Hi South Lake. I’m just like you but much younger xD. I have several businesses as well and make more money than an average adult (I am still a minor).
I was talking more about companies like Apple, because I have a good idea, but it’s not really a new idea; just something that WILL sell.
By: Answer Man
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Filed under Small Business by on Nov 21st, 2010. 
For business owners and professionals, gauging how their business card stands out from the stack of pile is critical. Competition, after all, is stiff these days, so it is crucial to know how your card stacks up against competition.
Initially, business cards originated in the 15th century in China. Over the years, many other business owners learned of the Chinese calling cards and adopted them. Eventually, these cards landed on US soil in the 1890s. These days, you can’t find a business and working person that don’t have his own card. In the past, people simply buy some cheap paper and print their contact information on it in black and white. But today, everybody is hooked in the trendy and fashionable way to showcase ones contact details.
Even the rich and famous celebrities, business tycoons, and politicians once used simple business cards. Here are some of them with their first business card:
1. Bill Gates. Back when Bill Gates was not yet famous, he uses this simple business card to hand out to potential clients. The red and yellow card contains simply his name, position and address. Microsoft was still located in Albuquerque that time.
2. Steve Wozniak. He is co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc. His card is one of the coolest cards today. It is made from high quality stainless steel and features laser cut details.
3. Craig Newmark. The man behind craiglist.com has a business card that looks the same as his website. The card templates are simple, neat, and organized. A classic example of a simple yet effective business card.
4. Eric Schmidt. As the Chairman of Google, naturally we expect to a lot of this guy. But there seems to be some minor glitch in his card with Chairman spelled as Chariman. Well, this just points out that everyone, even the CEO of the Google, needs to spell check once in a while.
5. Donald Trump. Who doesn’t recognize this man? This American business magnate is one of today’s millionaire ranked in 488 in the world. Aside from his inheritance and real estate, Trump makes a sizable income from his TV show “The Apprentice”. Also, he earns as much as a $1 million for a single appearance in a lecture alone. Other sources of his income include cologne and bottled water. Even though his name is all over the place these days, Trump still has a handful of his cards to give to anyone unfamiliar with him.
6. Walt Disney. Before founding Walt Disney Company, Disney was a cartoonist. His very first business card, way before he was made famous of his mouse cartoon, was from Laugh-o-gram Films.
7. Barack Obama. The most powerful man in the United States today, Obama can have any card design he desire. But as of now he has yet to produce his presidential card. But when he was still a senator he did have a simple yet professional looking business card.
These famous people have their card in their wallets at all times. They may be famous and successful, but still they trust on the marketing power of business cards. They still carry their cards with them anywhere they go. You might want to do the same to stay on top and get ahead of your competitors.
By: Michelle Abreu
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Filed under Business by on Nov 21st, 2010.
Businesses all over the world have changed during the last decade or so. With the advent of internet and the development of some unbelievable software products, the world has changed into a big shopping complex. It is no longer possible to run a business organization in isolation.
Acquisitions and mergers are the order of the day in business community. Even traditional business rivals are joining hands through mergers and acquisitions to take their business to new horizons in this rapidly changing business scenario. The recent news about Microsoft’s attempts to buy one of its main competitors Yahoo is an excellent example of this kind of business expansion.
Business organizations talk about business expansion usually when the company is doing well in its original field of business. Business expansion can be starting a new branch in some other city, starting the operations in a new domain, increasing the employee strength, implementing new technology or acquisition of some other organization in a related field or in the same field. Business expansion is something that should be done with great care and after a good deal of research. There were cases in history where acquisitions and ill-advised forays into an entirely unfamiliar domain have destroyed smoothly running companies.
Generally, business expansion does wonders to the development of an organization. It provides an additional impetus to the organization to do well in every field. It provides a sense of confidence and well-being in the minds of the employees and investors, which should reflect well in the balance sheet of the company. Also, when an organization opens a new branch or increasing the employee strength, the productivity level will surely increase. It provides more options to the organization to do a particular job. This kind of news will surely give the customers a strong sense of confidence to deal with the organization. Another important aspect of business expansion is the effective utilization of funds. If there is a good opportunity to do a particular kind of business at a particular time, somebody is going to do it. So if an organization spots an opportunity, it is better to go for it rather than sitting on the fund, content with the existing business.
However, business expansion is not a sure-fire recipe for further success for any organization. The most vital aspect is the risk involved in the new action. If new branches are added and new people are recruited, if the company does not receive expected business and orders the new facilities and recruits will render useless. So it is important to know the business climate of the time, before proceeding with expansion plans. Another potentially disadvantageous aspect of business expansion is that the company may lose focus on the existing business. When all the energy is concentrated on business expansion plans, it is easier for the existing business to drift down unnoticed.
By: Ian Pennington
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Filed under Business by on Nov 21st, 2010.
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Filed under Small Business by on Nov 21st, 2010.
By: heyhaho
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Filed under Small Business by on Nov 21st, 2010.
How long have you been craving a life of luxury? A life of conducting a business from the comfort of your own home, making massive amounts of money? Is this something that’s on your mind a lot of the time?
If so… then this article is probably a great find for you. Let me explain why.
First of all though, there’s something that you need to realize. Most people think that when you work from – or run a business from the comfort of your home, you get to just sit around doing basically nothing. The fact of the matter is that there’s a lot of work to be done to run a successful business. There’s no free ride, and you should go about your search for business opportunities with that in the forefront of your mind, or else you’ll end up very discouraged when it comes time to actually run it.
Okay, now that all of the bubble bursting is over with (sorry), it’s time to tell you the good news. The good news is that if you are willing to work hard at building a foundation…down the road in just a few years – maybe less – you could very well get to a point where you can relax more and more as time goes by.
Now, to do so, you need to be looking at certain types of business opportunities and not wasting your time with others. The type that gives you the best chance at being able to have to do less work as time goes by, is with a business model that allows you to leverage the effort of other people. Therefore the greatest thing you can do for your future success right now is find a great network marketing company and go to work with people who are successful and will teach you how they’ve achieved their success.
The company that you choose should feature superior products in a market where people keep buying consistently. One of the best markets for this is the health and nutrition market. Here’s why. First of all, the world is aging. Baby boomers in the US are just starting to come to the age where there health is a huge concern for their quality of life. So, they’re very happy to dig into their wallets and spend money on products that actually work to improve that quality of life for them. However they want convenience as well. They certainly don’t want go around popping pills anymore or mixing up shakes. There are plenty of those types of products out there, especially in the network marketing industry.
You need a product to market that is new and innovative, tastes good (most products taste like chalk), and something they can take on the run – because today everybody is in a hurry and time is one of the most precious elements in our lives. Now having the ability to build a work-at-home business for yourself is wonderful and you’ll want to access lots of great MLM resources to put together and align with the best MLM marketing plan that there is around for you!
You also need a company where you get phenomenal training from people who have already succeeded greatly in this industry. Put it this way…you can find tons of people in network marketing to work with, there’s surely no shortage of people who would be willing to take you. However, most of those people haven’t even succeeded themselves, and therefore have no way of teaching you to succeed. You’d be just as lost as they are once you’ve started, and therefore would be floundering with a lot of disappointment. Not the way that you want to start.
Your better bet is to find people to partner up with that are actually more reluctant to take you as a partner because they have a long list of people wanting to work with them – simply because they’re so successful themselves, and have a system that works and works extremely well (hence their success).
Does that make sense to you at all? I hope so! Searching for business opportunities is a tedious task. Searching for business opportunities anywhere is a pain in the neck actually. But here’s where your day starts looking up.
Right now there are tremendous companies taking hold of the health and wellness market because they have a product just like the one described above. They are looking to partner up with folks in willing to work their ***** off to achieve their dreams. They want people who are tired of searching through countless business opportunities and finally buckle down and start running a successful business.
By: David L. Feinstein
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Filed under Business by on Nov 21st, 2010.
Business case studies are an integral part of any course which focuses on management techniques. These cases are used to stimulate the student’s thinking and are used throughout many industries. The objective behind making discussion and analysis of business situations an essential part of the management studies curriculum is the fact that it teaches and prepares the student to face similar situations in the corporate world.
What Is a Case Study?
Such studies are designed to encourage management students to come up with their own solutions for a problem situation faced by a company. Typically such studies are structured as follows:
The note will have an introduction of the company whose problem situation is being analyzed. The problem facing the company is discussed in detail. Questions are then posed to the students who have to analyze the case and come up with their own solutions.
In many business schools, such discussion and analysis of business case studies is a group activity and the students are expected to present their understanding of the problem and its solution in the form of a presentation.
Types of Case studies
Business case studies are undertaken as a part of management studies in all disciplines. Thus students will have to work on cases across disciplines. Human resource development and organizational behaviour studies will teach students to interpret group behaviour at the work place. Financial analysis will teach students on how to approach key aspects of financial planning such as cost cutting and rationalization of expenses. Marketing case studies are of course a very large part of the marketing management curriculum, and they teach students the ways and techniques of dealing with marketing, distribution, channel management, advertising and promotion, dealer management and other issues.
These studies sometimes also just give a narration of a situation faced by a company and the way it handles the problem. These descriptions help students build a database of likely solutions to similar problems.
Business case studies available nowadays, both through printed material supplied during class at management school as well as studies available on the internet, cover practically every facet of the life of a company, its employees, its shareholders, its creditors and debtors. Studying these situations, therefore, can give tremendous insight to management students. They will be better prepared when they step out into the corporate world, and will have a reference point to relate to in terms of already analyzed business studies when they are faced with similar situations at their workplace.
By: Albertin Abelmont
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Filed under Business by on Nov 21st, 2010.
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Filed under Higher Education (University +) by on Nov 21st, 2010.
By: PinkPanther
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Filed under Small Business by on Nov 21st, 2010.
A business broker is a person who is paid to buy and sell business entities, comparable to a real estate agent who buys and sells homes for their clients. Becoming a business broker does not require an extensive amount of education, but you should have industry experience and you must be certified to begin buying and selling businesses in many states. To receive this certification, you must go through the necessary training. This sounds tedious, but with the availability of online programs, earning your certification is no problem.
A Certified Business Broker program, or CBB, is one you can find online. You may expect a two-year program, or even longer, to teach you everything you need to know and gain you the certification. However, there are CBB programs available today that are only five months in length. How does that sound to begin or enhance your business brokerage career? There are a few tools you are equipped with upon signing up for an online program. The two most important are a 28-page study guide and multimedia study aides. These aides come in the form of video screen captures, which are available once you register to begin the program.
All kinds of people sign up to earn their business broker certification. You may fit into one of the classic categories. If you are looking to further your education in the field of business brokerage, this is the perfect opportunity. You may be a new business broker professional working with a consulting firm or management company. If you envision yourself climbing quickly up the corporate ladder, your business broker certification will allow you to make this vision a reality. Perhaps you never saw yourself entering this business, with the discovery of new opportunities to improve your knowledge and expertise, you have decided to go against your original ideas and pursue a career in business brokerage after all.
Earning your business broker certification does not require any previous degrees or work experience. However, this does not mean the program is easy. In fact, the best programs available today are considered quite challenging. Whether you work for a company and want to earn a higher salary or receive and increased amount of recognition at work, completing a program will do that for you. Not only that, but as your knowledge in the field increases, so will your skills and confidence on the job.
By: Rafael Tassini
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Filed under Business by on Nov 21st, 2010.