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The Importance Of Succession Planning To Any Business

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To run a business is all about planning. It is fine to live in the moment, yet it is also necessary for you to consider both the past and possible future events. Succession planning can be surely considered a future event which all businesses have to consider or face disaster.

 

What is succession planning? Well, it is simply a plan put in place that recognizes the business should outlast the key people running it. The classic example used by financial planners is the business that is family owned. The parents often want to pass it down to a child or children. Doing so makes sense logically, but there are a host of tax issues involved. Planning for them is critical.

 

What happens if you don’t plan for the succession of the business? Well, the Miami Dolphins are a good example. They and the beautiful stadium they play in were owned by a gentleman named Joe Robbie. He had a large family and was very successful. Despite having lived a long life, he never planned for his passing on. When he passed away, estate and income taxes kicked in along with the acceleration of certain contracts that he had personally guaranteed. His estate did not have the cash on hand to deal with the taxes and debts. As a result, it was forced to sell the team and stadium among other assets for a song. The massive figures paid in taxes need not have been paid if succession planning had been done.

 

The Robbie situation is well known because of the assets involved. One just doesn’t see an NFL team sold off to pay taxes every day. The underlying problem, however, is a common one that occurs in the business world practically every day.

Otherwise profitable businesses are left in shambles or sold off for pennies on the dollar because no succession plan was put in place.

 

If you are the owner or key member of a business, succession planning is something that must be part of your administrative checklist. To forgo it is to invite doom upon the business.

 

Thomas Ajava writes about succession planning for UFCAmerica.com where you can obtain professional advice on small business succession planning.

Pi Day is coming March 14! National Pi Day Celebrates Education and its Importance in All Our Lives

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 13, 2013

March 14 (3.14) is National Pi Day.

Why Pi? What is National Pi Day?

Beloved worldwide, pi is simply the irrational number π = 3.14… It is used to

calculate the circumference of a circle – any circle – among a multitude of other applications in math, physics, and engineering.

In 2009, the United States House of Representatives declared March 14 (3.14) to be

National Pi Day. They passed resolution HR 224 to celebrate the importance of math,

science, and education in our lives.

No longer reserved only for the geek culture, pi is fun, approachable, and entertaining. Learning the first 10 digits is, well, as easy as pi (3.141592653).

As an example, the letter count of each word below corresponds numerically to the first 10 digits in pi.

        Wow I made a short memorable pi string, could you?

         3 1 4    1     5         9         2     6        5     3

The team at piZone.org works to remind us that math and science are present in all of our everyday lives. All technology, from the wheel to the Smart Phone to GPS, utilizes physical laws that are described in terms of mathematics.

Through videos, online games, activities, demos, and events, piZone engages students, educators, and the public in the fun and importance of action learning as a means to inspire the next generation of scientists, researchers, doctors, educators, and techies who will spur new life-impacting innovation.

Beyond being just a number, pi can also be an expression of art, dance, music, and writing. When learning is informative, entertaining, and sensory, it encodes more efficiently and effectively into the participant’s brain. When learning is fun and engaging, it sparks curiosity and a desire to discover, explore, and question. The ability to think critically is essential to people living in our high-tech world.

pi activities and events:

The New San Francisco Exploratorium – soon to open in April 2013, the new Exploritorium provides students and the public with hands-on science fun that inspires and engages. This Pi Day look up! Pi in the Sky – an artistic skywriting event – will occur on Pi Day above the new Exploritorium building. Pi in the Sky, created by conceptual artist ISHKY, is a visual representation of pi – 100 digits of pi written in dot-matrix numbers by 5 airplanes in formation over the San Francisco Bay.    

SXSW Music Festival and Conference – The pizone.org team recently spoke at the educational arm of the South by Southwest Festival and Conference in Texas. To pass on the pi – pizone plans to inspire thought and engagement at the SXSW music festival with different pi sayings on 9 colored stickers, distributed to only 10% of the crowd, sparking curiosity in participants to seek out others to see what their stickers say. They are encouraged to share their fun via posts, tweets, images, and videos.

Bill Gates’ Big History Project – This project inspires our big picture thinking.    

pizone.org provides students and educators with fun math and science demos, games, and videos to inspire and engage on topics of math and science via pi (pie) recipes, an interactive sticker game, a contest, and songs such as the ABCs of Pi Song: a 6 year old sings 42 places in pi to the tune of the ABCs. It’s a sing-along.

All of these activities culminate in the question, “What can I do to support STEM education?” It starts with building awareness among the general public about the vital importance of funding education, with an eye on the future and its impact on all of us. Imagine our future if we don’t. Having a well-educated workforce utilizes technology to drive innovation, in turn creating better lives for us all. We all have a piece of this educational pi.

You’re invited to share the pi.

pi-ticipate

About piZone.org

As a crowd-source resource for all things related to pi, education, and public outreach, piZone.org strives to touch lives and spark interest in math, science, and technology.

Utilizing online games, videos, activities, demos, art, and even our ABCs of Pi song

to promote the value of action and play in learning, and to illustrate the fun of discovery in math and science. As a “for-purpose organization,” piZone is committed to raising awareness of the increasing interest in students and the public on the value of a well-educated and productive workforce, for now and for our future.

We are proud to present our “π it forward” program, where $ 3.14 of each t-shirt sold in our pi-eShop goes toward providing a t-shirt to an educator.

Updates, posts, videos, images, and the latest on National Pi Day

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Post your pi / pi-ticipate.

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Importance of Movie Quotes

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A line, two, or three couldn’t be forgotten if you watch a very good movie. Movie lines, especially quotes, are but necessaryto a movie. They giveout the best of the movie. May it be a love quote or a funny one, the whole movie is unforgettable when you recall the quotes in it. Quotes are the mainingredients, not spices to a movie. It isthroughthis quotes, and/or lines that a movie is remembered.A quote from the Jerry Maguire movie (1996), “You complete me…” Yes, this is real with movies. Without quotes, movies are deficient.

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How to Start a Cleaning Business – The Critical Importance of Systems

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Article by J. N. Johnson

How to Start a Cleaning Business – The Critical Importance of Systems – Business – Small Business

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Take a close look inside any service business startup, and you’ll very often see the same picture. An owner/operator stuck balancing the drive for new business and getting existing business serviced, all the while trying to pay the bills and answer phones. One of the recurring themes that you’ll hear from us at the How to Start a Cleaning Business Blog is the importance of putting systems in place early on so that all parts of the business function smoothly whether you’re there or not.

Every aspect of the business needs to be systemized in the company’s infancy so that down the line you’re offering a consistent product at a reasonable price, growing your business steadily without pulling your hair out, and getting paid to do the work that you’ve just finished.

Here are three of the most vital areas of the cleaning business startup that need to be systemized when the doors open.

Develop a marketing strategy

Many cleaning business entrepreneurs immediately shy away when we begin discussing marketing. It’s one of the areas that they know they need to dial in and focus on, but don’t have a clear enough picture of what should be happening with marketing to take control of it. We’re not saying that you need to spend vast sums of money on marketing here. But before you spend $ 1 on ANY form of marketing or advertising, you need to understand your demographic and your market so that once that first marketing dollar leaves your wallet, you can effectively evaluate whether or not it was money well spent. You’re never going to get it right each and every time you employ a marketing strategy. That’s why you MUST be able to evaluate your efforts.

Develop an operational checklist

It’s an inevitable situation. You start the business cleaning properties yourself along with your two trusty employees. Then you get the call that your child is sick and needs to be picked up from school. You leave your two fantastic employees to finish the last three houses of the day and that evening, the calls start to come in. They missed the master bathroom at the Jones house. They completely forgot the kitchen counters at the Smith residence. And guess who gets to go back and literally “clean up the mess” tomorrow. Yes, you do. An operational checklist is absolutely critical in the cleaning industry. When you go to McDonald’s do you think they just guess at how long to cook your fries or what they’ll put on your hamburger for toppings? No, they don’t. They deliver the same product each and every time. And you must do that as well in order to manage and meet customer expectations.

Employ a communications strategy

Far too many cleaning business owners are coming close to the edge of sanity each and every day trying to balance operations and coordinating communication with prospective customers and existing clients. There is no excuse for this in the year 2010. With email, websites, and web based phone systems as easy to set up as they are now, there is no excuse for you taking each and every customer question, quote request, and follow up call while in the field. You need to put a communications strategy in place and then ensure that your customers and prospects know the appropriate channels to communicate with your business.

At the How to Start a Cleaning Business Blog, we’re confident that taking the time to think these strategies and systems out in advance will save you much frustration and time once you’re off the ground with your cleaning business. We’ve seen these simple principles in action and they are incredibly effective.

About the Author

J. N. Johnson has been involved in the service industry for 16 years and has assisted in guiding service startups of all types.

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