How to Start a Business Plan

Having a business of your own might be a lucrative and satisfying career option but it is definitely not a cakewalk. It requires a number of small steps to be conducted and setting up a business is a mammoth task in itself. It requires intelligence, grit and confidence to run your own business successfully. Selecting the location, developing the business structure, getting the finances ready and setting long term and short term goals are all included in the process of starting a business plan.

Firstly, you should not be over confident and it is advisable that you start off having a mentor. This might just work as your insurance policy against early setbacks you might encounter in your business.

No business can be started without adequate finances. Raising an initial capital is mandatory for the success of every business. Planning and anticipating the initial business costs and expenses are to be done. You should be able to determine as to when is your business going to break even and when will you be able to start earning profit.

Try to get a name for your business keeping in mind that you are not using names of other businesses. There is more to naming a business than just thinking of something you’d like your business to be called. The business structure you are giving is very important as this also plays a vital role in naming the business. The requirements your business will be fulfilling is also to be taken into account.

Choosing a structure is extremely vital-whether it is to be a limited liability company, or a partnership firm or a sole proprietorship organization. This choice of business will have an impact in various facets of your business like the imposition of taxes, ownership succession etc.

Innovation is the key to operate a business successfully today. New product ideas are basically assets to your business and you must look to protect them from infringement from others. Licenses and permits need to be attained from the government also. This is a very important aspect of the business and should be taken care of.

Location of your business plays an important hand in the success or failure. A struggling business can survive in an area that is just perfect as per its nature but a well established business might as well bite the dust if its location is not right. Besides the area rules and regulations need to be complied with.

Management of your business also is very important where you have to display proper decision making and leadership skills. Apart from the knowledge of business practices specific management skills are also required to steer a business in the path of success.

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Gogola India Franchisee Requirements and Information

Gola is a traditional ice-candy, from Mumbai, that is loved by one and all. It is made by clumping crushed ice to form a pear sized lolly. Gola is what inspired the Internationally sold “ Snow-cone “. It is then splattered and dipped in mouth-watering and fruity flavours. Masala and lime juice added as per taste.

Golas are extremely popular in Mumbai, as the ultimate traditional Mumbaiya icicle. It partly owes its popularity to the endorsement it has frequently received from the stars of the Mumbai film industry. Frequent references to the ‘Golas’ in Hindi movies, coupled with its extensive availability over the years have led GOLAS to become a must-have for most people living in or visiting Mumbai.

Over time, however, GOLA was given up by many Indian families, due to the following 3 EVILS:
1. Ice made from impure water
2. Synthetic raw materials in syrup
3. Unhygienic handling & ambience

This discouraged the upwardly mobile Indians from trying it out and specially deprived children from having a tasty GOLAs.

Gogola India
By eradicating the 3 EVILS, GOGOLA India brought back to life the great Indian sweet tooth, by pushing back the Gola into the Safe Consumable Category for millions of families. An authentic Mumbai treat, the Gogola India has the following 3 features:
1. Mineral water ice
2. Natural fruit flavour syrups
3. Gloved handling & clean ambience

Gogola India is presented to retail customers in modular kiosks in premium locations across Mumbai. Our brand identity is based on ‘Quality’ with the counter-staff trained to achieve the highest level of customer satisfaction. With standardized branding through our logo, colors, promotional designs and mascot – Our kiosks, promotional material and staff, all uniformly build & promote the brand identity of Gogola India. Our unique branding strategy makes us likeable by the youth. Also, it becomes a talking point among the internet-savvy youngsters, thus leading to further popularity by word-of-mouth, which is not enjoyed by a traditional Gola.

Gogola – The Components
The following are the ingredients that go into the making of each Gogola:
• 100 ml Ready-To-Use flavour
• Crushed Mineral Water Ice ( approx 2-3 servings from 1 kg of ice)
• A squeeze of Lemon and Masala to taste

The Gola is then moulded onto a plastic stick, and served in a Gogola Glass, with a Gogola tissue ( Spoons are given on request). The counter-staff is dressed in Gogola Uniforms.

Your Investment
Your One-Time Capital Investment would be Rs. 310,000 per kiosk. Details as follows:

Description Amount
One-time License Fee 150,000
Complete Kiosk and Setup 125,000 *
Automation & Hardware Cost 35,000 *
Total 310,000

Your expense at the beginning for running costs would be Rs. 87,000, which is broken up as follows:

Description Amount
Cost of RM bought each time 84,000 * *
Uniforms (2 sets) 3,000* * *
Total 87,000

What should I do to marry a rich guy?

A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum:

Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy?

I’m going to be honest of what I’m going to say here. I’m 25 this year. I’m very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. You might say that I’m greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York . My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married? I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you? Among those I’ve dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit. If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York CityGarden(?), $250k annual income is not enough.

I’m here humbly to ask a few questions:
1) Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the names and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym)
2) Which age group should I target?
3) Why most wives of the riches is only average-looking? I’ve met a few girls who doesn’t have looks and are not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys
4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your girlfriend? (my target now is to get married)

Ms. Pretty

Awesome reply:
Dear Ms. Pretty,

I have read your post with great interest. Guess there are lots of girls out there who have similar questions like yours. Please allow me to analyse your situation as a professional investor. My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone believes that I’m not wasting time here. From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marry you. The answer is very simple, so let me explain. Put the details aside, what you’re trying to do is an exchange of “beauty” and “money”: Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and square. However, there’s a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, but my money will not be gone without any good reason. The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can’t be prettier year after year. Hence from the viewpoint of economics, I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. It’s not just normal depreciation, but exponential depreciation. If that is your only asset, your value will be much worried 10 years later.

By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, dating with you is also a “trading position”. If the trade value dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long term – same goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruel to say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with great depreciation value will be sold or “leased”. Anyone with over $500k annual income is not a fool; we would only date you, but will not marry you. I would advice that you forget looking for any clues to marry a rich guy. And by the way, you could make yourself to become a rich person with $500k annual income. This has better chance than finding a rich fool.

Hope this reply helps. If you are interested in “leasing” services, do contact me…

signed,
J.P. Morgan

Honda Motors Company Information

Honda Motors Co. Ltd. is the famous Japanese engine manufacturer company, and has sizzled the world with its amazing bikes. It deals with countless products.

The founder of Honda, Soichiro in the year 1946 established the Honda Technical Research Institute in Japan, specifically to develop and manufacture 2 cycle motorbike engines. After two years of it the Honda Motor Company took its birth. Since then Honda has been using the best technologies for its products, and comes out with the best products which become the dream machine which everybody wants to posses.

The very first car launched by Honda was in the year 1957, the car N360. It also produces a range of cool compact cars, which is popularly known as Honda Civic, quite popular and widely used in North America. It also has a line of luxury cars which is called as Acura, which has gained maximum popularity in North America. Going the green way, Honda also presented the Honda Civic GX, which is a natural gas vehicle, available in some parts of the United States. Honda Insight is the hybrid Honda car, which was launched in the year 1999, after which it came up with many such models.
After years of extensive research and efforts, Honda also invented its first ever Robot named ASIMO, which can very well walk and dance just like humans do!

In India it has a joint venture with the India’s Hero Group, which is popularly known as “Hero Honda”, which is well settled in the Indian automobile market. It has gained a lot of popularity on the Indian roads with various Honda products which are the most preferred choice of the youths if India.

Brief Fact O’ Honda:
• Type of Company: Public
• Founded on : September 24, 1948
• Headquarters at: Tokyo, Japan
• Key People are: Soichiro Honda, Founder. Takeo Fukui, CEO
• Industry it belongs to: Automobile & Truck manufacturer & Motorcycle
• Products it manufactures: cars, trucks, motorcycles, scooters, ATVs, electrical generators, robotics, marine equipment, jets and jet engines, and lawn and garden equipment, Acura vehicles.

Honda Motors with its impeccable technologies and designs has been ruling people’s choice; and it truly lives up to its motto – “The Power of Dreams”.

Amit Bhawani runs a blog on Top Bikes with reviews on Hero Honda Bikes.

NSDL crosses 1 crore demat accounts

I am pleased to inform you that NSDL has crossed 1,00,00,000 (one crore) demat accounts. These accounts have more than 80% of securities held in dematerialised form in India, indicating the preference and trust the investors have in maintaining their assets with NSDL. Over the period of last two years, more than 40 lakh new demat accounts were opened with NSDL. NSDL has also been appointed as Central Recordkeeping Agency for the New Pension System of Govt. of India, which has recently become operational for all citizens of the country, apart from Central and State Government employees.

I write this to thank you for your support and good wishes.

Warm regards,

Gagan Rai
Managing Director & CEO
National Securities Depository Ltd. (NSDL)

How to send Iphone photos to flickr

Do you want to send your photos directly to your flickr account then check out the flickr sender app for iPhone. You need to login to your flickr account and give access to your iPhone app to get started.

How to Clean Silver Items

Cleaning silver is a very easy task. It can be done using normal household products. So don’t invest in expensive cleaners which have warning labels and hazardous chemical ingredients. Harsh chemicals are not at all required to do this job. All that you have to do is follow the instructions given below in the same order.

· Gather all the silver items which you are planning to clean. Take a big bucket and fill it with warm water. Once the water is filled, add 1 table spoon of salt and 1 table spoon of water softener. Now swirl the water and make sure the water softener and salt dissolve.

· Now take a sheet of aluminum foil and place it in the bottom of the bucket. Then place the tarnished silver which you have planned to clean over the aluminum foil placed in the bottom of the bucket containing the mixed solution.

· Let the silver sit in there submerged for about 15-30 minutes. The silver item which is touching the aluminum foil and is present submerged in the bucket containing the mixed solution will get cleaned very quickly. Some silver items are tarnished badly that it requires some rubbing to clean it. If there are such items of silver, then use a clean cloth damped in water to rub the tarnish off the silver.

· Another easy , cheap way of cleaning silver is using a mix of lemon juice and salt. Take a soft cloth , dip it into the juice of lemon and salt and rub the cloth all over the tarnished silver item. Once you rub thoroughly , rinse it in clean water.

That’s it. the silver is as good as new. To prevent tarnishing in silver items, store them in airtight containers. It is so because silver is tarnished by exposure to air.

Amit Bhawani writes many articles on Cleaning Stuff at your Home & Office to keep everything clean. You can read some of them like how to Clean Brass & how to Clean Coffee Maker. Read more stuff like this at http://www.amitbhawani.com

How to Clean & Remove Dog Urine at Home

The odor of a Dog’s urine is something which is really bad and strong. Apart from that, the urine of a Dog can leave behind a really bad stain too. If you are among those who are growing a Dog as a pet, I’m sure you have experienced the difficulties in removing the stain and odor produced by the urine. And I’m pretty much sure many have failed in cleaning it thoroughly. If the area in which the Dog pisses is not cleaned thoroughly, the Dog will smell its own urine and piss again in the same place. So to clean Dog urine thoroughly, all that you have to do is follow the steps given below in order.

· Use a clean towel or a paper towel to blot as much as urine as possible. Make sure you don’t rub. Just keep pressing till the urine gets fully absorbed.
· Rinse the area affected with the help of a glass of water.
· Now use a clean towel or a paper towel to blot as much as water possible used for rinsing.
· After the water used for rinsing is absorbed, mix a quart of water with half a cup of white vinegar. Use the mixture on the area which the Dog urinated.
· Again press a clean towel or paper towel towards the surface in which the mix is poured to absorb all the liquid. You can also use a wet or dry vacuum cleaner in the coolest setting to dry the area up.
· Once all the above steps have been completed, spray pet odor neutralizer around the surface cleaned. This prevents the urine smell from resurfacing.

That’s all. Your house is free from Dog pee.

Amit Bhawani writes many articles on Cleaning Stuff at your Home & Office to keep everything clean. You can read some of them like how to Clean Aluminum Utensils & how to Clean Carpet. Read more stuff like this at http://www.amitbhawani.com

Best CPM Ad Networks

Here is a small list of CPM Ad Networks which you can join and make money automatically.

http://www.tribalfusion.com/
http://www.adsdaq.com/publisher/
http://burstnet.com
http://clicksor.com
http://komli.com

Do comment if you know any other good networks!

ICICI Bank India Launches TV Banking – Joke?

I dont think its a joke because there is a live demo of this service on the ICICIBank.com website which means that ICICI Bank India seems to be quite serious about this. You can now do many of your banking services through your home tv, but will you risk with your real money by gambling on a TV? I dont think so? The better option to this would be Online Banking because atleast you are a lot more secure.