Free Bright Idea 1: Instant Printshop Business

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Copylandia has been the partner of more than a thousand successful printshops and copy centers across the nation, each of them using the tried and tested combination of equipment that the Copylandia Printshops have been using through the years.

A basic printshop set-up is composed of a Riso digital duplicator, a Develop copier, a Konica Minolta Magicolor multifunction printer, an Evolis card printer, an Eba papercutter, an Ibico ringbinder, an Ibico laminator and a personal computer.

A printshop business is easy to setup and manage. Monitoring is made easy because of built-in counters in the machine and the materials and paper used can easily be accounted for and matched with sales. Unlike, other businesses, the materials and supplies used in the printshops are durable and have long shelf lives. If the printshop has enough space, an internet business can conveniently complement the set-up.

A printshop setup investment can start from as low as P500,000, which if given the right location can easily be recovered within a year. You may call Copylandia should you want to explore the possibilities of a printshop business and to avail of an ongoing promo on a basic printshop package. You may also contact Solutions Consultant through mobile number 09154209153, 02-219-29-17 or e-mail at rbalayo_mla@copylandia.com.

Free Bight Idea 2: PHILIPPINE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY 2

Digital Publishing On-Demand

SOURCE: http://www.copylandia.com/Digital_Publishing_On_Demand

Develop Ineo Pro 1050

Get into the publishing business without the long, tedious and costly process! Forget traditional offset printing, digital publishing on-demand is now made possible with production copier models from Develop of Germany. Built for high volume production, the Ineo Pro 1050 has a rated capacity of 1,500,000 prints a month with the speed of 105 prints per minute at a very low running cost of only 20 centavos per copy.

Digital publishing of books, manuals, periodicals, journals can now be fast and easy! Print materials directly from the computer, have it digitally collated and produced one set at a time. For an order of 1,000 books, you can immediately print one or two pieces that your customer can pre-approve before proceeding to complete the job. Should your customer need an advance print of 50 books, confidently print and deliver them within the day, to his satisfaction and delight.

Develop Ineo+6501

For color publishing requirements, printing full-color covers and inserts for your publications, a complete range of full color copiers are readily available. Having problems with heavy full-color printing requirements? The Develop Ineo+6500 full color multifunction production machine is the right one for the job. With the speed of 65 offset quality prints per minute, and can print materials as big as 13”x19”, and up to 300 gsm paper, this multifunction machine is just perfect for book covers and yearbooks. The Ineo+6500 is indeed a breakthrough in production color printing, copying, scanning and is one of the best-selling production color copiers in the market today.

Horizon BQ270

Publishing doesn't stop at printing. Binders and paper cutters also play an essential role in digital publishing. For this purpose, the Horizon BQ-150, a tried and tested 'perfect binder' from Japan comes in handy, with its capacity to bind 150 books an hour. For higher production requirements and a more professional book finish, the Horizon BQ270 does the job right. And last in the process is the final trimming of

Horizon HT70

the published material that can be done using the Horizon PC-45SC Paper Cutter or the HT30 book trimmer, the perfect partner for the BQ270.

Copylandia offers a wide range of finishing products from Horizon, Ibico, and Eba to choose from depending on your finishing requirements.

You want to start a publishing business? Maybe we can be of service to you. Please call: 09154209153 or e-mail at: rbalayo_mla@copylandia.com for more help with this article.

Free Bright Idea 3: Philippine BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

Instant Calling Card Printing

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Develop Ineo+253

Despite advancements in technology, business cards or calling cards remain a staple in every business transaction. Cut a share from the printing profit and start your own calling card printing business.

Print and perfectly cut 100 pieces of calling cards in less than 3 minutes using two amazing technologies, the ineo multifunction color printer from Develop of Germany and a Horizon card slitter from Japan.

Horizon KK1-11

Companies can now do their own in-house printing of business cards, and enjoy all the benefits of true on-demand printing. No more costly over-printing and no need to wait for weeks, get them when you need them. Enjoy the flexibility of customizing business cards when you need it, how you want it.

Avail of the instant calling card package and get the card-slitter free when you purchase a Develop Ineo+253 multifunction color copier.

Please Contact: 09154209153 or send e-mail to rbalayo_mla@copylandia.com for more information. You may also visit, www.copylandia.com for the products offered as solutions for your printing to finishing requirements!

The Importance of Online Interactions with Your Customers

Have you ever wondered when you tried to search for your company’s website on famous search engines like Yahoo! Search and Google Search and you found some other links not related with your official URL? Some of them maybe familiar to you if you joined with some organization where in you pay them to be a member for Thousands of Pesos and in return they include your company’s information to their website. However, you noticed other sites where in you are not familiar with, but features your company’s information and give comments whether your product or service is good or not. Of course you will be happy if the reactions are in favour with you company’s goals, but what if you’ve read the other way around? What will you do?

Please take note that customers have many different ways on expressing their complaints or favorable feedbacks based on what they experienced with your product or service. It is good that you indicated a customer service hotline or number or e-mail in your packaging but did you know that the number of customers’ feedbacks that you have not received is roughly more than double than the number of these feedbacks you received over your hotline or e-mails? The Internet so far is one of the major tools customers are using to express their sentiments if they are not satisfied of your product or service but may voluntarily make an article concerning their delightful experience if they are happy with it. Some employees may write their own experience with the company they work with. Loyal employees may write positive comments, while there are dangers that they will express there sentiments out over the web if they feel they are maltreated by the company. And, before you know it, everybody else is writing the same against or in favor of your business.

These are just some of the many reasons why a certain company should take focus on online communication or mediums where in you can address the concerns of your customers—both external (buyers) and internal (your employees themselves). Other than your official website, you may participate or even ask somebody to write an article for you over the net. The person will be the one to maintain the site to have good reader traffic in order to increase awareness of your product and services offered. He will even summarize both the negative and positive feedbacks of the readers and submit it to you. You may reply on giving answers to these summarized feedbacks and the author or writer will post it back to his site for the purpose of interaction with the customers.

You already have you official website so why not just stick to it?

Well, while it is good to have an official website, you should know very well that Internet Surfers will consider it BORING if your site is not maintained or updated frequently. More worse is that they have no means of posting their comments or feedbacks directly with your website or so to speak, a means of interacting with your company other than e-mail and hotlines. Maybe they will visit it ones or twice or thrice; but if they found the same content from the first up to the third visit, do you think they will revisit your webpage again for the fourth time? I don’t think so, unless they forgot to take note what they need to get from your site. If you really want to maximize your official website, make it interactive and update it most often.

“But, the cost of maintaining a website by updating it frequently and making it more interactive is too much for me. I need to hire an I.T. professional for these and this will be very expensive for a starting entrepreneur like me. Are there any alternatives to reinforce my site?”

Of course there are alternatives!

Blogging as One of the Alternatives
Blog or Web log is one of the hottest phenomenons occurring on the Internet today. As a proof, Technorati.com, a blog search engine was tracking over 20 million blogs as of late quarter of 2005 and CEO Dave Sifry noted that 70, 000 blogs were created every day (Blogging for Business by Shel Holtz and Ted Demopoulos, 2006). The Blogosphere, a term for a blog community, is one of the online interactive medium that any ordinary internet surfer who can publish or post his or her own views, principles, comments, knowledge, company or product reviews, and more! Before you know it, you have encountered it in the past and may have got hooked on to it especially for some interesting topic.

So, how much would it cost?

Other than your internet connection and time, this is free if you will be posting your own articles and sign up for some famous blog providers. But if you cannot afford to write articles for your own, you may want to let others post your article or make a review of your product or service and they will be the one to post it to their own blogs. Some bloggers will charge you for a fee but this is much cheaper than hiring a writer for a press release or posting your ad to newspapers. Other bloggers will just ask for a donation from you and you will decide how much you will give to them. Of course when it says a donation, you have no obligation to pay. However, the reason for some bloggers to ask for it is to have means of supporting or maintaining his blog site in the long run. This is much cheaper than hiring for an IT professional to maintain your own website.

Rewarding Freelance Writers Who Featured Your Company Whereabouts
Try to visit and interact to those unfamiliar links that featured your company’s valuable information for the benefit of your target customers, give them simple rewards either money or in kind and you will expect more articles featuring the whereabouts of your company. Of course this is not a guarantee but if you will do it more often, then expect for a positive interaction with them. What more, is that, they will be the one to defend some of the minor flaws of your company.

I believe that these two alternatives can reinforce your website in a much time efficient and cost effective manner while building up credibility with your Internet savvy customers. This is one way of promoting your product or service in a non traditional method of marketing and business development. For a related article about the web please click here.

Note: If you are interested about this article and would like to begin posting your company’s articles or press releases, please contact the author. You may get the author’s contact information by clicking here.

Yahoo! Answers Series 2: Would companies pay me to wear their logos as product placement tattoos?

I included this 2nd Yahoo! Answers because I found him/her equipped with bright ideas and needs to clarify things out before proceeding to his/her next plan. I guess this is one way to reinforce some of the ideas I posted here for those who want to be a risk taker but should calculate the risk itself.

Username, 'Best Answer'of famous Yahoo! Answers asked the following:
"Would companies pay me to wear their logos as product placement tattoos?"

Here is my reply to him/her:

This is a bright idea!

But of course you have to contact them first and ask for a formal letter which states that they are allowing you to use their logos before using it as product placement tatoos.
Why?
They may charge you of illegally using their logos if they are protected with the Intellectual Property rights. And they will be the one to charge you instead.

By the way if your are an entrepreneur and want some free bight ideas you may visit my blogsite: http://freebrightideas.blogspot.com to read some tips about business and other stuffs.

Hope this will help.

Warm regards,

Just an info: http://freebrightideas.blogspot.com is not a spam. This is a blog created by me to help Internet readers.

Thanks!

While all of us are thinking of some bright ideas for our business to begin with, it is advisable to ask first before jumpng to another level.
There is no harm to ask someone about what you are planning to do. However, you should take note also the credibility of the person whom you asked an opinion so that you can avoid any pitfalls along the way if possible.

Yahoo! Answers Series 1: WHAT TO DO WITH $10, 0000 CASH?

This article is a little bit informal compared with my previous posted articles.

Well to begin the story with, I'm starting to answer some questions from Yahoo! Answers and came across with the question of Username 525 B. The query is actually simple:

"What to do with $10,000 cash ?
I have $10,000 cash ready to use it to make some profit back. Either buying stuff to resell or maybe play some stocks.. I'm not sure. Any suggestions ? This $10,000 is ready to take risks. Please list some ideas and what will you do if you was in my position.

Thanks"

To be transparent, here are the answers of others:

From dean_dann: "you can donate the money to me... lol.."
From Black Sonic: "enjoy yourself wit it buy some new koo stuff"
From Fx Funds: "Invest in FX Funds Group if you would like to make 2 - 15% per month. Search for myfxfunds in google search engine for more information."
From Space Invader 101:"You'll probably break even doing the Ebay thing. I'd go for stocks. Maybe invest in some investment books and buy some software to give you more of an advantage."

FROM ME (Site Hunter):

"Hi there,

Like to inform you that if this $10,000 is your hard earned money, and I have it in your position, I cannot afford to take great risks. If I really want my money to grow or invest upon, I would rather see it growing rather than slipping out of my hands either slowly or in an instant just because I am ready to take the risk. Hope this will not offend you.

So, what will I do with it?

If I were you, I will spread my money into 2 portfolios. I will open a savings account and deposit them all for the mean time. Then I will contact some of the reputable MUTUAL FUNDS in my country and Open a balanced fund at the very minimum amount let say, $,2000. Then month after month, I will deposit another round of $2,000. making my savings account into the minimum amount required by the bank so that I will not be closed.

If I will be earning another $10,000 in the next few months, I will add it up to my Mutual Fund while opening a time deposit account to a reputable bank.

Opening a time deposit and a mutual fund is a way of minimizing my risk of losing the money that I have plus the concept of savings first before expenses. I did not say that there is no risk by doing but rather I minimize the risk by spreading my money into different portfolios.

Third option that I will do is, I will buy a commercial paper (could not think of the right term as of now) from the government like t-bills or t-bonds. This way I am assure of the returns though it is not quite high compared with the potential of receiving high returns from mutual funds in the long run.

By the way I will be publishing some articles about Personal Finance tips soon in my blogsite: http://freebrightideas.blogspot.com
Hope you can find some time to visit it and will assure you of some other specific tips.

Hope this would help.

Warm regards,

Just an info: http://freebrightideas.blogspot.com is blog created by me and not a spam. Thanks! Source(s): www.colaycofoundation.com
www.mutualfund.com.ph "

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I’m Applying as Franchisee; What Will I Do?

Oh yeah? So, you decided to explore your entrepreneurial spirit by going into Franchise but you don’t have any idea on how and where to start with. What will you do? In my article, Common Mistakes Committed by Franchisees that Lead to Failure published on April 20, 2009, we discussed some factors that lead to failure of doing business in the franchise industry. Now I believe that giving also some tips on the pre-operational activities on applying as Franchisee should reinforce my previous article. By the way, if you have not yet read the article that I mentioned, please click here so you’ll have an idea.

Here are the six (6) guidelines before completely going into Franchise:

Guideline Number 1. You should have enough capital.
Companies offering a franchise of their product or services are usually capital intensive though there companies who starts for as low as P5,000.00 up to Million of Pesos. For some companies who established their brand well, stay in the their respective industry for quite sometime, and has proven standard operating procedures that are efficient and profitable, merely offer their Franchise from P100, 000.00 and up to Million of Pesos depending on the size of their capital to operate the business, costs of equipment and utensils, area of the location, use of their trademark or brand, trainings and site assessment, initial inventory of stocks, and more. The cost of paying these is called Franchise Fee. While the supports, service and materials mentioned that get in exchange for a Franchise Fee is a Franchise Package. You should be ready also to deposit a Security Bond or Security Deposit depending on the requirement of the company that you are applying with. Do not expect that the amount will earn an interest. Another major cost that you will be incurring is the Royalty Fee where in most companies are charging roughly from 3 % up to 10% of your sales. Other companies do not have this fee but they require you to purchase all stocks from their Commissary or a combination of both.

Guideline Number 2. The business you are applying with, should much with your expertise, hobbies, or simply what you really wanted.
Well, I am not really saying that you should follow this because you can eventually learn the whole operation though you have no strong start up knowledge about the business. What I would like to emphasize is that the more the business is aligned with your area of discipline or hobby or expertise, the more it is likely to avoid failure.

Guideline Number 3. You should choose the right location for your franchise.
Some Franchisors have their own location to be offered to the franchise applicants and already site evaluated by their own team. They are just waiting for the right franchisee to exploit the area. To be sure however, you should pay a visit for the offered location and assess it for your self. Please read the article that I composed entitled 7 Guidelines On How To Assess Potential Location For Your Business for more details.
Other companies let you look your own location and they will be the one to assess it whether or not it is viable. Some good companies, share with you the result of the assessment, either negative or positive, give a recommendation but you will be the one to decide if you will pursue or not if you knew the area very well.

Guideline Number 4. You should shop around, talk to the franchisor and clear your concerns out.
Do not just jump into franchise with the company who offers too good to be true promises and fast ROI, or just because you have seen them on TV. Remember the qualities of a superior company wherein they have superior product and services and they are working out as customer oriented and most of all quality oriented establishment. You should shop around and find out the background of the company and how strong they are. Always clear up questions on your mind about their business. Ask for the operational supports the company can give you while you are running the business. Usually you will not be meeting the General Manager or the President of the company instead, the Franchise Manager or Franchise Officer will be the one to handle your concerns. You may attend activities such as Franchise Expo and Shows to have an initial knowledge on the offered services of your prospect Franchisor. This is one way to save time and money because you can meet them in just one place for a day visit.

Guideline Number 5. Choose the right internal business partner.
If you will be running your Franchise with a relative or a friend for example, you should take note on hat you have agreed upon and make a formal agreement to be signed by both parties. This is to make sure that whatever happens with your business, both of you will be responsible for it. It is also a way to be more committed in running the business and one will not leave the other just in case negative circumstances are inevitable.

Guideline Number 6. Find a way to learn the basics of the Accounting Principles.
This is strongly recommended because from the day you start inquiring the costs of Franchise and how long you can get the return of your investment, inventory of stocks and raw materials up to preparing your Profit and Loss analysis is where the knowledge on Accounting Principles applies. You can learn it by surfing the web, or look for a reliable source like books written by reliable authors and or even ask CPA Professionals. Sometimes asking for a simple advice from Professionals is free.

I believe these 6 guidelines will help you improve your start up plans if you really want to follow the path of Franchising. Along the way you will encounter pitfalls but do not give up easily. You can ask privileges and requests from your franchisors whenever you will encounter these circumstances, after all, you are considered as BUSINESS PARTNER by your Franchisor and YOU are their VALUED CUSTOMER as well.