MANILA, Philippines — Business registration in 2011 was up 8 percent over the previous year indicating that more Filipinos are into the entrepreneurial mode this year.
Data from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) showed there were a total of 318,920 businesses registration in 2011 compared to 294,410 in 2010.
The significant increase in business name (BN) registrations last year was attributed to the DTI’s electronic Business Name Registration System or EBNRS which was launched in October 2010. The EBNRS automated the registration processes which led to a faster and more efficient handling of transactions.
“The EBNRS is one of the Department’s anti-red tape initiatives in line with the government’s policy of streamlining the bureaucratic processes and curbing corruption in the frontline agencies," said DTI Secretary Gregory L. Domingo.
Domingo has emphasized the government’s effort to improve the ease of doing business in the country by undertaking reforms such as automation of business registration processes to attract more investments in the country.
“We are continuously studying our processes to simplify business registration and license applications to improve the Philippine business environment. We are closely working with other government offices and the local government units or LGUs to make business easier in the country,” Domingo said.
The application through the EBNRS only takes 15 minutes, and only requires a one-page application form and one signature compared to the previous application scheme. This has drastically improved the process by cutting the length of time, the number of documents and signatures required to register a business name.
With EBNRS in place, entrepreneurs can get their DTI Business Name Registration Certificate in less than 30 minutes. “The automated system not only made the transactions easier for businesses but also for the Department,” said Domingo.
Registration of business name with DTI is only the first step for an entrepreneur to start a business. Other regulatory agencies require businesses to register, as well as the local government units (LGUs) to issue them permits and other licenses to operate. (BCM)
Starting a Profitable Home Business Made Easy by Internet Marketing Consultant Michael Bashi's New Training Website - YAHOO!
Home business trainer and consultant Michael Bashi's recently launched website is making life easier for people looking to start their home based business. The website http://www.successtobusiness.com reveals the details of tons of profitable home business alternatives for them. The website also provides detailed information covering other popular topics like online marketing, affiliate marketing
(PRWEB) May 19, 2012
Recently launched home business training website "successtobusiness.com" is making useful contribution to people enthusiastic about building a home based career. This website has been developed by eminent marketing guru Michael Bashi. It may be recalled that Mr. Bashi has the distinction of creating several other web based training modules that have been widely acclaimed by the trainees. Apart from providing top class business training, Mr. Bashi also provides consultancy service to business houses. His new website is a complete online guide providing detailed information on different profitable home based businesses.According to highly respected home business expert, there are plenty of home based business opportunities to build a steady career. However, he advises the entrepreneurs to be realistic in their approach because it takes time to create a steady source of earning. Moreover, a lot of hard work is required to make sufficient earning to substitute a full time job. The earnings may also fluctuate because the payments are received on project basis. Online surveys are one of the most popular and convenient options to start a home based business venture, according to Mr. Bashi.
The launch of this new website has been welcomed by the home business fraternity. Jason, one of his highly obliged trainees of Mr. Bashi, reacted to the launch of this website saying, "This is certainly great news for anyone interested in starting a home business. Mike is an amazing trainer and has changed the fortune of so many entrepreneurs". Mr. Bashi has informed that he is presently working on new training modules that are about to be introduced. Significant enhancements of "Success To Business" are also on the cards.
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WPN Business Alliance Rally Announces “Meet the Media” Luncheon Panel and Spotlight Breakout Speakers - PR.com
The catered “Meet the Media Luncheon” runs from 12:15 to 1:30pm inside the McKimmon Center. The panel will focus on helping luncheon attendees understand today’s media choices in developing marketing plans for their business. Panel members are: Alex McTighe, National Sales Manager, Curtis Media Group (radio); Barbara Petty, Owner/Publisher, Boom! Magazine; Matthew Donegan, General Sales Manager, Fox 50 TV; William Ammerman, Sales and Marketing Manager, WRAL.com; and James Wong, Co-founder/Partner, Empowered Ideas. Luncheon tickets include event entry and are $25 in advance online at http://WPNMedia.eventbrite.com and $35 at the door.
The 14 Spotlight! Speakers are industry experts leading 24 breakout sessions. Featured speakers are: Julie Alexander, Michele Howe Clarke, Danielle Cooley, Bill Davis, Sharon Cole Edler, Connie Holstein, Clare Luffman, Diana Needham, Olalah Njenga, Dr. Joanne Pizzino, Kristin Springfield, Geanine Thompson, Honey Beth Wiggs, and Sherrie Wilkolaski. The one-hour private breakouts will be at 11 am, 2 pm and 4 pm. Each speaker will present at two different times in one of eight designated rooms. Attendees can choose from marketing, relationship building, personal development, book publishing and promotion, health and wellness, managing an in-home business, how to become an expert in your field, developing endless prospects, and financial management and investment. For topic titles, presentation times and location, go to: http://www.wpn-bar.com/Breakout__Speakers.html
Marilyn Shannon, co-founder of Women's Power Networking and facilitator of the “Meet the Media Luncheon” added, “The Business Alliance Rally is intended for everyone. It provides a chance for businesses to network with one another, sell their products and services, learn how to be more successful, and expand their alliances; fulfilling the promise of Women's Power Networking: "Alliances for Business–Alliances for Life."
About Women’s Power Networking (WPN)
Founded originally as Coffee and Contacts in 2007, Women's Power Networking "Alliances for Business - Alliances for Life" is a growing, national women's business referral network. WPN is the umbrella organization for Power Lunches, the Women Executives Roundtable and the after hours networking event, Cocktails and Contacts. Weekly Coffee and Contacts chapter meetings offer women a positive environment to grow personally and professionally. The WPN Speakers Bureau arranges professional keynote and business speakers for conferences, business meetings, retreats or galas. Visit: http://www.WomensPowerNetworking.com
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Valley business on the brink - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
The lack of a plan across communities hampers development and mires daily life with traffic hassles and long slogs between housing, shopping and work. Development that does come may be haphazard.
“There are so many infrastructure issues that are coming to light now. Developers can go to another town and have it all ready,” said Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Jeannie Hebert, who spearheads economic development in the valley.
“What we're talking about here is (an opportunity for) development by choice, not by chance,” said Vera L. Kolias, principal planner for the Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission, or CMRPC.
CMRPC launched a Blackstone Valley Prioritization Project this spring, focusing on identifying economic development, transportation, workforce and preservation priorities in eight of 11 towns in the Blackstone Valley. Grafton, Upton and Hopedale were included in a similar project CMRPC recently undertook with the 495/MetroWest Development Compact.
Lawrence B. Adams, CMRPC executive director, said that coordinated, regional plans for development would be most likely to get state and federal grants that can make or break a project. “The state's role is to identify where their investments will have the best return,” he said.
CMRPC staff and partners from the Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce and the John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission are meeting over the next few weeks with planning boards and officials in Sutton, Mendon, Northbridge, Douglas, Uxbridge and Blackstone to target priority areas in their towns. More regional events, including a public forum to bring together the issues from each town, will be held in June.
While planners talk of traffic corridors, spot locations, expedited permitting and infrastructure — words that make the average citizen's eyes glaze over — it comes down to quality of life.
Job creation, for example, creates more travel and congestion if people don't have public transportation or housing nearby; and if you build housing, you have to provide for services that families who live in those houses need, explained Mr. Adams. At the same time, you don't want to harm the character of small towns.
These impacts of growth cross town lines.
Shopping is one of the regional needs both created by and affecting growth.
Cold Spring Brook Place, a mixed-use retail parcel that would include a grocery store and bank, has sat undeveloped along Route 146 in Sutton for a decade, an example of hurdles facing business development. Originally delayed by lack of water and sewer and the costly requirements for roadway improvements, and then a victim of the economy and the former developer's bankruptcy, the site may get a boost soon.
Two years ago, the state committed to funding $6 million to widen the road and improve traffic flow on that section of Route 146, removing one major headache from a new developer.
Jennifer S. Hager, planning director for Sutton, said a purchase and sale agreement was recently signed for Cold Spring Brook Place.
“It's basically about state funding,” Ms. Hager said about the benefits of looking at development from a regional perspective. “Now the developer doesn't have to shell out $6 million worth of improvements.
“The regional impact (of Cold Spring Brook Place) put it in line for funding, so the state gets the biggest bang for the buck. The (Blackstone Valley Prioritization) project will identify areas like that.”
Michael G. DeCaro, president and CEO of Classic Envelope Inc., has been counting on regional development support since he moved his business from the Whitinsville section of Northbridge across Route 146 to Douglas last month, a move that allowed him to add at least 25 new jobs. A crucial element to bringing in the infrastructure Classic Envelope requires, including natural gas, sewerage and larger water lines, is a plan to build a road between Gilboa Street, near his plant in the former Hayward-Schuster mill and Whitins Road in Sutton, across from the Sutton Industrial Park.
Once the road is built, “Then you get gas lines, sewer lines, you can bring in an industrial park and bring in jobs for people; hopefully transit, too,” Mr. DeCaro said.
The West Side Connector Road, as the plan is called, would open up 300 acres of industrial and office-zoned land in Douglas and Sutton, without changing the rural character of the towns. It has received preliminary approval from the Sutton, Douglas and Northbridge planning boards and conservation commissions, according to Douglas Town Engineer William Cundiff, but the towns are waiting for a cost estimate from consulting engineers. There are other pieces of putting together a multitown project that need to occur before grants can be sought, too, and the process, according to Mr. DeCaro, is frustratingly slow.
Craig L. Blais, president and CEO of Worcester Business Development Corporation, said his nonprofit organization has offered to work with the towns like it did with developing CenTech Park in Grafton and Shrewsbury. He said a project like this “needs someone to quarterback it, to get up everyday to pursue grants.
“That's one area that we could make a difference in.”
Mr. Blais said that having a regional development “roadmap” that is expected to come out of the Blackstone Valley Prioritization Project will be useful in grant requests to show that both private developers and local communities will benefit from a project.
“Coming into a community knowing that this process has occurred adds to predictability,” Ms. Kolias said. “Time is money.”
Ms. Hebert said, “This project is going to open doors to a lot of communities.”
CMRPC plans to conduct a similar project later this summer with 13 towns arcing around Worcester from Southbridge to Boylston.
A schedule of Blackstone Valley Prioritization Project public meetings can be found at www.cmrpc.org.
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Rare Earth Stocks from the US Showing Promise,” Says New AbsoluteWealth.com Article - PRWeb
Austin, TX (PRWEB) May 19, 2012
US rare earth stocks are turning out to be more valuable than anyone could have imagined, according to today’s AbsoluteWealth.com article. Even though China has dominated rare earth production for the last decade, one specific mine could be the key factor in loosening America’s and other country’s dependence on the Far East for these significantly important metals.
The mine in question is Mountain Pass, a 2,200-acre site in California, just 60 miles across the border from Las Vegas. Just a little over a decade ago, the article said that Mountain Pass was the largest rare earth-producing mine in the world.
Things shifted to the Eastern Hemisphere, as China began producing rare earths at breakneck speed and eventually began to provide the vast majority of the world’s supply. A rare earth stocks list rarely included a successful American company in the past ten years, said the Absolute Wealth article. The scenario is fully explained in Absolute Wealth’s Special Report “Rare Earth Riches: How to Cash In On China’s ‘Dirty’ Secret.”
China continued its head-of-the-line position for years, rendering the Mountain Pass mine nearly obsolete. The article said competition and low prices mixed with environmental concerns over the extraction and production process led Mountain Pass to shut down in 2002. For eight years, the mine sat empty and silent.
In July of 2010 the Mountain Pass mine was purchased by Molycorp, who vowed to revamp the production methods and make them far more environmentally conscious. Mining operations have presumed, and Molycorp stands at the starting gate of a race to meet global rare earth demands, said AbsoluteWealth.com.
From its discovery in the late 1940s, to its heyday of production from the 1960s to the 1980s, to its closure, and now its reopening, the Mountain Pass mine is a perfect representation of the rare earth story.
All this makes investing in rare earths a worthy endeavor, especially with the American companies emerging as major players, said the article. Molycorp can serve as an example, and the Mountain Pass reopening can serve as a blueprint for a winning rare earth production strategy.
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