Key Measures:

1. Before even looking at business requirements or spending much time on a project, make sure you know who the executive sponsor is and obtain the following information di
   What is Factoring Financing?
   Do you have clients that take 30, 50 or 60 days to pay their invoices? Although having slow paying clients is expected in today’s business environment, they make managing cash flow a very difficult task. Paying suppliers, salaries and rent becomes a challenge.However, there is a way to solve this problem. The solution involves factoring your invoices.Factoring is a financing tool that allows you to get your invoices paid in as little as 2 days. It provides your company with the necessary capital to operate the business, pay suppliers and grow. However, factoring is not a business loan. Rather, factoring involves selling your invoices at a discount for immediate cash. The factoring company waits to get paid, while you get immediate use of the funds.Factoring can easily be integrated to any business and works as follows:You deliver goods or services and invoice for themYou sell the invoice to the factor. They give you the first installment of 70% to 90% of your invoice. This is called the advance.You get immediate funds to run your businessOnce the customer pays the factoring company, you get the second installment (of 10% to 30%) and are charged a small fee for the transaction. This is called th
   Have you ever wanted a short list of of items to keep "in check" as you are managing projects? This short list would contain key measures which, if always kept in check and balance, would lead you to project success? Sure it is important to follow industry project guidelines from the Project Management Institute and within the Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification, but it is important to always keep these key measures at the forefront of my mind ALL THE WAY through the project - from beginning to completion. Sometimes these factors can be overlooked or forgotten, or thought of as "not needed" in the rush to get a project underway. Stand Up and stop the madness, make sure you have a clear path before trying to get to your destination.... Or you will get lost along the way.

   Key Measures:

   1. Before even looking at business requirements or spending much time on a project, make sure you know who the executive sponsor is and obtain the following information di
      Franchise Transfers to a Corporation or Limited Liability Company
      As a franchisor often one will be presented with relatively simple transactions, which on paper have significance but in reality will not change the franchise relationship between the franchisor and the franchisee. Even so such changes could be significant down the road. For instance, take the assignment of the franchise agreement, which is transferred into a newly formed corporation or LLC. A franchisee may do this, to limit its liability, for tax purposes or other legal reasons.A franchisor must consider how this will effect his operations in dealing with the franchisee and making sure that the new corporation as the same partners and legal entities behind it, because a franchisee might be bringing in monies from a competitor, someone who has not signed the franchise agreement and is not bound by its stipulations or they might be trying to dodge tax laws, and thus jeopardizing the company brand-name if something wrong. It is for this reason that I modified our clauses in our franchise agreement regarding assignments of the franchise agreement to a corporation or LLC. Below is the clause that I came up with for our company;5.3 Assignment to Corporation or Limited Liability CompanyIf Franchisee is a partnership or individual and he
      project success? Sure it is important to follow industry project guidelines from the Project Management Institute and within the Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification, but it is important to always keep these key measures at the forefront of my mind ALL THE WAY through the project - from beginning to completion. Sometimes these factors can be overlooked or forgotten, or thought of as "not needed" in the rush to get a project underway. Stand Up and stop the madness, make sure you have a clear path before trying to get to your destination.... Or you will get lost along the way.

      Key Measures:

      1. Before even looking at business requirements or spending much time on a project, make sure you know who the executive sponsor is and obtain the following information di
         Auditor As Ethical Arbiters - All About Audit Jobs
         In recent years, UK and European firms have scrambled to hire people to fill internal audit jobs, created in response to the passage of SOX in the U.S. and other similar ethical and audit guidelines in other countries. That scramble had the effect of pushing the role of auditor into the ‘high demand’ category on the employment boards and among recruitment agencies. But it seems that those pursuing auditor jobs are not necessarily motivated by high wages and job security, if the recent survey is to be believed. Instead, many may be motivated as much by the chance to do something good and help big business find its ethical high water mark as any other reason.Those in an auditor job, whether they serve in an internal or external capacity, are charged with ensuring that companies operate to high ethical standards. No matter their position, they are privy to the inner workings of the firms whose books and policies they audit, and it is a part of their job to identify risks and wrongs and point out ways to make them right. While the general public may view auditors as number crunchers, the reality is much more colourful. It is the job of an auditor to review the financial statements of a firm, and make a reasoned judgment as to whether those statements re
         nt to always keep these key measures at the forefront of my mind ALL THE WAY through the project - from beginning to completion. Sometimes these factors can be overlooked or forgotten, or thought of as "not needed" in the rush to get a project underway. Stand Up and stop the madness, make sure you have a clear path before trying to get to your destination.... Or you will get lost along the way.

         Key Measures:

         1. Before even looking at business requirements or spending much time on a project, make sure you know who the executive sponsor is and obtain the following information di
            The Training and Coaching Partnership
            For many companies, training can drop off the agenda for a variety of reasons. The company may be going through a period of growth, with tight deadlines to be met. The challenges of the market place may squeeze resources for training. This begs two questions: firstly, when planning financial forecasts, is staff training considered a priority; and secondly when budgets are squeezed how can a company maximise its financial investment in training?During periods of growth and high demand there are new challenges to be met, with customers demanding a high quality relationship with any service or product provider. Managers and staff will be asked to deliver customer service that will delight customers, to ensure customer retention and continued growth. This challenges organisations to attract and retain people who can deliver the growth the business needs. To use a sporting analogy, the team that wins trophies will not maintain peak performance without continued dedicated training and coaching. Training without coaching is not a viable option as the coach is there to create the desire to attain even more to ensure a winning mentality. In business, many companies fail to recognise this, focusing on training as a separate process, divorced from the
            s "not needed" in the rush to get a project underway. Stand Up and stop the madness, make sure you have a clear path before trying to get to your destination.... Or you will get lost along the way.

            Key Measures:

            1. Before even looking at business requirements or spending much time on a project, make sure you know who the executive sponsor is and obtain the following information di
               My Experiences in DIY SEO
               Or ‘why it is easier to pay for it, but not necessarily as satisfying as doing it on your own’Oct – I had an idea for a business venture and having had some successes with the main element of it, namely sourcing hard to find, unusual or just urgent building materials, I decided to go for it and progress it further.To start I needed an internet presence, promptly purchase the domain source4me and sourceforme, amongst others.Great, a friend of mine is a computer programmer for Sky he will be able to offer up some advice, err No! apparently computer programming and html are like not the same thing? This was news to me and I am already giving away my ignorance.I only had Frontpage on my machine so that had to be my starting point.My first attempt can still be found on free web pages (of which more later). If you know enough to view the source code you already know more than I did when I made these pages. No alt tags, no meta tags, no keywords, wording not optimised etc.Then the real blow – my brother thought it looked amateurish. Aargh my poor ego, I’d spent a month of evenings on it. Since then, more research.So we lose the freebie web page as the search engines don’t like th
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               Key Measures:

               1. Before even looking at business requirements or spending much time on a project, make sure you know who the executive sponsor is and obtain the following information directly from that sponsor:
               • i. Project intentions and scope
               • ii. What the project is NOT or what is out of scope
               • iii. Who the "Customers" are for the project. (many times, customers are internal to the organization)
               • iv. If a Return on Investment document has been created and what is expected of a ROI document. What areas of the business are returns expected?
               • v. Project Budget and how expenditures are approved
               • vi. Expected Project Success Factors
               • vii. That they want this project moving forward at the present time, if not, when is it to start
               • viii. Timeline expected for project completion
               • ix. Agreement to put companies resources on the project to get it done
               • x. Required project status and reporting
               • xi.