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The need to reduce spending in order to restore the high deficit and restore fiscal sustainability in the government accounts has been one of the government’s commitment to redirect the Spanish economic model. According to today published the National Institute of Statistics , the total investment in Spain in research and development (R & D) has fallen again in 2010 for the second consecutive year. And for the first time since 1997, reduce the money the government have put into this section.

The data advanced today by the statistical office that do not provide absolute numbers but percentages reveal that the total investment in R & D in 2010 increased rate of decline from 0.8% in 2009 to 1.7%. These unprecedented cuts in the archives of INE, which collects this data from 1964.

As the business sector accounts for over half the spending on research, his departure also falls in 2010 with a cut of 2.4%. Where appropriate, the decrease is lower than in 2009 when it shrank 6.2% because of the recession that the Spanish economy suffered in that exercise. Before the crisis, we must go back to 1994 to find declines in investment in R & D in companies.

The commitment to enhance the R & D is one of the pillars underpinning the Sustainable Economy Act with which the government wants to lay the groundwork for changing the production model. However, when measures such as broadening the corporate tax deduction of 8% to 12% for such investments have not been sufficient to wipe away the private sector cuts recorded in the government.

Having the experience of having a business in the real world is crucial to success of your business online and running, unlike the real world, Internet is a novel and getting sales in this virtual environment requires specialized strategies, so you have to adjust and adapt marketing strategies that you know your business online.

For the website of your online business works and be able to get sales, then I will provide 6 basic tips, where most of the entrepreneurs and SMEs with online businesses make mistakes:
1. Professional design.
I put as the first council of the professional design of your business website, as this is your virtual storefront, if the page your business online does not have a professional design and has not been developed with a marketer can hardly catch the attention initially and gain the trust of your visitors, they are simply not going to trust a site that is poorly designed.

If you want your customers to feel secure and confident they must see that you take your business seriously, if from the beginning its website showing an ugly or unprofessional, never taken seriously or you will get to build confidence that your business needs, so this is the most important for your visitors feel comfortable and have confidence and credibility in your website.

2. Usability.
The usability is directly related to the professional design of your business, make sure that your visitors can find whatever you seek easily, a common mistake in many sites including some also of an apparent “professional look” but do not were designed from a marketing perspective, is to put relevant information well hidden, never do, the information depth scare too many clicks your visitors to always remember that your competition is just a few clicks away and can leave quickly if ever having had the opportunity to see what I was looking on their website is there.

3. The marketing.
If there is something important for a website is marketing and even more so in the online world than the real, because unlike a brick store in which it is easier for people to find a store physical, come and see what’s in it for them, the Internet is more complicated because if your website is not qualified visits, you have no business, and may not sell, because your visitors find your products or services is like finding a needle in a Pajal.

Therefore have to make a great effort, and this is where marketing plays an important fundamental in your business strategies, fortunately, there are many ways to help you get qualified visitors:
- Natural positioning in search engines.
- E-mail marketing.
- ppc campaigns.
- banner ad campaigns.
- Appropriate use of social networks.

The more strategies you use for your online business is no longer invisible to potential customers, the more likely you are to be found for them. Remember that just as it is very important to get qualified visitors interested in your products or services, is also very important that your website is prepared for that capture the attention of visitors, but to no avail streams of traffic and all efforts do to get these visits if your business is not prepared to convert visitors to customers, then all efforts will vanish without results.

4. Build reputation.
Another important point is to have a good reputation in the virtual world, which must learn how to grow your reputation on the Internet and use it to its full potential. Take part in forums and social networks that are within its niche market, create a good reputation, build credibility and trust in you if you so will automatically get into your website, the “word of mouth” will grow and more users in these forums and social networks, of course must include your “signature” at the end of all his post, for those interested to visit you.

Very important, do not do that nearly 100% of the inexperienced Internet do, which is when they participate in communities or social networks, only invite new contacts to try to sell them, willy-nilly, at the first opportunity to communicate never try to sell anything, from scratch, build their reputation and prestige first, the rest will follow.

5. Stay on the cutting edge.
Staying awake and hunting every day of new strategies and trends in your market will be hugely beneficial for you and your business on the Internet, to provide him with the necessary skills that are essential for sustained development and permanent your company, this will make you less vulnerable to competitors and the global economic crisis or personal might be filed, thus increasing the chances of maintaining the competitiveness of your business.

6. The prices.
Never base your sales strategy be priced too high or too low, you should take care of the psychological factor that plays against the thought that while cheaper is better or if you sell nothing too expensive, the price you decide to make their products or services are going to do more or less competitive for their customers which can lead directly to visitors to the competition, remember they are just a click away from your customers.

What to price, the lower, similar, equal or more expensive than your competition?
Compete with its competition with lower prices is an exhausting and endless strategy that never recommend that can lead to a maze with no exit, which may ultimately lead to your business to the brink.

The differentiation strategy is smarter and more favorable point in pitting the products or services from your competition without having to reach a price war, if you know how to differentiate, you can have competitive prices, so it does not matter if equal to or higher than others, since they had a higher will support you and different products or services of their competitors.

Over the years I have found a common situation among those who are owners of SMEs: the boat went completely bandaged eyes, ie manage the company without taking into account the state’s basic financial information that keeps our business, conforming only to see how much was the end of the month in our checking account. If there is enough, okay, but more often the opposite case, when there was enough money and worst of all, you do not know why.

Although much of the financial management depends on knowing how to use our common sense, to have information reliable financial and updated, can be the difference between taking a good and a bad decision. A good decision will make our business stronger, one bad decision could lead to bankruptcy. For this reason, if we are to some extent responsible for the management of economic resources of our company, it is essential to know the basics of management financial. Here is the goal of this series: to provide the employer’s basic concimientos the subject, all those business owner should know.

The famous accounting equation
For centuries, the accounting is based on the following rule (see illustration): The assets are all assets and rights owned by the company. Examples are: cash, checking accounts, accounts receivable, furniture, automobiles, land, and so on. The liabilities represent all debts and obligations to the company payroll, wages payable, debt providers, bank loans, taxes payable, and so on. ‘s equity is the money it provided the owner or partners to start the company and start trading, but other contributions that have made ​​partners plus utilities that have generated in prior periods have not been removed, plus the current period earnings.

Now, the formula works this way: all the assets (or investments) that have or have done business (such as land) were financed through liabilities or stockholders’ equity (also called sources). That is why the equation will always work, because whenever you want to acquire an asset, it will be through a debt (liabilities) or the capital of the company. Thus, if the asset increases, so will the liability or equity as he had to have been financed in one of these two sources, and vice versa. For this reason, many assets have not synonymous with strength, as if these assets were financed with debt and debt is beyond our ability to pay, suffer a liquidity crisis and probably violates our commitments.

If you are looking for information about MLM … how do you know who will give the best advice? how do you know who to trust?
There are three types of people who want to give you advice:
- Those who have never been in a MLM Business
- Those who have tried but have failed
- Those who tried and succeeded
Let’s see …

1) Those who have never been in a MLM Business
While most of the books in bookstores are authors who have never done what they write, those who have never been in an MLM but they speak or write about the industry, for example the media: newspapers, magazines, try television industry say about this but their advice is not valid because it is based on what other people say, not your own experience.
This problem is compounded when the “expert” merely repeats something he has heard. The problem is that these people “think” know anything about it but have never developed, or if you have done and have not had success, definitely not the most appropriate for review.

2) Those who have tried and failed
When someone has attempted a Business multinive ly failed, it is common to start criticizing the industry and those who develop it … Why? Because there is something in the industry that is a mystery to this person and obviously can not know what had happened and not accept that he was in his hands its success or failure, of course blame any other person / circumstance rather than accept that was his fault.

We take for example a person who wanted to engage in real estate but failed. That person will cast a negative experience to anything you write or say in the business. Typically write about what is bad, difficult or dangerous in the industry .. Why? Because he could never get it. His worst nightmare is to see people succeed in a business in which he failed.

Nor should we listen to advice from such people because they are resentful and do not want other people to succeed where they failed. This would only prove their ineptitude. Perhaps they will say that “only want to protect you” but really, they just want to protect themselves from their feelings of failure.

It is worth mentioning that in any enterprise that fails there are more people than the people who succeed, so you can find much more negative than positive about any topic.

3) The successful
If someone has tried something and succeeded, they are a valuable asset for you and your advice is priceless. They know what is and what is not important in the industry.
However, we must clarify that there is a difference between someone who has had success in the industry and someone who only has “knowledge” about it.

Just because a person has studied something does not mean you can do well. A hairdresser can study all about hair, that does not mean she can cut the hair of customer satisfaction. A student who has acquired knowledge of any profession and successfully completes, only test that can be a “successful student” …. Has not proven he can be a successful professional in this field.

If you fail, take the advice of someone who does not know or failed but if you want to succeed, take advice from those who are successful. The person that you should accept advice about MLM is the person who has made ​​it where you want to be, which is succeeding in the industry.

In Multilevel like any other industry, not everything is perfect and it is necessary that if you’re interested in Business Multinive l, personally assess the industry and explore options about it. From that moment, you can make a decision – with knowledge-about whether to participate in the MLM business … I wish you much success!

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At some point in the life of a company building a line of credit will definitely save owner concerns and unnecessary discomfort. It’s always good to build corporate credit, before you really need corporate credit, however, many people simply do not know how to build corporate credit. If a business is to have a viable chance in a long-term life, homeowners should learn how to build corporate credit. The first reason is to build corporate credit separate from your personal credit.

The second is to establish relationships with companies with which your company will do business anyway. Building corporate credit involves correctly identifying those companies willing to give business loans without identifying unusual or personal checks. Also, many people tend to try to compensate for their lack of knowledge in the creation of personally guaranteeing corporate credit business loans.

Having corporate credit and know how to build corporate credit is especially important in these situations, because business must go through a recession, the owner is personally liable and their assets are vulnerable. You should also learn how to build corporate credit before it’s necessary because your business is a very low risk at the point where you do not need credit, making it much easier for the lender to offer the absolute best for your business credit. Building corporate credit, especially before it is really necessary, it also identifies your company as a trust more established companies, which are much more likely to do business with you in other areas, not just as a lender.

Largest companies recognize the importance of building corporate credit from the beginning, and therefore, those companies will be recognized that younger is much more professional and business owners as best generals.

Surely you’ve seen, you have passed your hand, you’ve browsed and thought it one additional industrial code without much utility. In reality, the QR codes (Quick Response Barcode) began as that, a code developed by a Japanese company that allowed its contents are read at high speed to facilitate the process of recording parts in the area of vehicle manufacturing, and inventory management in a variety of industries.

However, QR is now popularly used by including software that reads these codes in mobile phones , which has enabled new applications aimed at consumers dor, reflected in amenities, such as leave to enter data in a manual on mobiles in the cards for the phone to recognize the data and automatically included on the agenda, and access to promotions and offers from different advertisers.

The code is characterized by the three squares that are in the corners and to detect the position of the code reader, and can be scanned for example by the camera of a Smartphone, display text, images, videos, music and even a website.

But when do you use? Imagine a situation in our city, we walk by a window at midnight and see a product you would like to buy and which has a QR code next. We just have to take a photo and access to information of the store may be your website for online shopping, or a complete catalog of other varieties of product. Read the rest of this entry »

If you are an SME, you are a freelancer or whether you’re an entrepreneur who wants to set up a new business is vital that you have located a number of reference sites where you can see: training courses, subsidies and grants, consultancies or tools and applications … This updated web page directory will set you apart from your competition, because it handles a lot of useful information, which is not trivial in any sector that is focused on your activity.

This is the reason that from our blog we’ll be showing listings of reference sites, tools and networks that help serve you when you choose and configure your own database of reference sites. For this article, we focus on government websites will help you in building your business or your work as a freelancer. Other articles will focus on webs of associations, private organizations, tools, software or special aids, among other topics.

The status of workers in Article 44 defines on the business succession.

1. The change of ownership of a company, a workplace or an independent production unit itself does not terminate the employment relationship , leaving the entrepreneur subrogated to the rights and obligations of labor and Social Security of the above, including commitments pension under the terms of its specific provisions, and in general, the obligations of complementary social protection has acquired the transferor.

2. For the purposes of the provisions of this Article shall be deemed to be business succession when the transmission affects a economic entity which retains its identity , meaning an organized grouping of resources to carry out an economic activity, essential or accessory.

3. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Social Security legislation, the transferor and the transferee in the transfer to take place for acts “inter vivos” jointly and severally liable for three years of work obligations arising prior to the transmission and which have not been met. The transferor and the transferee also jointly liable for obligations arising after the transfer, when the assignment is declared a crime. Read the rest of this entry »

Need a business plan? If you are about to start a business and try to get financing, you probably need a fairly comprehensive business plan. But what if you are starting a business that you handle yourself, financed and administered? As a solo entrepreneur, you definitely need a plan, but the formality, length and complexity of it can vary.
Is it really needed a business plan?

Alyssa Gregory, specializing in entrepreneurship and Sitepoint contributor tells us that the business plan is still needed but only if:

* Do you think qualify for a loan or you will approach investors to fund your project.
* Incorporate a board which will have to answer for your results, or
* Started the business with someone else. It is a way to get things clear between business partners.

In other situations, you can use a lightweight version of the business plan. Among your options is the mission statement of the company or business. She defines the central purpose of your business and not something you can get to complete in an hour or two. On the contrary, it will take time and probably need to change over time, but will be an invaluable tool for planning for your business.

There is also the option of creating a summary of what makes your business valuable and unique, which must ultimately be two central features of any start-up to the web, which is our field.

What is a USP?

USP stands for Unique Selling Proposition and this is the summary of the speaker. Answers basic questions that will identify your venture as different and more effective than others. To create a need to follow a series of steps that Gregory identifies as:

* Describe your audience or your audience. Who directed your services?
* Explain the problem your business solves.
* Lists the great benefits that would result if the client chooses to work with you and he could not get another (Differentiate from your competitors).
* Define your promise. What you offer your audience? How can you keep that promise?
* Combine and synthesized. Upon completion of the above, you’ll want to evaluate your writing and make a work of synthesis to reduce your ideas to a couple of lines.
* Make work of condensation: USP want to be as specific and simple as possible.

Today we present the list of new business ideas, where we see business opportunities that may be new to your market. One way to differentiate themselves from competitors is by developing new businesses that are a significant change to the actual.

1. Vending machines

The sixth of our new business ideas is to sell products through vending machines or vending machines. This idea was originally born to sell soft drinks and sweets, to have a service open 24 hours with very low costs. This business idea applies equally to various products. For example, in Italy there is a machine that produces and sells a pizza alone, in Dubai sold gold remove it from a vending machine, and in Germany it is already fully automated convenience store.

2. Sushi

In every city where I’ve been to Mexico (DF, Puebla, Veracruz, Pachuca, and others), I find the surprise success of sushi establishments. The reason the know (I’ve never eaten), but as an entrepreneur I have noticed that this idea of new business can be very profitable if you look at the feasibility.

3. Business for membership

In the seventh of the new business ideas are the exclusive shops that require membership. In Mexico and the United States, we see this model at Sam’s Club or Costco. It requires payment of an annual membership to enter the store and buy goods. This business idea can be applied not only to the purchase of goods, but for the use of a service (for example, video rental stores use this format.) Be creative to apply in business. If you have any ideas you can share it below in the comments area.