Showing posts with label contracts. accounting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contracts. accounting. Show all posts

Thursday, April 5, 2012

It's going to be HOT - and YOU WON"T CARE !!

Okay, we know where we live. Southern California - it gets hot here - and as much as we appreciate Southern California Edison and the air conditioning they deliver to us on those days when we can't take the heat anymore...we have options. Yes - I said "options" - a different way to make us cool...although I am certain you, personally - are cool - remember temperatures rise and these guys at MOHR POWER will make you life better...certainly cooler - and in the middle of a Southern California summer - cooler is better......Oh, I forgot - and you will SAVE buckets of MONEY. Give them a call - its a free estimate....free is good...

This is why LOCAL works...

So, when you go to list your home we can all go online, and my guess is that when you type in REALTY the "BIG" guys will pop right up on your screen. You know the drill - want a "nationwide" - anything - there they are. Hey, it's the way it seems to be, but LOCAL business..LOCAL service people, LOCAL companies...are all around you. Check out Vera's video - maybe she's not a pampered TV star with experience in front of a camera - but you can feel the sincerity. She will work hard for YOU. Give it a try .....LOCAL WORKS!

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Are you TRYING to confuse me?


OK, small business needs to be run like a business. We all know this. There's no sense to buying something your company can't possibly afford because, "It's a write-off". Yeah it is - but first you have to PAY for it, then you get to write it off. Maybe the rules are different for giant corporate entities, a bit more "elastic", maybe so flexible the rules lay on the floor - like my kitchen mat, but nonetheless for the rest of us (78% - of businesses have less than 10 employees -remember?) we are expected to be upright and do the right thing. We are expected to read all contracts, understand all agreements, proof all leasing papers and the like.

So then, imagine my gasp when I upgraded a company IPod, and was given this message, "Please read & accept our new license agreement", alright, now you know I'm not a complainer , but this "new agreement" was 37 pages long. Long story, made short - guess what - I just paged to "ACCEPT" and moved on. But this brought a thought to mind.

Companies, and individuals revive this kind of "amendment", or agreement alteration ALL the time. Credit card Acceptance agreements, Company Credit Cards new and updated "changes to our agreement with You" - etc. Pages & pages, and then when you think your done - more pages. What do you do? What do we all do? Well, in some cases we don't have to DO any thing, these are simply the new rules, sometimes we have to initial, or even press OK. Since we don't have a spare room full of lawyers on staff, we simply cannot read these missives, and even if we do - DO WE UNDER STAND THEM? We are all bound by contracts, but this seems one-sided. Or, are we doomed to a world where we have to live by 10 pages of rules in 5 pt type that we would never agree to - if we had a choice.

Oh - and about the "not a complainer comment - don't ask my family and friends - they have some misguided notion that I "occasionally" complain..... Note To Self - explain to them how wrong they are.