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There are millions of people who would love to quit his job and create your own new business, but it’s always his dream of a dream. Instead these people choose to hold a steady job. And many of those who decide to jump in and start their own business fail. Statistics show that ninety percent of new businesses fail before the first five years, and that ninety percent of the remaining ten percent waivers before the tenth year. Why?

Many experts say that people do not create their own business, or just after it fails, for two main reasons, lack of money and lack of skills for new business. Either I would say the latter is the most important. In other words, if you have those skills, you can generate money. But if you have money and no skills, money is ending soon.

“There are four skills that an entrepreneur must have or learn. These are: sales, accounting, investment and leadership. “Furthermore, “If an entrepreneur moves with difficulty, the reason is almost always a weakness in one or more of these skills.”

Today, despite the global trend of job skills, students go to school to find a steady job upon graduation. That is an obsolete idea. One reason why this article is so important is that currently, the world needs more entrepreneurs, people who want to build new business and create jobs, instead of people who need them.

At the start of business, the first step that must be done is to find the product or service marketed or sold, it is usually clear. Another step is the process for our product or service on the market settles, and the goal to be real. But before all this, we need to adjust our financial resources (highly limited) at the initial stage and to know the right choice when selecting our legal status, according to our needs.

Business consulting

At this point, making a very important decision that marked the life of our company. For that we will not hesitate to emerge successfully from this point, and to consolidate in the market require a full advice, accurate … With all this and more we can help and I will detail below.

* Analysis of the project, this brings us to debug errors in the writing project as a high initial sales are calculated, a market study made a mistake, a miscalculation in the investment (in the case of works, installations, etc). All failures, according to their size, could disrupt the project to a point that can not be executed.

* Start of activities, manage the department. Although some departments vested in one person, we propose a management system organized labor, we propose realistic goals, including making timely ratings given to the production system.

* Protected in everyday activities. The first year is very important, employers with everyday problems, such as the customer does not pay, suppliers who are not committed etc … in this case needed a professional to take the right decision every time.

If we hear the word savings and investment, these two words can create fear and frustration to most adults. Why? The list of reasons is broad. Have you ever said something like?

• “It takes more time and knowledge I have to know where to invest”

• “My paycheck barely covers my expenses, how I can think of to save?”

• “A budget is too restrictive.” “I earn more money in the future and then will invest.”

Whatever the excuse, the truth is that saving and investment are the two keys to your future financial security. Previously, people worked hard for over 40 years, saved a bit, and 65 years, quietly withdrew their savings, Social Security and perhaps a pension.

But that was in the past. Americans now live longer, need more money to wear the same style of life, and save less than any other industrialized country. Even worse, these days few people can count on fixed pensions. The reality is that you need to get more money than it cost so much effort saving, investing it wisely, and keeping in mind your financial goals in the short and long term.

Saving and investing at the same time protect you from unexpected problems. Help you if you ever have to face the economic and emotional divorce or an accident. You can also make the dreams of those who are accustomed to just talk, like a second honeymoon or another similar opportunity. In a word, save and invest gives you more options.

U.S. economic recovery has slowed in recent months, the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Breanne, said that there would be conditions for the acceleration of next year. In a speech to heads of central banks in a symposium in Jackson Hole (Wyoming), Breanne said the central bank will do whatever is necessary to fuel economic recovery in the world.

“Monetary policy is still very generous and financial conditions become more favorable for growth,” Breanne said at a symposium for central bankers in Jackson Hole (Wyoming). Meanwhile, he said, the Federal Reserve will keep the U.S. economy fell into deflation, while admitted that “no significant risk” that occurs at this time. ”

“In particular, the Committee (the Fed’s Open Market, which sets monetary policy) is ready to take unconventional measures,” ready to provide additional financial support through conventional measures, if necessary, “Breanne said. In particular, he mentioned the possibility of that the Fed will continue its “large-scale purchases of assets,” such as that conducted in the early stages of financial crisis.

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Measures to stimulate the economy through the Recovery and Reinvestment Act of the United States (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) includes a temporary tax credit “Making Work Pay” for two years. The credit will provide workers the option to charge a little more during 2009 and 2010. Specifically, the tax credit will reduce the amount of federal tax withheld by employers from workers’ wages or who pay self-employment, allowing these workers receive a higher net salary.

To qualify, workers must earn an income from an employer or through self-employment. They must be U.S. citizens or resident alien with a valid Social Security number. Who are claimed as a dependent (ie, being a child, college student or elderly relative who lives in the same household) of a third party can not claim the tax credit.

Workers will receive a credit of 6.2% of their annual income up to $ 400 for single workers and up to $ 800 for married couples who file their income taxes jointly. However, the credit is phased out based on income limits. People earning between $ 75,000 and $ 95,000 will receive less back (down 2% of income above $ 75,000). Those earning $ 95,000 or more are not eligible to receive credit. Married couples filing who earn a combined income between $ 150,000 and $ 190,000 will earn a bit less (down 2% of income above $ 150,000) and those earning $ 190,000 or more will receive no credit.

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The small entrepreneurs start their business with few resources. As a general rule it is impossible to build a company (legitimate) without money, the employer must rely on credit to finance your business.

Entrepreneurs who start usually have an aversion to credit, would prefer if possible to work with own resources and who have neither the experience nor the management of the instruments, or access to credit. For the entrepreneur that starts everything is risk, has not sufficient confidence in their own forces or in their business and go through a transition state where he tries to be independent and earn risking a minimum.

That is not possible, because only those who earn profit risk is usually in proportion to the risks. If someone wants to be an entrepreneur and he’s afraid to borrow, you’d better find another job or settle for a micro business of subsistence. The first rule to borrow money is that money borrowed must be used in investment and spending ever. Investment is anything that generates money and the money generated by the investment should be much greater than the interest paid on credit.

This may seem obvious is not always understood by entrepreneurs who start, it is not unusual to borrow to buy a car or expensive equipment that will generate (presumably) the same gain more economic. That differential, as well as many other personal expenses that do not generate income are the costs, deadweight. The luxuries and any unproductive expenditure should never be financed with borrowed money.

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Peru’s parliament opened the proceedings to require the American businessman William Kallop to pay the tax of 482.2 million dollars for taxes levied on the sale of carrier oil for 900 million dollars other liabilities to the State. Petro Tech Peruana (PTP) was sold on February 6, 2009 the consortium of companies Coppertop, Colombia, and Korean National Oil Corporation (KNOC), South Korea, in an operation in the United States.

The transaction was brokered by American International Group and Offshore occurred outside Peru for the purpose of avoiding tax, concluded a committee of the unicameral Congress, chaired by Rep. Johnny Peralta, who investigated the activity of PTP from Kallop foundation by 1993. “The Peruvian state may declare void the sale of Coppertop and KNOC PTP because it violated laws requiring the payment of taxes,” Peralta told IPS. He noted that the fact that the sale occurred abroad does not exempt the tax payable by the change of ownership of a Peruvian company.

Peralta, of the governing APRA party, said the research showed that the trick of Kallop in the sale was part of their practices while he was in front of the PTP. When it changed hands, PTP was a concession to exploit oil at 9.5 million hectares, producing 12,000 barrels of oil a day, and had reported annual revenues of $ 360 million and profits of 134 million in fiscal 2008.

Kallop has offices in the U.S. city of Houston, the capital of the southern oil state of Texas, after leaving Peru in 2008, where he had arrived in the early 90s when he began the regime of Alberto Fumitory (1990-2000) who opened the door to speculative foreign investment. Shortly after its constitution, PTP was granted numerous oil wells in the continental shelf, which is part of the Peruvian maritime platform. Its main fields are in the region of Piura in the north coast of the country, rich in hydrocarbons.

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More and more companies are jumping on the bandwagon of social networks, and as a result, many questions. The most often repeated is how I measure ROI? Unfortunately there is still no “system” to measure what happens in social networks. “Marketers” from around the world break head to find the best way to measure the profitability of social networks and how to explain to companies that have not yet understood its importance.

Marketing on social networks is, for example, as email marketing, where you can see the number of emails you send, which is open, the clicks that are made, the number of conversions, etc. Most of what happens in social networks is behind a login, so the old method to quantify the traffic does not work.

As with any other means of marketing, each company has its own reasons and objectives when they reach their market through social networks, so that actions to listen and measure will be different in each case. The field of “Social Media Analytics” is still too new to establish fixed rules, but then you have five considerations that should be taken into account when measuring your success in social networks:

• Define a goal

Before jump into social networks, you should set a concrete goal you are pursuing. Start various activities in social networks without a clear goal you will not get the expected results. A clear objective will guide you through the following: social networks that interest you, type of content that you are sharing, conversations in which you participate, etc.

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