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Green Business Bureau Praises U.S. EPA’s, DOE’s Positive Changes to Energy Star Program
Apr 15th
PR Log (Press Release) – April 14, 2010 April 14, 2010 HOUSTON â € “The Green Business Bureau (GBB) announced today it is pleased by the recent changes to the Star Program created by the U.S. Energy Protection Agency Environmental (EPA) and Department of Energy (DOE). These changes strengthen the verification, testing and execution aspects of the Energy Star program, which helps consumers identify the most energy saving products on the market.
“Energy Star is a great resource for our members, â € says Marcos and Cordero, LEED AP, CEO and Co-Founder of the GBB. We always recommend our customers to purchase and install Energy Star products as a way to increase your company € ™ s environmental sustainability.â €
Lamb notes that many other certifications, Energy Star means something that can add much value. In this case, Energy Star has become a name that represents greater efficiency.
“GBB trust the recommendation of Energy Star products for our members in their efforts to become green certificates, as the name means that manufacturers have devoted extrExpand efforts to achieve certification, â € says Lamb.
The recent changes to program means that in order to receive approval from the EPA, manufacturers must submit full reports and laboratory results, and in late 2010, reports and results have come from an approved an accredited laboratory. In addition, EPA has strengthened its systems for review and are moving from a system of automatic approval for one in which every single • Applications will be reviewed and approved individually prior to labeling.
The DOE is also stepping up enforcement of existing tests and is conducting outside the rig in the popular aircraft with positive results. Recent audits found that 98 percent of products tested in full compliance with the requirements of Energy Star
“We are very pleased that the EPA is becoming acute, and improve constantly, â € says Lamb,” and with only a 2% error rate of this renewed effort, the increase shows that are always ahead of the curve.â €
Expressing caution, however, Lamb added: “What I would not like to see that this new process is not automated and increased requirements will lead to an accumulation of sunFirefox – thus delaying the certificate to be placed in products that are worth that benefit consumers and environment.â €
The EPA will begin accepting new applications • sun certification of the new guidelines at the end of the week. For more information, please visit http://www.energystar.gov.
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About GBB:
GBB is a national third party certification for companies that follow environmentally responsible practices. Started by a group of environmental and business professionals who recognize the need in the market for green certificates trusted for small and medium enterprises, promoting knowledge GBB environment between enterprises and promotes business practices that are respectful environmental and commercially beneficial.
tripsync Mobile – The Business Traveler’s Best Friend
Mar 26th
tripsync Mobile is the only online travel tool that lets you book air, car and hotel from any web-enabled mobile device. You can even make changes and have them sync back to your Outlook calendar!
50 Cent on the business of fear
Mar 20th
BBC Radio 4’s Today presenter Evan Davis speaks to 50 Cent about how overcoming your fears can help you get ahead in business.
Paramore – Misery Business [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
Feb 28th
Paramore – Misery Business from their album, RIOT!, in stores now on Fueled By Ramen.
Your Definitive Plan For Success In Business and Other Aspects of Your Life
Jan 25th
Successful people do not achieve their respective levels of success or wealth by accident; but through having a deliberate and dedicated strategy. Every human being has immense potential and power to achieve unlimited levels of success.
Having an internet marketing home businesses is one of the ways through which ordinary people with the necessary drive and enthusiasm are realizing their dreams of becoming successful and wealthy.
How can you develop and implement a plan that will help you realize your dreams of wealth in your online business as well as success in other aspects of your personal life?
Establish your values, goals and visions. You can not be successful if you do not have financial or personal goals and vision to work towards. Success is defined as “the achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted”. What are your financial goals? Do you want to find an online business which can help you earn a specific amount of money per year? What are your personal goals? What aspects of your life would you like to improve?
You will need to focus on the benefits of achieving your goals, for example; buy a new big house, and get out of debt or having a better work-life balance. Visualize these benefits and let them motivate you as you work towards your goals
Have faith. If you want to have an online business with which you can earn a lot of money, you must believe that you will be able to achieve that. If you want to be wealthy and successful in your online business and also in your personal life, you must have the confidence and conviction that you will achieve what you want. Having faith also means that you will be able to work on your goal to be successful until you achieve them, and you will never give up, no matter what setbacks you encounter.
Your potential and what you can accomplish in only limited by your imagination. “He who has faith has an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well; even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly” (B. C. Forbes).
Develop your strategy. If you want to be successful, you must have an action plan which will guide your towards the success your need in your online business and in your personal life. If you want to have a home based online business with which you can earn $200,000 per annum, you must develop a strategy of how you can achieve this. Your strategy will outline the type of a business you will need, the capital outlay you will allocate to that business and the daily activities that you will carry out in order to achieve this goal.
Have passion and enthusiasm about your business and your goal to become successful. Success is achieved by those to have a strong force inside them which drives them to work hard towards achieving their goals with their online business and in their lives. Your level of passion and enthusiasm will also influence the dedication and effort you will apply towards working on your goal of becoming successful.
Be prepared to work hard. If you want to be successful and wealthy, you must be prepared to work hard. Whatever your online business is, you will need to apply the necessary effort and time to build the business and develop it to the level you want it to be. Your hard work will soon pay off and you will be able to see your online business earnings increasing.
Have a support network. Building your online business can be very challenging, and you can encounter some setbacks along the way. It is important for you to have a support network of other internet marketers, some of who may own a business similar to yours. You can find this support from a relevant forum. It is very important for you to make your learning curve as short as possible, and you can do this by learning from other people who have been successful with a business similar to yours.
If you follow the steps outlined above to develop and implement your plan towards success with your business, you will be able to achieve any level of success you wish for.
How to Avoid Ebusiness Website That Doesn’t Bring Business
Jan 24th
Don’t be fooled into believing that all you need to do business online is a good website. Before you expend your life-savings developing a beautiful website loaded with amazing graphics, dancing buttons, chat rooms, and photos of beautiful women because your web developer told you that’s how to attract users to a site, read this article.
Attracting Users Does Not Mean Selling Your Products Or Services:
A shocker for many new entrants to ecommerce is the hard reality that a website does not make money. It’s only a communication tool to reach out to Internet users. Therefore, the success of an Ebusiness does not rely on a website, but rather on the business model, because it is a business. Think about it, what drives market in a real shop on the corner of a street: the painting, furniture, beautiful sales girl, or how the store does business? Well your guess is as good as mine. It is how the store does business. Walking into a store either to tease a pretty sales girl, or admire the furniture does not result in sales if there are no good products and the workers, perhaps, lack customer service skills.
Experience Matters:
Most junior web-developers fresh from college are quick to unleash their programming skills with latest web-designing tools. Waoh, the site is beautiful! The real question is how much are you making from the Ecommerce site? Ebusiness is an investment like real estate, taxi business, etc. You are into it because you want to make some money. In other words, it should have a Return on Investment (ROI), and a ‘Payback Period’ because technology outdates quite easily.
Your beautiful website does not make money because it’s designed to attract attention but not to make money. A good ECommerce site is a combination of painstaking analyses by an Ebusiness Expert, good programming by a Web Developer, excellent contents by a Web Communicator, aggressive marketing strategy by a Web Marketer, and active maintenance by a Web Content Manager. Don’t throw a fit yet if you do not have the capital to invest on these aforementioned, overpriced professionals. In most cases one person or two can have a combination of the skills above. If you are a small business with a small budget one place you can find very low-cost consultants for analyses, design and content management is at http://www.exposureworld.net
Use An Ebusiness Consultant Not A Web-Developer:
If you want to start an Ebusiness you should be shopping for an Ebusiness Consultant rather than a Web Developer. Both are not the same. A good Ebusiness Consultant normally has an advanced degree in Management Information Systems, MBA, or Marketing, and several years or working experience in a specific industry. S(he) understands not only the technology but also the market trends. Take for instance in the medical field, there are pediatricians specializing in children medicine, gynecologists specializing on pregnant women, dermatologist for the skin, optometrist for the eye, etc. Your visit to a doctor starts with a diagnosis, or perhaps a lab visit. That determines the type of doctor you will see. If you are ill you don’t walk to a nurse to get treatment, do you? What makes you think Ebusiness is different? It is the job of an Ebusiness Consultant to recommend solutions to your Ebusiness needs, including the type of website a web developer needs to develop for you.
Research Your Product and Target Audience:
A corporate website that provides information about a company is different from a dating website that match-makes people; both are different from a news website. Target audience plays an important role in website development. Who is your audience? The online market is segmented into various demographic categories. For instance a site targeting serious-minded financial professionals is quite different from a site targeting youths and teenagers. Whereas a typical teenager may be fascinated by a heavily animated site with background music and pictures of celebrities, a financial analyst who’s sharing a cubicle with another staff wishing to renew her subscription to a financial magazine during office hours may not find animations, pop-ups, and background music really funny. Take a look at this website www.imoonline.org targeting youth audience. It uses pictures of celebrities to attract and sustain the youth audience. Take a look at this small business that sells Italian goods http://www.bellaitaliaonline.com It uses Italian food recipes and travel information to attract its target audience.
Leave Intro Pages For Adult Websites:
Not every Internet user has all the time on Earth to wait for your flash intro page to load. If this is a business website, please skip the ‘into thing’ and take customers straight to business. Your homepage should be professional with links to other sections of the site. Some of your best products should be displayed on the homepage. A user should start doing business right from your homepage, and doesn’t have to dig in to find products.
Background Music? Some Users Are In the Office:
Imagine receiving a link from a friend to check out a site while you are in the office. On clicking the link you are surprised by a blasting sound of Bob Marley’s ‘One Love’ song at the background. Your office colleagues turn to you and ask ‘What’s that? Not funny at all. A typical modern office is a low-wall cubicle shared with a host of other staff.
Font Color/ Size Are Age Determinant:
The older your target audience, the larger should be your fonts. A typical example is a retirement home site, or pension fund management site. The patrons are likely ageing retirees. If you are not sure who’s visiting your site, I suggest you use a standard ‘Times New Romans’, or ‘Arial’ fonts, size 12. Colors should be mild. Avoid background colors if you can, unless where research shows such a color can attract certain type of customers.
Graphics? Think About Download Speed
Before you load up your website with heavy graphics bear in mind that not everyone has the luxury of DSL, broadband, or high speed Internet. Many web-users are still stuck with simple dial-up connections. Downloading graphics can be a thorn in the flesh for dial-up users.
If you think that Ecommerce is so easy that even a cave man can do it, so why would you need an Ebusiness Consultant? Well, next time you want to repaint your car try hiring a house painter instead. After all they’re all painters and should know about paints. Tell me how it went afterwards.
This writer is available for Ebusiness Consulting for small businesses. You can contact or read more about this writer at:
http://www.imoonline.org
http://www.exposureworld.net