Posts Tagged ‘Training’

50 Ideas For Increasing Profits and Cost Reduction

December 2nd, 2009

Do you want to know 50 great profit building ideas that you can put to immediate use in your business to increase profits and reduce costs?

If yes, read all these ideas that have been implemented by clients and have benefited them giving their businesses dramatic boost in profitability. Most ideas can be put to action immediately. Each idea has the potential to give you many %points increase in net profits.

Research shows profits increase by 4%-56% and costs reduce by 18%-37% within 2 years using the simple 5 step process called the Profit Maps Model. Usually a 5% reduction in cost is adequate to turnaround most loss making businesses.

Businesses can calculate the value of the savings by these 2 simple formulas

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Is Franchising for Me

October 14th, 2009

franchise3 Is Franchising for MeFranchises are one of the fastest-growing types of businesses in the U.S. and can be purchased for as little as a few thousand dollars, to over a million dollars. There are franchises for all kinds of products and services—food, pet grooming, massage services, auto repair, etc. Although exact statistics are hard to find, they also tend to have a higher success rate than independent businesses that are not franchises.

Although franchises tend to have higher success rates, they also have risks , and can fail for any number of reasons like any other business. You must investigate Joe’s Restaurant Franchise just as thoroughly as Joe’s Local Diner before buying it. There are a number of great resources in addition to this article to help you determine if a franchise is the right way for you to go. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has some excellent resources , as do several other services like business brokerage websites. Enter “Is Franchising For Me” in any Internet search engine, and you’ll retrieve links to a large number of resources.

What is a Franchise?

The SBA resource I mentioned above offers the following definition for a franchise: A franchise is a legal and commercial relationship between the owner of a trademark, service mark, trade name or advertising symbol and an individual or group seeking the right to use that identification in a business. The franchise governs the method of conducting business between the two parties. Generally, a franchisee sells goods or services supplied by the franchisor or sells goods or services that meet the franchisor’s quality standards. As a business model, franchising is essentially a finance vehicle for expansion of the concept. You, the franchisee, finance the start up of the individual franchised unit and pay licensing and royalty fees to the franchisor. This is as opposed to the franchise company bearing the costs of opening its own units (many franchises do have company-owned stores along with franchised stores). The franchise agreement is a contract that governs the manner in which you will do business.

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3 Things to Look For When Hiring an Office Cleaning Service

September 22nd, 2009

office cleaning 225x300 3 Things to Look For When Hiring an Office Cleaning Service The sour economy has wreaked havoc on existing businesses, but it has also spawned a whole generation of brand new business owners. If you are just getting started, and you are ready to move into your new office space, it’s time to start thinking about which you should hire to keep it clean.

A clean working environment is important on three levels: it makes your space a pleasant place to work for employees and staff; it adds legitimacy to your enterprise in the eyes of your customers; it helps preserve the integrity of your furnishings and equipment. Here are three things to look for when hiring an office cleaning service.

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Are Your Employees in Need of Corporate Training?

July 28th, 2009

employees 300x204 Are Your Employees in Need of Corporate Training?Corporate training has been one of the most basic ways of getting more out of the staff you hire without having to go through the costs, both financially and time wise, of recruiting through advertisements. However, with businesses becoming more cautious and with many people always looking out for the best deal on wages, time off and sick pay, more and more companies have been wondering if corporate training is still the best way to go.

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Why Some People Fail in Business

June 8th, 2009

fail business 300x200 Why Some People Fail in BusinessI have seen too many people fail in business by complicating things and spending all there time trying to figure it out. I believe it is hard for anyone with a technical background to realize that why you are trying to figure out a system. The rest of us just go to work by setting our goals, managing our activity daily and do it.

People want information quickly and expect things to happen immediately. They keep searching for the new ways to get rich in 90 days while sitting on the beach. Every time they find a new system, they can’t wait to tell everyone, “I’m on my way to the top.” A few weeks later I ask them how they are doing and they tell me “That system is no good and I found this new system.”

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