Help Wanted: Mentors Whether you're just starting your career or
have reached middle management, anyone can benefit from having mentors. Even
CEOs have people they can bounce ideas off, and with whom they can discuss
their next career move or how to handle that disgruntled shareholder who wants
their heads...
Consumer Prices Plunge; Production Jumps in 2005 A record plunge in the cost of gasoline pushed consumer
prices down by the largest amount in 56 years in November while industrial
production gets a solid gain ...
"The only image you
should care about is the smile on the face of your customer as he enjoys your
product or service, or on the face of your employee as he gets his share of the
profits."
- Robert Townsend
The holiday’s are upon us and we’re on the home stretch for year 2005. It
certainly has been an interesting year with all that is going on globally as
well as here in the good old USA, especially the devastation from multiple
hurricanes. Many people have suffered and businesses have disappeared.
With that in mind
the business community needs to rally around the victims by providing as much
help and support as we can through jobs and innovative ways of doing business
to enhance their ability to rebuild. As a provider of funding and added
services to small to mid size businesses, including construction, RMPI is going
to be offering discounts on services, where possible, and streamlining our
delivery system to hopefully accommodate directly and indirectly both the
existing as well as the emerging businesses. We are offering these programs to
all businesses, conducting business to business, with annual sales of $500K to
$20M. We particularly want to reach those affected by the hurricanes.
We, at RMPI, have much
to be thankful for as we’ve had a very prosperous year in uncertain times. We
added a $5M AB portfolio to our books through acquisition and have increased
its existing lines of credit by 30% while adding new customers. Our Contractor
program has been enhanced with additional services enabling us to serve a
broader spectrum of business.
The year is
ending with a robust economy that will hopefully enable everyone to make 2006 a
banner year. We welcome contact from the business community as well as other
service providers, like ourselves, and broker/consultants that have clients
they feel will benefit from our programs.
Minority Ownership of Business Rising at 'Phenomenal' Rate
Minority-owned businesses are
growing rapidly but still represent a small fraction of overall economy
activity, a Bush Administration economic development official said yesterday.
Census data and the
government's survey of minority business ownership showed entrepreneurship up
among all minorities: 45 percent among African-Americans, 31 percent among
Hispanics, 20 percent among Asians and 20 percent among women. "That's just a
phenomenal growth rate," said Ronald N. Langston, national director of the
Minority Business Development Agency, an arm of the U.S. Commerce Department in
Washington.
Langston was the
keynote speaker at yesterday's "Business Diversity Conference" at the Radisson
Hotel Center of New Hampshire. "The challenge for the United States between now
and 2050 is that the fastest growing segment of the nation's population will be
among minorities," Langston said. (More)
From
All Of Us At RMPI
Higher Heating Bills Coming This Winter
WASHINGTON - The Hydronics Institute Division of the Gas Appliance
Manufacturers Association was holding its fall meeting Oct. 12 in Absecon,
N.J., just as the U.S. Department of Energy announced-that increased energy
prices would lead to higher heating bills for consumers this winter.
Manufacturers of boilers, controls and other hydronicheating products
speculated-that sharply higher prices for natural gas and heating
oil....
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