Government Bailout Program for Entrepreneurs and Small Business?

Just Think...In order to be successful...Failure is NOT an option, it's a requirement
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Many large corporations seem to be lining up
for a government "bailout" of some sort.

Sadly, we as entrepreneurs and small business owners
don't have the same clout to demand government relief
during these bad economic times.

BUT, here's some GREAT NEWS for YOU!  You have the best bailout in the best asset in your business.  You!  As long as you follow some of this simple advice.....

Get Up Or Get Out

Now is the time to either get up or get out.  Although the
economy is not great, it will give you the opportunity to
really practice your selling skills.  When times are good,
as they have been, we forget how to hunt.

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China scared the world with its melamine in milks. With China imports now filling the grocery stores, government recalled milk products and those that use milk like chocolates. People withdrew after milk brand recalls and notices.

Milk is still very important health beverage and the market it has (temporarily, I hope) lost is large especially for baby milk formulas and health buffs.

Investment in milk industry is however risky because people seem to be hesitant on consuming milk again and breastmilk (which still is the best milk for babies) is regaining popularity. Moreover, cows milk is degenerating with the surging need to cut cow production associated with environmental concern due to its methane emission.

Niche milk industry, which long has been untapped, is the fresh goat’s milk.

Goats milk is considered to be healthier than cows milk. The chemical nature of its milk is closest to a milk of a mother. It has lesser casein, which is a main allergent of cow’s milk. Goats do not emit methane gases and they incur less production cost unlike cows. And yes, goats also provide good meat.

Livestock farming or breeding goats for fresh milk industry, herein, is promising.

This goat-breeding business only requires minimal capitalization and maintenance. Thus, the goats milk business is friendly to small and home business.

You only have to have a 1-hectare farm land and start with 50 goats. You can start with 20 goats and have them bred to multiply during the production period. The bulk of investment is in getting (which is labor-intensive) and bottling the milk.

The goats milk business can still work even if you do not have livestock or agriculture degree or experience or farm land. Joint venture with goat breeders or agriculturists will make your business. You can buy them the 20-50 goats and have them grow, bred and milk the goats.

Here's to your Success!

Rivers

 Award Winning Entrepreneur, and Joint Venture Specialist, Rivers Corbett offers an opportunity to a limited number of entrepreneurs who are looking to steer clear of the typical ''Get Rich Quick'' hype. Click on http://.MyInternetBiz for more information PLUS receive the Secret that started him on his amazing journey.

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Fast food fills the malls and food chains. Instant foods also are popular. 24-hour convenience stores that sell fast foods like instant foods and beverages also mushroom around cities and countrysides or provinces. Despite the fast food economy, vending machines do not much stand in developing and underdeveloped.

Though convenience stores offer quick service, vending machines offer quicker service without a store cashier who sometimes delays cash change and wrapping services.

Small and home business owners can start with 1-5 vending machines and 1-2 people to replenish product, collect coins, clean and repair machines. Logistics and warehousing works are also important, but only when the vending business is big at 20-50 machines.

Buying the best vending machines is the first step. A joint venture with the choice of vending machine manufacturer is most important because your business solely depends on the machine. With a poor vending machine, you cannot make more joint ventures with food and beverage companies to fill your machine.

Locating the best site is again essential to vending machine operators. The site will precede series of joint ventures with food and beverage companies. When these companies see you operating in the best location—foot traffic, that is—they will easily confide their products to your vending machine. Locations would not exclusively be in malls, but also in schools and offices.

Most important is the after-sales service. Joint venture partners will likely keep a lasting partnership with you if there would be competent people to replenish, clean and repair machines. You may have locate your vending machines in a heavily traffic center, but defective machines like delays, short cash changes and wrong products due to poor maintenance will end joint ventures.

Here's to your Success!

Rivers

 Award Winning Entrepreneur, and Joint Venture Specialist, Rivers Corbett offers an opportunity to a limited number of entrepreneurs who are looking to steer clear of the typical ''Get Rich Quick'' hype. Click on http://.MyInternetBiz for more information PLUS receive the Secret that started him on his amazing journey.

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People still love books. Though e-books are largely growing, people still love the novelty of books especially turning the pages and even the smell of old shelves and paper. A balance of paradox continues to stay among us. If there are people who love fast food, there too are people who love slow or home-cooked food. Much like it, there still are people who loves books while there those who dispenses them.

While there are people who are already hooked in the internet, there are still people who stay in bookstores and libraries to read. That is why bookstores and libraries still stand in malls and even in the corners. Unlike its likely twin, music, book sales are not decreasing. Books still provide substantial information, knowledge and wisdom much like the internet.

If you really love books, establishing a bookstore or library would still earn. Blue chip bookstores are expensive franchises, but selling used and old books is an alternative.

Even then, you still need a working capital. It is cheaper though than franchising but still guarantees buyers. Old books still can sell because of its cheapness like used clothes in flea markets.

You need to raise a substantial fund to cover space rents, inventory and tracking system, storage and furniture like sofa and shelves.

Second, you must find source or supplier or trader of cheap second-hand books of mixed titles. These supply chains will provide you continuous supply of old books. You can start with 3,000 titles first. Cheap paperbacks, magazines, specialty books like comic books, novel books are best title starts unless you are establishing a general bookstore. General bookstores stock fiction, literature, travel, autobiographies, reference materials and others. If you find the right source, instantly sign thejoint venture agreement.

Third, find the best location again. Prefer malls.

Fourth, work your business permit or registration and insurance.

Also prepare additional capital if you expand to 6,000 titles for shipment costs like freight, insurance, handling, tariff and custom charges. Buy yourself a truck to transport books from airport or ship port to your bookstore.

Here's to your Success!

Rivers

 Award Winning Entrepreneur, and Joint Venture Specialist, Rivers Corbett offers an opportunity to a limited number of entrepreneurs who are looking to steer clear of the typical ''Get Rich Quick'' hype. Click on http://.MyInternetBiz for more information PLUS receive the Secret that started him on his amazing journey.

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Rice is typically an Asian food. Westerns do not eat rice, but Asians especially Chinese and Indians are growing in U.S. Thus, importing (or exporting) rice is promising. Aside from it is basic food for Asians, rice offers a new market for developing and underdeveloped countries who are striving to market rice in a higher price.

Anysmall and home business can take advantage of the rice opportunity. But first, rice traders should have a business permit and license to trade from local governments and food authorities.

Second, you should invest on basic facilities like weighing scales, clean storage area, rice boxes and price tags. Weighing scales are always the first equipment that rice businessmen buy. A clean storage area is also important because it will prevent food from being damaged.

This step may be fourth, but this step—finding rice supplier—can basically be a first start. You may look for wholesalers, millers or directly from farmers in the countryside or province. It is here where you carefully study your joint venture agreement.

Finding your rice supplier may depend on the variety of rice that you are looking. If you have more variety of rice to sell, then you need more rice supplier. Rice varieties vary according to grain size (long, medium, short), variety (modern, traditional), purity (degree of milling), percentage of broken grains, moisture content

You should carefully maintain your joint ventures with rice suppliers to keep a regular supply.

Fifth is developing and installing an inventory system. The system is important when your rice business expands. You need more assistants to weigh, test, store and price all your supplies. Unlike any other business, location of your rice center should not necessarily be in a foot traffic area unless your center is a rice outlet.

You can dismiss location factor if you complete a joint venture with rice buyers and users like canteens, food restaurants and offices as rice subsidy benefits.
 
Here's to your Success!

Rivers

 Award Winning Entrepreneur, and Joint Venture Specialist, Rivers Corbett offers an opportunity to a limited number of entrepreneurs who are looking to steer clear of the typical ''Get Rich Quick'' hype. Click on http://.MyInternetBiz for more information PLUS receive the Secret that started him on his amazing journey.

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One professor once quoted that the best way to campaign for something is to integrate knowledge and make them as one tool for the campaign; and so is the need to integrate strategies for a successful marketing campaign .
 
Empirically, the ones who are most successful in Site name are the ones who use this approach. Let’s take for example, fast food giants such as KFC, McDonalds among the many. These companies are bigwigs in the industry and have been in the roll in almost every corner of industrialized countries. Further, these companies have been using snazzy advertising images and integrative strategies to win their customers.
 
From billboards to children's toys, leaflets, tri-media advertising (television, radio and newspaper), online promotions, direct mail marketing, event marketing, and so on. By using different key approaches, companies can multiply the coverage of their adverts, build brand reputation and increase the chances of getting the customer buy their idea, then later on, the product / service itself.
 
The campaign can also get more credibility if the target group can repetitively see the same slogan, blog or theme from different mediums in slightly different places and time. In environmental psychology, this will pervade the social mental space thereby penetrating deep into the sub conscious of the target audience. If the advert is extensive, it is going to be like a recurring word, much like a mantra that produces a sort of last song syndrome that periodically comes back to the minds of the target. This is how effective the approach is. 

The AMA or American Marketing Association sees the communication as a holistic approach to marketing. They define this as a planning process designed to assure that all brand contacts received by a customer or prospect for a product, service, or organization are relevant to that person and consistent over time. There are a number of reasons why there is a sudden shift in the mediums of business advertising. Take for instance, the previously limited Internet access to widespread Internet availability. This tells us that people can access the information 24/7. Further, this implies the transfer of control from manufacturer-dominated market to retailer-dominated market, giving more power to customers. These are just one of the many reasons why this holistic approach is said to be the most effective means of reaching the target market.

Here's to your Success!

Rivers

"Award Winning Entrepreneur, and Joint Venture Specialist, Rivers Corbett offers an opportunity to a limited number of entrepreneurs who are looking to steer clear of the typical ''Get Rich Quick'' hype. Click on http://myinternetbiz.ca for more information.

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Obesity is one of America’s health problems. Health consciousness is growing from food calorie check to vegetarian diet, food supplements, jogging and fitness. The mushroom of health centers like massage centers, fitness gyms obviously manifested the trend.

Small businessmen can earn from this growing lifestyle. You can start by just establishing a massage center or health bar. You can have a joint venture with a group of physical therapists or masseurs or health product suppliers if you do not have the skills and knowledge on massage service and health products. Like business schools, joint ventures will help you avoid common business mistakes and shorten learning period.

Again, finding the best location and building a network of health service providers, practitioners and health buffs will start your business up and fast. Malls are the best location.

When you have plans to expand your massage center or health bar into a one-stop health center for fitness, relaxation and even beauty salon, spa and entertainment center, gradually invest in the best gym equipment.

You specifically need cardiovascular equipment for burning fat and losing weight. They include treadmills, steppers, cross trainers, ellipticals and stationary bikes. You also need strength equipments to tone and build muscles like weights. You should have multiple plates so people would not line up.

There are electronic cardiovascular and strength equipment, but you can have the basic ones. You can also introduce new but cheap equipment that are often advertised on television.

To break the monotony of common health centers, you can also install sport climbing, boxing facilities and even dance (modern, jazz) and yoga sessions.

Gym equipment and facilities will however be useless if you do not have a good joint venture with the best exercise and fitness practitioners. They will provide (and guide you later) you the best exercise and fitness program.

Here's to your Success!

Rivers

"Award Winning Entrepreneur, and Joint Venture Specialist, Rivers Corbett offers an opportunity to a limited number of entrepreneurs who are looking to steer clear of the typical ''Get Rich Quick'' hype. Click on http://myinternetbiz.ca for more information.

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Music industry is in trouble, especially the musicians, with declining CD sales caused by internet and digital music. Free music-sharing technology and piracy fueled the musical crisis. The crisis is so large, some artists are joining the flow. Radiohead dispensed their record company contract and went home-based recording and internet marketing. Trent Reznor or Nine Inch Nails, too. Madonna also left her recording company and made joint ventures with event and tour organizers.

The musical revolution largely marginalized small and new musicians because they do not have the same strong fan base that Radiohead, Reznor and Madonna have. Though social networks (MySpace) and music-sharing technology (Limewire) offer them a global marketing opportunity, but they rarely earn from them unless they go in e-business.

Musicians rarely are business-oriented. They simply create and play music. That is why record companies thrived—they manage musicians and their music to earn. Thus, joint venture in music industry is large.

Selling music online is promising, but big companies already ruled the new industry like iTunes. Having music sold with iTunes would largely cost musicians. A music bar or restaurant, on the other hand, can be a good music business especially for new and small musicians because it is less capital-extensive.

Joint ventures can best minimize the capital and business management requirements for small and new musician-entrepreneurs.

With a joint venture partner , you can start a new face of music business. You can start by finding the best location for the music bar. Look for areas that are within or along business areas, those that have heavy traffic. Street strips where music bars thrive can be helpful, but niching in no-music bar zones can be more promising.

Invest on good sound system and equipment. As joint venture partner-musician, you can have your capital share in this equipment alone while your partner-business manager can largely invest on food and restaurant. Specialty food should be in the menu. Specialty food will not be a priority if the joint venture focuses on good music.

Your investment will be in the form of preparing and maintaining the sound equipment, inviting other musicians to play and local fan base to watch and eat in your music bar.


Here's to your Success!

Rivers

"Award Winning Entrepreneur, and Joint Venture Specialist, Rivers Corbett offers an opportunity to a limited number of entrepreneurs who are looking to steer clear of the typical ''Get Rich Quick'' hype. Click on http://myinternetbiz.ca for more information.

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As the number of Internet users rapidly grows in every corner of the globe, online marketing services mushrooms too. In India alone, there are approximately 32 million active Internet users. This means that people are more likely to settle 'buying' into the cyberspace . In response, the demand of online advertising grows too thereby creating more opportunities for new business ventures.
 
Online Marketing services include SEO or Search engine optimization, email marketing, article marketing, e-newsletters, press releases, among the others. This paved the way for a new industry to boom - online businesses. 
 
This also has provided the growth of small home based businesses like leads generation, english tutorial services for Japanese and Koreans, affiliate marketing (pay per click, etc.), online banner advertising space,   virtual personal assistants, online photography business, article writing for ezine websites and many others.
 
Outsourcing companies who provide online marketing services often make money from short term contracts which usually last for two to three weeks.  They provide leads for telemarketing firms (business to consumer and business to business), website design and making, database management of their clients such as schedules and appointments, email correspondents, business directory listings, SEO or web traffic increase for small to medium sized businesses who cant seem to make their websites get to the top of search engines, and market CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software for companies who still use the old school paper based filing systems.
 
Moreover, online marketing services are just about everything you can sell on the internet.  Good thing about this field is you can do your own business at your own pace - time freedom. Although you need to pass projects on certain deadlines, it’s still better than putting up all your money to start up a small business firm, you can try one or more types depending on your time availability.  
 
In addition, online marketing is a must for all companies since more and more people, especially ages from 18-35 go online to obtain information such as news, communications and financial services. So ignoring the need to have your space online is just like ignoring one of your key clients/customers.  Since the direction is into cyberspace, companies who would want to improve their sales output and maintain a solid client base must reserve their space the soonest time possible.

Here's to your Success!

Rivers

"Award Winning Entrepreneur, and Joint Venture Specialist, Rivers Corbett offers an opportunity to a limited number of entrepreneurs who are looking to steer clear of the typical ''Get Rich Quick'' hype. Click on http://myinternetbiz.ca for more information.

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