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A Tale Of Two Companies

In a newspaper report by The Straits Times (attached below), it was reported that ComfortDelGro has submitted a position paper to the Ministry of Transport, giving their two-cent worth on how the public transport industry should be structured. Two specific suggestions are given: to merge with rival SMRT to create one big giant transport company, or to have two separate companies with different areas of expertise – one running buses while another operating trains. (Note: It should be quite obvious that SBS Transit will be the natural bus company and SMRT will be the train company).


A Serious Warning to Business Owners

Over the past 19 years, I have worked with thousands of business owners in Africa, Canada and the United States. I foresee serious financial adversity looming for many entrepreneurs in the coming years, and perhaps a lot sooner than we may think. And before you conclude that this is mere speculation, let me share some reasons for my concern, and then allow me to offer you a solution.


Achieve Independence Through Web Lead Generation

Before setting up anything, it is important that you understand the high relevance of lead generation to your business' success. It is highly important for you to be able to find ways for lead generation because without lead generation, your business will really suffer...


Business Logo Designs – Components Of Business Logo Designs

Business logo designs are the business' physical representation in the market. It is an essentiality that business logo designs should be appealing and well made.


The Advantages To Buying Measurement And Control Equipment Online

Measurement and control equipment comes in many different guises, yet it is collectively an essential component of any tradesman's toolbox. For decades, these objects have featured as both domestic and commercial solutions, in addition to vital players in the trade service industry, considered as assets designed for life.


The Secret of Self-Investment

As a solo-entrepreneur you’re either starting a new business or intending to grow your existing business. Aside from getting the most obvious systems in place – technology, business and marketing plans, defining your product or services, and finances, what else is needed to be successful? Self-Investment!


Passive Income Explained - Why Do We Need A Passive Income?

Money cannot buy you everything in life. But without money, you cannot buy many things in life. Once you master the Art of Earning a Passive Income, it can change your life.


Attention Businesses: Why You Should Welcome Competition

Do you fear competition or is it just a fact of life? Your answer dictates what your future actions will be.


High Risk Merchant Account FAQs

So you want to start a website that will charge the visitors for membership through their credit cards? Such a site can not run unless you have a high risk merchant account. Here are some questions frequently asked by people who want to start accepting credit payments online.


7 Things Some People Don’t Want You to Know About Work At Home Property Scouts

Here’s a brief overview and description of what property scouting really is... For their own ulterior motives, there are always certain people who would have you believe that a work at home idea is not what it’s purported to be. These nay-sayers are no different when they point fingers at...


Start Getting Paid To Surf The Web

There are many different kinds of paid to surf programs on the internet but how do you know which ones are scams? Find out how to determine if a paid to surf site is a scam.


Restaurant Businesses for Sale

If you have been hunting for businesses for sale, you have probably noticed that there are more restaurants for sale than any other business. Why are restaurants one of the most popular businesses on sale? It may be because there is a big market for restaurants. Or it may that these restaurants are being sold by their owners because they are not bringing in enough money to stay afloat. Actually, both reasons are right.


Bringing the Entrepreneur and the Home Based Business Owner Together

Learn more about a no-cost cooperative marketing site that brings the entrepreneur and the small home-based business owner together to share opportunities, ideas and business building tools.


How To Start Up And Operate Your Own Home Typing Service

A home typing service is an ideal venture to get into on a part-time basis. While it won’t make you a millionaire, you can expect a few hundred dollars per month. I’m sure you could use that.


ABC: Digital Dictation

While many businesses use analog (tape) based dictation, the benefits of digital are so overwhelming, it is only a matter of time before tapes go the way of the typewriter (still hanging around the office, but not really used).


Tips for Keeping Restrooms Smelling Fresh and Clean

There's nothing that says your cleaning company is doing a great job more than when your building's restrooms are not only clean, but fresh-smelling. This article shows how to keep your customers' restrooms smelling fresh and clean.


How to Set Up a Nevada Corporation

When incorporating in the state of Nevada, it's important for you to understand that there is much more to the process than obtaining your personal tax identification number (also known as your EIN), and a list containing the names and addresses of the corporation directors.


Injection Molding

The impact of injection molding on the economy is bigger than you think. Since its invention in 1872, the injection molding process (along with the plastics industry) has turned into a multi billion dollar industry. Injection molding manufactures around 32% of plastics by weight. Because of this process, the construction of a lot of durable consumer and industrial items important to us are made cheap.


Your Advisory Staff

Many business owners mistakenly believe that they have to learn and know every possible nuance about business to be successful. From accounting to taxes to incorporating, many business owners needlessly try to do it all.


Purchase Order Financing For Resellers and Trading Companies

Do you own a reseller or trading company? Learn how to financing your growing orders with po financing.


Business for Pleasure

We might be in the electronic gaming era, but it's more like a fun game of Monopoly this business for pleasure of sport franchise ownership. The stakes are high, spending free, and visible worries few.


Why Ticket Design Matters

Ticket design is often overlooked. Event planners and organizers plan how many tickets they will need for a given event and how to distribute those tickets, but stop short of putting much thought into the ticket design itself. From a branding perspective this is a lost opportunity. Branding is, after all, managing all of the different touch points that an organization has with the public and your tickets are one touch point that all of your customers will come in contact with.


Finding the Groupware with a Grip on Ad Hoc

Steven R. Covey was insightful in pointing out that one of the seven habits of highly effective people is “Begin with the End in Mind.” I would like to alter that slightly to say that in seeking for groupware that meets a business’s needs, a highly effective business will also begin with the end in mind.



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