Mar
30
Starting a Home Business – Exposing the 5 Big Benefits of Working From Home
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The successful home business owners throughout the world share in a lifestyle often unmatched by company jobs. From a survey done by Home Office Computing Magazine, 98 % are happier working from home. Here are the 5 big benefits of a home run business.
1) Money: On average the earnings of a home run business in America is about $60,000/year. The amount of money that can be earned in a home run business can be staggering. There is great potential in home-run businesses to achieve high incomes and profits. The income minus the costs equals the profits, which goes directly to the home business owner. This simple math shows that it’s all about big profits provided the business provides a saleable product or service.
2) Personal Satisfaction: This may be the most profound benefit to most home businesses. It is a position of great feeling to own a home business. It is a feeling of achievement, and of service rendered. It is more satisfying according to the level of good the business is doing for people. The more the home business is helping people, the more general good it is doing. This is directly related to how good it makes the owner feel. It is good to give!
3) No Daily Commute: Another important factor in the lifestyle of a home business person is the convenience of simply being at home. This point can be emphasized to a low degree, or a very high degree of significance. It depends on the person’s normal daily traveling time from home to the workplace. On average it could be 30 minutes commute to work every day and an equal time on returning home. Home businesses benefit because they save on the travel expenses as well as the time it takes. Home business owners are able to simply wake at their convenient start time and set the hours themselves.
4) The Boss: Home businesses have the benefit of having internal control. The home business owner is the boss. As the boss, all the decisions are made, the hours of work are chosen, the rewards are given, the punishments are devised, the business is managed, and there is total control. Calling the shots as it were is a dream for most people out there and there is a real feeling of power.
5) Life Security: In today’s climate of economic uncertainty, the most secure of jobs are home based jobs. This is so because, when times get tough, home businesses can work harder and survive. However, some company paying jobs cannot be relied upon to remain secure no matter how hard the person works. There is more security in a home business, and the power is with the home business person. She/he can make it or break it. It’s in their control.
To summarise, these 5 big benefits are the rewards that may be reaped from a successful home based business. In fact, the process of building the home business can be as much fun as the mentioned benefits. It is as much about the journey and the person you become, as the tangable benefits and results of working from home.
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Mar
30
Do Your Own Business Valuation – Part 1: Introduction to Business Valuation
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As a business owner, you know more about your business than any one, but there is one thing you are not too sure about - how much it is worth. This is the first in a series of articles designed to help you learn about business valuation and, if you choose, do your own business valuation.
Defining Value
Before we begin discussing business valuation it is important to define what value is. When asked, most people will struggle to define it then end up using an example like a one dollar bill is worth more than a quarter. Value is difficult to define without comparing at least two items. The comparisons must be well defined to have any meaning. For example a rare quarter may be worth more than a common dollar bill. The first step in any valuation is to accurately and completely define the property that is being valued.
Value is also subjective. Someone who needs a quarter to plug a parking meter in order to avoid a parking ticket would gladly pay a dollar or more for a quarter. Similarly, one business may have a number of values. A strategic buyer that can plug the customers of the business into its existing system may perceive more value than a person who is going to run the business day-to-day. The second step in valuation is defining for whom the property is being valued.
What is a Business Valuation?
A business valuation is simply an estimate of what a business is worth based its hypothetical sale. It may also be called a business appraisal and has some similarities with real estate appraisals. A big difference is that much of business value is in the form of intangible assets, or goodwill. Valuing intangible assets involves a process of using various accepted valuation approaches and methods. The goal is to determine a value that can be explained and justified to others.
How Much is a Business Worth?
In theory a business is worth the present value of all the future benefits of owning the business. Present value is the process of discounting the value of cash or other property to be received in the future to its current value. There are many benefits (cash and non-cash) to owning a business. Valuation focuses on the financial benefits defined as earnings or cash flow. The rate at which the future benefits are discounted must account for all the risks associated with owning and operating the business. Basically the value of a business comes down to the classic investment paradox - risk vs. return.
Basic Valuation Methods
There are 3 primary approaches to valuing a business - market, income and asset. The market approach uses data from actual sales of similar businesses or from publicly traded companies to value a business. The market approach is the preferred method. The biggest problem is that good quality, comparable data is seldom available. The income approach looks at the earnings or cash flow of a business as the primary driver of its value. It is the most commonly used method and works well unless a business has little or no earnings. The asset approach tries to value each part (asset) of the business separately. The sum of the parts is the value of the business. This method works well with tangible assets, but not for the intangible ones. The methods of identifying and valuing individual intangible assets are highly theoretical and often produce unrealistic results. The asset approach is often used when a business has few intangible assets, or little or no earnings.
Conclusion
Knowing how much your business is worth is a critical piece of information that every business owner should know. The remaining parts of this series will explore and explain the business valuation process so you can do your own business valuation.
David Coffman recently published the Do-It-Yourself Business Valuation Workbook. David is a Certified Public Accountant who is Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV), Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF), and a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA). His firm, Business Valuations & Strategies, offers low-cost business valuations
Mar
30
Just more than a month since the approval of the giant $787 billion stimulus package, there are already signs that the economy might be recovering. The package which is a combination of federal spending and tax cuts will provide one-time rebates to about 111 million families, tax breaks to businesses and ease mortgage loan limits. The package is the Obama administration’s key for the economy’s revival.
Just a few days back, the general public’s mood was soured by the grim news of high unemployment rate which stands at 8.1 percent for the month of February. This is worsened by the expectations of some experts that the unemployment rate will reach 10 percent by year end. News on the housing front didn’t help either. First American CoreLogic reported that “about 8.31 million properties had negative equity at the end of 2008″ and more homeowners are expected to lose their homes due to foreclosures.
But despite this gloomy outlook, the public’s sentiment was never dampened and good news suddenly surfaced from unexpected sources. Based on the number of new house construction it seems the housing industry is on the rise again. The US stock exchange also starts to heat up rallying higher and higher since last week.
Last Tuesday, the Commerce Department reported that construction of new houses and apartments increased by 22.2 percent last month February compared to January. This construction boom has been observed throughout the country, except in the western states. The increase in constructions is mostly apartments and less on single-family houses. Experts believe that a more solid indicator of a strong housing rebound should be a sustained three month rise in single-family houses. But based on the current trend in home ownership there is a general belief that it’s much better to rent than to own a house. This belief could explain the increase in apartment construction. Prior the crisis, houses are very expensive that’s why a majority of house buyers opted for mortgage. Mortgage has been pinpointed as the cause of the current economic crisis and affects a large number of homeowners. It is estimated that about 27% of the country’s 52 million homeowners owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth. The increase in construction boom is also followed by an increase in housing sales albeit more localized. For example in Cape Coral, Florida house sales has also gone up by 103 percent. However construction activity is still 47.3 percent below a year ago.
On March 13, Citigroup declared that it no longer needs government bailout money to keep itself afloat. This single news alone raised the US stock exchange, especially the Dow Jones industrial index to 7,198 points up by 0.39 percent that day. Puny by US standards by this rally has continued up to today. As of March 18, the Dow Jones has reached 7,528 points. That’s a hefty 13 percent hike from last week. This rise if further bolstered by the central bank’s announcement that it will purchase $300 billion worth of Treasury securities. There’s supporting data that this increase may be more than just a bear run as what most financial analyst believe. More people have opted to open savings accounts than to spend. February data shows that the US savings rate has zoomed up to 3.6%, which is a 2.8% increase compared to November last year. This means that the public have saved enough cash; with the stocks at its lowest they started buying.
However everything is not as rosy as there are still some signs reminding us that the economy may not be in its best shape yet. Caterpillar Inc. planned to lay off more than 2,400 in the US, while Nokia will lay off 1,700 in its global operation. But despite this, I personally believe that with current trend in the stock and housing market, the start of the recovery might be at hand.
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Mar
30
U.S. Recycling 800,000 Chinese-made Teddy Bear Toys Off the Sino-US Trade Friction
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Recycling the United States and Canada only in the more than 800,000 Chinese-made teddy bear, teddy bear, the eyes because easily detached, may be a child to swallow the belly, causing suffocation dangerous. Recycling of action at this time are the relevant authorities received a report from a Texas mother made a complaint, the mother that her two-year-old daughter to swallow the teddy bear’s eyes, although later unharmed, but she found it necessary to recall the teddy bear to for safety reasons.
Sing Tao News Corporation reported that these questions bear toys produced in China by State Farm Insurance Company in 2005 to 2007 3-month period, held at a number of publicity activities, as a gift at the North American distribution of the two places. This teddy bear wearing a sign bearing the company T-shirt, called the State Farm Good Neigh Bear, except at the company’s activity in the distribution,还送presented to various charitable organizations, hospital and police department.
Recycling of the action from the women heads of household residing in the northern Texas Conn trigger, she refers to its two-year-old daughter kotlin bite when playing a teddy bear, bear put eyes inadvertently swallowed. This is equivalent to the size of ocular plastic stud, fear will endanger the internal organs, eyes because of a long taper, may also be caused by suffocation. Fortunately, her daughter last well, but she was concerned it would endanger the safety of other children.
Conn State Farm after the complaint, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission received a report at the National Recycling more than 800,000 teddy bear problem. Recycling in Canada 27000. At the same time, Miami, Florida Customs confiscated 240 of the toys imported from China Bear. Customs checks, we found a teddy bear, the eyes can easily fall off, sent to the Consumer Product Safety Commission inspection, found to have contravened the Product Safety Act.
On the other hand, Seattle-based Nordstrom clothing and footwear retailer, announced the voluntary recall of 31,000 pairs of Chinese-made children’s wear female shoes, because after testing, we found that the sole external decorative paints, lead levels do not meet U.S. authorities requirements.
Shoes involved a total of six questions, namely, Clarice-Fab, Eva-Fab, Fern-Fab, Lilly-Fab, Rita-Fab and Vivi-Fab, was in September 2006 to February this year, on sale at about three 15-45 U.S. dollars.
The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission has called on parents, not to be there is problem of children’s shoes, and returned to the department stores. The United States last summer through the new requirements, the target group are children under the age of twelve products, it is necessary to comply with more stringent lead content requires the entry into force in February this year.
The name Teddy Bear comes from the November 1902 American President Theodore Roosevelt’s hunting trip to Mississippi, to which he was invited by Mississippi Governor Andrew H. Longino. There were several other hunters competing, and most of them had already shot something. A suite of Roosevelt’s attendants, led by Holt Collier,[1] cornered, clubbed, and tied to a willow tree an American Black Bear after a long exhausting chase with hounds. They called Roosevelt to the site and suggested that he should shoot it. He refused to shoot the bear himself, deeming this unsportsmanlike,[2] but instructed that the bear be killed to put it out of its misery, and it became the topic of a political cartoon by Clifford Berryman in The Washington Post on November 16, 1902.[3] While the initial cartoon of an adult black bear lassoed by a white handler and a disgusted Roosevelt had symbolic overtones, later issues of that and other Berryman cartoons made the bear smaller and cuter.
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Mar
30
The holidays are hectic the way it is and the holiday shipping business is something that sees its fair share of chaos. There are packages flying everywhere. They have to separate heavy packages from light packages. The packages have to be placed on the right trucks, the right planes, and even the right trains. The staff is working around the clock, they are working methodically, and they are working hard.
But what is the best way for you to deal with the holiday shipping business so that you can ensure your packages do arrive on time? Well, the best service to use is a courier delivery service. There are several services that courier services offer. Those services are:
- Delivery services
- Courier transfers
- Personal parcel deliveries
- Cargo deliveries
- Office documents delivery
- Courier deliveries
- Courier services
In other words, they are a full-service delivery service. They do offer regular, direct, and rush services. They may not serve all areas, but they may serve hundreds of metropolitan areas. It is actually very rare that a courier can’t cover a particular area. However, they may look into getting a third party delivery service to deliver for them so that they don’t lose the business.
Some of the services that you will find offered via courier services include:
- Nonstop service, You place an order and the client gives you an estimated time of delivery. The driver will go to your pickup location and pick it up for you in order to deliver it to your home. This is so you do not have to go to the pickup location. This is great for when a shipping service is used whose pickup location is too far from you.
- 5 hour service, If the delivery doesn’t have to travel far, the courier service will pick up the package for you and have it to your home within 5 hours of that phone call, asking them if they can pick the package up for you.
- 90 minute service, From the time you call the courier, they can have the package to you within 90 minutes of that call. This is great when you’re busy with your hectic schedule, trying to shop for the holidays, and even wrap gifts. You would be quite amazed how handy this can be.
A courier service is great for when a package is time sensitive and there is absolutely no way that you can go and pick it up yourself. There are some major couriers that offer a same day service and it doesn’t matter if they have to travel 5 miles or 5,000 miles.
Yes, this is something that will cost beyond the regular shipping, but many times it is hard to put a price on convenience for the fact that an emergency is an emergency. When you have to have the item and you have to have it now, it is important that you get it quickly. If you can’t get it yourself and you find a courier service that can, then you are saving yourself a lot of headaches.
So take this into consideration the next time you find yourself in a panic regarding how you are going to pick up a package from its pickup location. Unfortunately, some regions may find that pickup facilities are located in neighboring states or communities that are just too far for them to drive or make it on time. With a courier service, that worry is completely thrown out the window because you can still have your package delivered right to your door.
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