Your Home Business: Turning Pennies into Dollars

Written by Stone Evans, The Home Biz Guy


Your Home Business: Turning Pennies into Dollars Copyright © 2003, Stone Evans, The Home Biz Guy http://www.pluginprofitsite.com/main-5367

Henry Ford taught us that to simplifyrepparttar manufacture of automobiles, thatrepparttar 103929 best way to do so was to installrepparttar 103930 assembly line. That one change revolutionizedrepparttar 103931 auto manufacturing industry permittingrepparttar 103932 industry to build cars at a cost whereasrepparttar 103933 average person could afford to buy one.

The lesson we should take from this is that havingrepparttar 103934 ability to improverepparttar 103935 process of gettingrepparttar 103936 job quicker and cheaper, without compromisingrepparttar 103937 quality ofrepparttar 103938 job being done, will help catapultrepparttar 103939 person who simplifiedrepparttar 103940 process torepparttar 103941 top of his/her field.

Pennies saved in your home business can turn into dollars atrepparttar 103942 end ofrepparttar 103943 day, and dollars can quickly multiply into hundreds or thousands of dollars over time.

Doubt me if you will, but let me ask you a question. Do you think a saving of two fifths of a penny could make any real difference inrepparttar 103944 profit margin of a home business? Of courserepparttar 103945 right answer is "it depends on how many transactions are done in a year, utilizingrepparttar 103946 savings ofrepparttar 103947 two fifths of one penny."

You only have to think back a couple of decades to really appreciate this question. Do you rememberrepparttar 103948 nut that lived and died in a Las Vegas hotel room? You knowrepparttar 103949 one who was a billionaire, and was so worried about germs that he died of starvation? If you guessed Howard Hughes (1905-76), pat yourself onrepparttar 103950 back.

Now Howard did not make all of his money on his two fifths of one penny. He did however make a ton of money from his two fifths of one penny. It seems Howard owned a can manufacturing company. And one day, Howard's team figured out how they could make one minor change inrepparttar 103951 design of their food can to reducerepparttar 103952 amount of tin necessary to make a single can.

Asrepparttar 103953 story goes --- if my memory serves me correctly ---repparttar 103954 reduction in tin usage equaled a saving of two fifths of one penny per can. Howard --- beingrepparttar 103955 really smart businessman that he was --- decided that he would not be so greedy as to keep all ofrepparttar 103956 savings for himself. What Mr. Hughes did do was to keep half ofrepparttar 103957 savings for himself, and giverepparttar 103958 other half to his customers. The incredible thing about Mr. Hughes decision is that by saving his customers an extra one fifths of one cent per can, he managed to take more market share away from his competition --- netting his company an additional and substantial portion ofrepparttar 103959 total market share inrepparttar 103960 canning industry.

No Degree, No Problem

Written by Brett M. Stevens


According to a recent survey, 52% of job candidates polled lied on their resume about having a college degree.

Here are 3 brief horror stories:

A new Director of Logistics and his family were actually loadingrepparttar moving van provided by his new employer for relocation from California to North Carolina. The phone rang and it wasrepparttar 103928 Human Resource Manager from his new company. The offer was being withdrawn. Through a routine degree verification check,repparttar 103929 company learnedrepparttar 103930 potential new employee did not have a degree. He was 3 hours short of graduating. Hadrepparttar 103931 candidate been honest,repparttar 103932 job was still his. It was an integrity issue.

Five candidates for a high level software sales job were interviewing. Afterrepparttar 103933 face to face interviews,repparttar 103934 candidates were offered a "grace period" to revise their application. The company was aware of a problem with one canddiate. The lead candidate changed his college degree information to "Did Not Graduate." He was dropped from contention.

A candidate for a Vice President of Logistics position for a multi-billion/multi national company was offeredrepparttar 103935 job. However,repparttar 103936 background check could not verifyrepparttar 103937 degree as listed onrepparttar 103938 resume. The stunned candidate said he could fixrepparttar 103939 problem. After one week, he called and faxed overrepparttar 103940 degree verification information. Only two blank pieces of paper came out ofrepparttar 103941 fax. He said, "I must have faxedrepparttar 103942 wrong side." The offer was rescindedrepparttar 103943 night before his start date because ofrepparttar 103944 integrity issue. The company would have hired him if he had been honest about not having a degree.

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