EPAct 2005 Tax Deductions – Time Is Running Out

July 31st, 2010 Robert Holdsworth No comments

Many businesses have implemented energy efficiency measures in their facilities over the past several years to help decrease operating expenses and aid the local and global environment. What a lot of these companies do not know is that sizeable federal tax deductions are available to them and also that time may be running out.

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005) provides generous, immediate tax deductions to businesses for making energy efficiency improvements to their buildings. The federal tax incentives center mainly on efficiency improvements to lighting, HVAC and building envelopes and can be as large as $1.80 per square foot.

The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 extended Section 179D and EPAct 2005 so the act will not expire until December 31, 2013. However, that does not mean that time may not be running out for some companies.

For businesses that implemented energy efficiency projects in 2006 it is probable they filed their tax returns before April 15, 2007. If they were unaware of the deductions at that time, they are now at risk of losing those tax deductions forever since the IRS only allows a three year period to amend tax returns.

That means if you have not yet amended your 2006 tax return you have only a few months left to do so!

As an electrical contractor working with commercial and industrial customers you certainly have been thinking about ways to increase your sales and likely how to better utilize your current book of business to that end. You have also most likely been approached by your current customers asking what they can do to reduce their energy costs.

Have you thought about a strategic partnership with an experienced engineering firm that specializes solely in turnkey, energy cost reduction projects on a national level? One that can bring whole facility energy solutions to the table for you and your customers? A company that can provide a fast payback and increase cash flow for your customer?

Bringing in such a company will grow your business as you will be the one who is sub-contracted by the engineering firm to provide the installation services under their management and direction. You can use this approach over and over again with all of your customers and doing so will not only increase your revenues exponentially, it will also transform your customers’ impression of you from simply another vendor to that of a valued consultant.

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July 31st, 2010 Robert Holdsworth No comments

Buyer Beware – Using Power Factor Correction and Transient Voltage Surge Suppression to Reduce Energy Costs.

Today’s energy conscious climate has motivated many to do what they can to become more efficient and conserve energy and money. Unfortunately this same climate has prompted others to take advantage of unsuspecting consumers’ wishes to save energy and reduce expenses.

Companies that tout power factor improvement (kVAR correction) and transient voltage suppression are a good example of this bad trend. Lately we are seeing more and more of these companies cropping up and feel it is time to set the record straight.

First, transient voltage surge suppression (TVSS) plays a valuable role in improving power quality to protect sensitive equipment inside a facility. However, TVSS does not save energy. TVSS’s are only active a tiny fraction of a second to protect against voltage surges which only last for less than a millisecond. To actually reduce energy consumption the TVSS would need to actually cut power consumption for an extended period of time which is not what they are designed to do. Again, TVSS is important to protect sensitive electrical equipment but buyers should avoid vendors promising, or even guaranteeing, that they will reduce energy consumption.

Now what about vendors who claim that improving power factor will save 15% or 20% or 30% of energy consumption and corresponding cost? This one is a little trickier.

For residential applications, power factor does nothing to save energy because the typical home already has an average power factor of about 0.97 which is almost the perfect power factor of 1 or unity. In addition, the device (called a capacitor) is placed at the main circuit breaker. According to IEEE 5.5.3.3 capacitors must be situated at or near the respective inductive loads to reduce power system losses by reducing heat and distribution losses known as I2R losses.

So what about commercial and industrial facilities using power factor correction to reduce energy costs? It is perfectly appropriate for a company that is incurring penalties or a kVA billing structure from the utility company to improve the facility’s overall power factor by employing a capacitor bank at the main service entrance or individual capacitors at or near the respective motor loads. Doing so will eliminate the power factor penalties and/or reduce the kVA demand charges on the utility bill which can save significant money and provide a significant ROI on the investment.

But what about power factor correction reducing kWh consumption? IEEE also tells us that I2R losses only account for 2 to 5% of the total load in a facility. Simple math tells us that it would be against the laws of physics to get the 15% to 30% energy reduction claimed by some vendors. Think about it. Even if your facility had 5% distribution losses and you could correct 100% of the problem via power factor correction at every load (which can’t be done) you would still only save 5% at the most. No where near the claims of some capacitor vendors and manufacturers.

All that said, power factor correction when done properly will eliminate utility penalties and kVA demand charges, improve facility power quality, increase electrical system capacity, and save a little energy when applied to the appropriate motor loads.

So make an investment in transient voltage surge suppression and power factor correction when appropriate and necessary. But caveat emptor!

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Free Classifieds Advertising Is One Of The Effective Ways To Advertise Your Business

July 31st, 2010 Alex Wu No comments

Smart and successful business owners will always be update themselves with the newest information regarding their business on the mainstream market. They will focus on many things that influence the continuance of their business including the improvement of the quality of their products or services. Another basic thing that is also important and a key to the success is advertising. Surely, along with the improvement of technology, especially the internet, many entrepreneurs and service companies gain a beneficial space to establish their classifieds advertising campaigns online.

If you spend a little time to search for information about this online classifieds advertising, you will find out that today there are many classified advertising sites provide you the free online classified advertising. The classifieds advertisement throughout internet gives biggest benefit compared to other options for advertising such as advertising through newspaper or magazine. Of course you already know that internet has a larger coverage rather than newspaper or magazine because it runs across the world.

Why does this online classified advertising give you biggest benefit? Firstly, seeing that internet users are varied and numerous, this classified advertising will give more opportunities by inviting potential audiences among the numerous internet users. Secondly, it will also bring about a high readership because internet is able to reach wider coverage than local print magazine or newspaper. Thus, if you place your free classified advertising on classifieds advertising sites, you will be able to get potential market and great result.

Furthermore, online classifieds advertising is a good choice because it is more convenient and easy to access. Also, you will be able to have a chance of getting the latest updated information on the classified advertising site. So, how do the classifieds ad sites help you? Well, they have certain structure for organizing the classified advertising information derived from the feedback that is generated from a classified ad program. This information tells about the maximum benefits for the reader and the advertiser. In addition, many advertisers now prefer the user-friendly format of classified ad site.

So, how to plan this targeted ad campaign? There are some important factors you can pay attention to when you want to plan the campaign for your targeted advertising. You should focus on the strong opening statement to tap the right audience, mention the main benefit of the products or services you offer, and design simple concepts but keep capitalizing on the USP of the product or the services. This unique concept will let your company to last longer rather than your competitors.

From the passage above, you can emphasize the numerous advantages you might get from online classified advertising. However, even though you are already satisfied and mesmerized with those benefits, this method is still a developing format and its availability throughout the internet has resulted in a problem for many print publishers and advertisers. Therefore, one day this medium can be so expensive and will no longer bring profit for the advertiser. But still, this free classified advertising is an effective medium just like the cheap classifieds advertising that has less risk.

Alex Wu operates a free classifieds advertising website that lets people advertise, build groups, and connect. He hopes to create an active environment for businesses to place their job listings.

Children’s Parties Games And Toys

July 30th, 2010 Michael Nielson No comments

Children’s parties games and toys tend to form the basic fun that a children party should inculcate and would certainly be devoid of the fun and exciting factor if games and toys are not made an essential part of it. One can include a lot of fun to an otherwise dull children party by thinking and arranging some good indoor and at times, outdoor games. These require only a bit of preparation and a few inexpensive things.

If you have a party to arrange for your child, do not panic. Let your imagination guide you to arrange an event that your child shall remember for the years to come.

Children can be taught to follow rules and regulations by participating in different games. They learn new things and have a direction to follow while playing different games. They learn team work and appropriate ways to behave in a group.

There are different types of games that are popular for children parties. The selection of games depends on the age of children invited to the party. For children video games or board games are a good choice because majority of them like to participate in these games and enjoy themselves. For younger children games like musical chair, parcel game and red light/green light can be introduced in the party.

Pin the Tail on the donkey and treasure hunt are games that can be planned when arranging a children’s party. Certain objects can be hidden in various places and a list can be prepared. The children can then hunt for the items in the form of groups. The group that is able to collect the most items are the winners.

There are interesting and unique ideas available online. People can visit different websites to find some innovative ideas of games that can be included in children parties.

It is not important at all to prepare loot bags with expensive items. You can acquire some real good bargains from loot bag stores where things can be purchased on wholesale. All these children’s parties are inclusive of boys as well as girls. It is now up to the host who may wish to prepare separate loot bags with items appropriate for boys and girls.

Parties are a time to rejoice and to celebrate; well planned parties promise an enjoyable and an unforgettable event. Games and toys enhance the fun of the party, so you should work on it and let the magic begin.

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Professional Skill And Traits Needed For An Undertaker’s Profession

July 29th, 2010 Mary Anne Lee No comments

Arrangements and organising services linked to funerals are generally left in charge of undertakers, who are also known as funeral directors. To be successful in this profession the undertaker carrying out these duties should possess certain essential and unique skills and attributes.

Since an undertaker may be required at any time of the day, the person entering this profession must be willing to be on call for 24 hours. This is essentially an outdoors task, which will require him to be away from office for long hours.

To be an undertaker, a person must be able to interact well and be open to the opinions of others. People from different cultures, religions and ethnicities as well as those of different ages will have to be managed by him with equal ease. Understanding and sympathy will be of much importance in the course of his job. But he will have to offer support to the grieving family and should stay strong and emotionally detached so that he can perform his functions well.

Undertakers must be serious and dignified by nature, but must not look sad or morose, as this may heighten the grief of the family members of the deceased person.

Knowledge of different religious customs, rituals and beliefs and profound respect for these helps undertakers in succeeding in their profession. They must be aware of different customs and practices followed by different sects during the funeral service.

Excellent management and the power to organise are important skills for an undertaker. He must also have leadership abilities and should be able to interact with a large number of people – from the clergy members to the flower seller.

As the undertaker will be in charge of obtaining all clearances and adhering to all regulations with respect to the ceremony, he will have to be well versed in such procedures and legal matters. He will need to be fully conscious of rules to be followed with respect to collecting death certificates or claims for insurance.

Lastly, an undertaker must ensure that his driver’s licence is updated and that he can drive the funeral vehicle during the service.

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Self-Help And Self-Improvement Online Business Boasts For Acquiring As Top Grosser In The Industry Of Internet Marketing

July 29th, 2010 Ken Boucher No comments

What is a Self-Help and Self-Improvement Online Business? How does this Online Business works? What are the benefits of this online business for those who want to join and venture for this kind of business?

Self-Help and Self-Improvement is an online business and considered as internet marketing. This will be done via internet by selling some products and services or any means that can be an income generating ideas and activities. This self-help and self-improvement online business will surely give you a great income and a very good future that will let your own self to stand in the most comfortable way of living. This business industry also welcomes freelance writers, voice talents that will spend around four hours to five hours a day researching topics, writing reports and articles and making audios about them and these things really gives you a very good income that more than you need.

What does this self-help and self-improvement online business take to produce a certain products, services or anything that can be a source of income through marketing via internet. “Mike Mograbi is the author of Program Your Mind for Success in Record Time! An ebook acclaimed by self-improvement gurus like Gary Vurnum. The book has sold tens of thousands of dollars ever since its release in December 2004. Mike has also built an opt-in list of people interested in self-improvement topics. He occasionally promotes quality self-improvement products to his list as an affiliate using pre-sellers.” (self-improvement millionaires.com)Mike Mograbi is one of the many successful online business man that experience a great life from the industry of internet marketing.

Having this kind of business has two basic ways in running the self-help and self-improvement online business of claiming your benefits and income. One is the hard and expensive way, which all you need to do is to pay several thousand of dollars a month or hundreds of dollars a day just to become a member of this online business. The next way or the second basic way in running self-help and self-improvement online business is the easy way and this is very ideal and highly recommended way in terms of dealing with online business industry. This easy way does not requires you to spend much amount of money and long hours to work just to become a member of self-help and self-improvement online business and this will save you from wasting single amount of money and single hour in a day or so. This easy way only requires you only a single dollar a day and you can already get reports and audios with private label on it.

Self-help and self-improvement online business is very reliable online business ever because it always serves you the best of all best. The products and services are guaranteed and 100 percent original and can never be found the same way to anywhere on the web. This will really let you experience the greatest fortune ever you wanted and wish for.

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Get To Know Axel Bohlin

July 29th, 2010 Victor Graham No comments

He loves to learn, to gain more knowledge, develop his personality through challenges and get new views and perspective on everything – this is how Axel Bohlin explains himself in one sentence.

Ever since when he was a kid, Axel Bohlin had a kind of crazy obsession about learning new things. His curiosity about everything led him to learn more of what school has to offer. In the 8th grade he proved it himself that, the interest for learning when combined with focus on results would really bring you to where you want to be, with an A+ grades in all subjects as his aim, his learning curve went straight up and he developed himself as well as his view on learning and the people around him.

Today, at 19, no wonder he is among the fast learning internet marketer and has evolved into a skilled personal development coach. The extensive knowledge that he gained over his younger years made him knowledgeable about how to learn new things, grow as a person and realign perspectives.

Axel Bohlin developed his passion for helping others and has become active in teaching people how to grow personally and professionally. His goal is to inspire people to overcome their limits, which will help them achieve their full potentials.

But something exciting came along the way. His father gave him an opportunity to get educated about internet marketing and, being naturally curious about learning new things, he embarked on learning about the Carbon Cop Pro educational system.

With a more realistic view on people and things, he decided to become a leader of change.

Axel Bohlin found out that with Carbon Cop Pro educational system, his passion for personal development coaching would shape him as a leader in helping people out of debt and create wealth.

Axel Bohlin is a successful internet marketer. Aside from managing his own business, he also loves to help other internet marketers to create wealth from their business.

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Import To China – James Scott – Exports To China -How To Export To China

July 28th, 2010 James Scott No comments

Selling Shareholder Offering: The Key To Raising Fast Capital For Pre-Public Companies. As a consultant who has many companies public on the OTCBB (Over The Counter Bulletin Boards), consulted on even more and turned around and structured more companies I can even count, there are a few common threads inherent in all of them.

Most of the companies pursuing capital from angel investors, private investors, private equity firms or small groups of professionals looking for a quick in and out situation with rapid capitalization did three things that made all the difference in streamlining their raise.

First the executives structured their entity to attract investors which by default strengthened their corporate infrastructure. Now they are proposing investment opportunities from more of a position of strength.

Second they chose a team (in these cases they chose our consulting firm) with a proven track record of success with organizing companies for acquisition, merger and taking companies public.

The third element that is common in most successful enterprises which are seeking a first round of seed capital to fund their ‘going public’ ambitions is demonstrating confidence to the investor with a “selling shareholder offering”. Obviously this last element tests the skill of the consultants going back and forth with the SEC during the comments stage but this demonstrates confidence and organization by the company wishing to raise capital.

A ‘selling shareholder offering’ tells the investor (if not purely in the initial documents then in the phone conferences leading up the a check being cut) that the company has an organized pre public and post public investor relations strategy, general corporate publicity strategy and a market maker that’s built to last (mostly the former than the later). By offering seed investors the ability for massive profitability by buying your seed shares for fifty cents with a public offering price anticipated at $2.00. What real investor would turn this down?

Offer your seed investors an ‘easy in, quick out’ funding option and watch them swarm to your offering in droves. Let these investors create your float and let your company’s performance and hardcore investor relations take care of the rest!

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Taking A Business Public: Laws Of Obtaining Industry Power

July 28th, 2010 James Scott No comments

Corporate strategies’ consulting is, in its truest essence, a dirty business. Few understand this tiny, yet elite genre of consulting and even fewer are masters of its concepts. The same principles applied by this select faction of specialist should be applied by CEO’s and company executives in all industries.

First and foremost, executives must understand the idea of power. There are certain unbreakable laws necessary for the ascension of professionals to positions of influence and power within an organization or industry. Here are a few of the concepts applied by serious corporate strategies consultants that are mandatory prerequisites for the rise and maintenance of power in the corporate world.

The individual seeking to take a position of power must possess the ability to customize and facilitate a turn-key solution to transform the fate of a crumbling company. They must have the ability to construct an infrastructure that perpetuates growth and stimulates longevity and stability. Power, in a corporate sense, is purely economic without excuses of any kind that is driven by greed, self assured stamina and the inability to accept anything but a number one position in their specific industry genre.

The ability of an individual to prompt a capable executive group to ‘die hard’ action and a no holds barred mentality is what will save a company from being a statistic. The unrelenting passion to win and the tactical action of this executive to strap the burdens of a company and its employees to his back and take responsibility for all that is to come, good and bad, to absorb the stress, anguish and deprivation of sleep due to mission focus are characteristics of a leader that will step into any company in any situation and deliver them from failure to profitability and growth.

This individual will assimilate into a battle while forcing the war to transfer its current to his terms. He can break through industrial and bureaucratic chaos and capture the essence of the obstacle and create multiple synergetic strategies to inject the corporate growth engine with rocket fuel. An executive primed for corporate power wears a velvet glove over an iron fist and is quiet and calm yet calculating in demeanor. He can step into negotiations composed and cool while simultaneously eying up the jugular of everyone in the room, scanning those present for weakness and chinks in their armor, preparing for psychological attack at the perfect time to press the mission of his agenda that much further adding security to his company.

This individual will not fall for the false lore of friendship from potential competition but will reciprocate like a gentleman to those initiating camaraderie while keeping them at arm’s length and will always release enough rope to allow those around him to hang themselves if it means strengthening his company and position in his industry. The executive who has achieved the art of power will be able to prick the underlying wound of his target to find weakness then step back and watch them self-destruct as it is easier to do this then verbally pointing out the individual on the executive team who is the weakest link.

Most professionals who have mastered the above find themselves in consulting positions and are hated by their client’s employees but loved by the shareholders. If you own a business or are in a senior position at a corporation, try applying some of these characteristics to your daily repertoire and watch the response of those around you. You’ll find that you will naturally fall into a position of power because of the strength that these characteristics hold in the psyche of those around you. You’ll become the problem solver and the ‘go to’ guy who has a reputation for being able to structure any situation so that your company lands on top. Get ready for rapid promotion, real leaders are hard to find and will usually take a bidding war to keep.

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Professional Link Building Services Build Links Using RSS Feeds

July 28th, 2010 Killol Desai No comments

With the advent of personal blacking, RSS feeds have became popular among average citizens. RSS feeds are often used to keep abreast with the latest content in one’s favorite websites – be it news, sports, movies or even something more unusual like extra terrestrial life. Professional Link building services have been utilizing rss feeds as part of a balanced link building campaign to achieve first page Google listings.

However, not many website owners know that RSS feeds can be used as a mechanism to gain links to your website, thereby increasing the search engine ranking of your site and thus indirectly driving traffic to it. How can you benefit from RSS feeds? The first step is to create an feed for the items in your website. But other people will post your feeds in their websites, blogs and social media accounts only if they find it interesting enough.

Also, there is another way in which you can use feeds to actively build back links to your site. In order to effectively use your feeds as a link building tool, you need to submit your RSS to as many aggregators as possible. There is a catch here, though. Going to individual aggregator sites and submitting your RSS feeds is an elaborate and tedious process and you may not want to take the focus away from your core business to do this.

So what is the solution? Get professional help. There are several professional link building services out there and outsourcing this task is one of the wisest decisions you can make in boosting traffic to your website. You can either choose a company that offers link building services or choose a freelancer who offers the service.

However, just getting professional link building services to submit feed to aggregator sites will only generate back links to your website and increase your search engine ranking. You need to do something more to make your users keep coming back to your website.

You need to ensure that there is dynamic content in your website and that it is frequently updated. Having a blog that is updated on a daily basis is a good way to have dynamic content. Make sure that the blog is hosted from your website. Other elements for which you can provide RSS feeds can be online demos of your latest products, videos of offers and promotions and even customer feedback on your products. Remember you need to keep all this content updated frequently. Also, give links to other parts of your website in all these dynamic content pages.

The key lesson is this: You do what you do best – that is, generate interesting content in your website about your products and services. Leave the traffic building to professionals. Professional link services can do a much better job of it than you can, for the simple reason that it is their business and they have more experience in doing it.

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