Creating a good business team is essential for your business to be successful. If one person is not pulling their weight or doing their job right, it can affect the attitude of your other employees as well as your profit. When you’re building a good business team, you will want to look for certain characteristics and maybe one of them might be vegan.

Here are your inspirations for this week’s Testimony Tuesday. This week we had 3 great stories from people that have made the transformation, then didn’t look back. Enjoy

Submission by: Gabrielle Smith, C Cav and Wendy Bryan

The online world is vast, so you need to diversify the way you use online tools and become familiar with these top ten resources ASAP.

In June 2009, QuarryGirl.com conducted an undercover investigation of vegan restaurants in Los Angeles, California. They tested the food samples for egg, casein and other animal byproducts. To their surprise, 7 out of 17 of the vegan restaurants were using non-vegan ingredients in their dishes. Obviously, there are fake vegan businesses out there, so how do you spot them?

In today’s economy, you have to be smart and strategic. Whether you choose an online or offline business, both require dedication and hard work. However, one might meet your needs more than the other, but it’s beneficial to weigh the pros and cons first before jumping in.

Why should you even think about social media and marketing? You are anything but Internet-savvy and you’d rather sell your vegan product face-to-face. Moreover, you don’t think expanding your business online will do anything to help your business. From your point of view, these reasons automatically make you cautious about trying to market your business online, right?

Well, before you draw your own conclusions about considering online marketing, you should first consider three simple things.

There are so many incredibly successful vegan businesses out there, and here are the top ten that you should keep your eye on.

VegNews
This online and offline magazine is like the vegan Bible. It holds the annual Veggie Awards, which showcases top vegan businesses that readers vote on. Maintaining a magazine costs millions of dollars, but they have held down the fort.

VegiTerranean
Chrissie Hynde, rocker from The Pretenders, opened up this restaurant in Akron, Ohio in 2007. A fusion of Italian-vegetarian food is offered, and it has a modern atmosphere. Will this business continue to flourish?

Your products are a tangible representation of your company. If they are not quality, reliable, durable or functional, your business will most likely not be successful. Since your name as well as your business’s name and reputation will be associated with your products, it’s important to gather the customer feedback and make use of it.

Isn’t it common sense that your vegan friends and family most likely know other vegans? Sometimes these simple notions drop by the wayside when you’re trying to generate business referrals. You might even brush off the idea of bringing friends and family into your plan. However, including them can mean more success for you and another vegan option for them to turn to.

Like any new “project”, it is important to do your homework and understand the basics. In this post, we are going to introduce 3 books we believe are must reads as you consider managing your own blog.

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