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Property Management – The Key Ingredient To Success

If someone were to ask me how we remain a successful business during a down economy, I would say it is because we have found a need and filled it.

Just like the Wright Brothers when they invented the airplane.

The world was evolving and they realized a need and filled it.

In our business we find that people NEED a property manager to oversee their properties. That need would arise if an owner lives out of town or may travel consistently. In some cases you would need an experienced property manager because tenants can very easily take advantage of a less experienced landlord. A good property manager can help manage the tenant-landlord relationship to help make sure everyone is happy and that you are not being taken advantage of.

Some property owners need help in recognizing what improvements or repairs need to be made to their properties. An experienced property manager has an eye for those details and can be of great assistance when it is time to make those decisions and can often save an owner time and money with their experience. Your property is constantly being compared to other properties that the prospective renter is looking at. Unfortunately, the other apartments may not be 40 years old like your building. A good property manager can spot quick and inexpensive ways to update the look of your unit and attract the new renter.

Most owners aren’t aware of all of the legal requirements when renting out a property. This could expose you to some very expensive risk in dealing with your tenants. We are living in a very litigious society and if you are not an experienced landlord this could land you in hot water as renters are becoming more and more savy and know more about the laws than you do.

Many property owners buy their property when they are younger and more able to handle a 4 unit building or even a 12 unit building. As we get older we have less desire to handle 12 different tenant personalities and 12 different bathrooms that need to be maintained. These smaller apartment buildings can’t afford a full time manager, even giving someone an apartment for free to watch over things is probably too much expense for your building. Leave it to the professionals that can handle your building and make you more money than you may be making doing everything yourself.

Effective Marketing Strategies in Product Creation

Marketing includes matters such as pricing and packaging of the product and creation of demand by advertising and sales campaigns. There are other options, of course, like product creation, resale rights marketing, joint ventures and the likes, but they are merely secondary to the above.

If you take the freelance route, it is important to ensure that all rights to profit from the final product, or any materials produced in its making, remain yours. Bookkeeping, physical product creation or delivery of goods can be done better with specialized help. Determining the purpose of the product is vital in niche product creation.

Implementation of Methodology – The choice of implementation of Six Sigma methodology depends on whether development is required on existing processes (DMAIC) or on new process/product design creation (DMADV). Determining what you really want to sell, something that you can be relaxed selling is the first step at the creation of a niche product. With the technological advancements in the hosting industry, from automated control panels and scripts that simplify creation of accounts; to complete turnkey solutions, there is no excessive need to worry about spending time on the actual product sold to the customer.

For instance, you should be prepared to either perform yourself or to subcontract the completion of the following tasks:- Product idea research (are there any existing products or patents already existing for this idea)- Product specification document training (what it will do, how it will look, how will it be powered, and how the user will interface with it)- Marketing study (what it will be named, who would buy this, how much would they pay, how will we get customers to purchase the product)- Schematic or electronic circuit design process- Creation of a bill of material or BOM and an approved vendor’s list or AVL for each component in the design, preferably with multiple sources identified, with a BOM and AVL for each assembly level in the product- Printed circuit board layout design process (single sided board, double sided board, or multilayer board; size of the PCB; board material)- Mechanical packaging design with user interfaces (displays, buttons, switches, key. This removes all product creation costs from your budget as a marketer.

No other database of affiliate programs offers such a possibility for profit on either the affiliate side or the product creation site. Your chosen niche should allow for the creation of more than one product or service.

There are several marketing strategies that are necessary in the creation of a successful e-commerce web site – Email marketing (broadcasting) of prospects/customers – Effective use of auto responders (generate automatic email messages) – Online Newsletter – Online Form / Survey to capture your prospect’s email address – Electronic Product Delivery (if you sold a digital product) – Advertisement (Ad) Tracking – Back End Sales – Affiliate program etc.

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Home Based Business – How to Be Successful

Setting up a home based business might sound like a fantastic idea at the outset, no boss to worry about, no morning panic and commuting miseries, no more traffic jams and road rage and best of all the flexibility to do what you want when you want. Sounds like a dream come true, however if you do not discipline yourself to work conscientiously you will not make any money!There are many articles and informative websites on setting up home based businesses, but what they fail to enlighten you about is the things you need to avoid doing to be successful. Read this article to find out what steps you need to take to make your business flourish.When you are deciding what business to set up from your home, you need to consider the possibility of having employees work out of your home. Do you have enough space for this to be possible? What about employee insurance and workers compensation coverage? You will also be taking a huge risk letting strangers into your home so prospective candidates will need to be very carefully screened. If you have to employ people for your business try to get people who come highly recommended, run credit checks, police checks and reference checks to make doubly sure.Do not entertain the thought of making do with your existing telephone for business. One phone call from a friend can tie up the line for ages and ruin good business opportunities. Moreover, until people realize and accept that you are running a business the tendency to call and chat will be strong, simply because you are at home. Invest in a good telephone system and phone service. Give your business that professional touch with a good system.Bringing clients to your home for business meetings is really not a very professional approach, unless the room you have set up as an office has a separate entrance to it. You wouldn’t want your client to see your home with the toys and clothes strewn all over the place! Use the local coffee shop for your business meetings; it will be a lot better than inviting them to your home. Find a coffee shop that has an internet connection, most of them do and you can be on line and very professional at your meeting.Take your business seriously and do not mix home and office. Set your self work timings and take a dedicated approach to building your business. If you need coffee, install a coffee machine in your office, don’t wander into the kitchen, you will be tempted to do a few dishes or start tidying up!