Light Sweet Crude Oil Chart

I am quickly posting this crude oil chart that shows price adjustment from prior benchmark.

John Norton

Unilever CEO

Definitely food for thought with his ideas about corporate leadership,innovation.

John Norton

Business Slide

Look at business slide its really a shock show that is a symbol of current economic changes.

John Norton

Suitcase Economics

I know that i often hear it from business people that the rate of business industry growth is not what it used to be a decade or two decades ago. This kind of ideas comes from a decade of shrinking corporate profits combined with a large scale shift in buying practices by the consumer. If the answer is to look at your ROI then you see many changes in your bottom line profit margin. So many businesses have to stress speed access to a product or service compared to actual face value of the items itself. This is caused many managers and business owners to change how they advertise,market and overall sales of products or services. Adding to the flexible climate shift  you have all of your competition is outsourcing a lot of product development and manufacturing into foreign countries. This really is putting American business into a newly unknown territory where business is forced to sell their products in a global market. This definitely has major market share plus for business growth but a definition of who you are and what you do is much harder to get in front of the prospective customers. The research speaks for itself in many trade magazines like Forbes who know that it's hard to get your customer to buy from your business because your product,service and message is being drowned out by global competitors. This is why you see less Mom and Pop businesses still open operating in the century we currently live. The factor of globalization has almost wiped out small business in America with a change toward larger retail and global corporate giants able to sell their products on a mass scale. The bigger killer is cheap imports from China,Singapore and Malaysia which reduce the overall quality standards on a market share. By drowning the markets with cheaper foreign goods it's making American businesses who used to enjoy supremacy scramble for the share of whatever markets are available. American businesses are taking the brunt of global changes with more need to address the trade imbalance that still exists with our wealthy partners worldwide. We, that is American business is the engine of creative and ingenuity need to get more involved with lifting up our quality and standards again a a leader in the world..

Business Solutions

Business Solutions To Community Progress

Let’s take a look at who in the business world supports community development.  Many businesses are very active in promoting housing and work-based programs that increase both the awareness and financial support of social community programs. These programs such as Habitat For Humanity, which builds homes for the under privileged, and the United Way Homes for Life Program are all good examples of business and community members working together.

By bringing together these needed resources and the financial backing of the more wealthy companies we build a partnership to solve community problems in both urban areas and the rural population too. Businesses have more freedom to be create change and innovation than what our government is able to do.

The innovators combined with the ceo s of all size companies contribute a combined total of 83 percent of all donations to community sponsored reinvestment programs such as the ones previously listed and many more. Forbes Magazine ranks Fortune 500 list companies that share and contribute the most to community reinvestment and new development by a ladder profile. Companies like McDonalds, Starbucks, Panera Bread, Exxon Mobil, CVS Pharmacy, Shaw’s Supermarkets and many others contribute more per capital in donations and sponsorships than all the others out there.

Most Chambers of Commerce and local and national business groups are heavy involved in civic development and support of charity and community reinvestment. When business and civic organizations join together they are better able to address and manage problems both at the local and national level when there is a need to be filled.

The engine of business is the leaders and problem solvers who can put forward both financial and intellectual resources to get the job done and solve community problems from a more efficient and stable platform than can most any other vehicle that is available.

Looking at cooperative ventures with people of all types shows how businesses can be the catalyst for great changes in a community. They can offer a fresh opportunity for outreach to community leaders and provide more suggestions and solve problems that otherwise would be left to the back burner or never tackled at all. Partnership in a world of everyday change means that you can have both businesses and civic organizations working together to achieve common goals to solve issues that benefit both sides.

Doing this helps us achieve a better community through private business outsourcing, in partnership with civic groups. You are then able to grow a very nice urban or rural landscape that is both aesthetic and functional while also creating new jobs and homes where more people will want to stay and raise their families for all future generation to come. Business is always the solution and will continue to be that functional piece that drives innovative ideas in a inter connected world that we currently live in this millennium.. Businesses are the ones who reach out to better persons lives in concert with government and civic organizations, so that we can grow a better future for everyone.

Business Phyco graphics

This morning I starting my day with the usually busy things to get done including sipping my morning coffee. Then it hit me I thought not many things in business really deal with the phyco graphics issue which really has a big important impact on customers purchasing a products or services. Well, what is phyco graphics? Good Question ... It is the collection of different emotional thoughts and responses to a various amount of data collection pertaining to a product or service. In other words if you buddy tells you that when your going to buy a car for instance he has a good deal and no problems with his Chevrolet Malibu. Chances are your going to go out to a Chevrolet Dealer to look at all the different models available for sale on the show room floor.. Then your going to remember the comments of your buddy and go ask the sales person to sit in a Chevrolet Malibu. After looking around at all the other manufacturers and models of cars your most likely to go back and buy the Chevrolet Malibu because it has a reputation for being a good car and higher brand value than say a Toyota Camry. This is a example of brand based customer phyco graphics in which the feeling of a person,family and friends influences every purchase they make in their lifetime. Every business must include this in any marketing program to create a brand that well known for value,quality and being  affordable to the customer. This is essential to building a brand that will sell itself by having a long term product or service life cycle. Simply put if your brand is well known for to the prospective customer for being worth the money chances are the customer will buy your product over and over again meanwhile recommending it to others to purchase it. This reduces your advertising and marketing budget in your business by having a brand that is known for as good investment.. Consider this to be essential to growth in any business for your company to beat your competition by knowledge of your customers demographics and phyco graphics.

Have a great day..