Youth Group Fundraising; Preventing Soap Streaks at Car Wash Fundraisers, Secret Strategies
Most people in their lifetimes have gone to quite a number of car wash fundraisers when their car was dirty and they saw kids out there waving with big signs. I applaud all American citizens who participate in car wash fundraisers and help nonprofit youth groups raise money.When the community sticks together everyone wins and when youth organizations such as soccer teams, baseball teams, high school bands or even Boy Scouts have a car wash fundraiser they are teaching the kids hard work ethic, the value of money and customer service.One thing that is very important at a car wash fundraiser is quality control and that's why it is so important to prevent soap streaks at car wash fundraisers. There are secret strategies that can help you prevent carwash fundraiser soap streaks.You must empty out the bucket and rinse it after every five cars. Remember to dump the bucket on the grass and not into a storm drain. When you fill up the soap bucket never use more than a capful of soap. Too much soap can cause soap streaks.You must also thoroughly rinse every car and not allow the soap to dry on. Additionally, you must keep your towels clean otherwise they will also streak and this causes upset customers even if they don't complain to you personally, they may not come back for another carwash fundraiser for quite a while.

Telecommuting Position and Data Entry Work
How Can I Land a Telecommuting Position and Data Entry Work?Where Do You Find This Type of Job?Finding a telecommuting position and data entry work is not complicated to do. You will find that when you are looking for a telecommuting job, the best place to look first would be any previous employers that you might have done work for before. Of course you want the previous employers to be ones that you left in good standing to even have a chance of getting a position like this.Does A Telecommuting Position and Data Entry Work Mean That You Work Strictly At Home?When you have a telecommuting position and data entry work, this means that you probably work primarily at home, using your own equipment. However, depending on your employer and their needs, you may be required to come into the office every so often or pick up and drop off work daily or even weekly.You just might be lucky enough to find a telecommuting position and data entry work where you can access everything online for the company that you are working for. That would be ideal for anyone that worked at home with children that are not in school yet. As this would mean that you would not have to worry about childcare while you picked up or dropped off work from an office. What Kind Of Companies Hire For Telecommuting Position And Data Entry Work?Any type of company that might need data entry work done would probably hire for a telecommuting position and data entry work to be done. You just never really know who will need you for this type of work unless you put yourself out there to be found. That is step one.

Overcome Small Business Sales Resistance
He calls it "the Extractor". Last week, my Guerrilla Marketing buddy (and top marketing consultant), Mary Eule went to the South Carolina State Fair. An inventor had set up a booth where he was selling a device he created for extracting nails. He was a contractor and he noticed that he spent too much time in renovations pulling nails.Here's a great product that uniquely solves a great need that makes people's lives easier. It should be a breeze to sell right? Well, when Mary asked him how many he had sold all day, his answer was one. One lousy extractor. No doubt the cost of the booth rental was far more than his revenue.Intrigued, Mary and her partner David jumped behind the counter - mostly for fun. In 1/2 hour they sold 4 extractors. That's four times his previous entire day's sales. It would have been more if the guy had been equipped to take credit cards or process mail orders.Why isn't this guy a millionaire yet? His idea is certainly worth it. You might argue under-capitalization, or any other MBA-BS, but the reality is he's only missing one thing - marketing. He's got a great idea but he's not a marketing or sales professional. Nor should he be expected to be.He should get help from an expert marketer. Experience tells us that he probably won't. Like most small businesses he will go it alone, struggle for a while, and never truly grow to meet his potential. If this guy's product is as good as it's reported to be, he should be in every hardware store in the country.Mary has made some of the companies she's worked with millions and millions of dollars. I have given one client a single suggestion that increased his profits 13X in less than a month. Either one of us could walk into almost any business and literally multiply its profits. It's frustrating for both of us when the people

Prevention, Early Diagnosis, Proper Treatment - Three Steps to Good Corporate Health
As the adage goes: Prevention is better than cure. In medical practice, prevention of the disease before its onset is better than giving medication when it is already malignant or full-blown. Getting it right early is much better than subsequent expensive treatments. Furthermore, when you lose your health, the road to recovery gets longer and rougher. Prevention is the name of the game for individuals and companies.Just like people, most companies get into trouble simply through sheer neglect. Through the lack of monitoring, the accumulation of toxins or disease causing pathogens are allowed to perpetuate till the full manifestation of the ailment before any action is taken to contain it. At the outset, a company should adopt prudent practices to prevent the onset of corporate ills or financial problems. The preliminary issue such as prevention requires the direction to be clear as well as good planning. Next, the hard issues need to be implemented which include diligent financial and other controls. Also, soft issues such as taking good care of your people and the wise management of the talent pool are also crucial.Diagnosis is the identification of the disease based on its symptoms. However, the symptoms can sometimes mask the real disease. Also, many diseases share similar symptoms. Thus further probing is required in order to ensure that the disease is not misdiagnosed.Just as a sick person may manifest early symptoms of the ailment, such as cough, running nose, fever and body aches, likewise, there are usually ample warning signs for a company. High staff attrition rate and the loss of brand equity are perhaps some of the symptoms that all is not well with the company. However, they are merely the symptoms rather than the real disease or root cause. Treating

Customer Service Mistakes Can Be Entrepreneurial Opportunities!
I called Domino’s Pizza the other night as I was watching the USC-Notre Dame game on the tube.Expecting to get exactly what I had purchased twice during the past three weeks, I quickly dialed the phone and recited my order:“I’ll have the three medium pizzas with unlimited ingredients. Here’s how I’d like them. Two with triple mushrooms, and one with double pepperoni, and a single serving of mushrooms, onion, and beef, please.”“We can’t do that,” the voice responded flatly.“Why, not?” I shot back. “What’s the problem?”“You can’t double one ingredient. They have to be different ingredients,” he claimed.“You must be in MANAGEMENT, am I right?” I challenged, knowing only a dumb bureaucrat could enforce such a senseless rule.He went on to inform me that my last two orders were placed with front line employee rule breakers who “Shouldn’t have done that.”I tried to reason with him, pointing out that if I put ten different ingredients on a pizza, which I understood he’d permit, this would cost his enterprise far more than a triple dollop of mushrooms or double pepperoni.He wouldn’t bite, even after I said I’d call Pizza Hut and award them my business.“Mistakes” that customer love, providing they don’t break the bank, are glorious entrepreneurial opportunities.I believe it was a customer who made the imaginative suggestion to the druggist who concocted Coca-Cola.He asked this revolutionary question: “Why don’t you bottle it?”If doubling the ingredients on a pizza can make people buy more of them, isn’t this a blessing?

Six Steps to Issuing Your First Stock Certificate
After you have formed your corporation, one of the first tasks is issuing stock to the shareholders of the company. There are six basic steps to issuing stock correctly.Step 1 – Write down or type out each of the shareholders names, addresses, and percentage of the company they will own.Step 2 – Determine how many shares the corporation has available to issue. The number of shares authorized to issue are indicated on the first page of your Articles of Incorporation. If you are unable to find them there, you can go to your corporation’s listing at your Secretary of State’s website and see how many shares are authorized. If you are still unable to find the number of shares, call the Secretary of State directly.Step 3 – Calculate the number of shares you will issue to each individual shareholder based on the percentage ownership and number of shares. Don’t issue all shares available. If you have 25,000 shares available for issue, you may want to only issue 1,000 or 100 shares to start. This will give you more shares to issue at a later time if you have additional investors or stake holders come into the company.Step 4 – Physically write out the stock certificates with the shareholders name, number of shares they own and the certificate number. Stock certificates can be purchased from office supply stores, directly online or you can purchase a corporate record book that will typically come with your first 10 or 20 certificates.Step 5 – Record in your stock ledger each certificate that has been issued. In the stock ledger you will record the name of the shareholder, the number of shares issued, the stock certificate number, how much they paid for the shares, the type of shares they were (common, preferred, voting, non-voting, etc.), the date of the transaction, and who sold the share