Online conferencing enable executives to speak with stakeholders wirelessly in a appointment in another metropolis, in another time zone or especially in an overseas country. Typical web conferencing make use of new web video services. Since that they are streamed online, they just utilize no additional organizational outlays. By going to the Internet, can a business person lead a distant meeting from just about any locale with a high-speed connection. Its more than just convenient, it can slash travel expenses by more than five digits.

Break throughs in digital technology make web conference calls affordable for executives to share information and presentations at the same time. Conference participants can hear and see others as if they are virtually there, despite the fact that halfway around the planet. The look and sound of the presentations audio and video can be without flaw through the best in streaming video.

Dont miss how almost any business will cut costs by utilizing online conference calling rather than spending thousands dispatching an employee on a costly trip. You doesnt have to throw away money on transportation costs, hotels and meals. These savings cannot be dismissed. Any dollar saved becomes more profit for a company. Its commonly known that the smart companies are choosing online conference calls to save budgets on needless sales travel.

Although this may be extreme, it could happen, which is why it is important to have a final inspection of the home you are purchasing before the closing. A pre-closing inspection gives you one last opportunity to verify that you are getting all that was promised in the sales contract. Although buyers still have legal recourse if they discovereven after closingthat the condition of the home is not as it should be. The best time to identify problems is before closing when the seller will be motivated to correct any deficiencies in order to close the transaction.

Typically, a buyer takes possession of a property one to three months after signing the sales agreement. But, a lot can happen before the actual move-in. Appliances and fixtures can break down, and walls, carpets and doors can be damaged during the seller’s move-out. Sometimes the seller will simply have forgotten that he or she has agreed to leave the refrigerator or window coverings with the house. Whatever the reason, problems identified before the closing have the best chance of being remedied.

If possible, schedule the inspection right before the closing, such as the day before. Ask your real estate professional to attend the inspection with you. What should you be inspecting? Using a copy of the sales contract as a checklist, first make sure that all items that should be in place (appliances, built-in furniture, window coverings, fixtures, etc.) are there.

Test each appliance to make sure they work properly. Bring along an electrical clock or radio to test each electrical outlet. Test all electrical switches and the garage door opener, if there is one. Run the garbage disposal and turn on every water faucet, checking under the sinks for leaks. Flush the toilets. Inspect the floors, carpets, walls and doors for recent damage.

If you discover that something is damaged or missing, make a note of it and inform your real estate professional immediately. In most cases, the seller is usually able to take care of small problems immediately, either by making a needed repair or offering compensation to handle it. And, if there are major problems, the seller can even sign a statement acknowledging the deficiency and agree to correct it. Although pre-closing inspections take time and may be inconvenient, they are important and well worth the buyer’s time.

Neda Dabestani-Ryba is a licensed Realtor in Maryland. She is a member of the President’s Circle of Top Real Estate Professionals. She can be reached at (800) 536-3806 or visit her website for more information: http://neda.dabestani.pcragent.com/
Prudential Carruthers REALTORS is an independently owned and operated member of Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, Inc., a Prudential Financial company. Equal Housing Opportunity.

If the product is what you’re having in mind now, then you’re wrong. No, it’s not the domain name either and certainly not the number of employees you have.

It’s your mailing list.

Your mailing list IS your business. Who you know is more important than what you know. This is true regardless of what kind of business you’re running. If you are selling chemicals, then you will need to know people who are in the chemicals industry as they are your prospects.

In the case of running an Internet Business, you don’t have a business if you don’t have a mailing list. Fortunately, you can build your own list from scratch using ingenious concepts or buy subscribers from third parties.

“But why build a mailing list?” you asked.

The main reason for building your own mailing list is because through it, you can share what have to offer to your subscribers and to also sell your products or services to them.

This is important as people on the Internet act on impulse. That’s you and me alright. We jump from page to page; website to website that we don’t really remember where we were ten web pages ago! So, what are the chances that people who visit your website will remember you or your product for that matter? Approximately zero. I know it’s a fact you will despise to hear but let’s face it – it always happen.

One great way of making people remember your product or service is to provide an opt-in form for them to fill in their name and e-mail address so that you can follow up with them via auto responder.

But is that all? Not by a long shot! There’s more to the mailing list.

Having a list of subscriber is one. Earning money from it is another.

Once you’ve started building your mailing list, you need to market to them aggressively. You can e-mail them everyday but the minimum frequency should be once a week.

Have a free tip for your prospects? E-mail them. Have news? E-mail them. Have a product to promote? E-mail them!

I think you get the picture. Now, can you imagine running a shopping complex in space? Heck, that’s probably an Entrepreneur’s nightmare! Who on space will come to your shopping complex? There’s not even a ‘who’ on space in the first place! (At this time of writing, mankind has yet to discover any other civilization in space)

So be thankful that you’re on Earth and so are your prospects. The Internet brings your prospects from around the world to your computer screen.

If you don’t know anyone on the Internet just yet then you must start knowing them now. You can always start with participating in forums or sending your potential prospects a personal e-mail (I personally prefer this method).

In a nutshell, building your mailing list should be one of your primary goals. It’s worth repeating this: You don’t have a business if you don’t have a mailing list. For if there are no people, there is no business in the first place.

Copyright (c) Edmund Loh

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Edmund Loh is the author of the E-Biz Wiz Blog and Starting An Internet Business Special Report. Visit E-Biz Wiz Blog for proven ideas, tips and information on starting your own Internet Business and subscribe to the 12 Day Internet Marketing Success Course. http://ebizmodelsyoucancopy.blogspot.com

And of all trends, perhaps disruptive technologies are the defining path of industrial implications, a linear passage that technological progress almost invariably follows. Though the concept of “disruptive technologies” is only popularized in 1997 by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen in his best-seller “The Innovator’s Dilemma”, the phenomenon was already evidenced back in 1663, when Edward Somerset published designs for, and might have installed, a steam engine.

As put forth by Clayton Christensen, disruptive technologies are initially low performers of poor profit margins, targeting only a minute sector of the market. However, they often develop faster than industry incumbents and eventually outpace the giants to capture significant market shares as their technologies, cheaper and more efficient, could better meet prevailing consumers’ demands.

In this case, the steam engines effectively displaced horse power. The demand for steam engines was not initially high, due to the then unfamiliarity to the invention, and the ease of usage and availability of horses. However, as soon as economic activities intensified, and societies prospered, a niche market for steam engines quickly developed as people wanted modernity and faster transportation.

One epitome of modern disruptive technologies is Napster, a free and easy music sharing program that allows users to distribute any piece of recording online. The disruptee here is conventional music producers. Napster relevantly identified the “non-market”, the few who wanted to share their own music recordings for little commercial purpose, and thus provided them with what they most wanted. Napster soon blossomed and even transformed the way the internet was utilized.

Nevertheless, there are more concerns in the attempt to define disruptive technologies than simply the definition itself.

One most commonly mistaken feature for disruptive technologies is sustaining technologies. While the former brings new technological innovation, the latter refers to “successive incremental improvements to performance” incorporated into existing products of market incumbents. Sustaining technologies could be radical, too; the new improvements could herald the demise of current states of production, like how music editor softwares convenience Napster users in music customization and sharing, thereby trumping over traditional whole-file transfers. The music editors are part of a sustaining technological to Napster, not a new disruptor. Thus, disruptive and sustaining technologies could thrive together, until the next wave of disruption comes.

See how music editors are linked to steam engines? Not too close, but each represents one aspect of the twin engines that drive progressive technologies; disruptors breed sustainers, and sustainers feed disruptors.

This character of sustaining technologies brings us to another perspective of disruptive technologies: they not only change the way people do business, but also initiate a fresh wave of follow-up technologies that propel the disruptive technology to success. Sometimes, sustaining technologies manage to carve out a niche market for its own even when the disruptive initiator has already shut down. Music editor and maker softwares continue to healthily thrive, despite Napster’s breakdown (though many other file sharing services are functioning by that time), with products like the AV Music Morpher Gold and Sound Forge 8.

A disruptive technology is also different from a paradigm shift, which Thomas Kuhn used to describe “the process and result of a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science”. In disruptive technologies, there are no assumptions, but only the rules of game of which the change is brought about by the behaviors of market incumbents and new entrants. They augment different markets that eventually merge. In Clayton Christensen’s words, newcomers to the industry almost invariably “crush the incumbents”.

While researching on disruptive technologies, I came across this one simple line that could adequately capture what these technologies are about, “A technology that no one in business wants but that goes on to be a trillion-dollar industry.” Interesting how a brand new technology that seemingly bears little value could shake up an entire industry, isn’t it?

You are probably asking, why then that no one wants it? Or how true is the money claim to these disruptive technologies? And if it is true, what are the implications to the business practice? How do market incumbents and new entrants behave?

The scope of this article could only let me take the first question. Well, it is not that dominating companies are not visionary to see a disruption is coming. They can’t. A disruptive technology is inherently not attractive initially; no one could see how Napster could boom and lead to the thriving market of audio softwares like the music editors and mixers, except the disruptors themselves. Even if one manages to foresee it, the “Innovator’s Dilemma” is there to keep them from acting.

And as the books show, technology has always evolved in waves of disruption.

Anh Tuan Nguyen is an Audio4Fun writer who specializes in technology research. This article is the first in the 4-part series on Disruptive Technologies of his.

For more information, please visit http://www.mediamorpher.com.

One of the neatest natural skin care products on the market is DHC moisturizer from Japan. Its main ingredient is Spanish virgin olive oil that is rich in both vitamins and antioxidants. It is effective at neutralizing the free radicals that damage healthy cells. Another great product is Zia natural skin care moisturizers and creams. They contain vitamin C, DMAE, AHAs, alphalipoic acid and essential oils. This combination is designed to repair cell damage as well as reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. For dry skin care, you want to find moisturizers and creams that contain essential oils. These oils absorb easily and help keep you face and body smooth and supple.

Many people are actually making their own natural skin care products. They are either tired of paying the high prices for quality moisturizers or they haven’t been able to find the right one that works well. Popular ingredients to look for when researching recipes includes herbal extracts, essential oils, vitamins and rose water to name only a few. There are hundreds of recipes available on line to help improve or enhance any condition. Now it can be cheaper than commercial goods, but you do need time to mix them. It is amazing how great you feel after trying a natural skin care recipe. They are also available for those who need dry skin care.

Indeed, injectable testosterone is one of the most cost effective methods out of the available testosterone replacement therapies. Moreover, the injections are easily administered (by either the doctor or yourself), and then you’re all set for a few weeks.

Besides needing to administer the testosterone, you’ll need to purchase the proper equipment you’ll need to inject the hormone. The actual medication itself comes in 10cc bottles — one of which will last you around 15 weeks, if you’re using the regular dosage of 200mg. The cost of one of these bottles? Around ten dollars.

Just how easy are they to use? Unlike testosterone patches, where you must go through the ordeal of shaving your scrotum and then applying the patch using a blow dryer, you simply have to give yourself a shot. The vast majority of doctors will teach their patients how to administer the shot properly, making your job that much easier.

Testosterone injections

Another benefit of using injectable testosterone is that you only have to administer the shot once every two or three weeks. Compare that to the testosterone patch — which you generally must change every 24 hours, or to orally taken pills — which you have to take several of every day, and it seems like testosterone injections are the way to go.

However, before you conclude injections are indeed best, understand that it has its fair share of negatives as well.

There are all the little downsides of having to give yourself a shot, which can be painful and can leave muscles sore near the site of injection; even worse is the emotional swings you may feel.

Think of a “Mountain/Valley” metaphor.

Meaning, when you first get the injectable testosterone, you’re getting a highly concentrated dose of this hormone right into your body. Because of that, your testosterone levels will be high for the first few days after the injection.

You’ll more than likely experience a significant boost of energy, increased sexual desire, more assertiveness, and better mood.

However, because you’re taking one highly concentrated dose, it may also raise your aggressiveness, and leave you more prone to mood swings – a very alarming combination.

We just described the mountain part of the metaphor.

Now for the valley. The valley is not fun. Like all things, what goes up must come down. A week or so after the initial boost of testosterone, your levels of the hormone will begin to taper off.

You’ll begin to feel lethargic, have less sexual desire, and your high spirits may drop drastically.

The valley logically is at its worst the days before your next injection because your testosterone levels may have fallen off by then quite a bit.

Does this mountain/valley syndrome happen to everyone? No, it doesn’t. The only way to know is to consult your physician who will monitor you. Either way, you’ll have to consult your doc if you want him to prescribe you testosterone injections.

The point here is that there are pros and cons of any of the available testosterone replacement therapies.

Although testosterone injections may seem great at first, do research on the other prescription testosterone boosting methods at the resources given below.

In addition, there are even natural ways to boost your testosterone that require no prescription at all.

Learn more about testosterone injections and many other testosterone boosting therapies at http://www.testosterone-booster-guide.com

The Big Legal Benefit of an LLC: Limited Liability…

The big legal benefit of an LLC is that limited liability companies provide all the same liability protection as a corporationbut with much less red tape. A regular corporation, for example, requires regular stockholders meetings, a board of directors, regular board meetings, and of course records of all these activities and bodies. But a limited liability company doesn’t.

This legal liability protection provided by an LLC can be extremely valuable. One local attorney I often collaborate with, for example, tells his clients that an LLC protects real estate investors from the worst case scenariowhich in his mind is a “slip and fall” accident on the investor’s property.

With an LLC as the property owner, so says my attorney friend, the “worst case scenario” is liquidation of the LLC. That liquidation means the people who own the LLC wind up with nothingwhich isn’t good. But all the owners lose is what they’ve invested in the LLC.

In comparison, without an LLC, the real estate investor’s “worst case scenario” if there’s a “slip and fall” accident is that the owner or investor can lose almost everything they own. In other words, the business owners or investors could lose not only their investment in the real estate property but many other assets.

Let me issue a caveat here, however. You may not get as much legal liability protection from an LLC as you want or hope. Say, for example, that you’re repairing the roof on your apartment house and that, unfortunately, you happen to drop a hammer onto the tenant’s head during the roofing project. Your LLC probably won’t protect you from that sort of tort liability. In other words, the tenant can probably look not only to your LLC for payment of damages related to the dropped hammer but also to you personally.

And here’s another example, which unfortunately makes things even murkier. What happens if someone working for you, one of your employees or subcontractors, drops a hammer on the tenant’s head? The LLC may offer you some protection in this case. But you may still be personally responsible. The tenant might reasonably argue that you should have done a better job managing the employee or subcontractor, for example.

If you’re extremely concerned about the asset protection features of setting up and operating an LLC, get an attorney involved in your real estate investment planning. An attorney knowledgeable in LLC and real estate law can help you increase the liability protection that you gain from using an LLC for your investing. And this consultation doesn’t need to be particularly expensive. You may be able to buy an hour or two of time from a good local attorney and get all your LLC- and liability-related questions answers.

The Big Tax Benefit: Enormous Tax Flexibility…

A second benefit of LLCs relates to the income taxes that investors pay on profits and capital gains. A limited liability company can be almost whatever tax entity it wants to be for income tax purposes. A limited liability company that is owned by one person can be a sole proprietorship, a C corporation, or an S corporation. A limited liability company that is owned by two or more persons can be a partnership, a C corporation, or even an S corporation (if the LLC meets the S corporation eligibility requirements). This second benefit of the limited liability company means that an LLC can choose to be taxed in whatever way is most favorable to the investment or the owners.

For example, a very small real estate business with a single member (LLC owners are called “members”), might decide to be treated as a sole proprietorship for federal income tax purposes. This decision to be treated as sole proprietorship would keep the business’s accounting very simpleand it would also mean that unique tax planning opportunities available to sole proprietorships can be used.

A larger real estate investment fundperhaps one with several partnersmight decide to operate as a C corporation or as an S corporation in order to take advantage of some of the unique tax planning advantages of these entity choices. A C corporation, for example, often lets businesses provide rich tax-free fringe benefits to employees including shareholder-employees. And an S corporation often lets a business dramatically reduce the self-employment, social security and Medicare taxes paid on the owner’s profits.

Note: While a limited liability company is not difficult to set up by yourselfyou can have the paperwork done less than a quarter hour from nowyou should be aware that paying a few hundred dollars to an accountant to pick the right taxation for your new LLC might be the best investment you ever make. It’s common that the right taxation choice for a new LLC can save the owner or owners of a small business $10,000 to $20,000 annually.

The Drawbacks of the Limited Liability Company Choice

When you consider the two big benefits of a limited liability companylimited liability but with less red tape and tremendous tax flexibilityyou have almost the perfect investment entity choice. So an obvious question is “Why wouldn’t every investor use an LLC or limited liability company?”

Perhaps predictably, there are some costs and headaches associated with operating as an LLC.

An LLC may increase your banking, accounting and insurance costs. For example, while the bank account for a sole proprietorship or informal partnership may be free if you keep a large-enough balance, the bank account for a limited liability company probably won’t be free. The bank may charge $10, $20, even more each month.

While a sole proprietorship or informal real estate partnership may be able to keep its bookkeeping and income tax return preparation very simple, an LLC probably needs to file its own tax return if the LLC operates as a partnership, a C corporation or an S corporation. And this LLC tax return may cost anywhere from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars annually.

Finally, it’s worthwhile to note that an LLC may involve several hundred or even a few thousand dollars of startup expense. For example, you may spend money on publications like this. You may buy the services of accountants and attorneys. You will need to print new letterhead, business cards, and envelopes (if you use these) that use the new LLC’s name in order to show the world that you’re now operating as a limited liability company.

So where does all this leave you? How should you balance the big benefits of forming an LLC with all the costs and drawbacks? Unfortunately, I can’t give you a one-size-fits-all answer. You’ll need to carefully consider the benefits and costs as they add up in your specific situation.

I will share these thoughts, however. In my opinion, an LLC is uneconomical for very small real estate investmentsunless there is only a single owner. For example, a real estate investor who owns one single-family home may not want to shoulder the hundreds of dollars of cost (or more?) incurred in setting up and operating an LLC. (Remember that this investor can use liability insurance to reduce his or her risk, too.)

On the other hand, any time you’ve got a large real estate investmentsay multifamily housingor any time you’ve got substantial wealth, an LLC economically reduces investment risk and as an added bonus can even save the owners thousands of dollars a year in income or payroll taxes.

Bellevue WA accountant Stephen L. Nelson is the author of both Quicken for Dummies and QuickBooks for Dummies and an adjunct tax professor for Golden Gate University’s graduate tax school. He is can reached at http://www.stephenlnelson.com

The only question is, if an owner does stay on, what do you offer him as far as salary, benefits, stock, etc?

Well, I don’t know what the percentage has been in the last ten years, but probably over 50% of the owners of the businesses I’ve bought have stayed. Now, these owners have all gotten cash — X number of million dollars when they closed out. A lot of them were making $300,000, $400,000, $500,000 that they were paying themselves in salaries, plus other money they were taking out of the company. So, they’re making a couple million dollars a year.

Now, when you go in there, all you have to do is find out what the going rate is for somebody running a plant like you have and, 99 times out of 100, you’ll find the owner will be happy with that.

Why?

Because he’s going to have $1 million, $5 million, $10 million sitting in the bank and he’s just not going to get all that hung up on the money.

In fact, do know what my range has been in the last few years? We’re paying our managers $150,000 to $200,000 a year. The managers of manufacturing companies do very well. And again, the average person that’s going to stay to work with you will think that’s very good. And since you’re keeping the original person in who made the business successful in the first place, making a ton of of money from the venture will be as easy as taking candy from a baby.

Arthur B. Hamel has bought over 200 businesses in the past 50 years, and is a well-known author, consultant, investor, business owner, and dynamic lecturer who has shared the stage with such business greats as Robert Allen of “No Money Down” fame. For the past 20 years Art has taught thousands of people around the world — even so-called “little guys” with no formal education or money — how to quickly and easily buy large, multi-million dollar businesses with no credit, banks or prior business experience. He has recently decided to share his unique business-buying secrets and tactics free of charge at: http://arthurhamel.com

Many over the counter medicines are available for warts, it is also worth knowing that over half of all warts disappear within a year themselves without any treatment. Applying vitamin E oil to a wart and covering it with a plaster for two weeks has been reported to work, so has applying tea tree oil mixed with a little of garlic oil. Taking supplements of vitamin C, vitamin E, zinc, Echinacea and garlic tablets can help. It is wise to remember that warts are extremely contagious and to avoid getting warts it is best not to scratch or rub them.

The following supplements may help if you are suffering from Warts.

Carotenoids

Echinacea

Garlic tablets

Vitamin C

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Day 1: Your business orders materials from suppliers on N/30 terms;
Day 3: Your business receives materials and begins production (which takes 5 days);
Day 8: Your business ships product to customers on N/30 terms;
Day 14: Mid month Payroll is due;
Day 30: Month-end Payroll and supplier invoice are due;
Day 48: Your customer remits payment to you.

In this scenario the cash gap is 34 days, which is from day 14 when payroll is due, to day 48 when customer remits payment. The cash gap encompasses two pay periods and a payment to your supplier, whereas the gap normally includes multiple payments to suppliers for ongoing customer orders. If your business is mature and growing conservatively, or less than 10% per year, then you probably have sufficient cash reserves or a bank line of credit to cover the cash gap. But, if you are a growing business with opportunity, how do you cover the cash gap? Oftentimes a bank line of credit is not sufficient to cover the cash gap for growing businesses because bankers look historically to your company’s past to determine how much debt they will lend to your business in the future. Many growing businesses have found themselves caught short on working capital as their cash flow stretched during a period of growth.

Cash flow funding through account receivable factoring may be just the tool needed during periods of rapid growth. Factoring is not a loan or debt, but the selling of frozen assets (invoices) at a discount to obtain the cash in a more timely fashion (typically within 24 hours of invoicing your customer). Your business sends invoices to your customers and a copy of the invoice to the factoring company. The factoring company purchases the invoice from your company advancing 80% of the face amount of the invoice. When your customers pay the invoice, the factoring company remits to you the 20% reserved, less their fee (normally 1-5%).

In the cash gap scenario discussed above, working capital would be enhanced by providing your company with cash (80% of the invoice amount) on day 9! Your company would have cash flow to make payroll on day 14, and pay suppliers and make payroll on day 30. When your customer pays on day 48, the factoring company remits to you the 20% held less their fee.

When planning for growth in your business it is important that you assess the working capital needs and cash flow gap in order to ensure that your plans can be met. Utilizing an accounts receivable factoring program can assist in your successful growth. But, be sure to assess the cost of the accounts receivable program as a percentage of sales. And, make sure that you do not have a term contract with the factoring company so that you may exit the program whenever your business has grown to the next plateau.

Dave Nighswander is the President and Founder of Capital Access, a business factoring company specializing in working capital, cash flow funding, and factoring accounts receivables for businesses across the country. For more information on Capital Access, please visit www.capitalaxcess.com or call (419) 732-3174.