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Marketing has with time become one of the most trendy job industries to join into after university and every sort of further education. Along with a trade such as marketing it can be truly awkward to enter straight off unless you are lucky plenty to have the right contacts. This can be the fact why advertising recruitment consultants have become consequently trendy; their guidance could also be required to enter the market and source out desirable available vacancies.

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Mr/Ms, ‘not me’ is often on holidays in your business. Yes come rain or shine they attend the workplace and put in the day for you; coffee to drink, gossip to catch up on, spying on management and colleagues, frequent toilet breaks, long lunches, long phone calls and let not forget the email needs to be checked and replied. Off course the home business needs more customers so a few phone calls here and there are quite appropriate so they think!

Meanwhile back at Mr/Ms Managers Office you are straining over the latest figures and wonder why productivity is waning, profits are down and as you look out your office window you can see your workers seem happy. And can you believe it Absenteeism is down and why not your business has become a de-facto social club.

Responsibility

We appear to live in an age of irresponsibility! Taking responsibility is becoming more of a rarity in business today as a generation of rights driven individuals care more about their ego’s than their character. Rights are important but rights come through taking responsibility I have found.

The concept of an honest days work for an honest days pay; well it just isn’t happening in some places anymore.

As so as Mr/Ms Business Owner you trudge through your business day to day wondering what went wrong.

Take responsibility!

So what is Responsibility! In business responsibility could be defined as taking personal initiative to do what you are committed to, to keep your word, be honest, and act in the best interests of the business.

Why the Change

In a post modern era we have tried to remove the shackles of our youth for many reasons, and rightly so. This may have been because of past injustices, lack of opportunity, ignoring our ‘roots’ and ‘values’ or maybe it could because we became lazy and could not be bothered anymore. A more worrying trend is that perhaps we have mistakenly removed responsibility and ethics when removing the other impediments.

Teachers have told me that they are frightened of some of their students and certainly the law does not allow reasonable discipline. Respect for the law is at an all time low. I recently heard that motorbike gangs have more members in New Zealand than the police force.

What goes around comes around or what you reap is what you so is the old comments.

But I hear you say we are living in a world of enlightenment!

Consider this; higher numbers of rape, homicide, violence and crime in society and the workplace. Enlightenment appears to be a way off yet I suspect!

Reclaiming you organisation

You must take steps to reclaim your business if it has become a kindergarten or a social club!

You must take radical steps and involve yourself with your workers by getting out of your office and observing what goes on and making immediate changes.

The Pain

The old cliché is true; no pain no gain! In instances where we have been involved with organisations reclaiming their businesses we have observed the hurt and pain the owner has gone through to get their business back but we have seen them come out the other side and reap the rewards.

Possible Solutions

As a business owner you need to retake the authority you have lost. You can start to do this by taking responsibility and

• Spend more time working with your workers (initially)

• Introducing responsibility by giving each worker a Job Description or changing and updating their old one with some KPI’s

• Link the Job Description to a Performance, Productivity Bonus to strengthen the areas you want changed

• Deal with recalcitrant employees firmly and swiftly

• Send a silent message that irresponsibility and the holiday house is over; the key is silently

• Cull the dead wood

• Reward outstanding achievers

• Build a team environment where people are openly recognised and rewarded for their contributions

• Take advice from seasoned experienced professionals

• Keep at it and don’t become discouraged and lose heart

You will win back your business and see your workers become responsible. Those who refuse to will move on or be moved on.

The gain

In assisting a business owner recently who had his employee’s totally running riot with productivity and profits down, this owner was looking at closing his business. After getting involved we negotiated an agreement with employees, unions and management. An agreement was reached which included employees receiving a pay increase in return for the business receiving flexible working hours, Workable Rosters, Key Performance Indicators underpinning further pay increases, grievance and disciplinary measures and an agreement that employees would take personal responsibility for their own work down to workers looking after their colleagues call-out rosters when their colleagues were sick.

This was a great outcome for the business owner and employees were happy. Some employees eventually left; they did not want the responsibility and admitted this to the owner in private. Today the business has recorded record profits for the owner who could not be happier.

What about You

You can take control and have your business back under control. The question is do you want to endure some short lived pain for long term gain?

I encourage you to get moving, get control and get advice.

Take the time today to build your future, it’s worth it. Biz Momentum specialises in assisting businesses in their strategic human resource management and employee relations and has had the privilege to assist a number of concerned businesses.
Drop by and say hello at www.biz-momentum.com where there is more information to help your business grow. You are not alone; many have trod this path and reaped good rewards.

Feel free to contact Philip at Biz Momentum with your story or question and take action today.

Philip Lye is Director of Biz Momentum Pty Ltd and provides professional management services for:

• Strategic Human Resource Management
• Employee Relations Advice
• Workplace Health & Safety Compliance Strategies
• Management Skills Training

Philip holds qualifications in Accounting, Leadership, Human Resource Management, Industrial Relations and is a qualified accountant.

Prior to starting Biz Momentum Philip started his career as a jnior clerk in Banking and Finance rising through various industries to Chief Executive Officer. He has managed small to medium businesses and uses his expereince to assist other business owners.

Would you like to find the key that unlocks the
door to a gold-mine of online response, sales and
results for your business?

It seems obvious that you would be able to see what
the experts do differently when locating market
opportunities, finding out what people want and
quickly turning that into an online business generating
truckloads of cash.

While the secret is massive in it’s impact, it is so
subtle - so subtle that you are sure to miss it if you
don’t know what to look for.

Here’s the secret and a formula for using it right this
minute!

Now stay with me for just a minute.

Think about the last time you bought a magazine? Why
did you buy it? Was it to look better, fee better,
make money, save money, make your house look better,
take a step toward achieving a dream in your life?

How about the last time you purchased an ebook about
marketing? It wasn’t the desire to learn more about
marketing that led to open your wallet, it was the
DESIRE to discover something unique, something new that
would RESULT in more more money in your pocket resulting
in you being able to finally quit you job.

OK, that’s more like it. It’s all about the end result
you want to get - not about the steps, processes, formula
or information to get you there.

Information is a tool - a method of achieving an end.

It’s up to you to determine what that END result is and
continue to help your market achieve that end, without fail.

Now, let’s look at how this can help you achieve YOUR goals…

You will hear from many online marketing experts that the
important part of researching your market is WHERE you look.

Nice try - but that’s NOT the whole story.

The real secret is How you research your market.

For instance, take a look at the headlines over at one of my
sites:

http://www.infoproductcreator.com

Now, I’ve tested over 20 headlines on this page before finding
this one that coverts at least 3X better than earlier versions.

The market for this product is aspiring online entrepreneurs,
writers, consultants and speakers who are already considering
writing infoproducts to achieve more freedom, control and
security in their lives.

So why does this page work?

First, this market is time constrained. They are struggling as
much with lack of time freedom as they are with lack of financial
freedom. Many of them have lost control in their lives, are too
dependent on one income stream and WANT to quickly solve this
problem.

Second, this market feels they have something to share and WANT
to know how to do that - they WANT the prestige and “fame” that
comes from releasing their own ebook or book.

Try reading the headline (both main heading and sub-heading).

Can you now see the main emotional “cues” that lead to the market
triggers I outline above.

Let’s try another market entirely!

Head over to:

Sit, Stay, Fetch right here:

http://www.sitstayfetch.net

What do you think is the biggest reason dog owners end up
paying for obedience training?

The answer is in the headline. What dog owners WANT is a way to
stop behaviour problems in their dogs. Why? Embarassment,
fear of someone getting hurt, pain of having to consider giving
up their beloved pet - all lead to a RABID desire for dog
training.

Will you do this for me?

Spend the next week looking at everything in terms of underlying
desire.

When you read the newspaper, speak with a collegue, watch TV, go
to a movie, speak with your spouse or your kids, read websites,
review ads, etc… think about the underlying desire. Why does
that communication exist as it does.

Carry a journal and quickly write down each event with it’s
corresponding, underlying desire.

IF you follow this exercise, you’ll not only be amazed at what you
come up with for “normal” daily communication, you will have
started down the path of thinking like the highest achieving
business people of all time. Not bad for a week’s effort?

Jeff Smith is dedicated to helping you turn your knowledge
into highly desirable, hot selling information-based
products (eBooks, booklets, seminars, courses, etc…)
Through his highly acclaimed site:
“Create High Demand Information Products To Sell Online”
you will find exactly
what it takes to create and market high-profit infoproducts.

The pace of change in today’s business environment is inarguably staggering. Growth of e-commerce; changes to business structures; evolving relationships; changes to funding arrangements; access to capital and its sources. All occurring at increasingly exponential rates. Fast. The fact that there is more computing power in the average notebook computer today than it took to put a man on the moon should illustrate how fast things change, and whether in senior management or a business owner you need to keep pace.

In particular, you must stay abreast of changes in your competitive environment, and remain fully apprised of mechanisms that will enable a response fast enough to keep you in the game. This article will look at one of those mechanisms, access to capital and through that, free cash flow. In doing so we’ll use an intuitive framework, peppered with some economics. Why? Intuitive analysis is ideal for answering specific questions; in this case ‘What will best enable my firm to manage rapid changes to competitive economic conditions and stay in the game?’ And I’ll use economics because of Steven Levitt, America’s most outstanding economist under-40, who along with Stephen Dubner considers that ‘if morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work.’

By speaking to specific anchor points, strategic issues affecting the access to capital problem can be explored and initiatives developed to allow a timely solution. In short, it’s the fastest and most accurate way to answer the question you face, because it’s easier to understand and doesn’t get bogged down in extraneous, unnecessary analysis.

One of the anchor points in contemporary business is access to capital, especially when it helps maintain free cash-flow. In many respects they are one and the same thing, the difference merely being access to capital is a necessary precursor to free cash flow (you can’t use it until you have it). And everyone needs it. Payroll, materials, overhead, and debtors taking anywhere from 45 to 120 days to settle their accounts, using your firm as a surrogate line of credit.

Access to capital becomes an even larger issue in the business environment described earlier, where speed to market and the ability to ‘tool-up’ (increase production) are crucial to meeting ever shrinking delivery timelines. Many of us have experienced the elation of being awarded a large tender, something that will fill the order book for the next six months, immediately followed by the hangover that comes with the realization that the firm will struggle to fund the project based on existing and forecast cash flow.

Small-to-medium enterprises encounter particular problems when it comes to cash flow and capital access to fund growing operations, to the point where lack of access is an issue that can threaten continuing operations, even in a rising market. Balance sheets take time to build, and it is against this security that banks will lend.

Developing initiatives to tackle this problem involves looking at some existing options and making a comparison, arriving at a decision that best enables a solution to the problem at hand. In this instance, a comparison of bank funding against invoice factoring provides insight into possible solutions for the capital access / cash flow problem.

Everyday economics can inform this comparison, particularly the study of incentives - how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. Let’s start with banks.

Bank lending requirements are invasive and restrictive. They often engender a feeling that you have to ‘bare all’ to borrow a nickel. They would naturally dispute this claim, but let’s return to the incentives - what is their incentive for lending you money? To earn a return off your efforts. Certainly nothing short of this, and these days they also use lending as a lever to win the biggest ’share of your wallet’ from their rivals, trying to have you as a customer for life, ‘growing with you and your business.’ When you add the fact that a surplus of people requiring credit exist in the market, they can afford to be choosy and do the economically rational thing - be risk averse. Risk aversion drives the mortgage a bank puts on your house to ensure they get paid, and is what drives them to lend against strong balance sheets. They look at balance sheets in an accounting fashion, weighing up tangible, realizable, liquid assets like cash and real property, apply a formula and lend in accordance with how the result stack up against their risk matrix. Your continuing success is of interest to them only to the extent that it enables you to service (and ultimately repay) your debt, generating an ongoing margin on their investment.

An overly simplistic description, the point being to illustrate that all of this takes time, and is structured around heavy regulation and evaluation constraints. Lots of time, and lots of influential rules. First, for you to build your balance sheet, and second, to get it appraised to a point where your banker might open or extend your credit facility. During that time, the window of opportunity to fund that large project, manufacturing expansion, or operations in a rising market quickly passes, leaving you out of pocket your application fee and if successful, servicing an even larger debt you might not need.

Turning to invoice factors, the incentives might seem the same, but how they view obtaining their return is slightly different. While banks rely on their acumen in accurately predicting your ability to repay a debt, invoice factors rely on their skills in accurately assessing the ability of your customer base to pay you. A lower perceived risk aversion with invoice factors plays a small part, but it is how the factor views the overall situation that is different from traditional lending. To begin with, factors recognize your accounts receivables as assets, just like the bank. The difference is that an invoice factor considers your receivables a quickly realizable asset, and is prepared to purchase the rights (and risks) of collecting your outstanding invoices.

Put another way, in economic terms the invoice factor recognizes your receivables as assets with a future value in cash flow terms, and provided their assessment of your customers is favorable, they are prepared to effectively ‘provide a market’ for those assets. This ‘market’ closes with your transaction selling them the invoice however; there is no secondary market like junk bonds or other derivatives.

Access to capital through factors is more expensive than traditional lending, and this is due to the risk premium attached not to you, but your customer base. This is not surprising, and you and I would probably do the same. Returning again to economics and our study of incentives, a rational person requires a premium for every extra unit of risk they take on. A bigger incentive for a perceived higher risk. In the case of factoring, the premium is higher than equivalent bank lending rates, as the risks are considered slightly higher when the security is not real property, rather a first position claim over all of your receivables. Your risk exposure is lower than collecting the receivables yourself (invoice factors are very good at mercantile operations) - the higher fee charged by the factor compared to the bank is simply the premium you must pay to lower that exposure.

The difference that factors provide is speed of access to capital, and what happens when you default. Default on the bank loan, you can lose your business, even the family home. Factoring is not quite as drastic, although the sums of money involved are invariably smaller. There are two types of factoring products available, recourse and non-recourse, and again, the difference comes down to assumption of risk, and the premium asked to assume the risk of non-payment on an invoice. With recourse factoring, you remain liable for non-payment by your customer, and with non-recourse, the factor assumes the risk up to a point, and at a higher premium.

In summary, there are merits and pitfalls in both traditional lending and factoring. These are volatile economic times, and having been burnt a number of times during boom times of the previous two decades, banks are far more risk averse, holding tight reign on their credit standards. So in light of this information, we return to our problem, looking to answer the question: ‘Which of these approaches best delivers the flexibility I require to allow me the opportunity to prosper in a fast-changing business environment?’

For many businesses, the answer lies with invoice factoring, which delivers in excess of $1 trillion in credit across the continental United States. As with all business situations there are caveats, or described another way, arrangements that if not continually monitored can become a comfortable security blanket that might actually be slowly suffocating you.

It is easy to become accustomed to continuing access to cash flow through factoring. It is also easy to feel at ease knowing you are backed by a massive publicly traded institution like your bank. Management and owners of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises should continually remind themselves that the study of incentives works for them too. Constant review of your capital funding and cash flow arrangements is essential to ensure that the deal you end up with is the best for your firm, and not others. It’s all about getting what you want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.

David Springer is a consultant for Sovereign Funding Group. Sovereign Funding Group is an experienced, reputable company that offers convenient, no-risk services to help you with the selling of your deferred payments and business financing including
accounts receivable factoring.

A link is essentially a free advertisement on someone else’s site pointing back to yours. So when submitting your link information, write it like a well-thought-out advertisement. Here are some guidelines.

1. Give your link text some length — at least two sentences. If all “link pages” consisted of a short paragraph or two instead of five or six words, these link pages would have “content” and be more valuable. Most webmasters want substance (content) instead of one or two word descriptions. This will also make your listing stand out from the crowd.

2. Pack your link text with your most important keywords. You don’t have to “hype” you site. Just pack your description with your most important information. This is called creating a keyword-rich “context”.

3. Make sure your “anchor text” includes your most important keyword. The search engines considers this important because the text that is linked is an indicator of the theme of the site being pointed to. Each time a site is pointed to with a link that says “golden retrievers” that site’s importance as a “golden retriever” site is reinforced. See the examples at the end of this post.

4. Create more than one version of this link text. A long one should be roughly 200 characters. A short one might be less than 100 characters. Having two or three different versions and lengths of your link text ready to go will make your life a lot easier when it comes to actually placing your links.

5. Mix up your anchor text. If you are doing some serious link work, trying to create hundreds, even thousands of inbound links, don’t use the same anchor text all the time. The Search Engines may interpret repetition of the same link patterns as “unnatural” and manipulative. So use different versions of your anchor text and create different link text “contexts”.

Concentrate on building keyword-rich contexts in which your subject matter is clearly stated and your links can be clearly associated with the subject matter that is most “relevant” to your site. This is the best way to insure they will create an impact.

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