November 30, 2007
[Applications] Pharma & Healthcare
[Applications] Magellan Technology Tracks Orthopaedic Implants
[Applications] Creating and Managing Your Wireless Environmnet
[News] Sirit Plug-n-Play Readers Authenticate Sports Memorabilia
[News] Frost & Sullivan to Host Briefing on European Active RFID Market
November 29, 2007
Helping Business Owners Get The Right Financing!
The business cash advance is a great alternative loan product that many business owners are cashing in on. The biggest problem with the business cash advance is that most business owners don’t even know they exist.
Many people who apply for business cash advances on our website have never heard of advance until reading our sites content. That means that most business cash advance customers are referred to us by other customers who have benefited from the advance or stumble across us on the internet while searching for a traditional loan product.
In an effort to help business owners seeking financing understand the difference between our business cash advance and some of the tradition loan products they are searching for - we have added a few more pages to our site to help outline the advantages of a business cash advance compared to the traditional business loans available through banks and lending institutions.
Small Business Success Depends on Flexibility
When it comes to small business, success is usually connected to flexibility- in other words, how well can the business adapt and change to the demands of its market.
But what makes a business flexible?
Small business flexibility really boils down to three things:
- Available working capital: This is one of the biggest challenges for small businesses, especially if they have just started up or are seasonal. Businesses may want to consider alternative forms of financing, such as equipment leasing or invoice factoring. When working capital is available then the company is in a better position to respond to changing market conditions.
- Reinvestment in the business: An increase in working capital also means that money can be directed back into the business. Investing in equipment upgrades, or offering more services or products according to market demand, helps to ensure that you will maintain your competitiveness, especially in volatile markets.
- Knowing your market: Stay in touch with your market by talking to your customers. You will not only be able to respond to demand, but you will also be able to anticipate future trends.
In short, if you are running a small business, the key to success is creating flexibility in the way you operate and in the vision you have for your company… so start stretching!
What Happened to the Reviews?
Regular visitors to this blog, The Honest Way, may have noticed that after the surge in paid reviews that appeared for a few weeks, they seem to have suddenly stopped. What happened to them?
Well, following the page rank changes a month ago now, this and my two of my other blogs, Make Money and Make Money Blog, all got a PR3. That meant they were eligible to accept many more better paid reviews from the various sites that provide them. The initial problem was that only this blog had been accepted by the paid review sites as the other two needed to be at least three months old before they could be accepted.
They achieved that status about a week or two later. That meant that at first, this blog was the only one I had to take advantage of the higher paid reviews, so I did just that, for which I make no apology – I’ve been working hard building this whole website/blog/forum up for several months now and not getting paid for all my hard work, so it seemed only fair that I take advantage and reap from the harvest I’d sown.
However, once my other two blogs were accepted by the paid review sites, there was no longer any need to be filling this, my main and most popular blog, with any more paid reviews because the other two can quite happily cope with taking the load. After all, that is exactly what I created them for in the first place – to make money!
That doesn’t mean I won’t be writing any more reviews in this blog. It does mean that I’ll be picking and choosing very carefully what I write about in here from now on, especially as Google are systematically slapping down blogs that contain paid reviews. So any future reviews will have to be Google friendly.
That means that I shall continue to promote this website and its forum and blog to attract ever more visitors (we’re currently averaging 450 a day) so that we become attractive to advertisers that want to be seen by lots of people rather than just to pay for a back-link, which is exactly the practise that Google are trying to stamp out.
So what does this all mean for me, the reader?
It means that I’ll be concentrating on writing good, informative, interesting and valuable articles in here once again – just like I always did, actually. So I hope you’ll all enjoy my writings enough to want to keep coming back for more – and tell your friends about this blog!
If you really like what I’m doing in here, I don’t mind if you want to link to me either – but you have to keep Google happy and do it for free just because you love my blog!
November 28, 2007
Continental Airlines and Airline Branding
I’ve written about how I love Jet Blue and their branding. They are truly the brand leader when it comes to delivering on their brand promise. Now the sad news…
I have yet to fly on another airline that even remotely cares about the customer. My flight to St Thomas on Monday was with Continental. Unfortunately Jet Blue doesn’t go to St Thomas! Most of the service was very vanilla. Nothing out of the ordinary, extraordinary or eventful.
Then we boarded our flight from
At one point a passenger in the row in front of me asked her if the food he received was the only choice? She said “Yea, that’s it, you want it or not”. Then came the sigh and then the shaking of the head. Like she was saying to herself, the nerve of this guy asking me (the provider of service) if I had anything else.
American, Continental, United, Delta and Southwest Airlines wake the heck up. If you don’t want to be treated like a commodity then be different. Provide excellent service all the time. Have your employee’s care about the passengers. Otherwise you’ll all be stuck selling cheap airfare to customers that care less about you.
Unlike Jet Blue, I try desperately to book with them first every time. Why? Because they care and deliver consistently.

