The Options for Insolvent Businesses

This is a guest post by Jeffrey Carter, who is a business finance expert in the UK, advising companies in financial difficulty of their options.

In 2009 in the UK alone, 19077 businesses went into company liquidation. This figure was particularly high, largely as a result of the 18 month recession that gripped the global economies.

However, even in ‘normal’ economic circumstances, insolvency amongst businesses is more common than we would like. Contrary to popular misconception, however, company insolvency needn’t mean the end of the business.  There are a number of options available to insolvent companies. Read more

What is energy dieting for businesses?

When the late-2000s global economic recession occurred, businesses and companies resorted to an “energy diet” to cut their costs and survive the hard phenomenon. Energy dieting in the corporate world includes using more energy-efficient machines, reducing length of use on lights and electricity, saving gas and fuel, and other ways on saving our power usage as well as our power bills. The great thing in energy dieting is that it saves not only our money but it also saves our world. While energy saving cuts our energy cost, it also prevent the total extinguishment of our planet’s energy reserves. Minimization of energy usage (electricity, fuel and gasses) also reduces global warming, which is primarily caused by too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Carbon overload is caused mainly when we burn fossils fuels like coal, oil and gas. Hmmm…as we always talk about the green bucks, we should also discuss the green mother Earth and how to protect it. Read more

101 things successful businessman and entrepreneur have

A successful business owner or entrepreneur is one that brings his entrepreneurship into success and fulfillment. A businessman can have a net income in his statement of profit and loss yet he cannot make his customers and employees happy. An entrepreneur can achieve fame yet he can’t still be considered as a fulfilled one. There are many general and specific things that a businessman should have to attain business fulfillment. We know it’s hard to reach such goal. However, although we have not yet hit that final mark, what important is we can assure that we are heading towards that direction. To assure that, I made a list of 101 things truly successful businessmen have. They are arranged alphabetically for your pleasure. Enjoy! Read more

5 tips on creating business tagline or company slogan

In my previous article entitled famous business taglines and company slogans, I shared samples of mighty taglines and slogans from the world’s most famed companies and corporations. I hope that those prominent taglines that influenced millions of people on the planet have inspired us and gave us bright ideas on how to make catching slogans for our own companies. As for me, the following tips on creating solid business taglines become a flare that lighted up the fluorescent bulb inside my mind.

1. Uniqueness
Legally, we need to come up with a 100% unique and distinct tagline to avoid trademark lawsuits. Beyond this, we really need a unique and extraordinary tagline to promote our brand. If we are really serious to top the market, we should take a lot of brainstorming to make a tagline that will give our business the leading edge. A unique tagline stands out from other taglines. Also, when it is presented together with other company slogans, it is the one that catches more attention from the audience. Therefore, to make sure that your slogan is truly unique, you must make a research and study of the existing taglines of your competitors in the market – or even beyond the market to achieve total distinctiveness. By analyzing the existing taglines you will be competing, you can be able to formulate a tagline that certainly shines brighter than the others beside it. Consider one of my most favorite tagline for its uniqueness: Read more

Famous business taglines and company slogans

Have you spent so many days and nights thinking and brainstorming for your company slogan or tagline, and yet you have not come up with the perfect one? If yes, then you should take a break and take a look first on the following popular taglines and slogans from the world’s most prominent companies. Let us examine them, learn them and enjoy them! Be inspired and try to figure out what have brought them into the minds of millions of people around the world. At the end of our reading, we should know how to create one that will become as effective and as successful as these mighty taglines and slogans:

American Airlines:  “Something special in the air.”

American Express:  “Don’t leave home without it American Express.”

Apple:   “Think different”

BMW:   “The ultimate driving machine.” Read more

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