Shape Your Small Business In Easy Steps

The small business owners normally try to get a boost for their business or sometimes they need a shape to attract customers. They may have many choices if they have some knowledge about trends in the public at large. While social media was building up steam in previous years, it pretty much went mainstream this past year. In fact, many businesses became fatigued from hearing so much about Twitter, Facebook, and social media in general. This may be an alarming situation.

As the hype settled and people began to understand how to use and integrate these new platforms, more change was brewing. The evolution that was social media in 2009 set the table for the realization of some significant trends to bubble up into the world of small business in 2010.

The groundwork for some of these trends has been in place for years, but I think we will see small business owners finally start to embrace the following significant expansions in the New Year.

i)Information of Real time

At some point in 2010, all search results will consist of real-time information, scores, reviews, tweets and all, right there and up to the minute. We’re addicted to up to the minute connection and we want more. It’s kind of like the Meryl Streep line in Postcards from the Edge, “Instant gratification isn't fast enough.”

Most everything we do will be instant. Google Wave wants to introduce real-time collaboration.

An iPhone app called Shazam will tell me the name of the song playing on a coffee shop stereo right now. Oh, and I can buy it on iTunes, right now too.

Another, called Red Laser, will tell me where to get an item from a photo. It will also give me the best price available for the item anywhere, right now, from a bar code scan.

ii)Finding Location

Imagine standing on a hill overlooking the downtown skyline and pointing the camera on your phone in any direction and getting a full tour of what you are looking at, including restaurant recommendations from friends in your favorite social network.

Walk into a museum, plug in your headphones and point your phone at a painting or sculpture. Then, read about it while a video interview from an expert on the artist loads.

Augmented reality and location aware services have been around for a while. Now that Facebook and Twitter are starting to play with geo-location for tweets and update, enabled by the GPS technology on most every new phone, look out, it’s going to tip.

Location sharing services like Foursquare, Loopt and Google Latitude, are already receiving mainstream media mention. It won’t be long before every rating and review site, such as Yelp! and Insider Pages, build this into the foundation and push coupons and discounts out to you based on location.

Anywhere you go you will be able to locate friends nearby or the location of every Twitter follower in a city you are visiting.

Your location, or that of your customers and prospects, will become another data point in the marketing mix.

iii)Get Social Filtering

Having access to vast amounts of information in real-time and the stores of data from throughout history are both a good thing and a bit of a curse. While we can now find the answer to just about any query, we are pummeled with so much information that we cannot sift through the good and bad and true and false.

Filtering and aggregating information became a valuable skill in the last few years as tools like RSS readers and search alerts allowed us to subscribe to and collect the information we wanted to read most.

I believe in the coming year another layer of filtering will become just as important as search engine optimization. Look to see search results peppered with recommendations from our social contacts.

When you search for the best attorney in town, a good movie or the best place to get some authentic TexMex, not only will you see the organic search results earned through Google’s algorithm, you’ll also see what your friend Jimmy had to say about such things.

Social search has the ability to eclipse the value of traditional SEO efforts. As more and more information is added to your social graph, I believe recommendations from trusted sources in your networks will carry significantly more impact in some cases than the results that reach the top spots in organic search.

iv) Desktop Applications

Will desktop applications and computing become a thing of the past? While not completely, 2010 looks like the year that small businesses will truly embrace applications that exist online only.

Entire software suites such as Google Apps and Microsoft Office Live will finally allow document, spreadsheet, database, and presentation software to function as Internet applications at greatly reduced costs and ultimate real time collaboration.

File sharing and storage, including total file backup from tools like Dropbox and Mozy, will become standard in the small business toolbox.

Project, task, scheduling and collaboration of all manners have made a dramatic move to the web with tools like CentralDesktop and Backpack, as remote workers and a global supply chain have dictated. Look for these kinds of tools to be routinely used as client service tools that eliminate the need to drive a few blocks to consult.

Online meeting tools like GoToMeeting, WebEx and even Skype, with video, will continue to allow people to connect in richer ways online.

The sacred cow of the desktop, financial data will finally move online completely as QuickBooks Online. Tools like Freshbooks make it very easy to do bookkeeping online while providing secure access for financial employees and outside accounting resources.

v) Greatest Leverage

While the entire focus of this article to this point has been about changes online, the mantra for 2010 will be the convergence of online and offline for the greatest leverage.

No matter how wired we get as a society and business, there will always be a need for face to fact trust, building engagement. Now that small businesses have moved more online, the smart play will be to find the best ways to fuse the online and offline activates in ways that make the return on both even greater.

While LinkedIn and Facebook may be great places to find prospects and create awareness, they are not always the best platforms to build relationships deep enough to create a sale.

Using these platforms to create awareness for content that resides on your web site or to drive people to events where they can learn and network in person, will become an essential part of the marketing process.

In addition, using online tools such as Twitter and Biznik to further facilitate existing in person relationships, will become another tool that small businesses will add to their competitive arsenal. Now when a member of your sales team meets a prospect at a Chamber of Commerce function, they may follow them on Twitter and invite them to connect on LinkedIn as a matter of process and as a way to more easily communicate, refer and connect, all apart of the trust building cycle.

Elements of these trends have been brewing for some time and adoption of any trend generally happens over time and almost immeasurably.You may take more steps in addition to the above. However, now is the time to analyze the impact these ideas may have on your business this year and into the future.

Solar Export By China

European and U.S. manufacturers -- seem to be weathering the storm so far. Chinese and Asian manufacturers, which have lower cost structures, are actually the ones with excess manufacturing capacity. Now the question may arise why the reversal?

Bank ability, it turns out, played a larger role in the market than expected. Solar developers need credit and banks have favored projects built with European panels over Asian panels.

"Essentially, the bank ability factor has restricted the field of available producers to a much smaller pool; those firms that are not considered bankable are effectively shut out of the market," he wrote. "There is no shortage of module capacity, but rather of bankable module capacity."

The situation, though, will likely change, and the change will not come, I believe, because of a change of heart among U.S. bankers. It will come because Beijing and Shanghai say so.

The history of technology and industry is best understood as a government project. The electronics industries in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea all came out of efforts to boost exports driven by governments working closely with entrepreneurs. In Taiwan, for instance, the tax credits given to chip makers are so generous that in many years, profitable companies see an increase in their profits after taxes because of accumulated credits. In one country, an executive told me that the government initiated a publicized probe of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) after tech companies complained about being busted for using pirated copies of Windows. I never found solid evidence of that, but the fact that high-ranking, respected execs talked that way said something. In South Korea, LCD and memory manufacturers have found friends in bureaucrats in lean times.

Similarly, China's alternative energy program exists to boost exports. China will plant solar panels and wind turbines in its territories, but will reduce those goals if it can export the products first.

To that end, the government already works with banks to move internationally. A-Power Technologies (Nasdaq: APWR), a turbine maker, is building a factory in Nevada and a massive wind farm in Texas in a joint venture funded by a Chinese bank.

Coda Automotive, a Sino-U.S. car company, will get batteries from a joint venture funded by a bank that itself was prompted to invest by the government. The battery factory will be built in Ohio. The battery is very important part in a solar system. Customer needs a durable and cheap one.

These same techniques could easily be used to accelerate the solar industry. In fact, plans may already be underway. Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) has formed an alliance with ENN to build solar power plants in the U.S. Who is ENN? It started as a car rental agency -- its first car sits in the corporate headquarters' lobby, according to sources -- but now, it is a sprawling conglomerate with a solar division. It is located in China.

Rumors circulate that Yingli is creating a fund to bankroll the construction of solar plants with its panels, sort of the way GE (NYSE: GE) and GM fund equipment and car purchases.

The Chinese government also likes solar. It was the main investor in Suntech Power Holdings (NYSE: STP).

U.S. companies, meanwhile, will also ally with Chinese solar makers to boost their own interests. Innovalight has already signed two Chinese deals. So will U.S. politicians. A-Power's U.S. move showed how well it understood the U.S. Initially, it just planned to build a 1.1. gigawatt wind farm and export turbines. Then U.S. senators complained about jobs going overseas, so the company decided to build a turbine factory in Harry Reid's home state. The complaining stopped. Suntech and other Chinese module makers also have plans to construct U.S. manufacturing facilities. As a result, Chinese companies have in a short time become a significant driver of new factory jobs for Americans. Point that out to a U.S. executive when they start to complain about high wages and foreign competition.

And with all due respect to U.S. banks, Chinese financial institutions can probably do what you do -- loan out money on projects guaranteed to generate revenue and accept checks in return -- with far less pomposity and overhead.

In short, look for names like Shenyang and Bank of Tianjin. They will be changing the U.S. solar industry soon. The energy resources are decreasing day by day, solar is a good alternative.

Is Diversity Means Business

There are many ideas behind the business. Many companies persist in acknowledging diversity only as it pertains to affirmative action programs or selection and hiring practices. However, organizations are increasingly using diversity initiatives to develop an environment of cooperation and communication that encourages members to value and express differing ideas and viewpoints. From this perspective, valuing diversity is not merely recognizing the legitimacy of differences, but relying on these differences for competitive advantage. To learn more you must read the following.

Reasons Why Diversity Matters

Today's organizations have discovered that diversity is not only good for people it's also good for business. Companies that successfully adopt diversity as a strategic initiative are likely to experience the following benefits:

• Improved morale
• Improved quality and acceptance of decisions
• Increased efficiency and productivity
• Improved product and service quality
• Effective teamwork

These outcomes alone should convince any organization that teaching members to value differences is well worth the time and money.

The Organizational Culture

Ultimately, creating an environment that supports diversity requires an organization's leadership to view human resource differences not as idiosyncrasies to be managed, but as assets to be nurtured and developed. For this form of diversity to "work," it must become an organizational value that members are encouraged to demonstrate through their collective behavior. In short, the degree to which an organization can embrace and support diversity is largely a function of its culture the behavioral norms or "styles" that identify the shared beliefs, values, and expectations that guide how members interact with one another and approach their work.

The Organizational Culture Inventory (OCI) provides a valid and reliable measure of an organization's culture in terms of 12 styles. These 12 styles are organized into three "types" of culture: Constructive, Passive/Defensive, and Aggressive/Defensive. Each of these cultures is associated with specific organizational outcomes related to teamwork and coordination, quality of service, and employee satisfaction and motivation. Following are the characteristics of these cultures.



Organizations with Constructive cultures encourage members to work to their full potential, resulting in high levels of motivation, satisfaction, teamwork, service quality, and sales growth. Members must balance expectations for taking initiative and thinking independently with those for consensus and power sharing. Members believe in leveraging individual differences to enhance performance and sustain innovation.

These types of cultural norms are consistent with (and supportive of) the objectives behind diversity, empowerment, transformational leadership, continuous improvement, re engineering, and learning organizations.



Members of organizations with Passive/Defensive cultures feel pressured to think and behave in ways that are inconsistent with the way they personally believe they should behave in order to be effective. Members are expected to do whatever it takes to please others (particularly superiors) and avoid interpersonal conflicts.

Personal beliefs, ideas, and judgment take a back seat to rules, procedure, and orders _all of which are to be followed without question. As a result, organizations with Passive/Defensive cultures experience a significant amount of unresolved conflict and turnover and their members report relatively low levels of motivation and satisfaction. Members within a Passive/Defensive culture would resist diversity by minimizing constructive differing and the expression of ideas and opinions. People may have different ideas and opinions which hold water,

Entrepreneur

The Entrepreneur is needed . But there must not be unrest among workers if they are the part of it. The Department of Labor predicts that the No.1 employer in 2010 will be “self.” A recent Internet poll of 25-44 year old revealed that 90% of them hoped to own their own business. A survey conducted by Ernst & Young found that 75% of influential Americans believe that entrepreneurship will be the defining trend of the 21st century. Some of the factors that have attributed to the rise of the modern day entrepreneurial spirit are access to technology, a global economy, and corporate stagnation.

Many workers have experienced feelings of discontent, which are likely due to the up sizing, downsizing, and right-sizing of corporations. But whatever the reason, modern workers want to have more control over the work they do. And they want work that is meaningful and important to them. Now is a great time to become your own boss. In fact, the number of Americans who are running their own businesses will continue to grow as we move further into the millennium. As workers’ values are changing and people want more time to do the things they love with those they love, having employment that allows for a greater balance in their lives is critical to today’s worker.

In fact, it is downright un-American not to believe in the principles of entrepreneurship. We started out working on the family farm or in the family-owned grocery store (or other small business), but as our country became more industrialized, families were pulled apart. We had to go where the work was. We left our homes and hometowns and ventured into the big cities. Big companies, industries, and corporations popped up all over the country, and we became reliant on them to take care of us. Today, with the advent of the computer, we don’t even have to leave home to conduct business. It frees us up to concentrate on the “business of life” again.

The new world of work encourages the entrepreneurial mindset, in that we need to learn to use our imagination to dream up new ideas, challenge assumptions and belief systems to find a better way, and break through worn-out thinking to create new and innovative products and services. This way of thinking is helpful whether you are working for yourself or someone else. An entrepreneur can be defined as anyone who undertakes a commercial risk for profit, and/or tackles new challenges. They are the change agents of society because they see a problem and want to find a way to solve it. They believe in being self-reliant and taking action to better their communities. Robert Schwartz’s definition: “An entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and actualizer. He can visualize something and when he visualizes it, he sees exactly how to make it happen.”

Successful entrepreneurs realize that if it is to become a reality, they are the ones to make it happen. An entrepreneur is someone who is able to continually reinvent himself, and to rethink an entire project (and possibly start all over) if he finds that something is not right. Thus, someone who has vision, flexibility, and a risk-taking nature fares very well in self-employment ventures.

Of course, like anything else, there are pros and cons to becoming an entrepreneur. One pro is that you are the boss. The con is that you still have other co-workers, customers, and vendors to rely on to get the job done. People who are self-employed often only have illusions of control. For instance, you may think you have everything under control and then something happens that puts everything out of your control. The difference is that being the boss means that it all comes down to you. You are fully responsible for your success. For many people this level of personal responsibility is part of the challenge and enjoyment. The truth is that any successful entrepreneur rolls with the punches and moves with the winds of change.

Stock Market

The financial market shows very uncertain behavior sometimes. The stock market is divided in many different types according to its trends. Some times bullish trend etc. Financial markets provide their participants with the most favorable conditions for purchase/sale of financial instruments they have inside. They have some functions. Their major functions are: guaranteeing liquidity, forming assets prices within establishing proposition and demand and decreasing of operational expenses, incurred by the participants of the market.

As far instruments concern, Financial market comprises variety of instruments, hence its functioning totally depends on instruments held. Usually it can be classified according to the type of financial instruments and according to the terms of instruments’ paying-off.

From the point of different types of instruments held the market can be divided into the one of promissory notes and the one of securities (stock market). The first one contains promissory instruments with the right for its owners to get some fixed amount of money in future and is called the market of promissory notes, while the latter binds the issuer to pay a certain amount of money according to the return received after paying-off all the promissory notes and is called stock market. There are also types of securities referring to both categories as, e.g., preference shares and converted bonds. They are also called the instruments with fixed return.

Another classification is due to paying-off terms of instruments. These are: market of assets with high liquidity (money market) and market of capital. The first one refers to the market of short-term promissory notes with assets age up to 12 months. The second one refers to the market of long-term promissory notes with instruments age surpasses 12 months. This classification can be referred to the bond market only as its instruments have fixed expiry date, while the stock market’s not.

Let us have a look of the stock market.

As it was mentioned before, ordinary shares’ purchasers typically invest their funds into the company-issuer and become its owners. Their weight in the process of making decisions in the company depends on the number of shares he/she possesses. Due to the financial experience of the company, its part in the market and future potential shares can be divided into several groups.In brief it is given blow,

1.Like Blue Chips

Shares of large companies with a long record of profit growth, annual return over $4 billion, large capitalization and constancy in paying-off dividends are referred to as blue chips.

2.The Growth Stocks

Shares of such company grow faster; its managers typically pursue the policy of reinvestment of revenue into further development and modernization of the company. These companies rarely pay dividends and in case they do the dividends are minimal as compared with other companies.

3. The Income Stocks

Income stocks are the stocks of companies with high and stable earnings that pay high dividends to the shareholders. The shares of such companies usually use mutual funds in the plans for middle-aged and elderly people.

4. The Defensive Stocks

These are the stocks whose prices stay stable when the market declines, do well during recessions and are able to minimize risks. They perform perfect when the market turns sour and are in requisition during economic boom.

These categories are widely spread in mutual funds, thus for better understanding investment process it is useful to keep in mind this division.

Shares can be issued both within the country and abroad. In case a company wants to issue its shares abroad it can use American Depositary Receipts (ADRs). ADRs are usually issued by the American banks and point at shareholders’ right to possess the shares of a foreign company under the asset management of a bank. Each ADR signals of one or more shares possession.

When operating with shares, aside of purchase/sale ratio profits, you can also quarterly receive dividends. They depend on: type of share, financial state of the company, shares category etc.

Ordinary shares do not guarantee paying-off dividends. Dividends of a company depend on its profitability and spare cash. Dividends differ from each other as they are to be paid in a different period of time, with the possibility of being higher as well as lower. There are periods when companies do not pay dividends at all, mostly when a company is in a financial distress or in case executives decide to reinvest income into the development of the business. While calculating acceptable share price, dividends are the key factor.

Price of ordinary share is determined by three main factors: annual dividends rate, dividends growth rate and discount rate. The latter is also called a required income rate. The company with the high risks level is expected to have high required income rate. The higher cash flow the higher share prices and versus. This interdependence determines assets value. Below we will touch upon the division of share prices estimating in three possible cases with regard to dividends.

While purchasing shares, aside of risks and dividends analysis, it is absolutely important to examine company carefully as for its profit/loss accounting, balance, cash flows, distribution of profits between its shareholders, managers’ and executives’ wages etc. Only when you are sure of all the ins and outs of a company, you can easily buy or sell shares. If you are not confident of the information, it is more advisable not to hold shares for a long time (especially before financial accounting published). There are different opinions but normally when some people see some increase .

How To Get Approved A Bad Credit Mortgage Loan

If you want get approved mortgage loans. Persistence is the key working toward getting approved for a bad credit mortgage loan . There are many factors that you, as a borrower have control over that can help you get approved faster and easier. There are guidelines that most sub-prime lenders go by that, if you know them, can help you move through the process without getting stuck, unable to get financing.

If you have a bankruptcy or foreclosure, even if they are recent, do not despair. Many sub-prime or bad credit mortgage lenders have what’s called, guidelines for bankruptcy or foreclosure seasoning. That means that they have a set amount of time that must go by from the time of a bankruptcy or foreclosure before they will lend to a borrower. Usually this time is 2-3 years, but many sub-prime lenders have no seasoning time, which means, if your credit score is above a certain point, you could get approved the day after your bankruptcy discharge. Other sub-prime lenders have bankruptcy or foreclosure seasoning of 6 months or a year. The biggest factor here will be your credit score.

Sub-prime or bad credit mortgage lenders will look closely at your credit score. In order to get 100% financing with bad credit, lenders will usually need to see you have a credit score of at least 600 or higher. There are quite a few things you can do to raise your credit score to be above this 600 mark. Here are a few suggestions:

1 Check your credit report for inaccuracies. Make sure all accounts included in bankruptcies and foreclosures are reporting accurately. If they show up as an open collection or unpaid account, charge-off or something else, this could be unnecessarily hurting your credit score. It will look like another, separate credit blemish instead of just the one. Make sure the bankruptcies and foreclosures are reporting accurately. Make sure accounts that are paid off, show up as being paid off, or accounts that are closed, show up as being closed.

2. Pay-off any small collection accounts or past due accounts that you can. Every account that you pay off will help boost your score. Once you have done this, get a letter of notification that the account is paid off and talk to your lender. Most lenders have programs where they can, for a $75 fee per item, provide proof to the credit bureaus that an account has been paid off and have your credit and credit score appropriately adjusted within a day or two. This program is sometimes called a “wrap it up” service. If you are in a hurry to get financed, this may be worth it to you.

3. Pay down open credit line balances. If you can even pay down the balances on any open lines of credit, this will boost your credit score. Your credit score is lowered when lines of credit are maxed out. You can make good use of your money by paying down credit card balances to boost your score.

Once you have used some of these techniques to boost your credit score, be persistent about contacting and applying with many different bad credit mortgage lenders. Many bad credit mortgage loan brokers claim that if they can’t do the loan, then no one can. That is simply not true. All mortgage loan brokers have connections with many different lenders and loan programs. What may be impossible with one, can be very possible with another broker.

If your score is around 600 or slightly higher, you will probably have a pre-payment penalty. Pretty much all bad credit mortgage loans will come with a pre-payment penalty. Talk to your lender about the details of the pre-payment penalty. Find out how long the penalty will last and exactly how much money the penalty is. How much is the fine for pre-payment on the loan? This is an important factor to consider when comparing lenders.

To get a approved for a bad credit mortgage loan, be persistent, work on your credit score as much as you can to get it above that 600 mark and apply with or contact many lenders to compare mortgage loan programs. In this way you may get benefit .

About Bankruptcy Credit Card

Some time people become bankrupt then it becomes almost impossible for companies to trust on them for extending the loans. Now you are in a situation like without credit or bad credit. A bankruptcy credit card is basically a card that you can get despite bad credit.

Your past can be a painful experience for you. If you have been in bankruptcy in the past, you are probably finding it difficult to build up your credit rating again. One of the reasons for this is that most of the major companies will not offer you a credit card or other loan due to your past bankruptcy. There are a few things that you can do in order to lessen the effect that that bankruptcy has on your credit now, but one of those options (wait until it is no longer on your credit report) is not a good idea if you need a credit card or loan now.

In the state of bankruptcy many companies may not be giving you the credit cards. There are some companies that will offer bankruptcy credit cards. Essentially, these are credit cards for people with no or bad credit. The advantage of getting one of these credit cards is that by paying off your debt on it, you can start to improve and build up your credit report so that you'll be able to get loans and other credit cards in the future. The disadvantage is that in a lot of cases, these cards have high interest rates associated with them, or high annual fees.

If you are going to get a your first credit card and you have not been through bankruptcy proceedings in the past, then you should be careful in order to continue avoiding them in the future. For instance, you should only get one or maybe two credit cards at a time. The more credit cards that you have, the more likely it is that you'll rack up a huge credit card debt. Credit card debts are very hard to pay off, so you should be careful not to get in debt to begin with. If you do, there's a good chance you'll end up going bankrupt.

If you're worried that you might go bankrupt over credit card debt, then you should look into some of the debt consolidation or elimination services that are online. These services should help you get rid of the debt you have. Just make sure that you thoroughly research any company you decide to go through so that you can be sure they can be trusted with your credit history.It may proved to be a great help for you.

Brand Stands for What

When you want to start a business you may also be thinking about your brand name. This brand name may also show the thinking behind your business. A brand must stand for something that is meaningful to your target market. Your brand encompasses the total experience of knowing you and/or doing business with you.

Normally Consistency of Behavior and Habits are also important.

People must be able to depend on the brand to deliver the same experience every time. Because your stakeholders experience your values through you, the only way they will truly become loyal to your brand is through your dedication and consistency. In other words, walk the talk.

Relationship-Building

A brand is not a logo or an advertising strategy. The strength of your brand is in the relationship between you and your customers. The stronger the relationship, the more business you will do together, and the more likely it is that your customers will refer you to their friends and business associates.

The test of your brand is, in fact, the strength of loyalty it generates. If you have strong relationships with your target audience, then you have a strong brand.

Reputation Is Priceless

The only way to be successful in business is by establishing a good reputation. Your reputation works by communicating the relationship you have with people who've done business with you, and your target market in general.

Good brands stand the test of time. To develop a brand that will last a lifetime, go beyond what you do right now. Most executives today will have multiple positions, in multiple organizations, as they continue to contribute. Will you be remembered by the positions you had or the personal brand you brought to each? What more could you do for the people in your life be they friends, family or customers?

If you establish a place of trust and relevance in peoples' minds, you're already in the door. The more people believe in your brand, the more it will spread throughout your life without your pushing. If your brand is clear, distinctive, and easily understood, and expresses a unique, compelling benefit that people believe in, it will bring you all the business you can handle and an abundance of positive relationships.
You are great. You are far greater than you imagine. You are a unique entity given the power to create your own life. When you look outside yourself for self-definition you are giving your power away. However, when you understand and accept that you alone possess the power to define yourself and your life, there are dramatic changes. You will find new clarity, focus and confidence. You'll also find that using this incredible gift is both exhilarating and challenging.

You are in charge. Think of your life as a movie. You are the writer, director, producer and star. You choose your co-stars and extras. Whether the movie is a smash or a flop is in your hands.

Your thoughts determine your outcomes. This is one of the great mysteries. There are a lot of theories about this phenomenon but no one really knows how it works. However, it does work and reveals the astonishing power of your thoughts. If you think you are average, you are. If you think you can't win, you won't. Conversely, if you see yourself succeeding, you will. If you expect great things to come to your life, they're on their way.

Water Sources and Business

Water resources are sources of water that are useful or potentially useful to humans. Uses of water include agricultural, industrial, household, recreational and environmental activities. Virtually all of these human uses require fresh water.

97% of water on the Earth is salt water, leaving only 3% as fresh water of which slightly over two thirds is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps. The remaining unfrozen freshwater is mainly found as groundwater, with only a small fraction present above ground or in the air.

Fresh water is a renewable resource, yet the world's supply of clean, fresh water is steadily decreasing. Water demand already exceeds supply in many parts of the world and as the world population continues to rise, so too does the water demand. Awareness of the global importance of preserving water for ecosystem services has only recently emerged as, during the 20th century, more than half the world’s wetlands have been lost along with their valuable environmental services. Biodiversity-rich freshwater ecosystems are currently declining faster than marine or land ecosystems. The framework for allocating water resources to water users (where such a framework exists) is known as water rights.

The water industry will continue to enjoy spectacular growth in the years ahead and there are many wonderful opportunities to build your own business. The industry is very competitive and it is not a “get-rich-quick” field. Notwithstanding this, we strongly recommend the field, provided you are committed, dedicated to grow your business, have adequate financing and seek out the products and services that stand-out from the others.

There are millions of consumers, and countless businesses and institutions that could benefit from using our products. But they must know about us, and the ways we can meet their pure and secure water needs better than anyone else. That’s where you come in. You can serve the market in your surrounding area. Some protected areas still available.