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Produksi Batu Bara Ditahan Karena Lebih Banyak Merusak Lingkungan

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 02:50:00 +0000

Jakarta - Pemerintah saat ini mencoba menahan laju produksi batu bara, apalagi saat ini harganya yang terus menurun. Pasalnya batu bara lebih banyak merusak namun hasil yang didapatkan negara sangat sedikit. Bahkan 50% Izin pertambangan belum Clear and Clean (CNC), artinya perusahaan tersebut diragukan membayar pajak dan royalti kepada negara.

Seperti dikatakan Wakil Menteri Energi Sumber Daya Mineral (ESDM), Rudi Rubiandini, pemerintah saat ini sedang 'menahan' laju produksi batubara dengan mensyaratkan perusahaan tersebut harus CNC dan memiliki sertifikat Izin Usaha Pertambangan (IUP) Operasi Produksi (OP).

"Harus CNC dan memiliki IUP OP, karena dengan terpenuhinya dua syarat tersebut bisa dipastikan perusahaan tersebut bayar pajak, bayar royalti dan menjaga lingkungan serta wilayah kerjanya tidak tumpang tindih," ujar Rudi di Jakarta, Sabtu (20/10/2012).

Terbukti kata Rudi, dari 10.000 Izin Usaha Pertambangan yang diterbitkan pemerintah daerah per 2 Oktober, ternyata ada sekitar 5.806 IUP yang tidak CNC.

"Hampir 50% lebih tidak CNC. Artinya menjadi pertanyaan mereka bayar pajak tidak? Bayar royalti tidak? Jaga lingkungan apa tidak? Pastinya tidak karena mereka belum CNC," ujar Rudi.

Apalagi efek eksplorasi dan eksploitas batubara banyak merusaknya dari pada yang dihasilkan, jauh berbeda dengan sektor Migas, sedikit merusak namun hasilnya jauh lebih banyak.

"Eksplorasi daneksploitasi Migas paling besar hanya 2 ha, masukin pipa sedot Migas, tapi hasilnya seperti tahun ini mencapai Rp 278 triliun, sementara di sektor Pertambangan yang eksplorasinya berratus-ratus hektar dan merusak, menggali, menebang pohon namun yang dihasilkan hanya Rp 110 triliun saja," tandasnya.

Ini Rahasia Kemajuan Industri Taiwan

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 02:49:00 +0000

TAINAN - Siapa yang tidak tahu Ipad. Setiap orang sudah mengenal Ipad. Produk yang diproduksi perusahaan raksasa Foxconn ini sudah populer di dunia dan berasal dari Taiwan.

Taiwan, pulau kecil di sebelah timur China dikenal sebagai negara dengan industri yang cukup maju di Asia, selain Jepang dan tentu saja daratan China (China mainland).

Taiwan menjadi salah satu negara pengekspor komponen elektronik, handphone dan suku cadang mobil terbesar dunia. Lalu, apa rahasia kesuksesan negara yang sebaya dengan Indonesia ini?

"Kami mempunyai industri klaster yang sangat maju dan kompetitif di Taiwan. Klaster industri ini sudah dimulai 50 tahun lalu," ujar Executive Vice President Taiwan External Trade Development Agency (TAITRA), Peter WJ Huang, Jumat (19/10/2012) waktu setempat.

Hal itu dikatakannya di sela-sela acara '2012 Sourcing Taiwan-Industry Cluster Week' di Hotel Tayih Landis, Kota Tainan, Taiwan.

Peter menjelaskan, klaster Taiwan dimulai secara natural sejak 1960, tanpa kebijakan khusus dari pemerintah. Industri ini lalu berkembang dan mendapat respon dari pemerintah dengan memfasilitasi secara regulasi, dengan maksud klaster terus berkembang.

Ada 12 klaster industri di Taiwan yang difokuskan di 12 kota besar. Setiap klaster terdiri dari ratusan hingga ribuan perusahaan, baik besar maupun kecil yang memproduksi barang dan jasa linear.

Dia mencontohkan, kota Taipei untuk industri ICT, elektronik, dan software; Kaohsiung industri steel, mur, sekrup dan makanan beku (frozen food); Tainan kota industri suku cadang, tekstil, shipbuilding, dan optoelektronik; Taichung kota industri mesin-mesin manufaktur (machinary), handstool, dan autotronics; dan Changhua kota industri handstool, glass, bicycles, dan hardware.

"Pemerintah memberi insentif menarik kepada industri. Lahan pemerintah dijual murah jika diperuntukkan untuk industri," tutur Manajer Proyek dari Divisi Penjualan TYC Industrial Brothers, Julie YS. Hal lain yang menunjukkan keberpihakan pemerintah adalah pembangunan infrastruktur yang sangat memadai dan penggunaan high teknologi pada setiap fasilitas.

Associate manager Southern Taiwan Innovation Research Park (STIR), Emily Chen, menambahkan hal lain yang mendorong perkembangan industri klaster dan penggunaan teknologi tinggi adalah keberadaan lebih dari 17 Taman Teknologi (Techno Park) yang dibangun pemerintah.

Pada setiap taman terdiri dari sejumlah institut riset dengan bidang berbeda-beda, di mana setiap institut riset memberi pendampingan dan konsultasi terhadap belasan industri yang baru lahir dan tumbuh.

Dia mencontohkan Industrial Research Technology Institute (IRTI) untuk riset industri elektronik, energi, material, machinery, dan kimia. Contoh lain seperti Metal Research Center (MRC) di kota Kaoshiung, Food Science Research Institute (FSRI), dan Presicion Machinery Research Center (PMRC) di kota Taichung.

"Setiap company (perusahaan) memiliki satu ruang khusus di institute ini sebagai tempat meeting dan konsultasi. Institute ini memberikan kemudahan bagi mereka juga untuk akses informasi dari pemerintah dan bagaimana penggunaan high teknologi," jelasnya.

Di techno park inilah, lanjut Emilia, berkumpulnya profesor dan ilmuwan-ilmuwan Taiwan untuk melakukan riset bagi perkembangan industri klaster di Taiwan.

"Tidak ada kerjasama dengan universitas. Mereka melakukan riset dan learning by experience," ujarnya.

CT : RI Akan Jadi Pemimpin Ekonomi di ASEAN, Bahkan Dunia

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 02:48:00 +0000

Jakarta - Indonesia akan menjadi negara dengan ekonomi terbesar ke-7 dunia pada tahun 2030. Setidaknya ini tergambar dari McKinsey dalam laporan jurnal mengenai Indonesia kedepan.

Pengusaha sekaligus pendiri CT Corporation, Chairul Tandjung berkeyakinan Indonesia akan menjadi negara besar seperti yang dilaporkan oleh McKinsey. "Kita akan menjadi negara besar di ASEAN, bahkan di dunia," katanya di Jakarta Theater Building, Sabtu (20/10/2012).

Menurutnya, Indonesia akan menguasai 40% perekonomian di ASEAN pada tahun 2020. Hal ini terjadi karena tumbuhnya kelompok menengah Indonesia dengan pendapatan US$ 3600.

"Itu pengeluaran mereka per orang sekitar Rp 36 juta, bukan dihitung dalam satu keluarga, tetapi individu," jelasnya.

CT yang juga sebagai Ketua KEN ini juga percaya kepada laporan McKinsey, yang menyatakan Indonesia akan menjadi negara dengan perekonomian terbesar nomor 7 di dunia. Bahkan, Indonesia akan mengalahkan Amerika Serikat di tahun 2050 mendatang.

"Semua cerita bagus ini harus kita lakukan dengan kerja keras," cetusnya.

Selain itu, kasta Indonesia akan dari dari middle income country menjadi high income country (negara berpendapatan terbesar), asalkan terjadi perubahan dan transformasi teknologi berbasis sumber daya manusia.

"Kita harus lakukan perubahan. Harus bertransformasi berbasis sumber daya manusia, dimana didalamnya ada teknologi. Ini harus ditingkatkan 60% untuk menjadi negara terbesar di Asean dan Dunia," pungkasnya.

Americans, Swedes, and the Alchemy of Innovation

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 04:59:00 +0000

From the steam engine to the Internet, innovation has been the driver of rising living standards in capitalist countries. Economist Joseph Schumpeter wonderfully captured the role of innovation in a capitalist economy: “The fundamental impulse that sets and keeps the capitalist engine in motion comes from the new consumers’ goods, the new methods of production or transportation, the new markets, the new forms of industrial organization that capitalist enterprise creates.”

Nowhere is the association between innovation and entrepreneurship as deeply ingrained in popular culture as in the U.S. Starting with the textile mill owners of 19th century Lowell, Mass., and continuing right up to the men and women who built Silicon Valley, Americans have believed that innovation and risk-taking are two sides of the same coin. This common cultural touchstone helps explain why U.S. businesses have so much leeway to succeed and fail. Taking a long-term perspective on American history, it’s hardly surprising that a major public policy passion has been how best to encourage more entrepreneurship. This policy concern is certainly animating the battle for the White House between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.
Perhaps the current charged political climate helps explain why a 47-page, highly abstract scholarly paper (PDF) with plenty of equations and multiple references to world equilibrium model, risk aversion, time-varying rewards structures, and so on has ignited a flurry of interest in the blogosphere. Its title is provocative, too: Why Can’t We All Be More Like Scandinavians: Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World. MIT economist Daron Acemoglu, Paris School of Economics professor Thierry Verdier, and Harvard professor of government James A. Robinson model a relationship between two forms of capitalism, “cutthroat” and “cuddly.” The U.S. is an exemplar of cutthroat capitalism, offering risk-takers the prospect of big money, a weak safety net, and wide inequality. The paragons of cuddly capitalism are the Scandinavian nations, with a generous cushion against risk, a smaller payoff to entrepreneurs, and less inequality.

To recap the paper, the scholars argue the cutthroat U.S. economy expanded rapidly, thanks to incentives rewarding innovation. However, living standards among the cuddly Nordic nations eventually catch up as they adopt the innovations generated by U.S. entrepreneurs. Cuddly capitalism and cutthroat capitalism rely on one another in an interconnected world economy. The scholars conclude: “[W]e cannot all be like the Scandinavians, because Scandinavian capitalism depends in part on the knowledge spillovers created by the more cutthroat American capitalism.”

The paper raises many intriguing questions. The most important for people who aren’t academic economists is whether it’s true a stronger social safety net discourages entrepreneurship. My suspicion is that the exact opposite is the case. Modern finance theory—hardly a bastion of socialist support—suggests that strong safety nets which minimize the downside of bets gone bad encourage greater risk-taking. Without a backstop they can rely on, “people are afraid to venture out into the rapids where real achievement is possible,” writes Yale University economist Robert Shiller in The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century. “Brilliant careers go untried because of the fear of economic setback.”

The story told by worldwide innovation indexes is very different than what the authors suggest, says Lane Kenworthy, sociologist at the University of Arizona. The Global Innovation Index for 2012, compiled by INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization (the latter a specialized agency of the United Nations), ranks Switzerland first, followed by Sweden, Singapore, and Finland. The U.S. is 10th. The top four innovation countries offer their citizens universal health and retirement benefits. The World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index, 2012-2013 rates Sweden the world’s most innovative nation, followed by Finland. The U.S. is sixth on the list. Closer to home, the 2012 State Entrepreneurship Index compiled by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln put Massachusetts, which has universal health care, on top. Louisiana is at the bottom.

A similar insight comes from an examination of whether there is “entrepreneurial lock” with America’s employer-based health-care system. A 2011 Kauffman-RAND Institute for Entrepreneurship Public Policy study looked into whether people with employer-based insurance were more likely to become self-employed if they could get their health insurance through a spouse. For the entire U.S. population, the annual base rate of business creation is 3 percent. Among men, the study found that entrepreneurial lock reduced business creation by a percentage point. The same pattern held for women. Eligibility for universal coverage under Medicare also affected entrepreneurship rates. For men just under age 65, the business ownership rate is 24.6 percent, a figure that jumps to 28 percent for men just over 65. “The availability of affordable health insurance for the self-employed has an important impact on whether individuals are likely to become entrepreneurs,” concludes Robert Fairlee, a RAND economist.

Women Help Startups Succeed. When Will VCs Notice?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 04:57:00 +0000

Successful startups have more women in senior positions than unsuccessful ones, according to a new analysis by Dow Jones (NWSA) VentureSource of more than 20,000 venture-backed companies in the U.S. between 1997 and 2011. They had more than twice as many women in top jobs like C-level managers, vice presidents, and board members than their unsuccessful counterparts did.

Companies that went public, were acquired, or turned profitable were defined as “successful.” “Unsuccessful” included both failed companies and “not-yet-successful” startups still operating that may eventually go public or get acquired. At successful companies, the median share of female executives was 7.1 percent, compared with 3.1 percent at unsuccessful firms.

There’s a distressing finding buried in the report: Even as companies with women in other top management roles performed better, those with female chief executives were less likely to succeed—by 21 percent, according to Maryam Haque, one of the researchers behind the report. It’s important to note the data don’t indicate why these companies succeed at different rates. The study doesn’t tell us whether women CEOs are less effective leaders, for example, or if they face biases from customers or investors that influence their companies’ performance, or if women are more likely to start companies in industries with higher failure rates.

What’s astonishing, though, is just how few women hold top positions in venture-backed companies, even by the lopsided standards of the rest of the business world. Consider: Women own 28 percent of all businesses in the U.S. Women make up about 16 percent of board members and corporate officers of the Fortune 500. That’s still a lousy record considering women are 51 percent of the U.S. population and better educated than men. But even that 16 percent puts the Fortune 500 way ahead of the VC-backed universe: Of the roughly 168,000 executives at companies in VentureSource’s analysis, less than 7 percent were women.
Let that sink in for a minute. The world of VC-backed companies, which prides itself on being cutting edge, lags both Main Street and corporate America in women leaders. It’s true that the VentureSource sample goes back to the 1990s and includes lots of companies that no longer exist. But even by the late ’90s, women occupied 10 percent of top jobs in the Fortune 500.

This should be a wake-up call for the VC industry, a notorious boys’ club that purports to be a meritocracy. “For the last 15 years, what has been the percentage of women investors making those decisions to get these companies going? My guess is it was very small,” says Shaherose Charania, CEO of Women 2.0, a company that aims to increase the number of women founders in tech startups through media and events.
Anecdotally, Charania says more startups led by women have taken off in recent years. She rattles off a handful of entrepreneurs who have had big exits in 2012: SlideShare, co-founded by CEO Rashmi Sinha, is being acquired by LinkedIn (LNKD) for $119 million, and Google (GOOG) is paying $250 million for Wildfire, a maker of social media marketing software co-founded by CEO Victoria Ransom.
Charania expects the picture will look different in the years ahead as companies founded more recently grow. “There are more women going from, ‘I have an idea’ to ‘I’m quitting my job and I’m starting,’ and they’re holding that CEO role in the very earliest stages of the startup,” she says. And more women investors are funding them.

In the public markets, research shows companies with women on their boards outperform companies with all-male boards. The VentureSource report suggests startups with women in management do better as well. Maybe the most surprising thing is what’s taking VCs so long to catch on.

The War Over Economic Facts

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 04:55:00 +0000

Lies filled the Long Island air on Oct. 16 at the second debate between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. It’s provable by deduction: Either the candidates’ accusations of falsehoods were correct or, if not, the accusations themselves were false. A typical exchange centered on the rate of domestic oil production during the Obama presidency:

ROMNEY: Production on private, on government, land …
OBAMA: Production is up.
ROMNEY: … is down.
OBAMA: No, it isn’t.
ROMNEY: Production on government land of oil is down 14 percent.
OBAMA: It’s just not true.
ROMNEY: It’s absolutely true.

It was Abbott & Costello for angry people. (In this case, PolitiFact.com judged Romney’s claim to be—of course!—“Half True.”) In a presidential campaign dominated by the economy, it’s not surprising that both sides have inundated voters with data supporting their positions. What distinguishes this campaign is the inability of the candidates to agree even on basic facts—from whether Romney would cut taxes on the rich to whether Obama doubled the budget deficit. Says Brooks Jackson, director of FactCheck.org, which has been busy this campaign season ferreting out falsehoods: “My observation is that the higher the stakes and the closer the election, the more likely candidates are to start bending and twisting and making stuff up.”
The war over facts reflects a coarsening of America’s politics. Polarization has undermined civility and fair play. Gallup said on Oct. 12 that the gap between Democrats’ and Republicans’ approval rating for the president is the biggest since it began tracking the statistic in 1984. The ideological gap between parties in the House of Representatives is the widest since at least 1879, calculates University of Georgia political scientist Keith Poole. Suffering from cognitive dissonance, partisans on both sides simply can’t believe information that undermines their cause or supports their opponents’. Parties have become as adept at engineering factoids that favor their cause as they are at drawing bizarre congressional districts to maximize their representation in Congress.

Democracy is at risk when ideology overpowers reality. If lawmakers and the public can’t agree on a set of core facts about how the world works, there’s little chance they’ll be able to devise solutions to problems like rising health-care costs or—to name a more immediate crisis—averting the fiscal cliff of tax hikes and spending cuts on Jan. 1, 2013.

Romney’s refusal to be pinned down on his tax plan exemplifies this political season’s loose attachment to reality. Romney says he will cut taxes by about $5 trillion but will offset those cuts entirely by ending deductions and credits for the wealthy. He says he can do this without adding to the deficit or raising taxes on the middle class, and while retaining tax incentives for savings and investment. Is this possible? The Tax Policy Center, which is a nonpartisan joint venture of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, found in an August report that it’s not possible—even if all other breaks for the wealthy are eliminated and even assuming the boost to growth that’s projected by Romney adviser Gregory Mankiw, a Harvard University economist.
Confronted with this clash between plan and reality, Romney and his running mate, Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, have taken a two-pronged approach. They have denigrated the Tax Policy Center as a Democratic front, even though Romney cited it approvingly last spring when it nailed a tax plan of his GOP rival, Rick Perry. And they have brazened out their $5 trillion arithmetic problem. On Oct. 16, Romney changed the subject when pressed for details of his tax plan, citing his management of the Salt Lake City Olympics and attacking Obama’s budget deficits. With his time expiring, he sputtered, “I just described to you precisely how I’d do it, which is with a single number that people can put—and they can put their deductions and credits—[inaudible].” For his part, Obama claimed he wouldn’t raise taxes above where they were during the Clinton administration, conveniently leaving out new taxes associated with the Affordable Care Act.

In the heat of political combat, “studies” become weapons. Romney and Ryan cite a study by consulting firm Ernst & Young that found restoring higher rates in the top tax brackets, as Obama has proposed, could cost 710,000 jobs in the long run. But that’s only if the proceeds go toward more government spending. Romney and Ryan fail to mention that E&Y said the hikes would create 570,000 jobs if the proceeds went toward reducing rates in the lower brackets.

Motif Khas Batik Tulis Srikandi Purwodadi

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 04:09:00 +0000

Semakin populernya batik Grobogan dewasa ini tidak terlepas dari peran serta para pengrajinnya yang tergabung dalam beberapa KUB (Kelompok Usaha Bersama). Puluhan pengrajin yang tersebar di seantero wilayah Grobogan tersebut memulai kreasi produknya setelah mendapatkan pelatihan/ diklat dari Dinas Perindustrian Perdagangan Pertambangan dan Energi Kabupaten Grobogan tahun 2010.

Salah satu dari beberapa kelompok yang masih eksis saat ini adalah KUB Srikandi yang beralamat di Cabean Ngraji Purwodadi Kabupaten Grobogan. Digawangi oleh lebih kurang 25 orang pengrajin, KUB Srikandi menjadi salah satu kelompok yang kini rutin berproduksi setiap harinya.

Ditemui langsung di rumahnya, Sabtu (13/10), ketua KUB Srikandi Ibu Listriyani (36) mengaku jika pihaknya merasa beruntung dengan keikutsertaannya dalam pelatihan batik tulis yang pernah diselenggarakan dinas setempat. “Dengan adanya pelatihan waktu itu, maka sebagian besar dari kami yang awalnya tidak memiliki kesibukan dan hanya sebagai ibu rumah tangga, akhirnya sedikit banyak bisa membantu perekonomian keluarga,” jelasnya kepada tim liputan bisnisUKM. Tidak membutuhkan waktu lama bagi ibu-ibu yang tergabung dalam KUB Srikandi untuk ‘menyerap’ ilmu tentang batik tulis, dan kemudian memasarkannya.

Berbekal bahan baku kain primisima serta pewarnaan remasol, KUB Srikandi kini mampu memproduksi batik tulis dengan berbagai motif khas Grobogan, diantaranya motif jagung, motif padi, motif jati, motif bledug kuwu, motif wayang, dan motif api abadi Merapen. “Dari sekian banyak motif yang kami produksi, motif wayanglah yang menjadi ciri khas kami, dan itu sesuai dengan nama KUB kami Srikandi,” ujar Ibu Listriyani. Meskipun motif batik yang dikreasi antara satu KUB dengan yang lain hampir sama, namun masing-masing tetap memiliki ciri khas tersendiri, terutama corak dan kehalusan cantingannya.

Selama ini, KUB Srikandi memproduksi kreasi batik tulisnya sesuai dengan pesanan yang ada. “Pesanan biasanya datang dari dinas-dinas maupun perusahaan swasta yang ada di sini (Purwodadi), dan Alhamdulillah trendnya cenderung mengalami peningkatan,” imbuh Ibu Listriyani. Masing-masing anggota KUB juga memiliki tanggung jawab untuk memasarkan produk kreasi mereka. “Biasanya ketika kita pergi kemana gitu selalu membawa batik untuk ditawarkan ke orang-orang yang kita temui,” ujar Ibu Listriyani sembari tersenyum.

Sementara itu, harga yang ditawarkan KUB Srikandi juga cukup terjangkau, yaitu berkisar di harga Rp80.000,00 s.d. Rp100.000,00/ potong. Patokan harga tersebut disesuaikan dengan motif dan kerumitan produksinya. “Kami masih memproduksi sebatas kain batiknya saja, belum untuk baju atau produk-produk lainnya, semoga ke depannya hal tersebut juga bisa kami realisasikan,” kata Ibu Listriyani. Untuk memudahkan proses produksinya, kebanyakan tenaga produksi (ibu-ibu) tersebut membawa pulang dan dikerjakan di rumah. Dibutuhkan waktu kurang lebih 4 (empat) hari pengerjaan untuk setiap potong kain batik tulis tersebut.

Kendala Usaha

Ketika ditanya mengenai kendala yang sering dihadapi, Ibu Listriyani berujar jika pemasaranlah yang sering menjadi kendala mereka. Apalagi masyarakat saat ini lebih suka menggunakan batik printing yang harganya dibawah batik tulis. “Bersaing dengan batik printing menjadi tantangan tersendiri, sehingga kami harus menomorsatukan kualitas produk agar bisa mendapatkan kepercayaan lebih dari masyarakat,” terangnya.

Dukungan dari pemerintah khususnya dinas terkait juga menjadi kekuatan tersendiri bagi kelompok seperti KUB Srikandi. “Bapak bupati (Grobogan) juga pernah berujar jika PNS yang ada di lingkup Kabupaten Grobogan harus memakai batik Grobogan ketika menjalani rutinitas kerja mereka,” jelasnya. Kondisi demikian membuat para pengrajin khususnya dari KUB Srikandi semakin bersemangat untuk tetap berkreasi dan melestarikan salah satu ikon daerah Grobogan tersebut.

Di akhir wawancaranya, Ibu Listriyani berharap kelompoknya tetap eksis dan berjalan lebih baik lagi. Di samping itu, beliau juga ingin menciptakan inovasi motif baru lagi agar masyarakat tidak jenuh. “Pastinya kami ingin yang lebih dari dari saat ini, sehingga dibutuhkan komitmen dari semua ibu-ibu yang ada untuk tetap semangat berkreasi dan berproduksi, di samping itu juga butuh bantuan dari pihak-pihak terkait khususnya dari pemerintah untuk memaksimalkan potensi batik tulis yang telah menjadi ikon lokal Grobogan,” kata Ibu Lisriyani sembari menutup sesi wawancara siang hari itu.

How to open your own business

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:23:00 +0000

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• Research your options-This is the best important footfall for anyone who is attractive to accessible their own business. You will charge to booty affluence of time to actuate what blazon of business that you demand to open. You should not let the allure or excitements of a assertive blazon of business draw you to it. Instead you should focus on whether or not you accept the accomplishment set bare to accessible that blazon of business. It should be fatigued that while you don’t charge to apperceive aggregate about a business you should at atomic accept a alive ability of it. Keep in apperception that while active a accouterment business may assume agitative if you accept never entered a kitchen the claiming may be to much. Finally, you should be astute about the bazaar abeyant for any business that you are attractive to open.

• Address a business plan-Once you accept absitively what blazon of business that you are activity to accessible you will charge to address a business plan. Acknowledged business managers consistently accept a business plan. Your business plan will not alone serve as the operating chiral for your business it will be area you almanac your failures, successes, and blueprint your advance as you move against accomplishing your business goals. Keep in apperception that any abeyant lender or broker will demand to see a business plan. You will charge to be able to authenticate in your business plan that you accept a absolute ability of your artefact or service, your market, your ambition customer, and your competition. You will additionally use your business plan to appearance abeyant lenders and investors that you accept the appropriate bodies active the company.

• Find the money-Once you accept your business abstraction and your business plan you will again accept to face the claiming of award the money to alpha your business. This can be a claiming for a -to-be business owner. First, it is important to accept that best acceptable you will charge to advance some of your own money into your business. Abeyant lenders and investors will demand to see that you accept the aplomb to accident your own money. It is additionally important to accent that the acknowledgment for accepting the money you charge will be altered again what addition else’s may be. You will charge to be accommodating to be artistic and anticipate alfresco of the box to get the costs that you charge for your new business. However, if you can accomplish the accomplishment and advance through the obstacles you will be able to get the money you charge to accomplish your dream of owning your own business a reality.

Making a name for your business

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:22:00 +0000

Making your business a acclaimed admirable business can be a challenge, and although business is a abundant way to get your business accustomed it’s not the alone way that you can accomplish a name for your business.

Since business is the best accustomed aspect of accepting your business accepted we will activate there.
Many businesses opt for announcement their business through the internet. This is a accepted actuality because anybody in today’s association uses the internet as a “go to” for everything. So why would you not use it to locate a business or account the business offers. If you are activity to acquaint yourself through the web you charge to booty the able accomplish of ambience up a website, accomplish abiding it has a appropriate blueprint that can be beheld by all and is user friendly. If you accept a complicated website abounding will generally be balked and no best ambition to analysis your page. You additionally charge to accomplish abiding it catches the eye of people. If your website looks arid and airedale bodies are acceptable activity to become aloof in advancing added advice on the aggregation website page. If you are not abiding how to architecture your folio you can appoint a web designing aggregation if your account allows it.

Another aspect of not alone creating web folio is amusing media networking. If you aren’t application amusing media to get the assignment out about your business you are alone affliction your company. This is basically chargeless announcement and bringing in added customers. One of the best accepted amusing media networking sites is Facebook. You can actualize a business folio not a profile, and accept bodies “like” your page. By accepting this Facebook folio you are able to advertise, inform, and accept your aggregation advice for abeyant clients, or customers. The boilerplate being spends hours on Facebook and not alone do they absorb a ample bulk of time, but they generally end up overextension your aggregation name verbally to their friends, coworkers etc.

Another way of authoritative your aggregation apparent is your chump service. You will consistently bethink a acceptable or bad acquaintance back calling a aggregation and speaking with their chump service. Bethink by accepting you name out on advertisements is alone the aboriginal footfall to architecture your credibility. Your chump account should be above with abundant chump account abounding audience or barter will attending advanced to absent to assignment with you aloof because they had a affable experience.

Next is appearance, if you can allow to assignment out of an appointment and not your home, the eventually you get a appropriate appointment the better. Home businesses are not necessarily frowned aloft by barter but sometimes they are beheld as beneath professional. By alive out of your home it may accord bodies affair that you are alone a basal aggregation and accept not accept abundant acquaintance aloof yet.

Once you accept an appointment of some array you charge to accomplish abiding you accept appropriate furniture, appointment supplies, etc. For archetype if you airing into a adorableness salon and you see old ripped administration chairs, and the chairs in the cat-and-mouse allowance are bedraggled and the attic is stained, you are not actual adequate as a applicant and agnosticism the capabilities of the stylist in there. However back you airing into a salon with balk floors, and nice attractive administration chair, and the salon is able-bodied lit, with mirrors and aggregate looks apple-pie you are acceptable to anticipate that the stylist in that salon are absurd and are abiding to acquaint your accompany about the admirable salon you had seen.

In analysis actualization is aggregate as able-bodied and your attitude and accent of voice, aggregate can comedy a key agency into accepting your business name accepted from web appearance, over the buzz appearance, and face to face.

Questions to ask about business management

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:21:00 +0000

Business administration is a activating and arduous process. Bodies who assignment in business administration charge to be accessible to booty on abounding different, arduous demands. Business managers generally address that they face a agitation account that never seems to get shorter. It can be exciting, exhilarating, challenging, and cutting to assignment in business management. Because of this it makes it acute that anyone who is because activity in to business administration accept a bright abstraction of what the job will absolutely entail. Taking the time to appraise if business administration is for you or if you are already in the appropriate job will be analytical for actuality annoyed in your day to day work. Here are some questions to ask about business management-

• Will alive in business administration account your claimed and business goals to coincide? If you are because alive in business administration or you already are again you charge to accept that while business administration is awful ambitious it is additionally important to booty time off periodically. While best bodies alpha a business or get into business administration for claimed affidavit some acquisition out that this is not the job for them in agreement of what it does or doesn’t do for their claimed life. Or you may acquisition that while you adulation what your business sells you don’t adulation the absolute active of your business and acquisition that you are not alone satisfied. If for any acumen your claimed and assignment goals don’t bout up again its time to accomplish concessions so that they do or its time to attending for addition job.

• Do you accept accomplishment set to assignment in business management? Abounding business owners become business managers because of the artefact or account that their business sells. But the absolute job of managing a business requires a accurate accomplishment set in adjustment for your business to be acknowledged in the continued term. You should carefully appraise if you accept that accurate accomplishment set that contributes to business administration success. Accumulate in apperception that while you don’t charge to apperceive aggregate about managing a business (and there is a lot you can apprentice forth the way), you should at atomic accept a alive ability of how to administer your business. The basal band is that if you absolutely demand to be a business administrator you can apprentice how to be a acknowledged one.

• Are you the appropriate personality blazon to assignment in business management? Studies accept apparent that best business managers accept agnate personality traits. In adjustment to administer a business you will charge to be confident, accept in yourself, be able to accomplish decisions beneath burden and in accepted be a leader. You will charge to be able to affect bodies and be able to assignment with them, as well. You will charge to be a business administrator that bodies demand to assignment for. If you accept this blazon of personality again the affairs are aerial that you will be acknowledged in business management.

• If you are already alive in business administration are you aflame to go to assignment everyday? For some bodies the moment of cocky appraisal comes afterwards they are already in a job as a business manager. If you are anon alive in business administration you should booty the time to accede if this is the appropriate job for you. If you acquisition that alive in business administration is not appropriate for you accumulate in apperception that it may be aloof the aggregation that you assignment for. Abounding times business managers will accomplish a job change to addition aggregation and acquisition that they are in the appropriate industry now that they are alive for the appropriate company.

Tips for successful business management

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:19:00 +0000

Savvy business managers are consistently attractive for means to accomplish the administration of their business added able and added successful. Business administration experts accent that the best affectionate of business administration is able-bodied balanced. However, this can be a claiming with the abounding day to day demands that business managers have. If you are activity to be acknowledged in the administration of your business you will charge to admonition your advisers assignment to their abeyant aback they are the bodies who will best anon aftereffect whether or not your business is acknowledged for the continued term. The acceptable account is that there are abounding altered means that you can admonition them do that. Here are some tips for acknowledged business management-

• Administer performance-Successful business managers apperceive that they cannot artlessly sit aback and achievement that their advisers accomplish at the accomplished levels. High levels of achievement appear from the alive accomplish that a business administrator will take. You will charge to set up goals and ascertain expectations so that your advisers apperceive what is expected. However, accumulate in apperception that this is not a one time process. You will charge to chase this up with achievement evaluations and reviews on a approved basis.
• Actuate potential-Savvy business managers apperceive that their workforce is their best admired asset. If you demand your business to be acknowledged you will consistently be attractive for means to bigger advance the abeyant of your employees. You should not accept that your advisers can alone do the job that they were assassin for. Booty the time to actuate what their talents are and see if they can fit in with the cold of authoritative your business successful.
• Set goals-If you demand your advisers to be advantageous you will charge to set goals for them to assignment towards. Artlessly bold that they will apperceive what they are declared to do and how they are declared to do it is aloof a compound for disaster. You will charge to sit bottomward with anniversary of your advisers and assignment calm to set goals that will admonition them to ability their potential. Accumulate in apperception that any goals that you set should be actual bright and understandable.
• Avoid micromanagement-Successful business managers apperceive aback to footfall in and aback to aback off. You will charge to abide the appetite to micromanage. If you accept taken the appropriate accomplish with your advisers they will apperceive what to do after you attractive over their accept at all times. You charge to let your advisers assignment against the goals you accept set calm after you dispatch in to adviser every footfall forth the way. The basal band is that if you demand your business to be acknowledged you will accept to administer in such a way that you carelessness some of the control. This will accord your advisers the aplomb they charge to absolutely aftermath for your business and accomplish you attending acceptable as a manager.
• Offer support-Effective business administration is absolutely a acclimation act. You will charge to booty accomplish to aback off and let your advisers flash but you shouldn’t carelessness them. A acknowledged business administrator offers the appropriate bulk of abutment and acts a ability for the bodies that assignment for him or her. You charge to assurance your advisers and appearance account by acknowledging them. You should let your advisers apperceive that you are there for them and demand to admonition them ability their abounding potential. Having an accessible band of admonition will let them apperceive that you are there to listen, advice, and adviser in those efforts.

Training Employees Effectively

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:18:00 +0000

Training advisers is generally looked as a simple guideline of training and already the training is completed the agent is larboard to see if they bore or swim. This abominably can advance to adversity with-in the company. Having ailing accomplished advisers can advance to abounding accidents, mistakes, and sometimes aggregation money loss. What some advisers and administration don’t consistently admit is that there are altered types of training and sometimes discount how abundant training is needed.

First the aggregation or administrator needs to amount out what training is bare afore alpha training. Start by accepting to apperceive what types of abilities and training your advisers have. Afresh the administrator needs to accept a accomplishment akin that should be accomplished afterwards training has occurred. By ambience the admiration collapsed of accomplishment afterwards training afterwards becomes easier for the administrator to chase up and see if the after-effects are aural the companies needs or if added training is needed.

The altered types of training are:
• Training On the job
• Classroom training
• Apprentice training

On the job training is the best accepted in the job industry, and usually is all that is appropriate for abounding altered jobs. On the job training consists of addition agent or administrator is assigned to alternation the new agent or accepted agent the procedures and guidelines while absolutely assuming the job duties.

Using classroom training is absolutely effective. Aloof as admitting acceptance would appear a class, new advisers or accepted advisers appear a chic assuming them duties and procedures of a new job or new department. Generally times classroom training is acclimated for groups of advisers instead of aloof on alone depending on the corporation. Classroom training can additionally be performed in a classroom at a abstruse academy or university for on the job training as well, afore absolutely entering the job itself.
Apprenticeship training is area an agent will adumbration and apprentice from an able in the acreage of the adapted job position. This can ambit from a brace months to a year. Abounding beyond positions use this address as addition ambitious to access the aggregation at a college level.

Now that the aggregation has absitively on the address of training, you demand to be abiding that you accept addition who is accomplished is the field. You don’t demand addition who is still anew accomplished to appear in and alternation new employees. You demand addition who knows the affairs of every bearings that could possibly appear while assuming job duties.

Lastly what abounding mangers and trainers generally balloon is to chase up afterwards training. A lot of bodies will get aflame about new programs and things for a few weeks and afresh they aloof abatement aback into their earlier habits afresh because they are comfortable. Accept a arrangement in abode that helps to admonish bodies to do the appropriate way and to ensure that they are afterward the new procedures. Little reminders such as emails and account training seminars can advice to accumulate bodies on the appropriate track.

Involve the advisers in the all-embracing training action and to get them to assignment on allowance you to actualize an able one that they will absolutely do. This will get them aflame and will accomplish it easier to chase the new procedures.

As you can see training advisers can be a actual continued action and should crave absolutely a bit of captivation from administration or Human resources, whom anytime is amenable for the training. Training your advisers the actual way can assure that the chase up will be basal and hopefully advantageous alive that if there is any added training bare is should be minimal.

Using Guerrilla Marketing To Your Advantage

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:12:00 +0000

What is one of the best means to get your aggregation name out there? Blackmailer marketing! This is a abundant way to advice you advance your cast and to be able to accept a lower account on business expenses. Since business can become absolutely costly, it is benign to await on a adjustment like guerrilla business that makes it easier for you to advance the brand. What it does crave is some adroitness on your part.

So what is it about blackmailer business that gets the absorption of your customers? Its different, its original, and in some cases, it can be shocking. You charge to accept a aggregation of experts that are awful artistic and apperceive how to adornment the absorption of your barter and really, your absolute industry.

There are several altered types of guerrilla business techniques that you can use. Here are aloof a few of them and how they are able to abetment your aggregation in acceptable advantageous and to accretion the absorption you charge to absolutely accomplish an appulse in your industry:
• Alternative Marketing. Some bodies accept heard of this, others are still un-aware of what it is. Alternative business is a appellation that refers to “non-traditional” means to advance your company’s articles or services. You may end up with a columnist absolution to allocution about a absolutely altered accountable and by accomplishing so you are able to argue bodies to buy articles that they didn’t apperceive about and you are able to actualize a admiration in them to buy your products. It is an able way to authorize the aggregation in your industry and to actualize a altered address for your aggregation and the articles that you accept created.
• Astroturfing. With this blazon of business you will end up talking about the artefact that you and the barter accept had a lot of acquaintance with. The ambition with this anatomy of business is to body a name for your aggregation by authoritative yourself into the aggregation with all the ability in your industry. You demand to be able to advance the articles application forms like blogs after adhering them to your aggregation name. You can allocution about your articles but try to do it like you are a chump and you are reviewing the articles on a blog, not like you are the business able and you are announcement the articles for your company.
• Experiential Marketing. With this, you will end up application a artefact that connects to the customer. Bodies demand to be able to chronicle to the artefact and to use added chump adventures and things that helps them to see what the artefact can do for them based on added people’s experiences.
• Presume marketing. With this business affairs you will use amusing media and abounding added forms to advice you accretion acknowledgment for your products. You demand to be able to accept bodies admit the articles and to abode them in areas area bodies can absolutely admit them. Commercials are usually too expensive, but they are one of the best means to get our name out there as best bodies watch TV and will see the commercial.

There are abounding added techniques that you can use for able blackmailer business but what it absolutely comes bottomward to is attractive at all of the places area you can add your logo and added things to allure attention. Some companies will accomplish custom things like boxes forth with packaging paper. Look for altered means to get your name out there and absolutely assignment on authoritative bodies admit your aggregation name.

What Problems Are Hurting Your Small Business?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:11:00 +0000

Are you ambidextrous with a lot of agent turnover? Do you accept bodies that are not alive up to their abounding potential? Is it adamantine for you to accommodated your account sales goals and expectations? There are abounding altered problems that every baby business is decumbent to ambidextrous with from time to time. It is important that you apprentice how to analyze the problems that are accident and to amount out means in which you can annihilate them afore they account you to lose money and affection employees.

Take a footfall aback and attending at the problems. A lot of baby business owners accept that they accept a problem; they aloof don’t apperceive how to go about acclimation it. You can booty agent surveys to acquisition out what types of problems are out there and to abetment in acquisition up solutions for them. It is additionally a acceptable abstraction to accede attractive at added options such as physically walking about and account bottomward the issues that you can absolutely see. If you begin and cannot amount out solutions, you ability charge to accede bringing in some alfresco advice to accord you a hand.

Employee training is one of the things that some businesses generally blitz through. If you don’t absorb time on training, bodies can calmly get absent on what their duties are. They additionally end up accepting a adamantine time with problems solving. In some cases bodies will end up bold a lot of things and they may not be in tune with the aggregation behavior that you accept outlined. This is article that you charge to accede acclamation if you would like to see a aberration fabricated aural your company. Booty the time to absolutely advance in training in adjustment to accretion acknowledgment that is absolute from the customers. When an agent is appropriately trained, they are able to accept aplomb in themselves and their abilities to do their job.

Do you absorb added than you make? Do you account appropriately? There are a lot of issues that baby business owners will face if they do not booty the time to appropriately budget. You charge to accomplish abiding you accept your banknote breeze and how it works. It is important that you booty the time to absolutely administer it in the appropriate way. If you don’t, your business can abort quickly. Use a affection affairs to advice you in managing your money. QuickBooks is a abundant advantage for baby businesses as there are so abounding things that it can advice to ascendancy and will be able to absolutely advice you in compassionate your business properly.

Marketing is a catchy affair for baby businesses. You demand to bazaar to get your name out there but it can be expensive. You charge to accept your alcove and to apperceive how to get their attention. Can you use amusing media and added business options that are free? These types of programs can absolutely advice you out if you would like to actualize a business that is acknowledged and one that stays competitive.

Failure to abide advance in your baby business is addition botheration that you can run into. If you are not accommodating to put money into the company, how can you anytime apprehend to abide competitive? You charge to be accommodating to advance in new machinery, employees, equipment, and added things if you would like to actualize a aggregation that bodies account and one that bodies will abide supporting.

Do a complete affection of your aggregation and apperceive area you sit. It is important to the success of the company!

What Things Do You Need To Be Successful?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:10:00 +0000

Are you back and forth on starting a small business? What are some elements you need to have in order to create a small business that will last for many years to come? It is important that you assess your own skills and to know what you are capable of doing when you are focused on starting your business. Some people simply do not understand what it takes to start a business and they do not have the money, work ethic, or devotion to create a small business that will become successful. Others may have an idea for a great business but they simply are not able to figure out how to make it into a reality. If you want to start your own small business, here are some of the things that you will need to focus on in order to become successful.

Create a solid business plan
One of the first things you need to do is to step back and focus your efforts on creating an effective business plan. The small business plan needs to be able to provide detailed information about the company. You should focus on talking about several things from the management structure of the company to the cost of operating the company, your niche market, and how you plan on marketing to the customers. A good business plan will be able to convince people to invest in the company, something that can be pretty hard to do otherwise.

Acquire the appropriate funding
Just like the business plan, the people that invest in the company need to be able to provide you with the money you need and to really help the business to expand properly. It is important that you work with the right lenders so you aren’t paying an interest rate that is high or so you aren’t stuck trying to make the monthly payments as you might not be able to afford them if the business doesn’t take off right away. It is a good idea to always get at least 3 quotes when you are looking for a good loan to make sure you are getting the best payment and the right interest rate.

Get the right insurance coverage
There are inherit risks with every business. You need to make sure that you have insurance that will be able to keep you safe! Insurance helps to keep your personal affairs from being subject to lawsuits and other problems and insurance is also beneficial in protecting the business as well. Look at the types of insurance packages that are available for your business and invest in them in order to have plenty of coverage for the business.

Hire the right people
Another key aspect of a successful small business will come down to the people that you hire. You need to be able to look at the candidates to choose from and to be sure that you are really shopping around to find the people that can make your business become a success. The right employees can help the small business to grow and they have direct interaction with the customers, which can help you to create a good image for the business. You need to hire people that you can easily trust to help in expanding the company for you and can become managers in the future. Good employees are hard to find so you also need to be willing to pay appropriately in order to have people feel good about working for you.
Becoming successful at anything takes a lot of devotion and hard work on your part! Be willing to invest the time and hard work into your business in order to see it grow into a profitable one.

What you will need to make your business succeed

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:08:00 +0000

Studies appearance that there are assertive ancestry that acknowledged business managers accept in common. While it is not acute that you accept all of these ancestry to administer a business it will absolutely accomplish the job a lot easier. The basal band is that the admiration to administer a business and accomplish it acknowledged will alone booty you so far. You will charge a assertive accomplishment set that you can abatement aback on in adjustment to booty your business area you demand it to go. The acceptable account is that it is never too backward to access the abilities that you charge to accomplish your business successful. Here is what you will charge to accomplish your business succeed-

• Assignment ethic-Business managers charge to accept a able assignment ethic. If you are the business administrator who comes in backward and leaves aboriginal afterwards demography a 2 hour cafeteria there is little adventitious that your business will accomplish in the continued term. Not alone will your advisers resent your “above the rules” attitude the administration of your business will acceptable ache as well. You charge to appearance your advisers that you are not allurement them to assignment any harder again you are accommodating to. Once you advisers and your barter see how adamantine you are accommodating to assignment they will be abundant added accommodating to advance in your business and accomplish it a success.
• Belief in yourself-Successful business managers accept in themselves. You charge to apperceive that you can advance your business to success. You charge be able to accomplish assorted decisions beneath burden and accord with the after-effects of your decisions. If you are borderline as to how you can possibly administer your business or you feel that you charge to consistently be aptitude on addition abroad again the affairs are aerial that your business will not accept the success that it could accept had. Worse yet, if you don’t accept in yourself again the affairs are low that your advisers and barter will accept in you and your business.
• Ability of business finances-Studies appearance that the cardinal one acumen that businesses abort is due to poor banking management. This is accurate alike for businesses that had a advantageous amount of sales. While you don’t charge to apperceive aggregate about business affairs in adjustment to advice your business accomplish you will charge to accept a alive ability of business finances. Keep in apperception that alike if you accept addition abroad accord with the day to day managing of your business affairs you will ultimately be amenable for befitting your business financially healthy. Finally, it is important to accept that acquirements about business affairs is an advancing process. Acknowledged business managers never stop aggravating to apprentice aggregate they can about managing the affairs of their business.
• Work/life balance-It may assume that in adjustment to be acknowledged in business administration that you charge to be alive 24/7. However, while this can assume like you are giving it your all the absoluteness is that this is the fastest way to burnout. There are abounding business managers who accept abstruse this the adamantine way. Acknowledged business managers apperceive the accent of acclimation their assignment and claimed activity so that they can booty time off and again acknowledgment to their business abounding of activity and activity to abide accomplishing what they love. Part of actuality able to accomplish a acknowledged work/life antithesis is training the appropriate bodies to assignment for you so that you can agent and leave your business in able easily back you do booty a break. Back you can do this you are auspiciously managing your business.

How to open your own business

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:00:00 +0000

You may have always dreamed of opening your business and enjoying all the perks that a successful business manager can enjoy. However, while managing your own business can be exciting it can also be challenging and even overwhelming. Successful business managers know that they need far more then just a great product or service. People who become business managers know that there is a great deal of preparation and many steps to complete before you can open your doors or set up your website. This preparation is crucial to making sure that your business can survive for a long time to come. You should not rush the steps that it will take to set up your business. The bottom line is that if you are willing to put in the time and the effort along with taking all of the necessary steps you can be a successful business owner. Here is what you need to know about how to open your own business-

• Research your options-This is the most important step for anyone who is looking to open their own business. You will need to take plenty of time to determine what type of business that you want to open. You should not let the glamour or excitements of a certain type of business draw you to it. Instead you should focus on whether or not you have the skill set needed to open that type of business. It should be stressed that while you don’t need to know everything about a business you should at least have a working knowledge of it. Keep in mind that while running a catering business may seem exciting if you have never entered a kitchen the challenge may be to much. Finally, you should be realistic about the market potential for any business that you are looking to open.

• Write a business plan-Once you have decided what type of business that you are going to open you will need to write a business plan. Successful business managers always have a business plan. Your business plan will not only serve as the operating manual for your business it will be where you record your failures, successes, and chart your progress as you move toward achieving your business goals. Keep in mind that any potential lender or investor will want to see a business plan. You will need to be able to demonstrate in your business plan that you have a thorough knowledge of your product or service, your market, your target customer, and your competition. You will also use your business plan to show potential lenders and investors that you have the right people running the company.

• Find the money-Once you have your business idea and your business plan you will then have to face the challenge of finding the money to start your business. This can be a challenge for a prospective business owner. First, it is important to understand that most likely you will need to invest some of your own money into your business. Potential lenders and investors will want to see that you have the confidence to risk your own money. It is also important to stress that the answer for getting the money you need will be different then what someone else’s may be. You will need to be willing to be creative and think outside of the box to get the financing that you need for your new business. However, if you can make the effort and push through the obstacles you will be able to get the money you need to make your dream of owning your own business a reality.

How to manage your business so it stands out from the competition

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:58:00 +0000

Many business managers feel that if they do not run a aggregation that offers a awful altered artefact or account afresh it becomes absurd to angle out from the competition. This is artlessly not true. Having a altered artefact or account is alone one way to angle out from the competition. There are abounding altered means that you can differentiate the aggregation that you administer and allure the apprehension of your ambition market. However, you will charge to booty the time and do the appropriate bulk of analysis that will advice you to actuate what means you can accomplish your business altered from anybody else. Here is what you charge to apperceive about how to administer your business so it stands out from the competition-

• Bear on your promises-One of the best means that you can differentiate your business is to accomplish abiding that you bear on your promises. Far too generally businesses today overpromise and beneath deliver. If you can beneath affiance and over bear you are far added acceptable to affect your barter and accumulate them advancing back. For example-If your capital business bulletin is that you consistently bear on time afresh you bigger accomplish abiding that you do. If you acquaint your barter are you are a blooming business afresh you bigger accomplish abiding that your processes are absolutely green. Whatever it is that you affiance you will charge to accomplish abiding that your barter see that acutely in aggregate that you do.
• Offer the best in chump service-Offering the best in chump account is a abundant way to accomplish your business angle out from the competition. For abounding barter the adventitious to accept aerial affection chump account is exceptional at best. If your barter apperceive that their needs and wants are your top antecedence they are far added acceptable to boutique your business over your competition. Studies accept acutely accurate that a majority of consumers will acknowledgment to boutique afresh with a business artlessly because of the account they received. This is accurate alike if the amount of the account they are affairs is not the lowest. Savvy business managers will alternation anybody who works for them to accomplish accouterment the best chump account their top job priority.
• Accept a altered way of operating-Another abundant way to accomplish your business angle out is to accept a altered way of operating. Once your barter apperceive that you can accommodate them with what they are attractive for in a way that bound satisfies their needs and wants they will accept you over your competition. Do you accept a artefact or account that anybody abroad does? Afresh accede personalizing your access so that your barter can aces and accept what they demand and apperceive that you accept their best interests at the affection of your business. For example-An active bakery buyer began absolution her barter adapt their cupcake by acrimonious the acidity of cake, filling, and frosting that they capital and sales bound soared.
• Give the best beheading in what you do-This is conceivably the best characteristic way you can differentiate your business from the competition. Successful business managers focus on authoritative their business the best in whatever they do. The basal band is that in adjustment to angle out from your antagonism your artefact or account will not be able to do that by itself. You will charge to accomplish abiding that whatever it is that you do, it is done with the accomplished accepted of quality. When you are able to do this you will be able to amuse your barter and accumulate them advancing aback for more.

How to have productive employees

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:56:00 +0000

Most business managers are consistently attractive for agency to advance the abundance of the business they manage. One of the agency to do this is to focus on allowance your advisers be as advantageous as they can. Savvy business managers accept that their workforce is their best admired asset and they do all they can to advance and animate their agents in the appropriate ways. Back your advisers apperceive that you absolutely affliction about them and demand to advice them do their jobs in a added advantageous way they are far added acceptable to try to do so. You will charge to appearance your advisers that you account and acknowledge them if you demand loyal, adamantine working, and continued appellation employees. Here is what you charge to apperceive about how to accept advantageous employees-

• Appoint the appropriate bodies for the appropriate jobs-The aboriginal footfall to accepting advantageous advisers is to accomplish abiding that you accept the appropriate bodies accomplishing the appropriate job. This accommodation begins back you hire. Many business managers abort to booty acceptable time to analysis out references and abundantly account -to-be job candidates to accomplish abiding that they are hiring the appropriate bodies for the appropriate job. However, if you demand to accept advantageous advisers this is a acute aboriginal step.
• Provide the best in training-Once you accept the appropriate bodies in the appropriate jobs again it is time to alternation them. By accouterment the best in training you are insuring that your advisers will apperceive what to do and the best agency to get their jobs done. Keep in apperception that training is advancing affair with best businesses. Business managers charge to bethink that they will accept advisers leave and new advisers be assassin so you charge to authorize a training affairs that is ongoing. In addition, you demand your advisers to consistently be accepted on the best practices for your industry.
• Build a aggregation ability that appreciates work-Almost anybody has to accept a job in adjustment to pay their bills but that doesn’t beggarly that activity to assignment has to be drudgery. Savvy business managers assignment adamantine to actualize a business ability that has their advisers absent to appear to assignment and adequate their time there. Back your advisers are acquisitive and aflame to appear to assignment they are abundant added acceptable to assignment and be advantageous for your business.
• Action benefits-Many administration feel that they cannot allow to action benefits. However, the majority of advisers accept allowances through their work. This agency that unless you action allowances you may not be able to allure the top bank of employees. If demand your advisers to be advantageous and assignment adamantine for the business that you administer you will charge to action them an allurement to break with you. Allowances are generally that incentive. This is one of the best agency to appearance your advisers that you acknowledge what they do for your business.
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Bisnis Distro Dengan Layanan Delivery Order

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:59:00 +0000

Bila sebelumnya layanan delivery order banyak ditawarkan para pelaku bisnis makanan cepat saji, maka lain halnya dengan inovasi bisnis yang dijalankan Bloop-Endorse Distro yang terletak di Daerah Bilangan Tebet Utara Dalam, Jakarta Selatan ini dalam memanjakan calon konsumennya.

Menghadapi persaingan pasar distribution outlet atau distribution store (distro) yang keberadaannya semakin hari kian mewabah, Theresia Alit Widyasari bersama kedua saudaranya yakni Martinus Sunu Susatyo dan Bartolomeus Saksono Jati, berinisiatif untuk membuka layanan delivery order yang dikenal dengan sebutan Quick Service bagi para konsumen yang lokasinya masih bisa dijangkau dari gerai Bloop-Endorse.

Mengawali bisnisnya dengan membuka toko offline di kawasan yang selalu ramai dikunjungi anak muda, tiga bersaudara ini mulai mengadopsi desain-desain kaos yang sedang trend di Negara Inggris untuk membidik segmen pasar anak muda. Kebetulan sang pemilik distro memang tinggal di Inggris, sehingga Widya memberanikan diri mengajak kedua saudaranya untuk mengusung trendsetter yang sedang berkembang di negara tersebut untuk memenuhi kebutuhan konsumen anak muda di Indonesia yang cenderung dinamis dan selalu ingin terlihat modis.

Dengan menggabungkan brand Bloop dan Endorse dalam satu atap, Widya berusaha menawarkan aneka macam produk fashion yang kualitasnya eksklusif namun dengan kisaran harga yang cenderung terjangkau jika disesuaikan dengan jaminan mutu yang ditawarkan. Misalnya saja seperti aneka T-shirt (kaos) yang dipasarkan mulai dari Rp 80.000,00 sampai dengan Rp 130.000,00/pcs, harga jaket dibandrol sekitar Rp 150.000,00-Rp 250.000,00, celana jeans dihargai Rp 170.000,00-Rp 300.000,00, topi dengan beragam desain unik dihargai mulai dari Rp 75.000,00, serta masih banyak lagi produk yang ditawarkan Bloop-Endorse seperti misalnya blazer, kemeja, cardigan, polo shirt, aksesoris, dan lain sebagainya.
Melihat respon pasar yang cukup bagus dengan jumlah pengunjung rata-rata 100 sampai 300 orang setiap harinya, Widya tak mau berhenti berinovasi dengan mulai membuat sebuah website untuk membuka toko online. Melalui website bloopendorse.com, para konsumen bisa memesan produk dengan menggunakan sistem shopping cart, selanjutnya bisa mengirimkan dana melalui transfer bank, dan menggunakan layanan delivery order bagi konsumen yang berada di sekitar Jakarta Selatan.

Tidak hanya itu saja, distro online ini juga menawarkan layanan loyalty card atau premium member card untuk meningkatkan loyalitas konsumennya. Dengan berbelanja produk fashion minimal Rp 500.000,00, para konsumen bisa mendapatkan loyalty card secara gratis. Selain itu, pendaftaran juga bisa dilakukan secara langsung dengan membayar biaya registrasi senilai Rp 50.000,00 untuk satu tahun. Beberapa keuntungan yang diperoleh para konsumen dari loyalty card yang mereka miliki antara lain mendapatkan diskon 20% sepanjang tahun untuk pembelian produk melalui toko online, diskon 20% juga diberikan bagi para pemegang kartu premium yang sedang berulang tahun, serta masih banyak lagi keuntungan lainnya yang ditawarkan Bloop-Endorse bagi pelanggan setianya.

Semoga informasi bisnis distro dengan layanan delivery order ini bisa memberikan tambahan wawasan bagi para pembaca, dan menginspirasi seluruh masyarakat Indonesia untuk terus berkreasi dan berinovasi menciptakan peluang bisnis baru yang menjanjikan keuntungan cukup besar setiap bulannya. Maju terus UKM Indonesia dan salam sukses.

Konsep Pemasaran Unik Bisnis Distro

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:57:00 +0000

Mengusung konsep eksklusif dengan pilihan desain baju atau kaos yang inovatif, ternyata menjadi salah satu strategi jitu bagi para pelaku bisnis distro untuk menghadapi ketatnya persaingan pasar dan mendapatkan perhatian dari calon konsumen.
Meskipun saat ini persaingan di industri garmen semakin hari semakin ketat, namun segmen pasar produk distro tidaklah sama dengan produk garmen. Sehingga tidak heran bila di tengah membludaknya produk garmen dari luar negeri, keberadaan outlet distro di Indonesia malah semakin mewabah hingga berbagai penjuru daerah.

Nah, agar bisnis distro Anda bisa tetap terus eksis, berikut ini kami informasikan beberapa konsep pemasaran unik yang bisa Anda jalankan:

1. Membuat konsep unik sesuai dengan komunitas yang Anda bidik.
Seperti kita ketahui bersama, kehadiran distro sangatlah lekat dengan gaya hidup anak muda yang cenderung senang berkumpul dan bergabung dengan komunitas-komunitas tertentu sesuai dengan minat atau hobi yang mereka miliki. Karena itu untuk memenangi persaingan, tidak ada salahnya bila Anda membidik komunitas yang ada di sekitar Anda sebagai segmen pasar yang cukup potensial. Contohnya saja seperti membidik komunitas sepeda, penggemar bola, komunitas skater, distro muslimah, dan lain sebagainya. Setelah menemukan konsep yang sesuai, selanjutnya buatlah desain produk yang mewakili ciri khas komunitas tersebut, serta mulailah mendisplay outlet Anda dengan interior atau ornamen tambahan yang senada.

2. Membuat desain unik untuk memancing respon konsumen.
Selain membidik komunitas yang ada di sekitar kita, strategi pemasaran lain yang perlu Anda jalankan yaitu berani tampil beda untuk memancing minat pelanggan. Keunggulan produk distro yang dikenal masyarakat dengan sebutan limited edition (satu kali produksi untuk satu desain) ternyata tidak menjadi jaminan kesuksesan bisnis distro Anda.
Oleh karenanya, ciptakan desain yang unik, trendi, dan inovatif, agar produk Anda memiliki ciri khas tertentu serta sentuhan nilai seni yang lebih tinggi. Misalnya saja seperti mencantumkan kata-kata motivasi dalam setiap produk yang didesain, mengangkat peribahasa plesetan untuk menarik minat pelanggan, menggunakan bentuk animasi lucu sebagai ajang untuk berinovasi, atau bisa juga membuat desain sederhana dan bersih untuk membidik konsumen yang menyukai desain-desain simpel.

3. Menjalankan strategi pemasaran jemput bola menggunakan mobil distro keliling.
Tak hanya para pelaku bisnis makanan saja yang bisa menjajakan dagangannya dengan cara berkeliling. Sekarang ini ada beberapa pengusaha distro yang mulai menjalankan strategi pemasaran jemput bola menggunakan mobil keliling. Mereka mendisplay produk-produknya di dalam mobil, dan berkeliling ke pusat keramaian untuk memenuhi kebutuhan konsumennya. Terbukti strategi pemasaran ini tidak hanya kreatif dari segi konsep, namun juga cukup efektif untuk mendongkrak penjualan produk.

4. Memperluas jangkauan pasar dengan membuka toko online.
Seiring dengan meningkatnya jumlah pengguna internet, sekarang ini strategi pemasaran online menjadi salah satu alternatif yang banyak dijalankan para pelaku usaha. Murahnya biaya promosi yang dibutuhkan dan luasnya jangkauan pasar di dunia maya, menjadikan media online sebagai lapak dagang yang cukup potensial untuk mendatangkan banyak keuntungan. Terbukti, banyak pelaku usaha distro yang mulai mendapatkan pelanggan, reseller, bahkan agen pemasaran di setiap kota, setelah mereka mempromosikan keberadaan distronya melalui dunia maya.

5. Melayani delivery order untuk memanjakan para konsumen.
Ketatnya persaingan pasar dan banyaknya distro baru yang mulai bermunculan, menuntut para pelaku bisnis distro untuk terus berkreasi dan berinovasi untuk memanjakan para konsumennya. Salah satunya saja seperti melayani delivery order untuk memanjakan para konsumen yang lokasinya cukup terjangkau dari lokasi distro Anda. Strategi pemasaran seperti ini belakangan mulai dijalankan para pengusaha yang membuka lapak distro online.

Semoga kelima konsep pemasaran unik bisnis distro ini bisa memberikan manfaat bagi para pembaca dan membantu para pemula di industri distro untuk bisa mengoptimalkan pemasaran produknya dan mendapatkan untung besar setiap bulannya. Maju terus UKM Indonesia dan salam sukses.

Reseller Online, Modal Minimal Untung Maksimal

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:54:00 +0000

Menjamurnya toko online di berbagai situs media ternyata mendorong pertumbuhan bisnis reseller di dunia maya. Minimnya modal yang dikeluarkan para pelaku usaha dan besarnya keuntungan yang dijanjikan, membuat peluang bisnis reseller online ini banyak dipilih para pemula bisnis.

Bila sebagian besar peluang bisnis konvensional cenderung membutuhkan modal besar untuk melengkapi stok barang dagangan yang akan mereka pasarkan. Maka lain halnya dengan peluang bisnis reseller di dunia maya yang bisa mendapatkan kesuksesan bisnisnya dengan modal yang tak terlalu mahal.

Maka tepat jika kita sebut bisnis Reseller Online, Modal Minimal untung Maksimal. Sebab, para pelaku usaha bisa menjalin kerjasama dengan para produsen maupun distributor produk yang membuka peluang kerjasama bagi para reseller, dan memanfaatkan katalog produk yang ada untuk mempromosikannya kepada khalayak ramai.

Tentu ini sebuah peluang yang menarik bagi para pemula maupun pelaku bisnis sampingan di dunia maya yang menginginkan tantangan baru untuk mendapatkan tambahan penghasilan setiap bulan. Tertarik untuk menekuni peluang bisnis reseller online?

Berikut kami informasikan tiga hal penting yang perlu diperhatikan agar bisnis reseller online yang Anda geluti bisa berjalan dengan lancar.
1. Pahami kebutuhan pasar
Sebelum menentukan produk apa saja yang akan Anda pasarkan, hal pertama yang perlu diperhatikan para pelaku usaha adalah mengamati kebutuhan pasar dan mengikuti perkembangan trend yang sedang digandrungi khalayak ramai. Hal ini penting, agar Anda tidak salah dalam memilih produk dagangan. Mulailah dengan mencari kata kunci (keyword) yang banyak dicari konsumen di mesin pencarian, manfaatkan forum-forum online untuk mendapatkan informasi terbaru, serta memperbanyak ide bisnis baik dari internet, majalah, surat kabar dan lain sebagainya.
2. Pastikan kualitas produk
Setelah menentukan jenis produk yang akan Anda pasarkan, faktor penting lainnya yang perlu Anda perhatikan adalah memastikan kualitas produk dan mengetahui spesifikasi produk yang ditawarkan. Hal ini penting, karena calon konsumen tidak bisa melihat secara langsung produk-produk yang akan mereka beli, sehingga wajar adanya bila mereka membutuhkan informasi lengkap mengenai deskripsi produk dan jaminan kualitas produk dari para reseller online.

3. Menentukan harga jual yang bersaing
Sebagai seorang pelaku pasar, tentunya harga memegang peranan penting agar produk dagangan Anda laris manis diserbu konsumen. Karenanya, tentukan harga yang bersaing agar konsumen tertarik dengan penawaran yang Anda sampaikan. Lakukan survey pasar untuk mendapatkan perbandingan harga, dan tentukan margin (keuntungan) yang sesuai agar kerja keras Anda dalam menjalankan bisnis reseller online bisa mendatangkan penghasilan yang cukup besar.
Nah, semoga ketiga tips bisnis online yang kami informasikan pada pekan ini bisa memberikan manfaat bagi para pembaca dan menginspirasi para pemula yang sedang bingung mencari peluang usaha. Maju terus UKM Indonesia dan salam sukses.

Cara Mudah Merintis Bisnis Sampingan

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:51:00 +0000

Mendapatkan tambahan penghasilan dari bisnis sampingan yang tengah kita jalankan, tentu menjadi dambaan bagi setiap orang. Namun sayangnya, sampai hari ini masih banyak mahasiswa, karyawan, maupun ibu rumah tangga, yang sering kali kebingungan untuk memulai usaha sampingan.

Darimana memulainya dan bagaimana caranya? Berikut kami informasikan cara mudah merintis bisnis sampingan yang bisa Anda jalankan dengan modal yang tak terlalu besar.

Pertama, mulailah dari keterampilan Anda. Untuk memulai bisnis sampingan ternyata tidak harus menggunakan modal besar. Anda bisa merintisnya dari kepiawaian atau keterampilan yang Anda miliki. Jangan muluk-muluk membayangkan model bisnis yang terlalu besar, mulailah dari usaha kecil yang bisa Anda rintis dengan modal potensi atau keterampilan yang Anda miliki.
Contohnya saja seperti bisnis jasa les privat, jasa penerjemah, penulis artikel media online, fotografer freelance, menjadi trainer atau motivator, broker property (makelar property), membuka kursus kecantikan, kursus memasak, kursus menjahit, melayani jasa pembuatan website, dan lain sebagainya.
Kedua, mulailah dari hobi Anda. Selain keterampilan yang Anda miliki, hobi atau kegemaran ternyata juga bisa menghasilkan pundi-pundi rupiah.
Contohnya saja bila Anda memiliki hobi melukis, bisa diaplikasikan dengan memproduksi aneka macam produk tas, kaos lukis maupun sepatu lukis. Atau bagi Anda yang memiliki hobi masak-memasak, bisa juga memanfaatkan hobi tersebut dengan mencoba aneka macam resep baru yang belakangan ini sedang booming di pasaran, misalnya saja seperti membuat cupcakes, rainbow cake, cookies unik dengan beragam bentuk, dan lain sebagainya.

Ketiga, mulailah dari potensi pasar di sekitar Anda. Sebagai seorang mahasiswa, karyawan, serta ibu rumah tangga, tentu Anda memiliki tingkat kebutuhan yang berbeda-beda. Hal inilah yang bisa Anda angkat sebagai peluang usaha. Mulailah dengan mengamati kebutuhan pasar di sekitar Anda, dan penuhi kebutuhan mereka untuk mendatangkan untung besar setiap bulannya.

Contohnya saja bila Anda seorang mahasiswa, bisa memasarkan buku-buku perkuliahan yang dibutuhkan teman-teman Anda. Bila Anda seorang karyawan, bisa mencoba bisnis fashion bagi para karyawan (mulai dari busana kerja, tas kerja, sepatu kerja, dasi, jilbab, dan lain sebagainya). Tidak hanya itu saja, bagi Anda para ibu rumah tangga juga tidak menutup kemungkinan untuk bisa berkarya, misalnya saja dengan menjalankan bisnis makanan khusus bayi dan anak-anak, membuka tempat penitipan anak, menawarkan aneka macam produk fashion untuk buah hati, serta masih banyak lagi peluang bisnis lainnya yang bisa Anda coba untuk mendatangkan tambahan penghasilan.

Nah, semoga ketiga tips bisnis yang telah kita bahas bersama bisa memberikan tambahan wawasan bagi para pembaca dan menginspirasi para mahasiswa, karyawan, serta ibu rumah tangga, untuk segera melangkah menciptakan peluang usaha. Maju terus UKM Indonesia dan salam sukses.

Bagaimana Caranya Mengubah Hobi Menjadi Peluang Bisnis?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:36:00 +0000

Apa hobi Anda? Mungkin pertanyaan seperti ini sudah sangat sering kita dapati dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Namun, apakah Anda menyadari bahwa hobi yang Anda miliki bisa mendatangkan hoki bila ditekuni?
Banyak diantara kita yang tidak menyadari bila hobi atau passion dalam diri seseorang ternyata bisa mendatangkan tambahan penghasilan.

Padahal, bisa dikatakan hampir semua hobi bisa dijadikan sebagai peluang bisnis bila kita jeli dan tekun dalam mengembangkan hobi tersebut. Contohnya saja seperti hobi menulis yang bisa kita salurkan secara positif dengan menjadi penulis freelance di media online maupun menjadi seorang penulis buku terkenal yang karyanya selalu best seller di pasaran.

Tentunya tidak hanya hobi menulis saja yang bisa Anda jadikan sebagai peluang bisnis untuk mendatangkan untung besar setiap bulan, masih banyak hobi-hobi lainnya yang bisa Anda salurkan dengan baik untuk mendatangkan tambahan penghasilan. Lalu, kira-kira bagaimana caranya mengubah hobi menjadi peluang bisnis?

Nah, untuk membantu para pembaca yang sedang bingung mencari peluang usaha. Berikut ini kami informasikan beberapa poin penting yang perlu diperhatikan ketika hendak menyalurkan hobi menjadi peluang bisnis sampingan yang menguntungkan.

Pertama, cari tahu apa hobi Anda. Sampai hari ini, tak sedikit orang yang masih kebingungan ketika mendapat pertanyaan mengenai apa hobi yang mereka miliki. Karenanya, penting bagi Anda untuk memilah mana hobi yang benar-benar ingin Anda tekuni dengan hobi yang Anda jalankan sekedar iseng atau hanya untuk mengikuti trend sesaat saja.

Kedua, pilih hobi yang menjual dan disukai banyak orang. Semakin banyak orang yang menyukai hobi tersebut, maka semakin besar pula peluang pasar yang bisa Anda bidik untuk mendatangkan tambahan penghasilan. Contohnya saja seperti hobi memancing, melihat penggemarnya semakin membludak, sekarang ini banyak pehobi mancing yang mulai merintis toko peralatan dan aksesoris memancing baik secara online maupun offline, selain itu ada juga yang membuka bisnis pemancingan untuk menyalurkan hobinya sambil meraup keuntungan dari bisnis sampingan yang dijalankan.

Ketiga, kenali pasar Anda. Dengan bekal hobi yang Anda geluti, tentunya membuat Anda paham betul mengenai apa yang disukai dan tidak disukai calon konsumen. Ikuti terus perkembangan hobi yang Anda geluti, dan pahami pula beberapa trend yang sedang digandrungi para pehobi. Misalnya saja Anda memiliki hobi fotografi, maka Anda harus mengenali model-model kamera yang sedang laris di pasaran, desain fotografi yang banyak diminta para konsumen, serta aksesoris apa saja yang dibutuhkan para pehobi fotografi untuk menyalurkan kegemaran mereka. Dengan begitu, Anda bisa mengetahui kebutuhan pasar dan mendapatkan untung besar dari bisnis sampingan yang Anda jalankan.

Keempat, jaring komunitas untuk memperlancar jalannya usaha. Ketika menekuni bisnis sampingan dari hobi, ada baiknya bila Anda menggandeng komunitas hobi yang Anda ikuti untuk memperlancar kesuksesan usaha. Hal ini penting, sebab selain untuk memperluas peluang pasar yang ada, Anda juga bisa sharing atau berbagi informasi baru seputar hobi yang Anda geluti. Ketahuilah, kedekatan yang Anda bangun saat ini, akan menjadi modal utama Anda untuk bisa sukses merintis bisnis sampingan dari hobi yang Anda tekuni.

Kelima, jeli dalam melihat persaingan. Meskipun Anda memiliki kedekatan antar sesama pehobi, namun jangan lengah dengan persaingan yang ada di sekitar Anda. Berbekal hobi yang sama, tidak menutup peluang bila di kemudian hari muncul para pesaing atau kompetitor dari orang-orang terdekatAnda. Oleh karena itu, tawarkan nilai lebih agar bisnis Anda memiliki daya saing yang cukup tinggi.
Semoga kelima tips bisnis yang telah kita bahas bersama bisa memberikan manfaat bagi para pembaca dan menginspirasi seluruh masyarakat Indonesia untuk segera terjun di dunia usaha. Maju terus UKM Indonesia dan salam sukses!

Sukses Merintis Bisnis Online Bermodalkan Sebuah Hobi

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:34:00 +0000

Menekuni sebuah usaha memang bisa dimulai dengan berbagai cara. Salah satunya ialah memanfaatkan hobi atau kegemaran yang dimiliki untuk merintis peluang bisnis sampingan di berbagai situs dunia maya.
Melihat perkembangan dunia internet yang semakin hari kian mencuri perhatian masyarakat, banyak orang yang tertarik menyalurkan hobi mereka melalui media online.

Kondisi inilah yang kemudian mendorong para pemula maupun pelaku usaha untuk merintis bisnis online dari modal hobi yang mereka miliki. Contohnya saja seperti kesuksesan daldigital.net dan daladventure.com yang dibangun sang owner Elyufial Persansa Dien dari hobi fotografi dan jalan-jalan yang Ia gemari.

Berawal dari hobi jeprat-jepret (fotografi) yang Ia geluti, Elyufial Persansa Dien yang akrab dipanggil Elyudien ini terinspirasi untuk membuka toko online yang menjual aneka macam peralatan dan aksesoris fotografi. Ide tersebut sengaja digagas Elyudien karena selama menekuni hobinya, Ia sering mengalami kesulitan ketika mencari aksesoris maupun peralatan fotografi yang Ia butuhkan.

Dengan bekal hobi yang Ia miliki, Elyudien mulai membuka lapak dagangnya di dunia maya dan resmi memperkenalkan daldigital.net sebagai toko aksesoris fotografi pada tahun 2008 silam. Ia sengaja memilih membuka lapaknya melalui media online karena Ia ingin menjangkau pangsa pasar yang lebih luas dengan biaya promosi yang cukup terbatas. Terbukti, strategi tersebut cukup efektif sehingga Elyudien tidak hanya bisa membidik seluruh fotografer maupun pehobi fotografi di pasar lokal, namun juga bisa menjangkau calon konsumen di tingkat nasional maupun internasional.

Setelah sukses merintis toko online yang menjajakan aneka macam aksesosis dan peralatan fotografi, ternyata tidak membuat Elyudien merasa cepat puas dengan keberhasilan yang diraihnya. Sejalan dengan kesuksesan bisnis sebelumnya, di tahun 2009 Elyudien tak ragu lagi menyalurkan hobi jalan-jalannya dengan membuat website daladventure.com dan membuka pelayanan paket wisata petualangan untuk menyalurkan hobi dan mendatangkan tambahan penghasilan setiap bulannya.

Dari kedua hobi yang Ia miliki, kini Elyufial Persansa Dien tidak hanya menjadi pengusaha toko online yang cukup sukses di dunia maya, namun Ia juga bisa mendapatkan untung jutaan rupiah dengan menekuni kegemaran atau passion yang Ia miliki. Semoga informasi UKM online menceritakan kisah sukses merintis bisnis online bermodalkan sebuah hobi ini bisa memberikan manfaat bagi para pembaca dan menginspirasi seluruh masyarakat Indonesia untuk mulai menyalurkan hobi yang dimiliki guna mendatangkan peluang besar kedepannya. Maju terus UKM Indonesia dan salam sukses!