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The word of the day is collaborate. “Circle The Wagons, Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer and It’s Not What You Know It’s Who You Know”, this is conventional wisdom and they all say the same thing. “There is safety in numbers”.
“The enemy of my friend is my enemy”. I’ve never watched even one episode of “Survivor’ and understand completely the concept of alliances. The Virgin Islands can be a place where conventional wisdom is a black hole except for collaborators and their allies.
Please remember a lot of what happens in the Virgin Islands is self-defense and we know who their examples have been.
It’s time to get together with friends, churches, teams and clubs and build a business. Start at home with family members, then friends. My dad is an accountant one of my son’s is a network security engineer, another son is a computer science major and my daughters can shop and talk on the phone. I am kidding, the girls are awesome but they have been working since they were 14 years old.
When my 37-year old daughter was 14 she was making $10.00 an hour in the states. You do the math. It’s time to tap your “bf” on the shoulder and schedule your first planning meeting.
It’s time to clean the house, get the kids dressed and have your first staff meeting. It’s time to plant some seed. Collaborate with your church members and research the natural resources in the Virgin Islands. We grow Mahogany Trees.
Our hillsides have the potential to spawn a new industry and turn the Virgin Islands into the largest growers of Mahogany Trees in the region. What other natural resources can we exploit?
Collaborate with your co-workers, instead of focusing your energies on what is wrong with the job, complement each other and document the good points. Question each other about things they are passionate about and collaborate on solutions.Reach out to people you don’t know and collaborate to innovate your survival may depend on your ability to collaborate. “No Man Is An Island”.
Wednesday 10/1/2008
Home-Based Business Franchise Ideas
When people think of a business franchise they usually think of a service station or a restaurant. The truth is there are many different types of business franchises and a lot of them can be operated as a home-based business.Working from home has become more popular than ever, with an ever-increasing number of people who realize that they can work from home and make even more money than they made working for someone else. Working from home is popular because home-based business owners are making more money than they ever have.
There are many exciting home-based business ideas that have proven viability provided the home-based business owner is skilled in the area they are pursuing as a home-base business. If you are not a trained bookkeeper, starting a bookkeeping business from your home is ill advised.
If you can operate a successful home-based business, you can franchise your venture.Here are some ideas:
Bookkeeping companies are energetically looking for new franchise owners who are planning to expand their operations. There are a few companies that are leading accounting franchisers.
Computer repair business ventures are easily franchised. If you are certified as a computer repair technician who can operate a successful computer repair business from home, you should be able to package and train other interested technicians for the purposes of franchising your computer repair business. Home-based computer repair business ventures have grown and expanded to include building personal computers to the specifications of the buyer.
Cleaning or maid services can easily succeed as a home-based business franchise and there are many success models that support their viability. Once a cleaning or maid service has succeeded in recruiting enough clients to ensure viability, franchising the maid or cleaning service may be the next logical step.
Web site Design is another example of turning a successful business into a home-based business franchise opportunity. The Internet makes it easy to reach people who are looking for web site design professionals. Web site design business ventures are easily operated from home.
Catering and event planning are examples of viable home-based business ventures that have proven viability for decades. If you can cook and have above adequate organizational skills you may have a future in catering and event planning.The Internet has made it possible for almost any business venture to perform well as a home-based business franchise.
As with any business venture always begin with intelligent planning and of course a business plan.
Tuesday 9/30/2008
Creating Wealth - Working From Home
In recent years work from home and home-based business opportunities have become increasingly more popular and viable as a way to help families create wealth.
According to the U.S. Labor Department projects, by the year 2025 up to 70% of all Americans could be creating wealth by working from home. Some home-based workers could be working from home while being employed and others will be working for themselves in their own home-based business ventures.
For those who have already started to create wealth from their home-based venture are not alone, it’s estimated that there are more than 50 million home-based workers in the U.S.
The forecast in the U.S. for online retail sales indicates that retail sales will continue to increase robustly with a compound annual growth rate of almost 20% through 2008. It is predicted that retail sales in the U.S. will top almost $120 billion by 2008.
It is obvious that home-based business may only make up a fraction of the estimated total, but the robust growth trends certainly do apply.
After documenting hundreds of home-based business opportunities researchers agree, home-based business opportunities are not just here to stay, they are being used to create wealth for U.S. workers by the millions.
The viability and success of home-based business opportunities are aided by highly effective online marketing tools that drive traffic to home-based business web sites and e-commerce alternatives that make buying online from home-based business ventures safe and convenient.
Many home-based business owners have found their way after paying their educational dues and are enjoying the financial benefits of owning and operating a profit generating home-based business.
Many home-based business owners have exceeded their own expectations by incorporating the Internet in their marketing strategy and expansion plans.Internet marketing strategy that is responsible for home-based business ventures gaining top ten positions on popular search engines is in part responsible for the continued profitability of home-based business ventures.
Home-based business ventures can compete with business ventures that operate outside of the home when they:Make sure you have contact information that includes a phone number on each page of your web site.
- Work only with web site design professionals for the construction of your home-based business web site
- Include writing and uploading to the Internet up to 100 articles that promote your business. Again hire a professional writer for writing projects that promote your business
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Finding A New Business Opportunity
Welcome to the global economy. When times are bad economically - pillars of the finance and investment industries go under fast and vastly undervalued. When real estate market values start to fall, buy in an area where they are not falling.Even the media is offering business and job options in growth industries to their audience who are under economic siege. The poor paying jobs of the growing service industry is turning America into a third world country, it’s a result of the “War on the middle class”.
The wages from manufacturing jobs cannot be replaced by service industry jobs. The middle class must move up by his or her own bootstraps. Middle class wage earners must learn how to generate their own income and control their own destiny.
Job security started fading away about 30 years ago with the heavy industrial plants in California relocating oversees. At the time the culprit was property taxes, then wage demands from labor unions.
There was a time when American workers could give his or her all to the company and the company would honor that service with job security. Wages are stagnant and American workers are forced to create their own job security.
For every person who is whining about how bad thing are, there are people making money. There are always growth industries and ground floor opportunities. If you know there is a sector of the economy that is especially adversely affected by a devalued dollar, don’t build a business that caters to that sector.
Just as the dollar is devalued, American freelance labor is a value against the Euro or the Pound. American freelance workers are not’t paid less, they are paid the same as they have earned before. However, online employment for freelance professionals is huge and with the dollar such a good value in Europe American online professionals are in demand.
Just as hiring call center workers in a country where workers are paid pennies on the dollar, foreign call center workers are a good value for the employer. The middle class must find a way to become the employer finding cheap foreign labor.
If you need to make more money just to make ends meet, consider starting your own business.
The unexpected, widespread success and reliability of the Internet has made finding a viable profit generating business opportunity within your reach. Start generating extra cash by working online on your day off. Think about working one project a month and put the money away to invest later.
We all know that inflation is affecting the price of everything we use and consume. Formally educated individuals with advanced degrees are finding it more and more difficult to take care of their families even with two incomes.
How can a person who has a college education generate more income than they receive on their job without looking for another job? The answer may be a profit generating business opportunity. An opportunity that is viable and lucrative that you can work in your spare time.
A viable and profit generating business opportunity can be worked in the 60 minutes five days a week, better known as spare time. For working mothers that may not have a full 60 minutes five days a week or five hours a week, I’will give you the recipe for making more time.
An honest and viable profit generating business opportunity is a dream come true for many breadwinners that have more month at the end of their money. Millions of people use to be in your situation, too little money too few options found the building blocks to a better future for themselves and their families.
Start by conducting an Internet search from your favorite Internet search engine, look for “viable profit generating business opportunities”, there are millions claiming to be viable profit generating business opportunities so type in the word complaints with any company that looks interesting to you.
Disgruntled clients will always complain, maybe their claims are justified maybe not. When deciding on an opportunity that looks like a viable profit generating business opportunity, inquire about the time requirements, income projections and references. That’s right, any company claiming to making Internet visitors to their web sites, millionaires must have terrific references.
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The Virgin Island Government needs to finance green technology in the Virgin Islands. This will produce more better paying jobs, stop the WAPA rate increases and give Virgin Islanders more money to raise our standard of living.
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We started documenting online in 2001. Every lawyer has failed to have their clients names removed from the contents in this book. Even an attorney who once represented Microsoft has an unhappy client who remains named in "The Paradise Blogs".
"The Paradise Blogs" by Nancy Holloway-Prince is an anthology of my blogs about living in the Virgin Islands, the mad, the bad and the famous.
The information in these blogs will shock you. We have been shocked by the lengths powerful people will go to stop the truth from being exposed in the Virgin Islands.
"The Paradise Blogs" identifies Internet crimes and Internet criminals that have visited our website. The cover-up is always more unlawful than the offense being covered up.
We have notified the FBI and will publish the findings of their investigation in my next volume of "The Paradise Blogs" We love St. Thomas and have no plans to move!
I am a published non-fiction writer with references. I write about real estate, the economy, health, cosmetics and business. My credits include writing an entrepreneur training program that scored more points than university business schools and two real estate text books.
I could never imagine the remarkable things that have happen to me while living in the Virgin Islands. I ended up reporting the new husband I write about in the blog to The Department Of Homeland Security, who had been monitoring my website.
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I pay $1150 monthly for rent and two security deposits $1150 each to move in. I have had these photos and more online since March 2008. This property is rat infested, in need of paint and patching. Areas of this property pose a potential danger to the tenants who live here.
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9/27/08
The word today is where… where are the articles in the Virgin Islands Daily News and the Source about the ghetto like conditions in proximity of our central business district?
Where are the answers to the questions about why the Virgin Islands Government has refused to fully diversify the Virgin Islands economy? Where is the protection for our tourism industry and where are the articles about protecting tourism dollars?
It is hard to believe that the Virgin Islands Government and the Board of Tourism will lobby for cruise ships and not improve our curb appeal. The walk from Crown Bay Marina to town does not contribute to a positive impression of St. Thomas.
Where is the criticism of the Virgin Island Government and their failure to enforce housing regulations?
Do the people who operate the media outlets see the rapid escalation of slum dwellings and dilapidated abandon buildings inside our central business district?
Where are the dollars to install public restrooms at Coki Point Beach? It’s time to clean up, take out the trash, paint and fix the roads in St. Thomas. If conditions continue to degenerate St. Thomas will become a ghetto and tourist will go to other islands.
Word of mouth is the best form of advertising. What are tourist saying about the neglected and abandon real estate on St. Thomas and will they recommend the Virgin Islands as a vacation destination?
Where are the stories from the television news outlets in the Virgin Islands about the rat infestation and where are the solutions?
Where are the articles and radio programs that focus on changing the Virgin Islands for the better?
Where is the plan to make St.Thomas competitive?Where are the articles and radio programs that focus on changing the Virgin Islands for the better?
Where is the plan to make St.Thomas competitive? The vacant lot on the property where I live has more than $2,000 worth of plants and trees growing wild begging to be potted.
How many vacant lots are in the Virgin Islands and what is the street value of the plants and trees that grown in them? Pot the plants, sell the plants, buy paint and patch with your neglected resources.
If there are 100 vacant lots in the Virgin Islands there are 100 income opportunities.
Let the inmates make solar panels. The cost of solar panels is a common reason for not installing solar energy. If inmates make the solar panels, they will get a trade and we can compete even abroad as manufactures of solar panels.
9/26/08
DESIRE is the word of the day 9/26/08.
I’m wet…dripping wet all over and I don’t know how much of this I can take. This guys balls are coming at me faster and harder than yesterday or the day before. The couple next to us is also completely wet, breathing heavy and stroking hard. He’s looking over at me probably thinking about the threesome we had the other day. We are all grunting, stroking and panting.
My partner shares me with his friends because I’m good and I can’t deny that I like it. I don’t ever see any of the other women around here taking on two men at the same time. This morning I could hear myself saying “Yes God Yes”. . I know what you must be thinking. You’re thinking you better hit the print button because this text won’t be on the Internet for long. Relax we are just playing tennis.
Now that I have your attention, desire is an entity that makes your heart pound, like a good read. Desire should be driven by what you want from life. Your desire to own your dream home, drive a luxury car, travel, or own your own business will not be enough to help you achieve your goals.
Desire must generate enough energy to facilitate self-improvement. If you want more you must be more. What do you want and what are you willing to do to achieve your long-term goals and short-term objectives? Write them down.
Do you have the energy, motivation and knowledge necessary to succeed?
There is no job security. If your primary desire is to get a good paying job and eventually retire with a gold watch and a pension you need to back away from the punch bowl.Virgin Islanders are especially challenged because we depend on tourism exclusively and of course the rum they will consume. Learn to fish, farm, build and trade. Virgin Islanders must learn how to become more self-sufficient individually and with family members or friends.
I know a taxi driver that has a farm with goats that are spoken for from birth. Our land and climate is ideal for small community gardens. It’s time to buy some seeds and start planting.
Current economic conditions must be met with a plan you have in writing if you and your family are to survive. Can you write or teach?
The reason the banks are failing is because their primary source of income has started to trickle down instead of pour in. Then they are faced with having to sell inventory that banks are not staffed to do. Banks make their money on the interest payments we pay for credit cards and mortgages. When we can’t pay the mortgage the banks are not generating the revenue they need to pay the bank employees.
We can’t pay the mortgage because we didn’t take the economist seriously when they said Americans would have to be innovators, we must own new technology and penetrate new global markets.
Where will your desire take you? To the bookstore, back to school working for yourself on one of your days off? Virgin Islanders must innovate on a global level. Books from the Virgin Islands about life, food and your history are what tourist want.
We should have some type of reenactment fairs in the Virgin Islands. We must learn to compete and we must have a greater desire to give visitors what they want when they come to the Virgin Islands. We must develop a competitive advantage over other Caribbean Islands.
Virgin Islanders must understand independently what tourist are looking for and how to get paid delivering those services. The hard economic times we are having now will hit the Virgin Islands like a tsunami this season. No tourism, no jobs. What will we do?
Start learning now. What do you want to do and can you make money doing it. As a company our focus has shifted to the luxury market because we listen to economists and their predictions.
What comes after foreclosure on mass? Bank failures, who didn’t know that? If mainlanders are having problems paying for their primary residences, what do you think will happen to their vacation homes in the Virgin Islands and their vacation plans to the Virgin Islands?
Learn to anticipate. When the savings and loan institutions went out of business twenty years go, there was the “Resolution Trust Corporation”. There primary function was to sell the assets from the failed savings and loan institutions. The government contracted small business owners and entrepreneurs to provide the support to facilitate sales.
Yesterday Congresswoman Maxine Waters who had been active with Resolution Trust twenty years ago and spoke about the opportunities for small business owners and entrepreneurs and she referenced the Trust. Learn to anticipate what the next business opportunity is expected to be based on history. Historically what has been done before successfully, will be revisited.
Learn how to do business with the government even if you have to learn a new skill.
Get wet with desire.
The word today is anticipation. In business you must anticipate increases and decreases in sales, you must anticipate or forecast the viability of an emerging trend. Prudent planning in business requires the business owner plan for the good times the bad and the exit plan.
Business owners must also diversify. Today there is no job security, there are only boots-traps. I am a ghostwriter. My clients are wealth builders and mentors that charge up to $8,000 for their expertise. I write his or her reports, EBook and articles (someone else does the editing :)
The reason I am able to write for wealth builders and mentors is because wisdom is based on convention. Everybody who is successful has based his or her success on a standard that your industry respects as convention. This is why the business plan outline is still the model for writing a winning business plan. They all say the same basic thing.
Globalization caused many entrepreneurs in America to retool their business plans because our projects are going overseas.
More than a decade ago economist announced that Americans would have to become innovators to survive because manufacturing was going to China and other countries. This is the free trade product.
Globalization is the product of the multi national corporation. First to make more money corporations moved HQ's to countries with no or low taxes. Second any labor that could be outsource would be. These two major changes were implemented by all multi national corporations.
Many skilled Americans lost their jobs. For every disadvantage there is an advantage. I use to work on project from agencies where my competition was a guy in India. Now I'm hiring the guy from India to work for me.
We have to turn it around but first we have to learn how.
Then we have to dig deep. That is what time it is. Learn how to make more money. Have more than one revenue stream. Have up to three revenue streams generating enough income to support your desired lifestyle.
The Internet was suppose to level the playing field. Some of my web pages have been hacked to the bottom of the search engine. I've been sent computer virus programs via email in the name of clients I represent. Anticipation is nothing if you don't know what to look for.
If you are always busy and don't ever have time to reflect on a daily basis you may want to consider a reorder of your priorities. Prudent planning for a family owned business means being able to pay college tuition and put food on the table at the same time.
You family has the potential to become your staff. You and your family have the potential to generate twice the amount of money you make on your job but it won't happen over night.
First you must identify what you want beyond paying the rent or mortgage, then you must make a plan you can commit to.
One of my goals was to be able to write what I truly feel and take care of my family at the same time.
One of my clients is generating close to $1000 a day in sales as a result of what my family owned business has been able to do for his venture. When my client was forced to retool his five year plan because of poor real estate sales he approached me because the Internet is the new ground floor opportunity.
If you can deliver you can get paid. Market yourself. What is the best thing about you? What is the most impressive thing you have done and what do you want to do? Things have changed. When you see the bankers, accountants and executives out of work you don't have to be an economist to know things are getting worse just like they have been saying it would.
Peace and love to you all
9/24/08
Competitive is the word of the day. The question of the day is what will the Virgin Islands do to compete for the shrinking tourism and vacation dollars?
Currently the Virgin Islands has gone into business without diversifying. Why didn’t they know better? Remember conventional wisdom? Of course they knew as they know now that they have one revenue stream and must engage in unconventional, counter institutive and self-defeating practices.
No good business owner goes into business with one vendor. I will guarantee you that no bank will fund a business plan where there is just one vendor or supplier. Any such business plan would be questioned by loan officers, if there were no plans to diversify that business, it’s a red flag.
A qualified financial planner would be worth spit if he or she did not encourage clients to build a portfolio that is fully diversified. Why is there no diversification in the Virgin Islands?
Money? GRANTS! This could get embarrassing. There are grants for everything yet we don’t utilize them.
The abandoned buildings, replace them with victory gardens, chicken farms and solar energy stations. Grants are available for funding each of these projects. Teach Virgin Islanders how to fish and how to ranch.
Competitive – The Virgin Islands must become competitive because the travel dollars are shrinking. For sure there will be fewer Wall Street Bankers taking vacations this year.
Why don’t we in the Virgin Islands have a back-up plan, why have we refused to diversify? Why are we still a one trick pony?
Retail and restaurant help has said to be less than the best customer service visitors expect. Too often the very people that represent the Virgin Islands arrive at work in a less than cordial mood and provide less than the best customer service. We cannot compete with bad attitudes and people who have to walk to work through the slum and abandon buildings cannot be in a good mood.
If the Virgin Islands took out the trash, patched, cleaned, painted and exterminated, the people who live and visit here would be more pleased. This is conventional wisdom. What do the people that represent the Virgin Islands want?
We must not just compete we must make the case that we deserve tourism dollars because we have earned them. Our islands are clean, our residents are satisfied and our visitors are in awe of our beauty and our vibe.
The central business district of any city, town or island is the most populated and sell for the highest dollars per square foot. Property with a water view everywhere in the world sells for more than property without a water view. This is again conventional wisdom. Where is the wisdom in the Virgin Islands in allowing abandon and neglected buildings to remain in the central business district?
In the absence of the application of conventional wisdom there is corruption. When conventional wisdom is not applied what is used in it’s place?
How can we have so much sun and no significant solar energy industry? Do we have to be beat with solar panels before we take the lead in the Caribbean and innovate green technology for a profit.
Those that can’t teach. Lets say we lack the financing to implement another revenue stream. Become the leader in green technology training. Be the worldwide provider of the newest ground-floor opportunity. We already have the buildings. Grants are available for start-up.
God Bless Us All…
