Friday, 18th May 2012.

Posted on Friday, 25th December 2009 by admin

The fundamental part in running a new is to keep up the good work of marketing. Although marketing is still important if you are running an establish or company, but for a new , marketing is the first step to reach the core audience or customer. By having good marketing it means that the company or has a good start, from a good start the further process to build the company’s customer is getting easier. There are many ways to do what is called good marketing. One of them is called media planning.

There are various types implementation from media planning. The common implementations of media planning are outdoor advertising, newspaper advertising, online advertising, and electronic advertising. Those kinds of advertising are supposed to be a media to build what is called “brand awareness”. The question that might be hanging around is what is the importance of brand awareness? Brand awareness is very important because if we are success in building brand awareness, people can easily remember the name or our products or services. Thus,

Read more…

Comments (0)

Posted on Friday, 25th December 2009 by admin

Christopher is six years old. That’s his picture here to the right, taken a few months ago.

Last week one of his teachers shared this with me: She asked him what he does when he’s frustrated. He answered:

“Stop. Breathe. Think.”

He’s not a genius or anything like that, so I doubt he invented that solution all by himself. But still, it’s a really great answer, don’t you think?

Tagged as: Christopher

Tags: Old
Comments (0)

Posted on Thursday, 24th December 2009 by admin

MONTICELLO – Joseph Bernstein will step down as CEO of Empire Resorts on Dec. 31, the company announced.He’ll be replaced by Joseph D’Amato, the company’s chief financial officer, effective Jan. 1. D’Amato and the company have agreed to a three-year contract calling for a $350,000 annual salary and a $10,000 relocation allowance.Bernstein had been named CEO in June. His contract, which called for a $500,000 salary, ran through the end of the year, and was subject to automatic renewal based on certain conditions, which were not disclosed by the company.Empire Resorts is the owner and operator of Monticello Gaming & Raceway.Michael Levensohn

Tags: Empire Resorts, Resorts
Comments (0)

Posted on Wednesday, 23rd December 2009 by admin

AUSTRALIA’S four major banks have settled a complex dispute with the New Zealand tax authorities and will pay $NZ2.2 billion ($1.76 billion) to end all claims against them.

In co-ordinated announcements yesterday after the stockmarket had closed, Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, ANZ and National Australia Bank revealed they had negotiated an industry-wide agreement with the Commissioner of Inland Revenue.

The NZ tax department had been pursuing the local subsidiaries of the majors – who dominate NZ banking – over a series of detailed, structured transactions from 1998 to 2005.

The deals involved ”repo” or collateralised loan arrangements, which were in effect sale and repurchase agreements. The banks had argued the transactions were legitimate at the time and had complied with the law, based on legal advice and industry tax rulings.

Inland Revenue challenged them in court and won a series of judgments that the banks should pay tax on the deals.

National Australia Bank, through its BNZ division, indicated earlier this year that the banks might finally settle when it made a $NZ661 million provision against what it was said to owe.

NAB appealed a High Court decision against it in August.

Read more…

Tags: Settle, Settle Nz
Comments (0)

Posted on Wednesday, 23rd December 2009 by admin

India needs power, but not at the cost of the national animal—that seems to be the message going out from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and the company thrown off the tiger’s back is Adani Power.

The PMO first questioned and then cancelled the allocation of the Lohara coalmines near Maharashtra’s Tadoba tiger reserves to Adani Power.
However, the cancellation of the 150 million tonne mine now poses a danger to the coal linkage for Adani Power’s Tiroda power plant in Maharastra.
However, Adani Power says that the work for the power plant has already started and the de-allocation of mines will not affect the project as we have requested to reconsider the decision or provide alternate coal linkage.
No doubt, Adani Power is continuing work on its power plant and it is looking for alternative coal linkages. B

Read more…

Tags: Tiger, Tiger Reserve
Comments (0)

Posted on Tuesday, 22nd December 2009 by admin

In case you’re wondering, my post here yesterday was also subtitled Holidays Part 1. (I did that in invisible ink, so you wouldn’t see it there. But it was.)

For part 2, keeping on with my holiday theme of moving back a bit from business, reflecting on what’s really important in life (even if just for a while, around this time), I’d like to refer back to some earlier posts I’ve done, before 2009, that reflect the same “and having a life in the meantime” theme that’s part of the charter of this blog (see the subtitle there, in the banner?). You may have seen some of my more recent posts in this same motif (which, by the way, seem to bring me a lot of traffic), such as the what business schools don’t teach, or 10 ways to save your life from your business, or 10 lessons learned in 22 years of bootstrapping. These others are from m

Read more…

Tags: Holidays Part, Part
Comments (0)

Posted on Tuesday, 22nd December 2009 by admin

Did you know that when I first started this blog, I did a keyword search for the term “Business Credit” among other terms. When I at first did this, some time during the month of January 2008, the term Business Credit was search approximately 270,000 times per month. In February 2009 the term Business Credit was searched 400,000 times per month in Google search engine. In June 2009, the searches were up a little at 500,000 searches per month. Today I did a quick check in google adwords’ keyword tool, and the term business credit is now searched for over 1,000,000 times a month. Search engine trends can give us a good idea of what people are looking for and what their interests are at a specific time. This giant huge spike in interest in business credit is a frightening statistic if we come to think about it. Some of the possible causes of this spike in searches on the internet could be ; the need and lack of available credit, both business and personal; the ever-increasing understanding about business credit or the increase in online users. I for

Read more…

Tags: Business Credit, Credit
Comments (0)

Posted on Monday, 21st December 2009 by admin

A default on $324 million in listed mortgage owner RHG Ltd’s loans used to finance mortgages has exposed the lender to the risk of being in default on a further $2.5 billion in loans – or one third of its total portfolio of mortgages.

RHG Ltd said such a default would threaten $47 million in future income and put at risk an additonal $28.6 million in cash RHG used to improve the credit worthiness of its loan portfolios.

‘‘This event of default triggers a cross default in certain other loan facilities,’’ RHG said in a statement.

RHG said it had kept its other lenders fully informed about the issue.

‘‘The total amount for which there could be a potential event of default through cross default is $2,526 million,’’ the statement said.

It is the first time RHG has revealed the full extent of cross-collateralised loans affected by the court case.

A default exposes RHG to the potential that lenders retrieve their mortgages from RHG and sell them off for repayment of their loans.

When the stock resumed trading it plunged to 46 cents from 64 cents when it was placed into a trading halt on Thursday, and was recently at around 52 cents.

The revelations were contained in a release to the market this morning after the NSW Supreme Court ruled on Thursday last week a default had occurred on $324 million in notes used to finance a package of mortgages.The court found RHG Ltd had been in default on a loan from its German lender, HVB, on October and December last year and January this year.

RHG said today it had launched an appeal against the finding of default. RHG is also waiti

Read more…

Tags: Loans
Comments (0)

Posted on Sunday, 20th December 2009 by admin

Janet Herlihy/Special to the Caller-Times

Dean Johnson has built Eagle Foundation on trust and goodwill.

CORPUS CHRISTI — Name: Dean Johnson

Title: President/owner

Name of business: Eagle Foundations Inc.

Address: 717 Southern St., Corpus Christi, TX 78404

Phone: 361 888-7738

Company description: Foundation repair, slab and pier-and-beam

Hometown: Corpus Christi

Years in business: Six

Education: Mary Carroll High School, 1972; some college while in Air Force.

First job: I was 14 and lied about my age to work at Dairy Queen. I learned responsibility and to have a work ethic — be on time and ready to work hard. The cash registers then didn’t tell you the customers’ change, so it really helped me with my math. It also made me realize the power of the dollar. With h

Read more…

Tags: Dean Johnson, Johnson
Comments (0)

Posted on Sunday, 20th December 2009 by admin

As a small business owner having access to capital continues to be a growing concern during these tough economic times. I’m sure you probably prefer small business credit lines because it allows your business to establish a significant amount of cash on demand to make purchases that are too large for a credit card and too small for a loan. However, when it comes to qualifying do you feel like your left in the dark?< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Well, don’t worry I’m about to shed some light on the subject that may help you.

First of all, the best time to apply for small business credit lines is during times of growth and cash flow. Banks are more likely to approve a credit line to a business when it doesn’t need the funds compared to one that is financially strapped. I would

Read more…

Tags: Business Credit, Business Credit Lines, Credit Lines, Lines
Comments (0)