tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28269916795353127722024-03-13T20:37:18.103-07:00Business Ideas BlogGeeta Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05062227449781982134noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-87767153856289623482012-04-04T07:10:00.000-07:002012-04-04T07:10:00.251-07:00Teenagers Millionaire -a source of inspiration<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How to become a millionaire? they would sure answer that it takes a bit of inspiration, a bit of luck and a lot of hard work. If you are at your mid teens and wonder how to become a young millionaire, then these stories will be a good fuel for thought. If you have left school long ago, but dream if becoming a millionaire is still fresh and actual, then consider this post a source of inspiration. If these teenagers did it, then you can do it as well! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. In the 2002 at the age of 14 years, Fraser Doherty started making jams in the kitchen of his parents in Edinburgh. By the age of 16, Doherty left school and devoted all his time to this business. In 2009, revenue of SuperJam reached $ 1.2 SuperJam million. Since then one of the youngest millionaires has published 2 books and various Superjam merchandise, and prepares to release baking mixes and kids jams which contain no seeds. The brand is now selling in over 2,500 stores across 6 countries and ever expanding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. In 1996, Michael Furdyk, who was then 16 years old, started MyDesktop.com, a site about computers. His “office” was in the basement of his parents’ home in a suburb of Toronto. MyDesktop.com was full of tips that Furdyk was collecting from all over the web. In one of the chats he found his classmate Michael Hayman from Australia, who soon moved to Toronto to help building business. Tightening the belt, comrades found (by barter) servers and office. Soon MyDesktop.com reached monthly revenue of $ 60 000. In 1999, Furdyk, Hayman and their third partner sold company’s site Internet.com for more than $ 1 million.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. In 2005, a 15-year-old Catherine Cook and her 17-year-old brother, Dave, leafed through the pages of their school’s annual album, and decided to create its free online version. Soon Cooks started cooperation with social network Zenhex.com, doubling the number of visits to their site. By 2006, MyYearbook.com raised $ 4.1 million from US Venture Partners and First Round Capital. Business has attracted advertisers such as Neutrogena, Disney and ABC, the number of participants has reached three million worldwide. Teenage millionaires Cooks claim that annual sales measure in seven-digit numbers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. In 2002, when Milun Tesovic was 16, he launched a site where he published lyrics of his favourite songs, just for fun. Two years later he decided to turn it into a business. Today, Metrolyrics.com database includes over 2 million songs and 20 employees. Revenues from advertising reached $ 1 million in 2007, when Tesovic was only 21. Tesovic combined work with studies at the University of Simon Fraser in British Columbia in Canada, where he received a master’s degree business. “I get no education for a career – he says – it contributes to personal growth.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. 14-year old Ashley Qualls from Detroit Qualls created her multi-million dollar website with $8 borrowed from her mother for domain registration. She created a site that was initially planned as her personal online portfolio with photos and graphics. But soon, following the demand, it grew to a site offering free designs for MySpace pages and a guide for teenagers who want to learn how to create your own graphic design Whateverlife.com. In March 2006 Qualls reported to receive an offer from unknown buyer to sell the site for $ 1.5 million, but rejected it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Business: Internet marketing and security (Dubit Limited)At the age of 17, Adam Hildreth started a social networking site and he named it Dubit Limited. Initially, it was exclusively for people living in the United Kingdom and allowed them to play games and share informative articles. It took Adam less than a year to make it the biggest networking site in the country. In 2005, at the age of 20, Adam, along with Peter Maude, founded another technology website named crispthinking.com for monitoring and protecting children. And later, he took his services to fortune 500 companies. Today, Crisp protects 380 million online users worldwide. He was among 20 richest teens in U.K. In 2008, Sunday Times Rich list featured him as the 23rd richest among 100 young richest people in U.K.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. Ashley Qualls, At the age 17</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Business: Online design (Whateverlife.com) Back in 2005, at the age of 14, Ashley launched her website called Whateverlife.com which would provide free MySpace layout and tutorials on how to do graphic designs and coding of their favorite template layouts. By the end of 2007, when the popularity of MySpace was all time high, WhateverLife would attract 7 million unique visitors every month. According to some reports, Ashley made close to $2 million from her website.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Business: Social networking site (myYearbook) Catherine Cook was just 15 when she and her brother David Cook developed MyYearBook, a social networking site for teenagers. In 2005, they took help from their elder brother Geoff, who invested $250,000 for its maintenance. The website was launched in the same year and soon became the third most popular social networking site in the U.S.A. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today, MyYearBook has 33 million registered users and is not restricted to teenagers and social networking. It offers plenty of things such as games, live chat, photo and video sharing and more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Business: Website Dot5Hosting, In the year 2002, at the age of 17, Chris Phillips created a website named Dot5Hosting and within two years his earning crossed the million dollar mark. In 2004, he was one of the richest teens in the United Kingdom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today, Dot5Hosting offers many services which include web hosting and management, email services, domain registration and E-commerce services.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Business: Website BizChair.com ,At the age of 14, with the investment of $500, Sean Belnick founded Bizchair.com. He started importing chairs from China and selling them online. His honesty in providing quality products brought him instant success. In 2006, his $500 investment gave him $24 million in revenue. The company opened 327,000-square-foot warehouse in Canton to store products and expanded from offering office chairs to school furniture, home furniture, and medical equipments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">11. Cameron Johnson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Business: Website ,In 1994, at the age of 9, Johnson started his first business of selling his sister’s Beanie Babies over the Internet out of his home in Virginia. At the age of 12, he successfully made $50,000 and within 3 years, his company started generating $15,000 revenue per day. in 2000, he was the youngest American who was appointed to the board of a Tokyo-based company. In 2007, he wrote a book titled “You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – and Live the Life You Want – with the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship” which became an immediate bestseller. Over the years, Cameron has been appearing in several magazines, popular T.V shows and newspapers; his coaching inspires thousands of people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Business: Retailers in the UK (SuperJam), Fraser Doherty, a Scottish Entrepreneur, is the CEO of ‘SuperJam’. He started his business in a quite traditional way in home kitchen using his grandmother’s recipe. With the growing demand, he tweaked with the receipt and gave it a name ‘Superjam’. He successfully took his business to a new height expanding his customer base from his friends and neighbors to approximately 184 Waitrose stores in U.K.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Business: web designer ,In the year 1994, 14 year old John Magennis, a self taught programmer, started his career as a web designer and would charge only $15 to create a website for a company. Within short period, with the growing demand he began charging as much as $30,000 for a single website. In less than two years, he started earning half a million dollars annually.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">14. Mike McDonald. This enterprising young man went a different route than most teen millionaires with his talents. He got involved in the world of professional poker playing. Scoff if you want but he’s earned millions from his poker skills. He earned $1.4 million in just one large poker game last year. He was 18 years old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">15. Carl Churchill. This UK web designer has been called the British Bill Gates. He started his business at the age of 12. By 19 he was making a turnover of over one million pounds. He is predicted to be worth over £100 million by 2020.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">16. Brett Klasko. This young man was only 14 when he first became a business executive. At he was running a multi-million dollar financial dot-com company. He serves as an inspiration to young business people today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">17. Anand Lal Shimpi. He was just 17 when he created anandtech.com and it was already earning over $1.5 million dollar in ad revenue that year. It continues to be a highly successful tech business today. He remains the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of the organization.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">18. Jayson Meyer. Building customized computers can be worth a lot of money as this young man knows since his company doing just that was earning over $1.5 million in revenue by the time that he was 17.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">19. Ephren Taylor and Michael Stall. These two paired up to launch a business called GoFerretGo which helps teens find employment. The site was quickly valued at over $3 million. Taylor had started into business when he was only 12 making video games.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">20. William Felix. How successful can a lawnmower company be? It can be a million-dollar business if you’re good at which was proven by the success of this seventeen-year-old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">21. Sean Belnick. This kid was 14 when he spent just three days forming a business plan and creating a business called BizChair which sells office furniture and other supplies. In less than half a dozen years, he was earning $50,000,000 per year! The business consistently ranks among the top retail businesses in the world.</span></div>
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</div>Geeta Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05062227449781982134noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-69847173152731636322012-04-03T08:11:00.001-07:002012-04-03T08:11:39.982-07:00Accent Reduction Coach<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">This is a really distinctive business plan, and excellent for somebody who is well spoken, communicates well and may work patiently with folks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have you ever had a conversation with somebody that had an accent, and you probably did not very hear what they said as a result of you were therefore targeted on their weird accent? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Though we tend to never wish to admit it, this happens lots. It's onerous to be taken seriously when nobody listens to what you're saying. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have found this to be true once I am watching coaching DVD’s or tv shows, and that i notice myself irritated and having a tough time specializing in the show or material as a result of I keep obtaining distracted by the accent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now this can be not being judgemental if you're an English speaking native, it’s simply that we tend to are used to hearing our language spoken a particular approach. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And alternative accents are pretty, and in their own language folks sound well spoken and fluent, however the nuances of accent don’t translate well when learning a replacement language. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If this business plan interests you, then establish a much-needed business as an Accent Reduction Coach, and facilitate professionals with their significant accents to talk additional clearly. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Large percentages of the foreign speaking population that move to the present country are well educated and have skilled jobs. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It will be onerous for them to succeed if they are doing not speak English well and want to speak with others among their professions. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They usually have learned English before they move here, however usually times it's a style of English that we tend to don't speak in our everyday routines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They usually times can learn to talk English from folks of their own language and acquire an equivalent significant accent as their instructor, so they're equally tough for us to grasp. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you reside in giant cities in states like California, New York, and Florida accent reduction services may well be a true possibility as a business for you. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These states are where several newcomers move to figure and will use the services you provide them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To get started with this business plan it's necessary that you just perceive and use correct English yourself. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For this sort of business, it's conjointly necessary that you just have patience with folks and revel in teaching. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Learning techniques that skilled speakers use in their own language may well be useful with this business too. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Usually these exercises work well for all folks to apply. they assist us pronounce our words clearly, and keep us from being lazy with our pronunciation of words. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is smart to try to to some analysis on the mother tongues of the teams you'd wish to teach. In some languages, they're not used to creating sure sounds that we tend to use in our language. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If this is usually true they often times can substitute a distinct sound, and it's vital that you just facilitate them to beat this apply. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is conjointly a decent place to form certain that you just have mouth or vocal exercises to beat the mispronunciation. analysis will sway be very useful in overcoming these changes in speaking English. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You will ought to decide whether or not you wish to show categories or people. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you select categories, arrange what percentage you're thinking that you'll be able to handle per category, and where you may be ready to notice an area to use for this. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Often times you'll be able to use your native library if you confer with them 1st and book the area for the categories. this might prevent cash at the start of your career, till you'll be able to establish a college or business front.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As ideas for atiny low business go, the beginning up prices required for this service are pretty minimal. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The major a part of your initial investment ought to be in advertising. Investing during a quality brochure would be a decent plan too, explaining why folks would like your services and the way they're going to take pleasure in your services. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also, embody a way to contact you and what your fee's are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Generally, categories are cheaper per person than one-on-one options; take into account this when selecting the fee's you propose to charge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Start your business with conservative fee's initially till you've got an inspiration of what the market will handle. bear in mind though that usually times these are skilled those that are capable of paying well for your services.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You may conjointly provide your services to corporations that rent foreigners. They usually times are willing to pay quite well for educating their staff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If this may facilitate their staff communicate additional simply, which is able to build them more practical, they're going to be additional willing to take a position in your services.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you're a really effective coach, it's doable to charge $100.00 or additional per hour for your services, counting on where you reside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So if you're longing for ideas for a tiny low business that are distinctive and specialised, and have the talents required to be an Accent Reduction Coach, you'll have a successful business during this field.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And your clientèle can grow quickly if you're smart at serving to foreigners learn to pronounce English additional accurately.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If this can be a district you are feeling snug with, why not attempt it? you will be terribly happy that you just did!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are hardly any businesses of any size that don't believe a presence on the net to stay their customers informed and attentive to changes that may have an effect on them. They use their sites to announce sales, modification business hours or to provide contact data. they will use their web site to permit the client to provide feedback, whether or not it's positive or negative. it's vital that this web site be well done and skilled, that it works properly which it's simple to navigate, even for people who don't seem to be extremely technology fans. one in every of the most effective and fastest growing little businesses is as an online designer, the one that is making these websites for the tiny businesses that require them.</span></div>
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The first step to changing into an online designer is to find out what it truly takes. whereas there are some templates that you just will use which will permit you to form and publish an internet site while not coaching and in precisely a brief quantity of your time, they're not artistic nor are they extremely skilled in look. it's vital to grasp that the higher your work is, the additional you're possible to be suggested by your glad customers. as a result of websites are updated and altered and even utterly rebuilt frequently, you wish to be the primary person who your loyal customers return to. obtaining coaching as an internet site designer will be a decent investment into your future and your own growing business.</div>
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After earning a degree or a certificate as an internet site designer, it's time to start out obtaining the word out so everybody is aware of that you just are able to build their web site. At now, it's vital to create your own website not solely to advertise your business however to showcase your talents and abilities moreover. Be vigilant along with your website as a result of it's serving as an ad for your business and is that the means that a lot of individuals are going to be progressing to grasp you.</div>
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Other ways that of obtaining your name out are to try to to some cold calling either head to head or via phonephone. Do to a small degree analysis on the companies that you just would love to focus on and ensure that you just are discussing their selling desires moreover because the condition of their current web site if they need one. If they don’t, your job is to clarify what quantity they have one.</div>
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</span></div>Geeta Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05062227449781982134noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-54579831128433875862012-03-24T23:24:00.000-07:002012-03-24T23:24:02.470-07:00How To Run A Successful Small Business<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's face it; it's not easy being a small business owner or a solo professional. In addition to creating effective marketing plans and marketing strategies that will get paying customers through the door, we need to be on top of all the other important aspects of running a business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With only 24 hours in a day, one brain, and two hands with which to take care of everything, we've got to find ways to work smarter-not harder-if we want to build successful businesses without sacrificing our sanity in the process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are a number of ways to leverage your time so you can maximize your profits. Below are my top 10:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Get in motion by eliminating the procrastinator's best friend: "Messy Desk/Office Syndrome." If that is something you're plagued with, you'll find slaying the beast a lot easier if you take what I call the "The 3 D System" approach to organization which directs that you look at what is on your desk or what is cluttering your office and either Dump it, Deal with it or Delegate it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Outsource everything that is not the best use of your time. Look at where you make your money, and if it's not at bookkeeping, Web site maintenance, or writing marketing materials, for example, farm those tasks out to someone who can do them far more quickly and efficiently than you can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Take things from your "to-do" list and block off actual times for working on specific items. For example, 10-10:30 AM might be for returning phone calls; 1-2:00 PM for working on an article; 2-3:00 PM could be for updating your marketing plan or for researching business networking events. You'll be amazed at how much more you get done when you assign specific times for doing things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Resist the temptation to answer the phone every time it rings as a new conversation will not only distract you from what you are doing, but it may lead you to abandon the task all together as you become drawn into resolving other matters. If you work alone, pretend you have a secretary and that you've told him or her to "hold all calls." Then return the calls when you have both a clear mind and the time to tackle them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. Take charge of your e-mails; don't let them take charge of you. Resist temptation and commit to checking your in-box only twice a day: first thing in the morning and around 3:00 PM.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. Set specific, realistic goals with timelines and commit to taking at least two action steps every day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. Avoid becoming overwhelmed by chunking every task down into manageable bite-sized pieces. Not only will you get more done, you will feel terrific as you realize how much you have accomplished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8. Tackle the things you hate doing first. Like a trip to the dentist, you'll feel an awful lot better when that phone call you've been dreading and avoiding is finished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9. Build accountability into everything that is difficult or important to you. It doesn't matter if it is crafting your marketing message, writing press releases, or putting together your media kit, you will find you will get a lot more accomplished if you are accountable to someone for having completed your actions. If you are not currently working with a business coach, find a neutral party to help you stay on track.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10. Stop spinning your wheels and start making more money by having a clearly defined niche to which all your marketing efforts are directed. Make sure your target market is one that a) has a need for your services, b) is underserved, and c) can afford your fees. Be as specific as possible when determining your niche and create marketing materials that address its needs and that position you as the solution your target market has been looking for.</span></div>
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</div>Geeta Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05062227449781982134noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-60143901911034749142012-03-24T23:20:00.001-07:002012-03-24T23:20:25.162-07:00The Economic Times launches 'The Power of Ideas 2010'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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NEW DELHI: The Economic Times launches 'The Power of Ideas 2010', India's largest entrepreneurial platform that encourages, nurtures and grooms business ideas by connecting them with relevant mentors, incubators and investors, is being launched by The Economic Times on June 22. The initiative aims at creating an entrepreneurial culture in India Inc. The Power of Ideas was first launched in 2009, in the middle of an economic slowdown, to boost sentiment and encourage India Inc to approach the slowdown differently. Over 12,500 business ideas were received and of these, 1,000 shortlisted participants were taken through Group Mentoring sessions and Elevator Pitches. A final list of 254 thus arrived at were put through a phase of one-on-one Mentoring prior to presenting their ideas to investors. </div>
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Till the time of writing, nearly 20 ideas have received funding and several more are in advanced stages of talks with investors. Not only was the programme rigourous in terms of the learning it offered, it also became - by virtue of the sheer number of business ideas received - the largest aggregation of outstanding business ideas. This year, the objective is to formalize the initiative, transforming it into an entrepreneurial ecosystem that will drive the economy forward. For this purpose, The Economic Times has joined hands with the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. The Department of Science & Technology, with its immense expertise and relationships in the entrepreneurial space, is offering guaranteed funds worth Rs 5 crore. It will be given out to not just for those who have taken the first step, but even to dreamers who come with nothing more than a good idea. It's our way of saluting innovation. </div>
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Working alongside will be the Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. Started as an incubating lab of IIM Ahmedabad, CIIE is today a domain expert, with experience in mentoring, hand-holding and making entrepreneurs investor-ready. In the last few months, CIIE has been sewing together an ecosystem comprising mentors and investors who will evaluate every single business summary that comes to The Power of Ideas 2010 - mentoring and investing in the most deserving. Just to ensure that more dreamers get to meet investors, CIIE has also worked out a unique ten-day incubation programme at its campus for all candidates who make it to the final cut-off list of The Power of Ideas, all expenses paid. </div>
</div>Geeta Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05062227449781982134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-31719732629689728402012-03-24T23:15:00.000-07:002012-03-24T23:15:01.908-07:00Starting a business in a tough economy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whether you're unemployed, underemployed, fearful of a layoff or just bored with your job, at some point you've probably thought about starting your own business. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And like most people, you've probably been held back by a host of concerns: whether your idea is good enough, how to get funding, whether you can live without vacation and medical benefits, whether you even have the chops. Now, there's one more worry to add to the mix: whether it's crazy to start a business in the wake of a recession. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's the good news. First, all entrepreneurs face those same fears on the road to building a company. Second, many Fortune 500 corporations, including Procter & Gamble, IBM, General Motors and FedEx, were founded during a period of economic uncertainty. "If you launch your business during a difficult time, you know what you can do on a lean basis," says James King, state director of New York's Small Business Development Center. Then once the economy starts to bounce back, he says, you'll be well-positioned to succeed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We asked King and Rex Hammock, founder of SmallBusiness.com and CEO of the custom media and marketing firm Hammock Inc. -- based in Nashville, Tenn. -- what it really takes to stop working for the man and become your own boss. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tip no. 1: Seek input </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For starters, you should run your business concept past a few impartial observers before pouring your whole self into it. "Family and friends are not going to give you an honest answer," says King. And even if it is a great idea, you must remain open to the possibility that your better mousetrap simply might not catch on. If that turns out to be the case, adds King, be prepared to adjust and compensate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Feeling ready? Put yourself to the test. This online quiz, created by the Small Business Administration, will help you ascertain whether you truly have the drive, perseverance and skill set you'll need to see your business succeed. Even if you don't, the SBA offers tips on how to build those credentials. Take advantage of this advice before diving in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Less simple, though not impossible, is the path for capital-intensive startups. Hammock warns that these are tough times for getting a loan. "Banks are requiring more personal guarantees and financial collateral than I've seen in my nearly 30 years of owning small businesses," he says. But King claims it's still doable. "The money is available," he argues. "You just have to prove the case for it." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How? Get your ducks in a row by putting together a solid business plan. If you've never written one and need direction, avail yourself of the largely free assistance of organizations such as the Small Business Development Center (or SBDC, which maintains help offices in every state in the U.S.). The better prepared you are, says King, the more likely it is that the major financial institutions will work with you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another prospective source of financing is credit unions, which picked up much of the small-business lending slack when big banks put on the brakes in the aftermath of the global financial meltdown. Depending on the amount of funding needed for your venture, you can also seek economic support from friends and family, from so-called angel investors or from venture capital firms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally, King advises that you raise or borrow enough money to provide your fledgling company with adequate cushion funding. It may take you longer to turn a profit than you expect, and you don't want to be left penniless mere months in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once you've hung your shingle, avoid the temptation to grow too quickly. This is particularly true for companies that start making money sooner than expected. "Say you open a restaurant and it quickly becomes a hot spot," posits King. Before you know it, you're excitedly adding seating and staff. But chances are good that you're merely experiencing a new-restaurant bump, and that customer traffic will soon come back down to earth. "If you misjudge that," warns King, "it can be a disaster for your business." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you do start to grow, competitors will likely appear where none existed before. "Someone else is going to try to replicate your success," says King. He recommends going back to your business plan and adjusting it to respond to the new conditions. This will help you stay a step ahead of any changes that could affect your bottom line. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The smaller you are, the more you'll be building your new company's reputation on the basis of two essential factors: quality and service. "Trying to compete in an arena where price is the only factor in your clients' purchasing decisions is a train wreck waiting to happen," says Hammock. "If you can help a customer or client be better at something they want to be better at, you've cracked the formula for long-term success." In other words, make your clients look good, and you'll look good too. And if that prospect doesn't have you thinking about punching in your current job's time card for the final time, nothing will. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Content courtesy: Men's Life Today, Global, TOI</span></div>
</div>Geeta Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05062227449781982134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-42509067221793678532012-03-24T23:11:00.002-07:002012-03-24T23:11:15.565-07:00Hair Salon Business Plan Tips<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Getting the numbers right for your hair salon business plan tips is the key to creating a compelling and valuable plan and, therefore, to the successful launch of your salon. The "right" type of numbers depends on who you are targeting the plan at. Consider the different needs of investors and lenders and what they want out of the financial section of your business plan. </span></div>
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The numbers that investors want to see are realistic, but conservative, projections that still show a return that they feel is required by the level of risk they will take on by investing and by the opportunities to use their money elsewhere that they will give up (their opportunity risk). You lower the risk that investors feel they are taking on by showing proof of the management team's experience, well-thought out marketing and operations plans, a quantifiable customer target market with demonstrated needs that the services of your salon will fulfill, and a competitive landscape which presents an opportunity for your business to steal some market share from the current players. Within the financial section, you support this lower risk by explaining your revenue assumptions in a way that shows a gradual build up to profitability and a rationale for how the number of customers you expect is reasonable.
For some businesses, the return required by investors is only fully realized in the event of the sale of the business. However, an investor in a salon with modest dreams of being a local leader and an ongoing concern may show significant investor return through dividends paid out as the cash becomes available. For most investors, the return must be significantly greater than that of a safe investment like certificates of deposit or treasury bonds or mutual funds. Investors personally interested in your success (like family or friends) may not require as high of a annual return, while professional investors will be serious about a high return. </span></div>
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Lenders are most interested in the safe return of their principal with interest over time, and will not care so much about the absolute value of the company, beyond the value of its assets which can be seized and liquidated in the case of a loan default. To show lenders the numbers they want to see, the financial plan shows the business becoming cash flow positive relatively quickly to allow for these payments to begin, and for this situation to continue throughout the years after that point. Lenders will be interested in the value of assets that are being purchased (such as equipment, inventory, and real estate) and cautious lenders will want these assets to act as collateral and to limit their loan to this amount, unless personal assets are also offered as collateral. Lenders will share many of the same concerns as investors - that the rest of the plan is well-thought out, that financial assumptions are reasonable and conservative, and that the management team has the experience to lead. </span></div>
</div>Geeta Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05062227449781982134noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-48897457587948138542011-12-05T00:19:00.000-08:002011-12-05T00:19:00.826-08:00Start a Home Based Business<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Want to shorten your commute from an hour to a minute? Many of the most successful small businesses started out in a home office. Whether your job involves a computer or a lawnmower, a home based business can be an inexpensive path to entrepreneurship. How do you start?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We’ve grouped the following resources together as a starting point for your research into what it would take to start your own business from home. In addition to the free content (such as sample business plans that you can read in full online), you will also find links for additional tools and products to help you move from the “where do I begin?” research step to the “how do I get started?” step — when you’re ready.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Home Based Business Sample Plans</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking for inspiration? Check out our sample business plans for entrepreneurs working from home. See how others like you got started and turned their home based business idea into a reality. All of the plans below can be read fully online, and even more are available in Business Plan Pro.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Decorative Pottery Business Plan</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fat Cat Creations is a home based business making one-of-a-kind raku pottery ceramic cats which are sold in galleries and at arts and craft festivals along the West Coast, as well as nationally on the Fat Cat Creations website.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lawn and Garden Services Business Plan</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Working from their home office, Fescue & Sons Yard Care will offer residential and commercial lawn care service, including lawn cutting, trimming, edging, and removal of the clippings.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Medical Billing Business Plan</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This work from home business plan describes how Physicians 1st Billing and Claims is a medical reimbursement consulting firm dedicated to helping medical practices become more efficient and save money by allowing them to out-source their insurance processing and medical billing to an expert reimbursement service.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Personal Event Planning Business Plan</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Occasions, the Event Planning Specialists is a home based consulting business that uses its expertise and its specialized event-planning products to help its customers plan their own events. These products and services include party packs, step-by-step guide booklets, and event-planning software.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pet Photography Business Plan</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A home based business aimed at bringing a smile to every pet owner’s face, Adorable Pet Photography will offer a wide variety of products, such as: formal studio portraits, location portrait sessions, holiday candid photographs, portrait finishes, and framing.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wedding Consultant Business Plan</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In this home based business, TLC Wedding Consultants provides complete consulting services for weddings, honeymoons, receptions, anniversary consultations, budget planning, answers to etiquette questions, as well as full-service referrals to florists, hair stylists, entertainers, musicians, etc.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Computer Consulting Business Plan</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Working from a home based office, Calico Computer Consulting provides fast, reliable technical computer assistance.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Home Based Sample Marketing Plan</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once you’ve decided on the type of business you want to start, you must also plan how you will reach your potential customer market and how you will convince them they want to do business with you. That’s what marketing is all about. Read this sample marketing plan and see how Physician’s 1st Billing and Claims targeted its ideal online customer base.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Articles on Starting a Home Based Business</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In addition to the home based business and marketing sample plans above, the following articles address many of the common types of questions entrepreneurs have about starting a business. No matter what type of business you’re interested in, you will find these articles to be helpful.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reducing Risk for a Startup Business</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How do you transition from employment to self-employed entrepreneur without losing your shirt? That is a fundamental question….</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No Money? No Problem!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is it possible to start a business without money or collateral? Anything is possible…</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Right Business For You</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you want to work for yourself, but don’t have a particular business in mind, you’re probably wondering what kind of business you should start. Fortunately, the answer is always the same…</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Top 15 Questions from SCORE</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. What kind of person makes a successful entrepreneur? …</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Start a Business Resource Kit</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking for more resources to help you start your bed and breakfast or other home based business? This free online business planning toolkit includes a presentation by business planning guru Tim Berry, a set of business calculators, sample business plans and more. Launch the toolkit</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Additional Sample Plans Available in Business Plan Pro</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These, and other home based sample business plans, as well as the fully viewable plans listed above, are available in Business Plan Pro.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Astrology Tarot Card Business Plan</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Executive summary (Excerpt only)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Martini Astrology and Tarot is a home based business that specializes in astrology and tarot reading. Martini will initially be a home based service provider operating out of the owner’s home. The founder and owner, Sarah Esppe will also offer out-call services by appointment.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tutoring Service Business Plan</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Executive summary (Excerpt only)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bryan’s Tutoring Service is an home based company that offers tutoring services for a wide variety of subjects. The company is currently a sole proprietorship, however the business plans to change its organizational form to an LLC within the next year or two.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Administrative Service Business Plan</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Executive summary (Excerpt only)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everywhere Assistant is a new home based start-up virtual assistant business. The company is a sole proprietorship with Sadie Clark as the founder and sole employee.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interior Design Business Plan</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Executive summary (Excerpt only)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Barton Interiors is a home based venture that will offer comprehensive interior design services for homes and offices. Barton Interiors also will provide access to products to complement the design consulting services including furniture, both new and antique, decorator fabric, and home and office accessories.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Industry research</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Get valuable financial intelligence and industry trends for your industry in an industry research report. We provide detailed reports with five years of financials, business ratios, and more. Better yet, our industry reports are available at the U.S. national, state, and even county level, so you can really understand the local competitive environment. Start your market research the easy way.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Article by Tim Berry</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Founder and President of Palo Alto Software</span></div></div>Geeta Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05062227449781982134noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-86922372596225306222011-12-05T00:12:00.000-08:002011-12-05T00:12:50.946-08:00People Skills vs. Painting Skills Which is More Important?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - By Andy Thompson </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As painting business owners, our job goes way beyond applying paint. From the moment we decided to start our own business it became clear that we would have to wear many hats.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In fact, the act of applying paint (production) dropped down to number three on the list of importance, while marketing and estimating take priority. Needless to say we are no longer just painters, but instead "business owners who paint".</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So many painters make the leap from employee to business owner without understanding everything that is involved with running a successful painting business. Unfortunately this is the main reason 98% of new painting businesses never make it through their </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">first year.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the first things to understand is that you are not in the “Painting Business” you are in the “People Business” and therefore you need to gain a firm understanding of what makes people tick. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The mental process a customer goes through in their mind when deciding which painter to choose goes way beyond your ability to cut a razor sharp edge or how nice the logo looks on your business cards.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Customers are always looking for three main things every time, a quality paint job done at an affordable price by someone they can trust and people skills are the most important part of this process.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Homeowners hire based on feeling. If they feel that you have their best interest in mind as you are selling your services to them they will be more likely to hire you. If they feel like you are just in it for the cash they will probably go another way.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The only thing your customers care about is “What’s in it for me?” </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Case in point... Why did you subscribe to my newsletter? Because you wanted insider tips and tricks that will help you become a more successful painting business owner.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You gave me your trust because what I offer will help YOU become more profitable.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">People give you their business based on what THEY will get out of it. That is what you should cater your marketing message to. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The painting business owner who learns to conduct business with that one simple question in mind will not only land more jobs, they will build a large list of satisfied customers who will become fiercely loyal and gladly refer your business to all their </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">friends and relatives. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The only question a customer wants answered is “What’s in it for me?” that is the only question you ever have to satisfy. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If your marketing message is centered around how great of a painter YOU are or how much experience YOU have or how lame and incompetent your competitors are, you are just shooting yourself in the foot and loosing tons of money.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you want to land MOST of the jobs you bid on even if you are the highest estimate, go out of your way to to satisfy that one simple question for your customer. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">REMEMBER - “What is in it for me?” Tell them, educate them and get them excited about the project. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the end, it is the only thing that will make them feel completely comfortable with choosing you as their painter of choice.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div>Geeta Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05062227449781982134noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-71903098635919080062011-11-28T21:22:00.000-08:002011-11-28T21:22:28.650-08:00How to Bootstrap Your Business<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Erica Zidel knew trying to raise funds for her startup would be a full-time job. She worried that chasing after capital would distract her from building the best product she could. So, rather than sweat the investment game, she has spent two years holding down a day job while bootstrapping her new company on the side.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During business hours, the Boston resident works as a management consultant. Evenings and weekends, she puts on her startup hat.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I've basically been working two full-time jobs," says Zidel, founder and CEO of Sitting Around, an online community that makes it easy for parents to find and coordinate babysitting co-ops in their neighborhoods. It's a hectic schedule--schizophrenic, even--but it's also thrilling. "When I woke up this morning, I realized that it was Monday, and I got excited," Zidel says.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What's perhaps more thrilling is that she's been able to self-fund Sitting Around with the money she earns from her consulting work. Besides not getting sidetracked with fundraising, Zidel and her business partner, CTO Ted Tieken, have been able to retain 100 percent ownership of the babysitting venture.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Bootstrapping early on means I have complete control over the vision and the product at a time when even small changes can lead to big consequences down the road," Zidel says. "I wanted the flexibility to make the right decisions, free from a board or an investor's influence. When you have just the founders making decisions, you can innovate much faster."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That focus on innovation has paid off. Sitting Around serves families in 48 states, as well as in Canada, Australia, Hong Kong and the U.K. Since the site launched in June, its user base has doubled every month; the company is on track to have 5,000 users by year's end. Sitting Around also was one of 125 finalists in this year's MassChallenge, a Boston-based startup competition and accelerator program. Perhaps most exciting of all? Shortly after launching the company, Zidel was honored at the White House as a champion of change for her contributions to child care.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Money vs. Time</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The beauty of moonlighting with a startup is that it lets you test a business idea without jeopardizing your financial well-being, says Pamela Slim, business consultant and author of Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"When you don't know where your monthly income is coming from, it often sets up a fight-or-flight response in your brain," Slim says. "And that's not a good place to be when you're trying to be creative. So having that psychological cushion is often very important for the development of business ideas."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Juggling jobs: Erica Zidel of Stting Around works days as a management consultant.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Zidel will attest to that. Thanks to her day job, she's been able to pour $15,000 to $20,000 of her own money into her business. Not having to take on debt or live like a monk has been a point of pride--but it has also been a necessity. "Since I'm a mother, I have to maintain an adequate standard of living for my son," Zidel explains. "While I'm definitely frugal and very conscious that a dollar spent on lifestyle is a dollar not spent on Sitting Around, I'd rather work two jobs than feed my son ramen."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But as anyone bootstrapping a business on top of a day job will tell you, seed capital isn't the only ingredient in the recipe.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"When I started my journey as an entrepreneur, I thought the most precious resource was money, but it's actually time," says Aaron Franklin, co-founder of LazyMeter.com, a web-based productivity tool that launched in August.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Franklin and LazyMeter co-founder Joshua Runge initially began "messing around" with their idea nights and weekends while working full time at Microsoft. After four months of brainstorming and development, the two felt they could no longer do their day jobs justice. With LazyMeter still in the product-development stage, they resigned from Microsoft at the end of 2009, trading in their steady paychecks for a more flexible web-consulting client.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"We needed a source of revenue to buy us the time to build the right product. Consulting was really the perfect way to ease this transition," says Franklin, who is based in San Francisco.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taking project-based work did more than just allow Franklin and Runge to bootstrap the startup. Because they performed their consulting work under their business entity, they were able to stretch their income further by putting their pre-tax earnings back into their new company.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today, LazyMeter has more than 10,000 users. Although currently a free service, the founders plan to introduce premium subscription features as soon as the first quarter of 2012.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Juggling Act</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bootstrapping a business is not without its challenges. Besides the long hours and the strain on personal relationships, it can be tricky to split one's creative juices between two professional pursuits.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Being pulled in multiple directions is the hardest," says Sitting Around's Zidel. "It takes a while for your brain to switch gears. And when things start to collide, it can be hard to say [what] you should be working on."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To stay productive and sane, Zidel schedules her workdays down to the hour and sticks to a list of non-negotiable items to accomplish each day. Still, she admits, "it's hard to stop working. I really have to force myself to carve out some personal time."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bootstrapping with income earned from not a single employer but a cadre of consulting clients comes with its own set of obstacles.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Sometimes customers require a lot of attention, making it difficult to carve out time for your startup," LazyMeter's Franklin says. Likewise, he adds, "When you start consulting, it can be tempting to work as many hours as they can pay you."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Either way, your startup loses--which is why it's important to make an exit plan and stick to it. "If you make enough revenue to last another month but slow down your startup by a month, you're not getting ahead," Franklin says. "Make sure your efforts are moving you forward, not backward."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Knowing When to Leap</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How will you know when to quit your day job? Author Slim advises that once you've tested your idea in the real world and know there's a market for it, you should set specific, tangible metrics.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"For some people, it can be getting a significant amount of traffic on their website or selling a certain number of units," she says. "For some people, it's when they have X dollars in their savings. For some people, it's a date--say, ‘Come hell or high water, Dec. 31, 2012, I'm quitting my job.'"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For Nick Cronin, co-founder and CEO of ExpertBids.com, which connects business owners with lawyers, CPAs and other consultants, the day came when his web startup began to bring in revenue. After spending 15 months growing his site to 10,000 users--7,000 of them experts--Cronin left his gig as a corporate attorney to work on his startup full time in November 2010. Now, he says, "We bring in enough money for a developer and myself to work on [the site] and to cover all expenses, including office space and advertising/marketing."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before quitting his job, Cronin spent a year lining his savings account. "I knew that things were going to take time and that we were going to need a little bit of a runway before I could take a salary," says the Chicago-based entrepreneur. "My goal was to have nine months where, if we didn't make a dollar, I'd be totally fine."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The escape route looks completely different for Sitting Around's Zidel. "It's less the number of users and more the rate of growth. We've been testing different components of our business to see what works before we go out to raise money and turn the gas on," she says. "Now we have a lot of great data: what messages resonate, what products make money."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While she won't specify revenue, Zidel says her site is making money from its premium subscribers, who pay $15 per year, and from advertisers. In 2012, the company will launch discounted product offers to site members (such as backpacks for kids) and a pay-per-transaction scheduling tool for booking babysitters.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Until Sitting Around brings in enough to pay a comfortable salary, Zidel says she's content to juggle CEO duties with her consulting work. And to those who say you're not a true entrepreneur unless you quit your day job, she cries foul.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"A lot people think that to be a successful entrepreneur, you need to be sleeping on an air mattress and working on your business 80 to 90 hours a week," she says. "But I think that definition of success is silly. I'm living proof that if you have a quality idea and you spend your time well and execute it well, you can wind up with something great."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Protecting Your Rep at Your Day Job</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your boss may not be thrilled to learn that you're cultivating a side business. To avoid biting the hand that feeds you, follow this advice from Pamela Slim, author of Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Check your employment agreement and employee handbook. Some companies have a no-moonlighting policy. Others have non-compete agreements that prohibit you from doing your own business with their clients. Others--particularly technology companies--have policies that nab the intellectual property rights of anything you create on your own time.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep quiet about your side project. Unless your employment agreement requires you to come clean about your after-hours venture, Slim recommends staying mum with managers and colleagues. Yes, some might be supportive of your side pursuit. But, Slim says, once the cat's out of the bag, "be prepared to be fired, as a worst-case scenario."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't work on your startup on company time. Just because you love your side project more than your job doesn't give you license to slack off. Resist the urge to use your work phone and e-mail to conduct startup business. "Take the calls on your cell on a break, and, if possible, use your own laptop or mobile device to check personal e-mail," Slim says. "Remember, everything is tracked and monitored in large corporations."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't burn bridges. Guard your professional reputation as though your life depends on it. "It's never a pleasant thing to be fired for performance," Slim says. "That's not the way you want to go out." Besides, your current employer might be a future customer or investor.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This article was originally published in the December 2011 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: Bootstrap Your Business.</span></div></div>Geeta Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05062227449781982134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-5630362759202637812011-11-28T21:19:00.000-08:002011-11-28T21:20:44.206-08:00Things to Consider When Buying an ATM Machine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf-3Gc9FkEX9veD0nImKtUU8j8KJLuFf_73s8_owLRueDftXlklDEc0JBbo1UoGbgfFULN5f8fQGw6R4E5fsGDe7aulNbFu3Qgz22cSCshmDWnG4RVna5vmBe21Tm19i5aaWxnrzkuLXI/s1600/atm-machine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf-3Gc9FkEX9veD0nImKtUU8j8KJLuFf_73s8_owLRueDftXlklDEc0JBbo1UoGbgfFULN5f8fQGw6R4E5fsGDe7aulNbFu3Qgz22cSCshmDWnG4RVna5vmBe21Tm19i5aaWxnrzkuLXI/s400/atm-machine.jpg" width="267" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you are a business owner and want to control your own ATM or you are planning on starting an ATM machine business, there are a few things to know before you go out and buy an ATM machine. Following these tips can help you pick the best machine out of the many options available.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Price Range</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before you go out and buy, it is imperative that you set a price range for yourself. ATM machines come in a wide variety of prices, and you could very easily find yourself buying a high-end machine that is out of your price range. There are a few things to think about when considering how much you want to spend. Where will the ATM machine be located? If you think you have a highly lucrative location picked out, you may be willing to spend more on a machine. This is because you can expect to make your money back fairly quickly, and you need to ensure that you have a machine that won’t break down easily.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Buying vs. Leasing</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once you know how much to spend, you will need to think about whether you want to buy or lease your machine. When buying a machine you have the advantage of complete ownership, but it is often more costly than leasing. If you want to lease be sure to do research ahead of time. You will want to know if you are expected to pay for any maintenance fees or other issues that may arise.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Buying Used</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is always the option of buying used ATM machines. This is certainly cheaper than buying new, but does come with some risks. You will want to have the machine inspected to ensure that it is in working order, and make sure that it comes from a reputable company. Used machines have the tendency to break down more often than new machines. In the end, the money that you save on buying used over new could be lost in repairs and lost profits. The last thing you want in your ATM machine business is machines that don’t work.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many entrepreneurs and business owners have the desire to buy an ATM machine for their business. Whether you are starting a home catering business and want a portable ATM machine, or you are running an exclusive ATM machine business, following some of these tips can help you get a machine that is right for you.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div>Geeta Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05062227449781982134noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-11746403563080651502011-11-28T21:18:00.000-08:002011-11-28T21:18:40.380-08:00HOW TO RUN A SOFTWARE COMPANY SUCCESSFULLY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEyIgClwH3kdzb3cNls-MIht37IF_Z5-7n-7j0853M0_ZN8-oUH3mlhFUpjSvTlBeUoxD03WfxCBD0dzHnNsMulyA_yRLeXgAinSXfgUTNxIUNYyHvhCfIFKxFcAt3bkzOMEZXuwiIENQ/s1600/407-philco-PC.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEyIgClwH3kdzb3cNls-MIht37IF_Z5-7n-7j0853M0_ZN8-oUH3mlhFUpjSvTlBeUoxD03WfxCBD0dzHnNsMulyA_yRLeXgAinSXfgUTNxIUNYyHvhCfIFKxFcAt3bkzOMEZXuwiIENQ/s400/407-philco-PC.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10 POINTS ON 10 POINTS ON HOW TO RUN A SOFTWARE COMPANY SUCCESSFULLY</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the face of it, the management challenges for the major segments of the software industry viz off-the-shelf packaged products, enterprise solutions and services look different. For companies providing off-the-shelf products, success lies in its emphasis on marketing, while enterprise solutions providers depend on partnering. It can be argued, on the other hand, that IT services companies need to be completely “people focused.” Not withstanding these special areas of focus, there are 10 common themes that remain important to the successful running of a software company.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>An inspiring vision</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Without doubt, people are the main assets in any software firm. To get these assets to deliver their best, they need to be aligned to an inspiring vision and everyone aligning to this brings out the best in them and produces unbelievable results.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Culture of innovation</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyone can start a software company. The barriers to entry are low, particularly in IT services. Good ideas and business models easily attract funding. Speed, therefore, is of essence and the only way to stay ahead and survive is to continuously innovate. The culture of innovation instills a sense of creativity and risk taking, with a heightened tolerance for failure. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ability to take risks</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To keep pace with rapid changes in the environment, it is important to take risks. Software businesses need to build on multiple options and prepare for uncertainties. The culture of innovation allows people to take risks. With such a culture the organization is not scared of failures, but learns from them. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Differentiate</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the fast-paced knowledge industry, where market forces continuously bring in new players, innovation to continuously built product and services differentiation, shapes competitive and operational performance. Keeping one finger on the market pulse to be able to identify the differentiator is what sets a company apart.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Branding and Marketing</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Often ignored by the services industry, Branding and Marketing is perhaps the most important external activity of the company. The key differentiators in the company’s business, product or services need to be communicated effectively so that potential services seekers can recall these offerings. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Pick your battles</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Organizations need to know their strengths and invest in building those as core competencies. IT solutions are complex and it is not necessary to build all the capabilities within the organization. Companies need to know when to partner.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Invest in People</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In today’s context, competition is not only for business but the best talent. Winning the race for talent is crucial for success. The motivators for software professionals are unique. What is essential is a great culture which promotes growth, development and provides for a challenging and fulfilling environment. Investing in this environment is the key to success.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Continuous Communication</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Growth leads to the addition of new people and natural attrition brings in new faces continuously into the organisation. The vision, goals and aspirations of a company need to be regularly reinforced through continuous communication so that the workforce remains aligned to the values and beliefs of the organisation. Continuous communication is essential and brings in a sense of belongingness.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Delivery Excellence</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Flawless delivery is a base assumption for any software company but we all know that software development often encounters problems. These relate to quality, timeliness and costs. In most cases, timeliness of delivery are most important. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Exemplary Leadership</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Successful software companies are characterised by exemplary leaders. Successful leaders create a culture within their organisations that attracts and retains talent. They are able to communicate effectively their vision and articulate a cohesive strategy to achieve it.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The author is CEO of NIIT Technologies </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</span></div></div>Geeta Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05062227449781982134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-56111752410243614602011-10-17T03:51:00.000-07:002011-10-17T03:51:22.210-07:00The wedding planner<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgHysb-2eXPFv14LJ_5bhr5Rup0Tqg8cflbahej6S1b6MphKuSnTTO2SdCy0FtwlMJCya91K4YN7cREGNue318Lk00VMs8lIlpqM-NBFlqlYwi8zDOUuSr8eTu0QvACOICjLKtPNpTwmo/s1600/images+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgHysb-2eXPFv14LJ_5bhr5Rup0Tqg8cflbahej6S1b6MphKuSnTTO2SdCy0FtwlMJCya91K4YN7cREGNue318Lk00VMs8lIlpqM-NBFlqlYwi8zDOUuSr8eTu0QvACOICjLKtPNpTwmo/s400/images+%25281%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Imagine having an exciting and interesting high-paying career that can let you use your creativity to organise the happiest day of people's lives. Yes, we are talking about weddings here. According to Meher Sarid of Sound of Music, the biggest player in the wedding planning industry, highly applauded for her 'Devdas' settings and managing high-class weddings, "The wedding industry is associated with glamour, fun, and excitement, which makes it highly attractive for those looking for unconventional careers."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Weddings being tapped for business purposes is a recent phenomenon, as Vikas Gutgutia, managing director of Ferns 'N' Petals, said: "Marriages have taken the pride of place in Indian society since time immemorial, but the wedding industry was tapped just a decade ago. Earlier, the wedding industry was unorganised, but a lot of entrepreneurs have now jumped into the field realising the potential of the industry."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prince Singhal of International Centre for Event Marketing and Management remarked, "Besides being lucrative, the industry is growing because of glitz and glamour."</span></div><script type="text/javascript">
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wedding management</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wedding management, according to Gutgutia is a term coined to help a family have a wedding in the most organised manner possible where family members can enjoy the ceremony, just like guests. Tailor-made weddings are the order of the day. Wedding managers offer entire arrangements for weddings right from the day someone gets engaged till he or she goes for a honeymoon with his or her life partner.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wedding planners handle complete designing and coordination of weddings right from designing invitation cards, deciding venues and decor to trousseau packing, designing the stage for the couple, providing dancers, bands, singers, catering and much more. Sarid remarked, "You need to possess a knack for the field to be a key player in the industry. You should be able to plan and execute the complete design and management of wedding activities that starts from designing invitation cards to creating a full-blown theme set-ups, be it an evening in Paris, an elaborate Japanese wedding or any such theme that a client requires."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Personal traits</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a career for a versatile person. An aspirant needs to be hard working, outgoing, flexible, detail-oriented, organised, a self-starter and customer service-oriented. Gutgutia said: "An aspiring planner must know the wedding events and rituals of different castes and religions to plan it accordingly. A wedding can be an elaborate affair lasting from two days to 15 days depending upon the customs of a particular caste. You are expected to have a high-level of energy and self-motivation to sustain yourself. Besides, you should be prepared for any eventuality, as things can go wrong prior to such a complicated event."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Training</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This industry doesn't require special education or experience, but being a simple graduate always helps. Sarid said: "As the industry is not greatly recognised here, there isn't any specialised course in the field. But, we are planning to come up with courses in wedding planning in future. We will soon start a course on floral arrangement with a module on wedding management. There won't be any specific educational requirement for the course."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interested students can either go abroad for specialised training in the field or take up courses in hotel management, event management or floral arrangement wherein there is a module on wedding planning or management.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to a majority of players in the industry, the best way to excel as a wedding consultant is to get as much wedding industry work experience by working in different capacities and to gather as wide a variety of skills, talents, and knowledge as possible. Gutgutia remarked, "You can impress customers only with your talent and knowledge about weddings, not with any diploma or degree."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The northern region branch manager, Wizcraft, an event management company, Chetan Vohra said: "Working in event planning, bridal or craft retail, catering, floral and formal wear can give a future consultant familiarity with trends, products, services, rates and practices in the industry. The more they know about a variety of wedding subjects, the better managers, planners or consultants they can be."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Singhal exclaimed, "Most people have had some experience in one or more aspects of these facets of a wedding and most wedding planners have converted a job as a florist, caterer, photographer or travel agent into a larger and more exciting career as a wedding planner."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yet, an additional degree or diploma in management or event management helps widely in setting up your own start-up or working for an established wedding planner.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Career prospects and remuneration</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The wedding ceremonies today are proving that marriages are made on earth and by wedding managers. According to Vohra, "The grandeur of wedding ceremonies has in no way diminished with time. In fact, this untapped industry is gradually growing to be a successful business venture. The industry can never die, it will only flourish with the tastes of the rich."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most planners work out of their homes. Besides, they can pick and choose from a dozen type of employers who can hire them on a salary ranging from Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000 per month at the initial stage. At the starting level, freshers can be hired by wedding planners and coordinators, bridal consultants, event managers, florists, caterers or hotel people. "With time and experience, aspirants can have their own enterprise with an annual turnover of over Re 1 crore," said Singhal.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Resources: <a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2004-07-26/education/27157491_1_wedding-management-meher-sarid-ferns-n-petals">The Times of India</a></span></div></div>Geeta Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05062227449781982134noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-29823163324269017782011-05-21T01:53:00.000-07:002011-05-21T01:53:01.172-07:00The Importance of Data Shredding for Businesses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCLGa-66L1fd0OqsDIEMth8oTc-Oga01ewOK5NGKPLa_bWXfozZLfQBlYHUG07byUrzWAbLA9VriZ4kChfkowHTuJSmtNyTGtUjJtXtykXHhLex_XILoF93rk7WESDa-pbijTideafpa8/s1600/confidetial_data_shredding.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCLGa-66L1fd0OqsDIEMth8oTc-Oga01ewOK5NGKPLa_bWXfozZLfQBlYHUG07byUrzWAbLA9VriZ4kChfkowHTuJSmtNyTGtUjJtXtykXHhLex_XILoF93rk7WESDa-pbijTideafpa8/s200/confidetial_data_shredding.jpg" width="200" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many customers and indeed the companies tend to do business with organizations they trust. Almost all businesses will gather some information from customers, clients, organizations and businesses that is usually confidential, so it uses the data shredding services for your business is increasingly seeing a need and requirement not as a legal and moral obligation. The data will prevent crushing client confidentiality, client or commercial information to be used for illegal or unauthorized purpose. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the biggest benefits of data shredding business is trust and confidence that is instilled in the company and the community in general. Business customers and consumers will readily understand that your company is serious about the protection of any confidential information that is shared and met for any business process or transaction. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By law, it is a legal right under the Data Protection Act for any customer, consumer or employee has his own private and confidential information protected and safe, especially as a result of increased data fraud and illegal activities like theft identity. The information is used and stored in particular with respect to the data bank or credit card, national insurance numbers, trade contracts or quotes is often high in the sensitive and confidential data. </span></div><script type="text/javascript">
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The discarding of inaccurate information and no safe way is a very dangerous and irresponsible behavior for any business or consumer who has had or dealt with confidential and private information of consumers or other businesses. For example, any business throw the paper, documents, files or data units in its usual channels of waste disposal are to their clients and customers and sensitive data quickly in the wrong hands and increase the risk of identity theft and fraud. Any business that is responsible in this way could face lawsuits and possible prosecution for failing to protect its customers and customer data adequately enough. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The use of a professional security company that specializes in security shredding services and supports legislation, such as ISO 9001 and BS EN 15713 Code of Practice for the safe destruction of confidential documents. Many shredding companies that now operate easily provide businesses with certificates of destruction to be legally covered against any legal action or allegation brought against them. This should be considered more than a legal requirement for a business but a necessity to show clients, customers and companies that take seriously the protection and data security. </span></div></div>Geeta Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05062227449781982134noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-88066656682472048462011-05-21T01:47:00.000-07:002011-05-21T01:47:26.303-07:00The Importance of Hygiene in a Work Environment<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqyVOc_mgmNx8ysDWFsC83A3NzvkPLuNqJMsRgOMYfhhXnckO3aRpb4_f8M28p0_6zUzKbzXy-rPpTwoCiQzIhYq3cKwkzU0MYmrL-zBleMv5LxvKf_L31acYlD6HPODTofn4FZG-zbjQ/s1600/pers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqyVOc_mgmNx8ysDWFsC83A3NzvkPLuNqJMsRgOMYfhhXnckO3aRpb4_f8M28p0_6zUzKbzXy-rPpTwoCiQzIhYq3cKwkzU0MYmrL-zBleMv5LxvKf_L31acYlD6HPODTofn4FZG-zbjQ/s200/pers.jpg" title="The Importance of Hygiene in a Work Environment" width="170" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As with any environment that is in a workplace is no different and hygiene is an important factor to protect against various germs and diseases. In a work environment, many people congregate, which increases the possibility of contact with potential germs. Therefore, it is important that the area is hygiene and regular cleaning. </span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many companies have dedicated cleaners who work almost every night to keep the workplace clean and safe for employees. Tasks include cleaning work surfaces, monitors and keyboards in an office. This usually includes various cleaning products and other chemicals to kill germs in the areas that employees are in regular contact with. Another task to be designated, is to vacuum the floors, which will remove particles of dirt and dust from the workplace, leaving an acceptable level of hygiene. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another area that should be kept clean and tidy on a daily basis is the kitchen area. Due to a close, the kitchen can get dirty for the duration of the day, so what needs to be cleaned daily. With drinks and foods that are prepared regularly, the occasional spill is inevitable and must be cleaned to prevent the spread of germs and bacteria. </span></div><script type="text/javascript">
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bathroom is another area where it is vital to maintain clean and meet hygiene standards. You need to be inspected daily to ensure that these standards are met for employee safety. Sinks, urinals and toilet cubicles should be cleaned regularly to avoid spreading germs. There must be enough soap dispensers for employees to use before hand washing sink. Also not to be towels or hand dryers workers to use later. In addition, there must be sanitary bins in the ladies room of the removal of these items. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are several companies that are willing to provide these services, because it is usually inefficient for a company to address these issues at home and hire a specialized company is generally cheaper. These problems tend to fall under the purview of the health and safety, and there are rules and guidelines that each company must comply. If a company is to set aside these problems, which can be reported and face consequences such as occupational health is seen as a serious problem. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<tr style="height: 25.4pt; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;"> <td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">No.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Company</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Requirement</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Brief description</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 25.4pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">1</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Business Hotels</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Business hotel for sale in New York State</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">These hotels are presently profitable and may do better with some investment. The financing is also available for buying these hotels. Click for more details at<b><a href="http://www.intl-fiba.org/one%20more%20NYC%20hotel---$40M.pdf"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="color: red;">file 1</span></a></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<b><a href="http://www.intl-fiba.org/Hotel%20options.pdf"><span style="color: red;">file 2</span></a></b></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 25.4pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">2</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">TBC Consoles</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Distributors</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Specialized furniture and consoles</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 25.4pt; mso-yfti-irow: 3;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">3</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">US Paper Counters</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Agents and Distributors</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Paper counters and batch tabbers</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 25.4pt; mso-yfti-irow: 4;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">4</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Manchester Wood Products</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">None Listed</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Outdoor chairs and occasional tables</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 38.15pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">5</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Mohawk Red International</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Distributors</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Floor tiles, roofing slates and landscape stones</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 25.4pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">6</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">American Defence Systems</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Agents and Distributors</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Highly advanced defense equipments</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 25.4pt; mso-yfti-irow: 7;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">7</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">NTI Global</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Agents and Distributors</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Specialized swimming pool solar covers</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 12.7pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 12.7pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">8</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 12.7pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Beech Nut Nutrition Corporation</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 12.7pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Distributors</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 12.7pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Baby and toddler foods</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 12.7pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 12.7pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">9</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 12.7pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">NTI Global Flexible Ducting</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 12.7pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Agents and Distributors</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 12.7pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Flexible ducting</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 25.4pt; mso-yfti-irow: 10;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">10</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Mark-10 corp</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Distributors</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Force and Torque measuring instruments</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 25.4pt; mso-yfti-irow: 11;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">11</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Energy Onix Broadcast Equipment</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Agents and Distributors, broadcast stations</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">AM and FM shortwave broadcast transmitters</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 25.4pt; mso-yfti-irow: 12;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">12</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Auterra, Inc</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Agents</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Interested in patented catalyst</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 38.15pt; mso-yfti-irow: 13;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">13</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Capsys Corp.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">End Users/General Contractors</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Construction of Non combustible modular buildings</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 38.15pt; mso-yfti-irow: 14;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">14</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">ADH Health Products Inc</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Agents and Distributors</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Dietary supplements and Consumer Health Products</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 63.55pt; mso-yfti-irow: 15;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 63.55pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">15</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 63.55pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">J.K.Jewelery Inc.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 63.55pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Agents and Distributors</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 63.55pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Precious metal findings, Precious jewelry made of precious and semi precious stones, metals and pearls</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 38.15pt; mso-yfti-irow: 16;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">16</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">D.W.Haber & Son</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Agents and Distributors</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Banquet Products(Chaffing dishes and silverware)</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 50.85pt; mso-yfti-irow: 17;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 50.85pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">17</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 50.85pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Silicon Carbide products, Inc.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 50.85pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Agents and Distributors</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 50.85pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">manufacture Nitrite Bonded and reaction Bonded Silicon Carbide Components.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 25.4pt; mso-yfti-irow: 18;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">18</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Galson Laboratories</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Agents and Clients</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Industrial Hygiene Equipment Rental</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 38.15pt; mso-yfti-irow: 19;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">19</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Mercury Pen Company, Inc.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Distributors</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">desk pen, Pen Holders, Writing Instruments</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 12.7pt; mso-yfti-irow: 20;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 12.7pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">20</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 12.7pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Wagner Lumber</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 12.7pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Direct Sales/Agents</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 12.7pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Hardwood Lumber</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 38.15pt; mso-yfti-irow: 21;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">21</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Gorbel Cranes</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Direct Sales/Agents</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 38.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Industrial Cranes, Jib cranes, Intelligent Lifting devices</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 25.4pt; mso-yfti-irow: 22;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">22</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Yorkshire development</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Partners</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">design and construction of high security facility</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 25.4pt; mso-yfti-irow: 23;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="44"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">23</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Alpine Overhead Doors</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.15pt;" valign="bottom" width="119"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Distributors</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 25.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 131.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="175"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Manufacturers of rolling doors, overhead doors</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
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</tbody></table></span></span></span></div>Geeta Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05062227449781982134noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-71191788260426240252011-05-05T05:32:00.000-07:002011-05-05T05:32:48.773-07:00Tips to Writing a Winning Presentation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>If the idea of standing in front of an audience makes your knees shake, try these tips for trouble-free presentations and participation.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Create a schema</i>: You might not think you need to outline your subject, but may save you time in the long term. Outline the entire presentation before you start writing allows you to organize the flow of information and ensures that you have included all relevant issues. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Determine the appropriate number of slides</i>: If you are using Power Point, the general rule is that each slide takes two to three minutes of discussion. If you are talking for an hour, 60 slides will be too. You know your best song, but probably 25 to 30 slides would be appropriate for a one hour presentation. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Limit the amount of text</i>: Slides that are too long to make your audience lose interest faster than highway Try to keep no more than five points and whenever possible, instead of saying sho. This means you should illustrate the issue with tables, charts, graphics, or other visual representations to maintain their rich content. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Minimize the bells and whistles</i>: A lot of activity or noise in the slides is required to distract your audience. Resist the slides with flashy animation or music to the temptation to pepper unless you really improve your message. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Proofread and spell check </i>- twice: Nothing kills a presentation faster than grammatical errors. You could be the most attractive speaker in the world, but misspellings and misplaced punctuation can cause your audience to lose focus and question their credibility. If you do not trust your own proofreading capacity, a colleague review your presentation. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Practice, practice, practice</i>: If you do not have a hearing to prove their materials, contained in an empty room and start talking to the chairs. It may seem difficult at first, but it is the best way to calm your nerves and be prepared. If you have practiced to the point of practically memorizing the whole speech, which will launch on autopilot and deliver a flawless performance when showtime arrives and stage fright is active - even if your brain out the checks. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Pace</i>: Nervous presenters often talk too fast and run through the material. When you practice your speech, time and give some space for questions or interruptions. To help with the pace, consciously pause between sentences and slides. Two seconds can seem like an eternity to you, but allows the audience time to absorb what you just said. While taking a slow deep breath between sentences and slides can be slow and calm their nerves. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Record your performance</i>, professional programs, will use video cameras to show students how to improve your stage presence. As painful as it may itself be seen in the film, this is the best way to discover your flaws and tics. You may find that you control, playing with his pen, jingle change in your pocket or look like it's dancing, because it is moving around so much. Using a video camera to capture your performance lets you identify your nervous habits and break them before they leave the audience talking about how many times have you said "Um." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Use note cards :</i> Although leaders of the world use a teleprompter to give speeches, and you have the right to use notes or 3x5 cards to keep on track. Just be careful not to read them, or depend on them too, if she have, this should not be a problem. Avoid writing your entire speech about the letter cardssince would be difficult to take a look at the cause and could finish reading them. Instead, write short bullets just to refresh your memory and keep your flow. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Warm up the audience</i>: The best way to reach the public on their side is to open with humor. Start with a joke or joke that is related to the topic. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Keep an eye on the clock</i>: The public and planners will appreciate the speakers to stick to the timeline. Keep an eye on the time for it to accelerate or brake. You can also ask someone in the audience to give hand signals if necessary. If the presentation ends before the allotted time, the floor to questions. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Talk fronts</i>: Make an effort to talk to everyone, which means to look around the room and making each participant feel like you are speaking directly to that person. If it makes your eyes even more nervous, then talk to the front. Nobody will notice your lack of real connection, however, you still pass on their ability to do the whole room. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Do not forget to smile</i>: The use of inflection in his voice and keep a smile on his face. Your audience will mirror his behavior and if you get on stage with a stone face, monotonous delivery, the public gets bored (or asleep) when they are made. Tissue in some humor and anecdotes and let your personality shine through. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Whether you're talking to a room of six or one hundred and six, these tips will help you become a more polished presenter. Remember the number one key to success is to be prepared as possible. Another great way to learn new techniques to criticize the performance of other presenters. View presentations on television or in the places in your area. Notice how the speakers to the audience and see the tricks that you can incorporate into your own system. </div></div>Geeta Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05062227449781982134noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-26355314706895707492011-04-30T00:30:00.000-07:002011-04-30T00:30:14.960-07:00Success And Shyness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRSCsewQCorVDvq3IMpoaSjH6Z0g5HKpFOsYxKnuIg8xF0Ak15QYQ" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img alt="Success And Shyness" border="0" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRSCsewQCorVDvq3IMpoaSjH6Z0g5HKpFOsYxKnuIg8xF0Ak15QYQ" title="Success And Shyness" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Is the domain of success enclosed exclusive to grouping who are extroverts? Perfectly not. In fact, the most extroverted grouping are oftentimes at try through being so unconscious of what is rattling exploit on with the people around them. If they are extrovert and narcissistic, they leave not be perception, unless someone is praising them and consumption their ego. So, they may change a spirant venter in damage of action, simply because their power to evolve noesis, especially roughly otherwise fill, is limited. Overcoming shyness is actually easier to surmount than beingness extroversive with an increased, and misguided, ego.</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Shy group, on the new script, may quietly see in an large become from oblanceolate looking that is beyond the representation of an soul who is preoccupied with their own ego. Ideally, of course, a thriving mortal and cheater should be able of being extroverted or retract, depending on the circumstances and the necessity of the present. A potent somebody who knows when to listen and when to delegate, and how to larn from the quieter group around him, is finest meshed to be a success in some he chooses. Befuddle who needs to grow nothing, because he give naturally pull and make success.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A shy organism can allay be a big success in their choson region, tho', and may easily distance the person in few.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>If You Are Introverted And Shy, Move Your Way To Success</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is right that shyness can be something of a drawback socially for those who worsen from it acutely. I meanspirited actual shyness, not somebody who is just serenity. Because somebody is clean equanimity in your lot when you just them, does not ungenerous they are shy. They could be, but on the opposite pointer they may conscionable be observing because they are insecure of you or others in your reserves. They may be susceptible of being human and clubbable, but on this portion happening, are screw this from my own experience, because I can be both introvert and console, or if the occasion demands, slaphappy, extraversive and extraversive. In my instance, because I equal group, nature and remaining things around me, I equal to tell and see. But I sure did not turn a task handler perennial ago because I was shy; I did not organise mixer and fair events because I was shy; and I did not come resplendent girls because I was shy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yet, on several occasions when I acquire met group, they possess jumped to the happening that I'm shy just because I was in a peaceful humor. They were misconduct; but they could hit been correct.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">One aim I mortal learnt from those experiences is that those who discover and listen more and speak little, can vantage a view of posture. This agency that alter a really shy mortal, the identify who blushes easily and is reluctant to speak in organisation, especially new militia, can prettify a fortified cause, in conscionable most anything they decide. Think, knowledge is powerfulness, and a shy introvert is in a meliorate opinion to win noesis than an extraversive that timorous grouping screw a major peck about hominian portrayal in indiscriminate, though they unremarkably may not challenge to get in happening with that umpteen themselves. Flush if these painfully shy fill had small interpersonal period, most of them grew up as majuscule hominal resources managers or psychologists, but because they could treat others change than a consciousness opinionated individual. Also they can lean to determine careers that expect a lot of PR make, upright because they acquire a condition can provide extraordinary attention to learning, and as gracious listeners they can support in an enormous become from others. Over time, fill can grow to consider them far statesman than the extrovert who blasts out zilch but hot air, and usually almost themselves.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">What does it use, then for a really shy individual to be that flourishing cause they always loved to be. They may exclusive status one writer fixings to move them on their way. They require to move themselves to get the bound; and when they do, they present likely hear all the knowledge they hit acquired over the life, instrument arise to the fore and work them on their way to the top in their chosen earth.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-70249526551910988582011-04-30T00:23:00.000-07:002011-04-30T00:23:51.467-07:00The Keys To A Success Strategy That Works<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_N2wbVDD-GQz-9DGChm5MOi_lmXkfcop-26cqQUPI7kSN1MYxumt789G0fIEsQvteLnN7nabBw5ng44mipGOrl5cZ8CO53VPmxJ4CzTcQzuX_Rnx4VW_cqeOGhwHfr8ZhTe__ECNLlr31/s1600/Success+Strategies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="The Keys To A Success Strategy That Works" border="0" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_N2wbVDD-GQz-9DGChm5MOi_lmXkfcop-26cqQUPI7kSN1MYxumt789G0fIEsQvteLnN7nabBw5ng44mipGOrl5cZ8CO53VPmxJ4CzTcQzuX_Rnx4VW_cqeOGhwHfr8ZhTe__ECNLlr31/s200/Success+Strategies.jpg" title="The Keys To A Success Strategy That Works" width="200" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"></span>Success</b> has millions of meanings to varied fill. Success to one individual may be a measure backwards to other. It is thus a really personal artefact, or justified "things". A solitary human may change individual strands to his spirit that he wants to be victorious in; all may tell a asunder success strategy. At littlest, in item the strategies may be apart and polar.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Sowing the Seeds of Success</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the fundamentals in life can be initiate in what farmers and gardeners do, and what Redeemer taught this to his disciples. "As we sow, so we shall reap". The explanation is that success is not an long happening. It has got cypher to do with watching others get eminent. It is roughly pursuant pass and activity - day in and day out. Farmers incline to their crops every lonesome day without die, and when the term comes, they derive the benefits from their exertion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Success is a lot same that. Incessant and logical travail makes a class of disagreement, in whatever field it is you compliments to be palmy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Perception the Lasting Statement Image</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The unpleasant feminist is that there are unremarkably no shortcuts to success. The length of the trip is a shortest ending of the structure of dedication and endeavor one puts into becoming made. Another overcritical bourgeois is your place of knowledge, and how apace you can take all the obligatory knowledge and entropy to succeed in your portion aim. It is usually the housing that the harder you try, the shorter your trip. Shortcuts oft guidance to disappointments. Spell hazard may work becoming prosperous, shortcuts tally null to do with success. Anyway, you can achieve, learning, and applying that learning.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Monitoring Your Route To Success</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you would with any journey to a new position, think your trip to success and then supervise it. Bed a organization, cook to it and observe your efforts. Duty cross of the things that you do, and the success range of those efforts instrument better you realize what you are doing mitt and what it is that you are doing wrongdoing. And during this trip of yours, you can dustlike adjust your intend and map out the route you requirement to locomote. The turn you alter and alteration according to the circumstances, the faster you Difficulty</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is a fact that every one snoring hominine state has to deal with difficulty, whether we suchlike to or not. Emphasise is a earthy part of creation, and it is also obligatory. And if you necessary to be winning, you'll make to study how to mess with punctuate improve.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are two tiers to difficulty. Firstly, you bang to take how to muckle with the regular say state in your chronicle. Secondly, you status to instruct how to water show liveliness somewhere added and motion it to your benefit. Yes, pronounce can be your friend, not your contender. If you can take how to metamorphose articulate into comely a act figure, then apiece abstraction you perceive steer it towards achieving something, doing something supportive and good towards your goals and dreams. And most importantly, never flitter from your content fair because you're troubled.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Responsibility Yourself Formal and Eliminating the Unsupportive</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">State constructive all the measure is somehow easier said than finished. But there are a few things you can do. Commence with eliminating harmful influences in your living. This is contingent, and it is now something I exercise most automatically. It was the key to me totally dynamic my own sprightliness to win spirit.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Erst the negatives are out of the way, it is easier for you to metamorphose affirmatory roughly everything. Ring yourself with things that testament good you, and spend your example with with formal, undefeated or success-minded fill. If someone is ever paltry and dissident, disregardless, then they are not someone to get in your spirit.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Squeeze the advantageous confirming people and influences, andlet them kindle and tempt you.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-8307489189100964472011-04-29T22:25:00.000-07:002011-04-29T23:37:38.022-07:00Flyer Printing: An Art Of Attracting Customers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY133nYuOVVuw2-tcFvtTDiRVtj3FeNm8PIgHEsX-j3RmBha0CxwSCReMsk5dMt0m_4KiBaXqr0-iwqgy8Vw2yMaeEO6477zgXClDziuAKyhBWq6Bjf0opyhNtD2W_wvuy77oD-9iQdbw/s1600/print.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Flyer Printing: An Art Of Attracting Customers" border="0" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY133nYuOVVuw2-tcFvtTDiRVtj3FeNm8PIgHEsX-j3RmBha0CxwSCReMsk5dMt0m_4KiBaXqr0-iwqgy8Vw2yMaeEO6477zgXClDziuAKyhBWq6Bjf0opyhNtD2W_wvuy77oD-9iQdbw/s320/print.jpg" title="Flyer Printing: An Art Of Attracting Customers" width="320" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.delhiprinter.com/flyers.php"><b>Flyer Printing</b></a> -An art of attracting customers : Flyer printing has emerged as a very effective way of capturing local market. Flyers are printed pages with information, which can be distributed to people through various sources like newspapers, classifieds, magazines etc. The history of flyer takes us to Egypt where earlier people used to handout papers with slogans and pictures drawn on them, to promote their activities. Even now the concept is similar. Only the use has become more professional. Now these cheap flyers are used to promote business and products and for the creating awareness among targeted audience.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">These flyers need to be designed very carefully. Our main emphasis must be on giving them a very appealing look so that people actually find them intriguing. Therefore correct combination of colour and text is imperative. To make them more effective, the quality of printing must also be taken care of. The printing quality should be good, so that the flyer can become attractive to reader.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The creative flyer printing has become an art, where innovation seems to be the key. But a flyer can become scrap if it does not serve its purpose of getting more customers. Therefore, to make them work, a necessary call for action is needed. It is this call for action that becomes a compelling force for people to act. A flyer is successful only if it is able to create an interest in the mind of reader to act on the given call for action.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-80176115306238202162011-04-29T22:22:00.000-07:002011-04-29T23:36:29.892-07:00Business Card Printing: Building Business Relations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6zBN7zMUO340REfJnIzvE2iHL6wGuAQblw5vuQGC-6TnzW9RPiyrk4SFwTXsDA7ZEsR2REyHJdjdS-QGHOV0mis183iNWeVlDHLiUZmBm0Rd6IdM4uY_vM7txCFApbN8hZm71u936-ws/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Business Card Printing: Building Business Relations" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6zBN7zMUO340REfJnIzvE2iHL6wGuAQblw5vuQGC-6TnzW9RPiyrk4SFwTXsDA7ZEsR2REyHJdjdS-QGHOV0mis183iNWeVlDHLiUZmBm0Rd6IdM4uY_vM7txCFApbN8hZm71u936-ws/s1600/images.jpg" style="cursor: move;" title="Business Card Printing: Building Business Relations" /></a><span lang="EN-IN"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.utharaprint.com/businessCard.aspx"><b> Business card printing</b></a>- Building business relations : In the fast pace of growing business, one does not want to be left behind. And for that every person wants to stands out. Business card printing comes as an answer to that. These innovative cards bear all the information of the holder, which can be passed on the others, and can be used in future. In addition to that, these cheap business cards also act as a tool of marketing. These informative business cards come in various designs. One can choose from various colours, designs and patterns offered by printing companies. Basically these cards come with either matte finish or gloss finish. Depending on the requirement a company takes decision of their selection.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">These innovative business cards also come in the form of tent cards or side folding options. As business card printing holds such an important place in building business relations, the organizations also take a great deal of interest in their making. After all these are not just business cards, these are base of building of business relations. </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-84702067125240179362011-01-31T05:50:00.000-08:002011-01-31T05:50:58.493-08:00The New Small Delivers Big Technology Insights for Small Business<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">Big companies used to have a monopoly on resources and tools that virtually held hostage to customers if they wanted a certain level or type of service. This is not so, and Phil Simon Little New: How a new breed of small businesses are harnessing the power of emerging technologies will show you exactly how small businesses like yours are playing and winning big by using tools and technologies used be out of reach of us. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihl1PA2TWaIqTf5q8csKnzt2BOpis2xGzarmQd6lgHm44ZsbtftcjT2jQfTePGOTiCELYWiHoRhZ-xGuCU9Abaq9-Usbwc_QZ-jI1hs9PrZ7DhqSfQReqzD4hr9_S1-t0Nn6EMhJgT3pA/s1600/small-business-survey.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihl1PA2TWaIqTf5q8csKnzt2BOpis2xGzarmQd6lgHm44ZsbtftcjT2jQfTePGOTiCELYWiHoRhZ-xGuCU9Abaq9-Usbwc_QZ-jI1hs9PrZ7DhqSfQReqzD4hr9_S1-t0Nn6EMhJgT3pA/s320/small-business-survey.gif" width="312" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Phil Simon: A lawyer and the example of Entrepreneurship </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not normally initiate a review of a book talking about the author. But that's how I met the small New: Phil Simon contacted me and asked me if I could send a copy of his new book. After a while, I called and had a really excellent talk about the exciting technology that makes owning a small business nowadays very rewarding and exciting. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Phil made inquiries with businesses on how to optimize their use of technology. He is the author of two books: The next wave of technologies and why new systems fail. Phil is one of the most accessible writers out there, what I find most inspiring about Phil is his boundless energy and ability to reach every person you admire and want to learn. This tone is clearly in the book. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Biz is a book. It is a technical book. It's full of ideas </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Phil told me he wanted this book to read like The Tipping Point. His intention was to gather information on trends and research supported by case studies of small business owners could be related to the use and your business. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The book is written in four parts: </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Part I:</b> Trends and five Facilitators: This section will provide a framework and an overview of the business landscape today. It will prepare you for the information meat to come and give perspective to what prompted the companies that is shaping up to use the strategies they did. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Part II:</b> Little New: This is where you find lots of case studies provide real examples of how companies like yours adapted to trends. There are 12 short chapters that each delve into a critical business challenge and then show how a broad spectrum of companies overcame a challenge by using technology. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Part III: </b>How to become one of the small New: If you are interested in using technology to build and grow your business, this section is priceless. Technology consultancy gives advice in a language and context make it easy for anyone to understand and apply. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Part IV:</b> Looking to the Future: In this short section, Simon gives him the proverbial pat on the back and sends him on his way with some parting words of advice. The lesson I took away is that the adaptability and openness to technology and change are the best friends of the successful small business owner. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Is the new small for you? </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I normally do not go on and on about a book of technology. I mean, how can an interesting debate in the email, cloud computing and networks be? But when you see how Simon has been linked to marketing, sales management and finance, and then suddenly interested. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is a book I'd recommend to owners of small businesses or anyone who has the decision-making power to evaluate, select and implement new technologies into a business. I would even stretch that recommendation to anyone who can make recommendations about which technologies will improve their business operations and productivity. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier this year, I made a series of articles and seminars on how to make your small business and your marketing look like a larger company. There was much interest in this subject, and if you are someone who is established that the goal for himself this year, Little New information will, vision and inspiration you need to do that.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-81618197381597711702011-01-31T05:47:00.000-08:002011-04-29T23:50:15.226-07:00Small Business’s Problem With Government Regulation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Government regulation adversely affects small businesses. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">While the finding may be intuitively obvious (not the government), World Bank economists have recently shown that entrepreneurs create fewer new companies in countries with regulations that make companies more difficult game. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The reduction of regulation also improves the performance of small businesses. For example, researchers found that efforts to simplify the process of forming new businesses in Mexico increased use of small businesses by nearly 3 percent. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Why the regulation is a problem </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Economists believe that regulation hurts small business in four ways. First, as Nicole and Mark Crain of Lafayette College to explain, regulatory compliance has a disproportionate burden on small businesses because the fixed costs of adhering to the rules can be spread over more money in big companies than in small. Crain and Crain estimated the cost per employee to comply with federal regulations at $ 10,585 for companies with fewer than 20 employees, but only $ 7,755 for businesses with more than 499 employees. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Second, government regulations, small businesses less competitive against foreign competition. As Crain and Crain explain government regulations create "inefficiencies in the structure of U.S. firms," damaging "the international competitiveness of domestic production of U.S. goods and services". " The relocation of production facilities to less regulated countries "and that leads to </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Third, the addition of rules creates uncertainty, which keeps small business owners and hiring investment. Because some business owners can predict the scope or impact of new regulations that often delay the purchase of capital equipment or adding workers as they wait to see the impact of new regulation. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fourth regulations, new often have unintended consequences. Consider the health care law, which requires companies to file 1099 forms for all individual payments to a beneficiary in excess of $ 600 per year from 2012. The effort to increase health insurance coverage has led to an unrelated tax imposed high compliance costs for small business owners, a result that surprised even many in Congress who voted to approve the law. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Our List poor is getting worse </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The United States does not compare well with many industrialized countries in the dimension of the regulation of small business. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) found that U.S. had higher regulatory barriers to entrepreneurship, greater administrative burden on small business owners and major obstacles to competition from a number of other industrialized countries. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The regulatory burden on small U.S. companies are worsening. Both the World Bank and the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report, U.S. that entrepreneurs face more red tape to launch in 2007 than in 2003. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">U.S. small businesses are being adversely affected by two massive new laws: protecting the patient and affordable health care law and Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection. A recent survey of the free card for small business owners indicated that almost half of small business owners believe the new health law is detrimental to their businesses and just over a quarter of what I see as beneficial . Responded to a 2010 Discover Card survey revealed that 55 percent of small business owners believe the financial reform project will finance small business more difficult, while only 9 percent thought that the new law make it easier. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>We need more action </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Our leaders talk about reducing the regulatory burden on small businesses. In a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, President Obama wrote: "Sometimes, these rules have gotten out of balance, imposing excessive burdens on businesses, the charges that have stifled innovation and have had a negative effect on growth and employment .... I am currently directing federal agencies to do more to take into account, and regulations, reduce the burden can be put on small businesses. " </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Of course, some of us remember when President George W. Bush said in his 2004 State of the Union, "Our agenda for growth and employment should help small business owners and employees with relief from needless federal regulation ..." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Maybe I should stop quoting Presidents and start quoting country singers. As Toby Keith said that what we need is "a little less talk and a lot more action."</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-22160088190262037472011-01-31T03:39:00.000-08:002011-01-31T03:39:40.909-08:00Tips to Become Successful Businessman<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">Running a business is a difficult thing, interesting, and a flexible way to someone's future and how to become leader himself. In addition to producing revenue, running your own business can be a new way to enjoy life. Because we will have total control of our time without interference by anyone else in authority. Become a businessman needs long-term vision, determination, perseverance and courage. You leave your comfort zone offered routine salary and enter the business world that contains uncertainty. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="213" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2476/3600328993_87d4c6450a.jpg" width="320" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Entrepreneurship of a different nature than that of employees. If you want to become a businessman or an entrepreneur, you need to learn the special characters is a necessity. While it is certain that there is no guaranteed formula for business success, there are some characters that must be man's own business. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>- Have confidence. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">To become a successful businessman, you need to have strong confidence. Are you willing to overcome all obstacles and achieve your goal? If you have confidence to do it, then you should have the faith that is needed. Can you improve your confidence? Sure you can do, trying to push yourself to do a little more than you usually do every day. And not too long, finish all the things that perhaps impossible things yesterday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>- Have faith about the future of your business. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ask yourself, if you have a strong faith on their efforts. If you are not sure, you have to keep looking until you find a reason in which willing to take a total commitment. To succeed in your business, you should focus 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You should continue to build, improve, and invest all their resources on their business. This things have this amazing commitment. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>- Focus on your strength. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">All peoples have the strength and weakness. To become a successful business man, has to choose a field that is convenient with their strength and focus on it. You'll get more chance of success if you can put all your efforts based on its strong point. For example, if you have knowledge of product development, then you should focus all their time and effort to finish the job in that field. What about the other area? You can ask for help from people who have experience in it. You can hire someone to do it. You can even change your weakness into strength to learn and practice on those areas in their free time. You have expert staff in every field of business, and use to teach you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>- Be able to identify opportunities. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If your business is broken today, what are you doing tomorrow? How do you take? If you're strong enough to face reality? What is your attitude? Perhaps you will consider it as a great loss, or an opportunity to start a new day to learn, improve and build again. Successful businessman everything look like a source of opportunities. Have the character of wanting to know everything and ask questions about everything. They always want to improve your business process. Do not want to stay in style for a long time. They always want to find something new to grow your success. And finding smart people to help manage your business. If you are a real businessman, he found opportunity elsewhere.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>- Great decision maker. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you need any information, will be able to do so as soon as possible, without wasting time for others and yours? And it will be able to make a quick decision on the basis of information we collect? Become a businessman making decisions involves much more. Remember, that every decision we make will determine the future of your business. Most successful businessman with instinct needed to take a bold decision, which they use when they are in doubt, and almost always manages to succeed. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>- Have the ability to become a leader. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is impossible to do all the work yourself. To grow your business bigger, you must hire employees to help. Thus, at this stage, your main job is to lead. If you do not have the ability to drive may not be a leader. As the leader of a business, hiring people saw him as a model and someone who can support them. The ability to choose the right path and support a base of supporters is his success as a businessman in the advanced level. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Positive thinking, strong, never give up, work hard, keep learning, perseverance and confidence, and leads by example are some that have character to become a successful businessman. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">Good luck! </span></b></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2826991679535312772.post-49411512953752247452011-01-31T03:04:00.000-08:002011-01-31T03:04:16.795-08:00How to Start a Business in India - A Complete Guide that you Must Read<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">If you aspire to be a businessman, I do not know how to start a business, you can also end up putting the cart before the horse. An ideal business man not only has new ideas and plans, but also knows how to do to run in the correct order. Therefore, it is always important that you know about the essential aspects of a company. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4136/4745447264_111a4d5525.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Whether it is business-oriented service or product base is always important for you to have enough knowledge about the services or products. Before starting your business you must gain mastery and sufficient skills in the product or services to be rendered. This can be done better through study and learn more about the product or services. His study should be supported by market research in order to get in touch with ground realities. After acquiring the necessary skills to prepare the necessary groundwork to start a business. And this is the most essential part of starting a business. It can be a bit slow but be patient and focused. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Before launching your business needs to get in touch with professionals such as accountants, bankers and lawyers. If necessary, you can refer to agencies that help new business owners get started. You can evaluate your business plan with them and know for yourself whether you are on the right track or not. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Before starting your business needs to acquire the following:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><ul><li>Business permit and license: It arms you with the sanction of government to carry out its business. Other permits required include</li>
<li>Fire permit license</li>
<li>Air and water pollution permit</li>
<li>Health Department permit</li>
<li>License sales tax.</li>
</ul><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>After completing the above procedure ... </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><ul><li>Once you have registered your business name has to open a business bank account.</li>
<li>Consult lawyers on legal responsibilities and tax considerations.</li>
<li>Secure your business against theft, fire and other liabilities.</li>
<li>Create the prefect card to make the kind of impression with customers.</li>
<li>Create a company logo that captures the imagination of customers instantly</li>
<li>Hire an accountant to prepare their tax returns all state and local.</li>
<li>Hiring a lawyer to protect themselves from legal problems.</li>
<li>Hiring employees the right to represent their business. The candidate must have good communication skills and be working hard.</li>
<li>Contact an advertising agency and ask them to come with ideas to promote their products or services. The announcement took place at the right places. Put their views across and ensure what you want is exactly met.</li>
</ul><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">A large part of their start-up capital will go to the above. If you have little more than enough for a spacious new location and you can start your business from home. Install a team and get a connection to the Internet. Make sure you also have a vehicle available. It is also important to buy a printer / fax and a telephone line, intended solely to his office. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now that you know how to start your business you can go about implementing their ideas with ease. Once your business takes to perfection and start making profits then you can look for a shop or office. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you have any questions please feel free to ask a question at any time.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6