Archive for September, 2009

Winding Up A Company

In these hard economic times business is very hard. If you are a company director looking for a bit of advice because your concrete business is struggling, you have come to the right place. I have created many articles which try to help a director take the right steps in either closing or liquidating a business or pre-packing a sale and starting again.

Firstly if your concrete company is insolvent you have a duty as a director to close the company and not incur any further debt, unless you can be pretty sure that you can put in place a rescue plan to turn that business around. If you can’t them you need to liquidate the company yourself or take professional advice on how best to close the business in an orderly fashion.

By far the most popular choice is to engage an insolvency practitioner to call a meeting of creditors on your behalf, prepare the statement of affairs, hold the meeting and then deal with all the procedural aspects of liquidation necessary to make sure all creditors now what is going on and how they can participate in any dividend. This is called a CVL or creditors voluntary liquidation.

There is a fee for all this and generally it will be about £5000 whoever you use around the country. There are some advertisements for liquidations at less than this but by the time all costs are accounted for, it will still come in at about the same sum.

These costs can come out of the assets of the concrete company and indeed many businesses do have just enough assets or cash to take this final step. For many businesses, the central core of what the business does is still profitable and so often directors will want to continue to trade. This is easily possible and a sale of assets can be arranged to a new company and a lease re-assigned by a landlord, which often leaves the new company trading on in the same line of work from the same premises.

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Winding Up A Company

In these hard economic times business is very hard. If you are a company director looking for a bit of advice because your chinese takeaway supply business is struggling, you have come to the right place. I have created many articles which try to help a director take the right steps in either closing his business or pre-packing a sale and starting again.

Firstly if your chinese takeaway supply company is insolvent you have a duty as a director to close the company and not incur any further debt, unless you can be pretty sure that you can put in place a rescue plan to turn that business around. If you can’t them you need to liquidate the company yourself or take professional advice on how best to close the business in an orderly fashion.

By far the most popular choice is to engage an insolvency practitioner to call a meeting of creditors on your behalf, prepare the statement of affairs, hold the meeting and then deal with all the procedural aspects necessary to make sure all creditors now what is going on and how they can participate in any dividend.

There is a fee for all this and generally it will be about £5000 whoever you use around the country. There are some advertisements for liquidations at less than this but by the time all costs are accounted for, it will still come in at about the same sum.

These costs can come out of the assets of the chinese takeaway supply company and indeed many businesses do have just enough assets or cash to take this final step. For many businesses, the central core of what the business does is still profitable and so often directors will want to continue to trade. This is easily possible and a sale of assets can be arranged to a new company and a lease re-assigned by a landlord, which often leaves the new company trading on in the same line of work from the same premises.

A small business can not afford to keep a lawyer on its payroll, full time. But, a small business should not become incorporated without consulting a business lawyer and getting the business set up properly with the state that the small business wants to become incorporated in. There are ready made documents that a small business can fill it and incorporate itself without a lawyer, but that is the surest way to lawsuits and irregularities that might show up when trying to apply for a small business insurance policy. At any event, introducing yourself to a lawyer when beginning a business and keeping him on a retainer is inexpensive and can save the small business lawyer unnecessary stress if confronted by a legal situation.

What a small business owner should keep in mind is that a small business lawyer is bound by ethics that he shouldn’t violate without risking his own license. A small business lawyer kept on a retainer should be treated like a highly respected officer of the law, which is after all what a lawyer is. Once you have a lawyer on a retainer you can refer lawsuits, harassing clients, or make inquiries into legal proprieties before submitting a contract. A small business owner is knowledgeable about the products and services that he sells, he is not expected to be knowledgeable about business law, company law, or corporate law.

It is also advisable when facing an IRS audit to contact your small business lawyer. If he is not qualified to help you, he should be able to advise you on who to contact for assistance. You should never face an audit alone without your lawyer present. If you are being sued, you should never deal with the suers lawyer or the one suing you personally. You might find yourself being sued for negligence and be found guilty just by talking to the one suing you as if you are admitting fault. Never let yourself open to charges of harassment by thinking that you are being nice by accepting a direct call from a lawyer of from an individual who is suing you in court.

If you want to settle out of court, let your small business lawyer handle the situation. There are many cases where small business owners tried to settle out of court and ended up being charged for attempting to bribe their way out of a lawsuit. Anyone who is suing you is not going to be taken in by an offer of money to settle out of court unless the offer is made by lawyer talking to another lawyer.

By Jimmy D. Brown of “Affiliatenaire”

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Let’s face it, there are 50 gazillion other people out there
doing the exact same thing you are doing - if you could remember
what it is that you are doing.

So, that’s what I want to address.  Here’s the mindset that I
want you to remember:  there are only so many customers out there.  
And each affiliate in the program is doing basically the same
thing to try to reach them.  

That’s why you are going to be different.  Got it?

Before I jump into what I consider to be the “real secret” to
earning commissions with affiliate programs, let me share with
you a basic concept that is going to be important to what you
are going to learn today.

Here is how the average affiliate approaches promoting their
affiliate link…

A)  Send out a mailing.  Purchase ezine ads.  Get a few
pay-per-click keywords.  Post a few links.  Make a small
profit.  Get discouraged.  Move on to the next affiliate
program.

Or, if they are slightly more aggressive…

B) Send out a mailing.  Purchase ezine ads.  Get a few
pay-per-click keywords.  Post a few links.  Write a few articles.  
Create an eBook.  Do a joint venture.  Swap ads.  And they
continue promoting that same affiliate program until they
(along with a few other aggressive affiliates) have found
every potential customer on the face of the earth.  Make
a decent profit.  Where do I go now?  Move on to the next
affiliate program.

While I certainly agree that the “slightly more aggressive”
affiliate is on the right trail with their approach, it still
leaves a common problem that all affiliates have…

Finding NEW customers.

You make an affiliate sale.  Great.  You make another one.  
Great.  You keep working and working and working to make
another sale and another sale and another sale.  Now, remember,
there are a gazillion others out there trying to do the same
thing.  And, even if all of these other affiliates only make
one or two sales each…

..that’s a LOT of customers that you WON’T be selling to!

For example:  If there are 10,000 affiliates promoting
Product A and they all, on average, sell just 2 copies
each, that’s 20,000 customers that are immediately
unavailable for you to sell to.

Doesn’t matter how hard you promote and how much you do, you
WILL NOT sell them a second copy of something they have
already bought.  Even if they love it.   They won’t buy
another copy.

So, here’s the “real secret.”  While everyone is promoting
the heck out of all of the same programs you are, you need
to refine who it is that you are promoting.

***Bottom line:  Start FOCUSING on those affiliate programs
that offer MONTHLY commissions.

Here’s why.  Let’s say you promote an absolutely awesome
product by Mr. Guru that sells for $29.97.  And Mr. Guru gives
you 50% commission.  By the time all of the processing fees
are out of the way, you earn about $14.00 for a new customer.

And you’re done with that customer — it’s time to move on
and find the next guy.

HOWEVER, if you promote an affiliate program that pays
MONTHLY, let’s say a membership site, then here’s what you
would find happens…

The membership site is $27.00 PER MONTH.  You earn $13.50 per
MONTH for every referral you make for as LONG AS THEY REMAIN
ACTIVE!  

With the $29.97 product, you earn $14.00 for all of your efforts
in finding a customer.  One time commission.  That’s it.  Time
to find another customer.  With the MONTHLY service, you earn
about the same commission for that same customer.  Then, next
month you earn that commission over again!  Month after that,
you’re still earning that same commission from that same customer.
For each and every month that the customer continues to use
the service you continue to bring in the commission without
finding a new customer.

Do you see the potential here?

It makes much more sense to focus on promoting affiliate
programs that bill monthly and pay commissions monthly.  That
way, you continue to earn profits from the…

Same customer base!

If I am going to buy ads and purchase pay-per-click keywords
and create eBooks and bust my behind to get those customers,
I’d sure rather get paid every month (without doing a bit of
extra work, mind you!) that to only earn a one-time commission.

—————-Side Bar ——————-
While this isn’t as good as MONTHLY income, choosing an
affiliate program that offers you LIFETIME customers is the
next best thing. For example:  With some programs when you
recruit a customer , they are yours for life.  If they
purchase future product releases, then YOU receive the
commission as the original referrer. It’s a good second
option, but it’s not as good as getting paid monthly!
————————————————

So, what should you promote?  Your eyes have been opened.  
You’ve seen the light.  You realize that what you’ve just
read does make sense.  And you want to get paid monthly!

So, what should you promote?  While you definitely need
to check things out yourself and make that determination
on your own, let me give you a short list of TYPES of offers
that you can promote that bill monthly and award monthly
commission checks.

* PLR AND RESALE RIGHTS CLUBS

* MEMBERSHIP SITES

* WEB HOSTING

* AUTORESPONDERS AND LIST MANAGEMENT TOOLS

* COACHING CLUBS

* PAID NEWSLETTERS

* SERVICES (AD TRACKING, LEGAL DOCS, MANAGEMENT, ETC.)

The important thing is for you to identify at least one
really good affiliate program that offers residual income
possibilities for you.

Once you find the right program to promote, it’s a matter
of getting as many different people to click on your link
as possible.  How would you like to have someone teach
you ONE simple way to promote your affiliate links every
week?  Read on for details…

…………………….

Jimmy D. Brown is the author of “Affiliatenaire”, teaching
you how to create big-time affiliate commission checks in
only 1-3 hours each week.  Discover how you can get cash in
the bank without a website, experience or even an idea!
Visit http://januszek13.affnaire.hop.clickbank.net

Marketing a small business online is very simple to do when you break it down to simple steps and chunks.  Too many small business owners I have spoken to do get overwhelmed in the amount of work they do for their day to day operations.  But when you step back and develop a step by step approach it just makes it much easier for you to progress your marketing efforts.  Small business online marketing is wide open for search engine optimization.  Most of the local small business market is not utilizing the certain techniques to improve their web site results. Now picture your business on the top of each search engine results for your given keyword.  Imagine how many free referral and product sales this can achieve. There is one critical thing you can do that will prime your business for a hostile takeover in your market.

The most important part of marketing a small business online is to list your business on the local search engines.  Google, Bing, and Yahoo all put out results for existing local businesses in your area.  A quick search for “Accountants in LA” can show several hundreds of listings of accountants that are in the city of Los Angeles.  Everyone knows that the Yellow Pages is not what they used to be. More and more people are using the internet to find products or services.  Now imaging if you business was listed on top for accountants in LA.  Off course assuming you’re in the accounting business.  But go ahead and give it a try.  Put your kind of business as the keyword and end it with “in your City”.   Replace your city with the city you live in.  What are the results?  Was your business listed?

Let’s face it; marketing a small business via the Yellow Pages is becoming less and less common these days.  Phone books just get tossed in the recycle bin every time I get them in my house.  It is just a fact that I can find information much faster by using the internet.  More people are getting online than ever before.  Internet access is just the way television first got started; eventually everyone will have at least one in their household.

Google, Yahoo, and Bing are slowly taking over your local search engine results page.  It is time to ensure your small business is primed and ready.  Visit the websites and find out how to get your business listed right away.  I have been doing it for clients and some have gotten it listed into Google in less than 48 hours.  The other search engines, Yahoo and Bing, take a little longer.  For one thing Bing mails out a confirmation letter to your business mail box.

Do you work from home?  Do you have a home office?

Do you use your home address on your website’s contact page, on promotional materials, business cards, letterheads… for all the world to see?  Do you want people showing up unannounced at your home’s doorstep?  

If you don’t want your business associates or clients showing up at your home, you may want to consider using a virtual office service from an executive office center.

There are several distinct benefits that a virtual office service can directly offer a professional working from home.

An executive office center can provide you with a professional physical office address. A brick and mortar presence in a professional environment will add credibility to you and your business; you can be working in a small town or a remote village and still have access to a prestigious business address in a world renowned City on a famous Avenue, such as New York City’s Broadway.

But while shopping around for the right NYC virtual office service, be very aware, make sure you are getting an actual physical office address and not just a mailbox service which only provide you with a faux suite address.  You don’t want just a mailbox service, unless you plan to or expect your clients to believe you’re working out of a small mailbox; you want an actual professional office.

With our service, you don’t even need to travel into the City to setup services.  You can conveniently setup services right online via our website at www.ManhattanVirtualOffice.com.  Any mail received on your behalf can be forwarded to you, wherever you are or you can opt to pickup your mail.  If someone stops into your office, they will find a professionally staffed office.  Your visitor will be greeted in our well appointed reception area, on your behalf, and the receptionist will offer to take a message for you… you’ll receive notification of the visit via email.

You can also add local phone and fax service if required.  We also provide phone services that will actually blindly transfer the calls to you, for you to answer anywhere.

So sit back, relax in your robe and slippers while working from home…  we’ll run the office for you!

Mumbai formerly known as Bombay is the important city located in the state of Maharashtra. It is the second most populous city in the world. Mumbai is well known as the commercial and entertainment centre of India, generating 5% of India’s GDP. In this city there are many industries with IT Universities and automobile companies in the city. Mumbai offer wide range of Job opportunities that makes people to flock in Mumbai in a great rate. Being the commercial hub and financial capital of India, Mumbai observes visit and escapes of people all the year round.

In this city there are several moving companies (relocation or shifting services providers) offering high quality packing and moving services at the most economical rate. Such services providers or moving companies in Mumbai are termed as Mumbai packers movers. These companies offer wide range of quality packing and moving services to make help the people with their move to new location. These companies offer provide valuable help like offering packing and moving services, packing and moving tips, information about insurance services, warehousing and storage facilities and valuable tips related to packing and moving.

These days the popularity of packers and movers Mumbai companies are getting popularity at a rapid pace due to their quality packing and moving services. They offer wide range of services related to packing and moving like household relocation, home shifting, commercial relocation, air cargo services, moving of industrial goods, freight forwarding, cargo shifting services, warehousing and storage facilities, car carrier and transportation services, industrial relocation, corporate moving services, etc. They also provide various other tasks related to packing and moving as per the needs and requirements of the customers.

They also have teams of expert professional who are well versed in carrying all these tasks in a proficient way. Experts of these companies packs the entire goods with high quality packing material to make damage free relocation of the customer’s valuable and lovable goods to new location. They do the entire tasks in a proficient way to make the tedious tasks easier, smooth and hassle free. They pack valuable goods and items using packing material of good quality. They use packing materials like cartons, boxes, wrapping sheets & papers, tapes, etc of fine quality. Good packing will reduce the chance of your valuable household items from being damaged. So they take utmost care during the process of packing.

Mumbai Packers Movers companies are well equipped with modern tools and equipments that help them in packing, loading, unloading and unpacking of goods in safe and secure way to new location. Moving of goods be it small cartoon or heavy cargo, it is done in a proficient way using the modern tools by the expert professional of these Mumbai moving agencies.

Well if you are planning to shift to new location, it is advisable to hire the services from thePackers Movers Mumbai companies. They will offer you with best of their services to make your shifting of lovable and valuable goods in smooth and hassle free way.

Step one in growing and launching a business is what I call Grow Up. Get your mindset for entrepreneurship. What this means is that maturity does not solely come from experience, age, wisdom or longevity. It comes from decisiveness. When you decide to stop living small and embrace your possibility, that’s when you reach full maturity.

Remember, coaching is a business. It’s a passion and for most of us it’s a calling, but at the end of the day you’re becoming an entrepreneur and it is a business. You may need to change your thinking to be more business-oriented, as many coaches do.

When I got my mindset for entrepreneurship, when I decided I knew that I could design my own destiny and that I wanted to be an entrepreneur, everything aligned. The teachers I needed showed up, the money flowed, and I became a center of influence.

You’ve got to get to a level of maturity and get your mind set for entrepreneurship first. Then follow your passion and what you love and know will become your niche.

Actually I don’t like the word niche. I think it actually holds a lot of coaches back and a lot of people get stuck on “What is my niche?” and a little obsessed about it. It is very important and you have to have a target market, but I’ve re-languaged that to be ‘who needs you most?’ Follow what you love and what you know will become who needs you most.

Think about what you cannot get enough of. What or who just fires you up and you could talk about it for days? It’s the kind of thing that people have to shut you up because you’re so impassioned you want to share it. That’s your target market. That’s your hive. Those are the people who need you most.

You might be like me. I was literally niche-phobic for almost a year. I could not decide what my niche was; I wanted it all. My business was growing nicely but I could feel that there was a weight that was keeping me from really exploding.

I now know that if I had gotten that target market - who needs you most - earlier, and if I had committed to that, I probably would have built my business in double time.

Most coaches have the problem that we want to help everyone, and that often ends up helping no one. We see the needs all around us, but it doesn’t mean we can help them all.

I knew very early on I was meant to work with other entrepreneurs, but I kept saying, “You know what? I just started building my business myself. I couldn’t possibly do that. Look at me. I’ve just started.” Even though my instincts and my gut were telling me that’s what I’m supposed to do, I ignored it for quite a while.

It was in my bones. Had I just embraced that I would have done things with less stress and even faster than I did them.

Getting your mindset right and understanding who needs you most are two factors that will be instrumental in bringing success to your coaching business.

I like to connect with other acupuncturists on a regular basis. It’s a great way to share ideas, solve problems, and energize each other. Today I was in the office of a woman who is a wonderful healer. She just moved into new space, and had finished painting and was putting the finishing touches on her décor.

During the course of our conversation, she shared that she is in the process of hiring someone to set up and run all of her accounting and office systems. Apparently up until now (she has been in business for many years) she had no real systems in place.

I was surprised that she could be in business for as long as she had and not have a way to track her income, expenses, cash flow, taxes, and how many patients she sees each week or month. Keeping track of these things can make or break a small business and are important for a number of reasons:

-Tracking income and expenses is a basic necessity if you want any idea of how your practice is doing. It will tell you if you’re making any money, if you’re growing, and where you’re spending your money.

-Without any kind of business reports, there is no way to tell whether or not you’re reaching your goals. You have goals for your practice, right?

-Your business reports can also alert you to trends in your practice that you may want to remedy or take advantage of. Several years ago, I realized from my monthly income report that I was losing a large percentage of my income in discounts that I was giving my patients. While I still offer a discount to patients who are struggling financially, I was able to be more conscious about when I discounted my services and for how much.

-Tracking the number of new patient visits and how they heard about you enables you to be more targeted with your marketing efforts. For example, if you never get new patients from the Yellow Pages, you can safely stop advertising there.

-Tracking expenses and your cash flow allows you to plan and budget for any large expenses that you know will be coming up. For example, your annual insurance bill or quarterly payroll taxes can be a big hit if you haven’t planned for them.

Your office systems can be as simple as Excel spreadsheets or a more sophisticated program, such as QuickBooks. Whatever you do, make sure you’re getting the information you need to manage your practice from your business reports.

Economic times are becoming more prevalent everywhere you look today.  Companies of all sizes are decreasing the amount of staff employed and when companies are hiring people, they are becoming very meticulous about the quality of their choices.  Some people have resorted to using a recruiter in order to find jobs UK.  You don’t have to fall into this possible trap.  Agency Free has a job board UK that can help you to connect with a quality employer who wants you.

Many of the recruiters in UK don’t have your best interest at heart.  Some of them may advertise a job board UK that is not real.  It’s often done to collect CVs.  A recruitment agency may help you to find jobs UK quickly, but it usually is not a match between you and your prospective employer.  The recruiter wants to collect a commission and move on to the next vacancy.  Some recruiters are not scrupulous and may not pay contractors on time if at all.  Some recruiters will change the specifications of a listing on a job board UK so they can get more applicants.  Worse still, a recruiter may change your CV to help you find jobs UK.

Now there are recruiters that do care about matching the right employee with the right employer.  However, they are few and hard to find.  Unfortunately, most people have had bad experiences with recruiters in UK.  A recruiter should screen employees not only for the company but for the employee as well.  You don’t want to invest your time and effort to get a job and then lose it after a few weeks because you weren’t right for it all along, do you.  Perhaps worse, you may be terminated from the job because of a bad fit between what you know and what the company was expecting of you.  It is already difficult enough to find jobs UK without adding to the situation.

Agency Free is a website that was developed by freelancers, employees and employers to help people avoid the recruiter when hoping to find jobs UK.  Since the creators of the company are people just like you, they wanted to provide a job board UK that works for you and potential employers.  Not all job boards UK are created equal.  Check out what this website can do for you while you search for a job.  The site is free to use and provides you with an excellent tool in your battle to find a new job. 

You don’t have to be out of work to be looking at the job boards UK.  If you are unhappy at your current position, you can check out what job vacancies may be available.  Create a CV and place it on the website to ensure that employers can find you.  Prospective employers might see your CV and realise that you are the person they have been waiting for.  You should visit the job postings and see if someone is looking for you right now!