Archive for February, 2010
How To Get Hired – Small Business Perspective
There’s plenty of advice out there for job candidates who are submitting resumes to big corporations, recruiters, or even mid-sized companies that have HR departments handling the whole hiring process. I work for a small, healthy and growing business which currently employs about 12 people. Most of these employees are specialists, a couple are management, and we have two support staff members. We have a multi-functioning office manager (myself) who handles IT support, HR and hiring initiatives, as well as administrative, marketing and public relations support. It’s a pretty typical small business set up.
I read through information published to help job seekers sometimes and am alarmed at how many tips and techniques do not translate from being effective for big businesses to working when contacting a small business. For instance, I read an article on Yahoo yesterday about 12 Tips to Get Your Resume Noticed. I was totally on board with Ms. Johnson’s advice until I got to tip #9. And #10. And #11 and 12 as well. I sat there imagining what would happen to my productivity level if all of the sudden even a percentage of the 75+ candidates who email resumes to me every day for our current open position decided to – gasp – call me!
So, I put together a list of things to do, and not to do, when applying for a job at a small company:
Financial Services for Effective Investment Planning and Future Prosperity
Investing you money nowadays is such a complex and sophisticated activity that it takes a professional to truly understand all its subtleties and thus identify the premium investments. Here’s how a financial services company can give your investment planning the professional factor that helps maintain the value of your assets and plan for your desired quality of life.
Effective investment takes education, training, knowledge and experience – something that many of the professionals active in the financial planning field can offer. Even if you have a strong understanding of business and economics, it still makes sense to focus on your core job and allow financial professionals to take care of your investment planning. Here’s how they work.
Firstly, a financial services advisor helps you to define your goals. These aims will cover, for example,what assets, such as property, you wish to acquire? What future income streams you’ll need to maintain your lifestyle including important matters such as paying for your childrens’ education and your retirement?
By taking into account such factors as your income, assets, obligations such as mortgages and other debts, your advisor can determine the optimum sums you can invest over various timeframes to make sure your goals are met.
This involves developing a strategy to attain your goals. A strategy is a long term approach that’s formulated after a thorough analysis of all relevant factors. Your situation and goals plus the business environment including such factors as the investment situation and tax legislation will all be considered.
How Can Small Businesses squeeze More Sales Out of a Lead Generation Funnel?
Solo entrepreneurs, home based businesses and small businesses are all faced with the uncertainty of these tough economic times. Despite all the doom and gloom, one thing that is for sure is that there will be survivors. But … “Who will they be?” “What are they going to do to make it happen?” Luck will not play the biggest part of getting through these times. It is probably safe to say that the ones who do get through this and actually grow will have taken very deliberate actions to make it so. What then will these businesses do?
The obvious first step is to streamline the costs of doing business without compromising quality to customers. This means that they will take the time to find vendors who are offering better prices, look for ways to streamline staffing costs (telecommuting, virtual assistants, cutting back hours), becoming more energy efficient (traveling less, lowering heating and cooling costs), find more affordable health insurance options and so forth. Once they have streamlined, smart businesses will continue to look for ways to get more for less while trying to increase the value that they provide to their customers.
DeLage Landen Financial Services
DeLage Landen Financial Services, Inc. (DLL) is currently involved in several lawsuits filed in the courts of Chester County, Pennsylvania. If you are the victim of one of these DeLage Landen lawsuits, there are some things that you should be aware of in regard to DeLage Landen’s business practices and how they relate to the lawsuits being filed.
DLL is a “lease financing” company based in Wayne, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Normally in a lease financing deal, the lessee, typically a small business or non-profit, contacts a local vendor to lease a piece of equipment – be it an office copier, or piece of medical equipment – and the vendor then shows the lessee the equipment and describes its features. When the lessee decides that they are interested in purchasing the equipment, the vendor uses the lessee’s credit score and credit rating to obtain financing, in this case from DeLage Landen Financial Services. This is not “financing” in the strictest sense of the word in that DLL actually buys the equipment and immediately leases it to the lessee. The problem is that often times the lessee often does not realize that they are not dealing solely with the vendor. If fact, it is possible that DLL will use the assumed name of a different financing company which may be very similar to that of the vendor and DLL’s name does not appear anywhere on the leasing documents signed by the lessee.While this practice may seem deceptive, it is actually quite common in the lease financing industry.
Case Study: Suzanne, Her Consulting Business And A Virtual Office
How can a Virtual Office help you?
Case Study: Suzanne
Type of Business: International Business Consultant
Location: Dubai, UAE; USA
Services: New York Virtual Office Business Address Rental, Mail Handling, Overseas Mail Forwarding, 212 Manhattan Phone with Email Forwarding of Messages
Suzanne is an international business consultant. She was contracted over three years ago with an offer she couldn’t refuse by a company in Dubai. The only problem was that she would have to be in Dubai within the end of the month for a few months at first with the understanding that she would eventually have to relocate there for a contractual 3-year term.
Suzanne immediately started to work on her temporary move. She was overwhelmed with the necessary steps to take, knowing that she only had a couple of weeks to get her ducks in a row before her initial 3-month stint in Dubai.
Advised by her business associates, Suzanne turned to VH International Business Solutions for help. She opened a New York Virtual Office and a 212 New York phone number with email forwarding of incoming voice messages. Her initial instructions were to have her mail forwarded sporadically and on demand to Dubai during her temporary stay; then once a month after she made her 3-year relocation.
Having no time to get in touch with everyone on her contact list, Suzanne opted to have all of her mail forwarded to her new New York office address. She also hired a property manager to work on the sub-rental of her residence and moving her belongings into storage.