22.06 2010

Survival Tips for Business Owners

New Zealand Businesses can be rewarded with successful outcomes when they apply their good old Kiwi ingenuity. All we need to do is ‘punch above our weight’ just like the NZ Football team – the ‘All Whites’ is doing at the World Cup 2010 or we can follow the business tips kindly provided by our Contributors in this article.

Tip 1: Always Sell On Value Not On Price

If you can deliver the quantifiable value your customers need you’ll always be in business. We’re in a

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21.06 2010

Lyons: No complaints from me on 73-year-old’s arrest

After I enjoyed the moment, that is. And because her arrest was on a beach-related offense — tampering with a sea turtle nest — my enjoyment of that arrest was all the more sweet, I admit.

After all, Schultz, 73, is infamous as the most hyper-territorial resident of South Manasota Key. She calls the cops and berates people if they dare treat her little stretch of private beach as a public one, or even if they assume it has the usual mandatory strip of public access starting at or near the mean high water line.

Schultz has long claimed her beach neighborhood to be an exception that has no such public easement. Nothing presses her buttons more than those who act like some law, real or imagined, gives them a right to sit on her sand or, heaven forbid, set up a chair and umbrella.

So this newspaper and others have written about Schultz coming out of her house to shoo people away, and about at least one trespass arrest made at her request.

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19.06 2010

Banking industry changes to expect in 2010

The deep recession may be steadily winding down, but the banking industry still faces financial challenges that should generate further changes in 2010 and beyond. The effects of the collapse of the real estate and mortgage market causes long-term problems for the entire banking industry.

There aren’t, nor have there ever been, “quick fixes” that can right this capsized ship.

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19.06 2010

Important Blogging Tip: Use Social Media to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

The debate on how much effort and resource a business should invest in social media for engagement continues, and the jury is still out in my opinion.

However we at BusinessBlogs.co.nz have found that social networks are increasing our website inbound traffic by 30-40% and the good news is we are spending less time in social networks to achieve this amazing growth. How are we doing it? Well we are no longer spending any manual time updating our social media profiles.

Our social media strategy for BusinessBlogs.co.nz focuses less on direct engagement within social networks and more on automatically broadcasting our posts to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn (also bookmarking sites, RSS and email).

As with most things Internet there are freeware tools available however they are known to crash quite a lot and understandably when millions of people are using them.

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18.06 2010

Credit Report Tips: Filing the Credit Report dispute with ease

To make an investment of any kind today, one needs to have an excellent credit history. Every creditor, before taking a decision regarding approval of credit, will ask for the credit history of the applicant. He can find this information in the credit report. Credit reports are prepared by three main agencies in the United States. They are Experian, Equifax and TransUnion. He might request reports from one or more of these agencies. He will then go through your credit history on the report. The reports are up to date and will contain details of every single credit you have and the different transactions with each of these credit accounts.

Mistakes happen in every place. The credit report agency handles thousands of reports each day. It is quite easy to conceive a mistake on their part.

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18.06 2010

Roubini: China’s Yuan Revaluation Could Backfire On The U.S.

China, set to move its dollar peg for the yuan, could end up with a weaker currency not a stronger one, according to Nouriel Roubini.

It all comes down to the euro, which has depreciated against the dollar significantly over the last few months. China may have to follow that course of depreciation as well, making the yuan less valuable vis-a-vis the dollar, according Roubini.

While treasury yields might boom as a result of China’s managed float Monday, this could have a more long term impact on the China-U.S. trade balance if it ends with an even stronger dollar.

Check out Albert Keidel’s presentation on why China doesn’t have to revalue >

17.06 2010

FCC internet control rules will kill jobs

FCC Effort to Regulate the Internet Jeopardizes Jobs
U.S. Chamber of Commerce

WASHINGTON, D.C.–”The U.S. Chamber of Commerce today expressed deep concern about the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) notice of inquiry (NOI) on the best legal framework for broadband Internet access. “Regulating the dynamic, competitive broadband industry with rules originally designed for monopoly-era telephone service should not be an option,” said William L. Kovacs, senior vice president for Environment, Technology, and Regulatory Affairs at the U.S. Chamber. 

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