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Running your own small flower shop business can be really tough, especially in today's market. Not only are flower sales often seasonal, but real florists also have to compete with supermarkets and other large stores that sell bulk flowers as an afterthought – undercutting the small time businesses. To keep your flower shop afloat, it's time to get creative and come up with solutions as to how you can give people a reason to shop at your store instead of the large chains. Here are a few suggestions as to how you can bring in the people, expand your business and make some profit.

Setting up a small business without having an office is just too easy. With Internet-based business phone systems, online printing services and a full range of office and secretarial support services, getting yourself setup is a very simple matter. Hong Kong is one of the best places in the world to do it. You don’t even have to go there. Another option is the British Virgin Islands. Both are essentially the same, and so here is a look at how to set up a legitimate business, without having to do much except get online.

There are a number of reasons why any company will choose to use dedicated servers for the storage, management and delivery of company information and data. Setting up your company’s networking capabilities right from the start will mean fewer problems with future growth. Because just about all companies rely so heavily on information management, it is worth looking at all your options before you decide on how you will manage and maintain your company data and information. Just because you are in small business does not mean you will not be using some high-end technologies. In this article, we look at some typical situations to help you evaluate your own networking, storage, and information delivery needs.

A good compromise process for defining system requirements that trades off rigor against flexibility has been developed by the IETF. A set of lightweight requirements, called "goals," is developed for the system. The primary distinction between goals and requirements is that there is no intent to regress the final protocol design back onto the goals after the protocol design is complete. The goals are meant to be a set of flexible design guidelines. The same kinds of subjective, non-technical criteria that arise when developing formalized requirements also arise when developing goals. The difference is that because the intent of goals is not to rigidly structure the system/protocol design process, there is more room for flexibility during the design. The protocol design on interfaces between network entities then follows. While the frameworks developed during IETF protocol design are good at defining where interfaces between distributed network components need interoperable protocol design, such frameworks are often not very specific about what the different network entities do and what functions the protocol should perform. A functional architecture approach more accurately characterizes these points. The functional architectural approach is more formalized than the framework approach, while, at the same time, maintaining flexibility through the goals. Given a set of goals for a protocol or network system, the functional architecture approach for developing a new subsystem architecture from scratch consists of the following sequence of steps: