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Homelessness Report Part 1

Written by Hortensa Dewalt on 7/30/2009 11:55:00 AM

This report was sent from TB a day ago. If you have any information that can help her please leave a comment.

I just wanted to say that getting help here in N.E.Texas is near impossible. I am a single mom and because my son is a teenager we are having trouble finding help from shelters. It is not fair for them to discriminate against boys just due to their age. If I had a girl, there would be no problem. When you contact the housing authority for gregg county, they say they are helping seniors and the disabled only. And if you can find other counties to apply to the waiting list is years long. It is a no win situation.

What to check for when you have received goods from suppliers

Written by Hortensa Dewalt on 6/12/2009 03:27:00 PM

As simple as the following recommendation may be, many small business owners do not perform these tasks to ensure that the goods they ordered from suppliers and paid for is what was actually delivered to them.

The recommendation is that all supplies received from your suppliers should be:

Compared with the delivery slip and invoice received form the delivery man/woman to ensure that you have received all the items you have ordered and paid for;

Checked to ensure that the expiration dates have not been passed; and

Checked to ensure that their quality is within your expectations and specifications.

If you have not received all the goods you ordered, then ensure that the item is crossed off both the original and copy of the delivery slip, that you and the delivery man signs both copies and that you take a copy of the sgined delivery slip. You should also ensure that you inform the supplier of  the discrepancy immediately.

Think Export

Written by Hortensa Dewalt on 6/12/2009 11:11:00 AM

If you think that you have saturated your market or that there are too many new entrants into your industry, then it may be time to consider expanding your market to countries outside of the US. Too often we think within the box and ignore opportunities outside of the norm. However, it is imperative, especially during a recession, to identify new customers outside of your local surroundings.

Our recommendation is that you should try to determine the needs of your countries closest neighbors, identify products that you produce that matches these external needs, determine the feasibility of exporting your product to these countries taking into consideration export cost and possible revenue and whether your products are up to international standards.

You should also try to determine if there are any government or state programs that provides assistance to small business's like yours for exportation of your product, if there are any trading clubs or organizations that can help you to find trade partners and whether your product needs to be re-engineered or re-designed to suite your potential trade partners. 

State and federal laws should also be considered as well as the laws of the country of your potential trade partners. Consideration should also be given to how the exchange rate between your country and your potential trade partners country will impact your revenue and whether the stability of the countries economy and political system will encourage could trade relations.