
toward the unique purpose
You have created for me.

- Brenda Scott

"Do you have dreams of starting your own business?"