Saturday, January 16, 2021

Why Does Humanity Need To Embrace Sustainability?

 

Why Does Humanity Need To Embrace Sustainability?

Sustainability aids us in meeting today's requirements and ensures that future generations can live in a safe environment. When we talk about sustainability, we are emphasizing on environmentally-friendly practices, including the prevention of GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions.  These, apart from protecting the environment, allow mankind to develop itself socially and, thus, ensuring prosperity for itself.

For it to happen, we should have in place an environment where people across the world can utilize the resources that nature offers. This has been realized by an increasing number of companies, including the new age ones like information technology ones. This has led to consumers making a beeline for sustainable products, leading manufacturers to develop products that are clean and environmentally-friendly.

Manufacturers, therefore, are forced to develop technology where additives and preservatives are minimally used. This has been endorsed by the fact that single-use plastic products are now considered passé. People now want clean labels, beside-friendly packaging insofar as consumer goods are considered.

In fact, it was agreed upon long ago by mankind that economic growth with sustainability was the way forward. To achieve sustainability, ecology needs to go hand in hand with development to improve the quality of life on this planet. For this goal to be achieved, patterns of consumption need to change to improve our environment.

In other words, for sustainability to be achieved, there needs to be a long-term, incorporated way of development of a healthy society that can be realized by addressing environmental issues while protecting crucial natural resources. Humanity can also get there by slowly and steadily doing away with fossil fuels and substituting them with clean technologies and inculcating more healthy practices in all other facets of life as well.

 

 

 

 

Why should a growing small business outsource accounting to a professional firm?

 

 

Why should a growing small business outsource accounting to a professional firm?

 

If a small business with large aspirations wants to thrive, it can do so by concentrating on its core strengths. It need not spend its valuable time on accounting if its skills lie elsewhere. Such a scenario may warrant that company to entrust these services, besides internal auditing and compliance, to an accredited organization that possesses competence and expertise in accounting and all other things finance. By doing so, the company will not only save on internal overheads but is sure to see an increase in both its top and bottom lines.

Professional accounting firms will take care of their clients' payrolls, billings, operating expenses,  various taxes, etc., efficiently.  Moreover, these firms will be abreast of the latest economic policies, processes, and laws and ensure that small businesses adhere to laws and regulations. Such firms will also employ the latest technologies to process small companies' accounting practices more quickly. 

These accounting houses would assign accounting tasks to a larger team in place to take care of accounting procedures rather than one or two people in a small business house, resulting in finance and accounting reports being much more comprehensive with more eye to detail. Such a team rarely makes errors as many eyes would run across those reports. This process would also help a small firm identify loopholes, allowing it to preempt possible frauds.

Since a professional firm manages accounts of many other companies, it will have gained many insights. Therefore, a company of that stature is capable of giving its smaller clients sound financial advice. The recommendations that it would suggest would also be likely to be neutral and unbiased.               

Finally, when the scale of operations of a small business expands over time, an established company would handle the accounting operations of its clients seamlessly.   

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

                    

 

 

Saturday, January 9, 2021

Content marketing efforts for real estate companies – some off-the-cuff thoughts

 

Content marketing efforts for real estate companies  – some off-the-cuff thoughts 


We have to get it into the heads of people that property is an essential commodity, about which they have to make decisions now. They should understand that postponing such critical decisions will only drive up their costs in the long run. After all, next to food and clothing, it is housing that is essential to all of us.


For working people, living in rented accommodations brings with it so many inconveniences and post-retirement, we should be able to own a home where we can live peacefully. Peacefully is the keyword here, as it allows homeowners to concentrate on the other vital interests of their lives.                 


To reach out to these sections of people, it is necessary to tap conventionally popular media channels and also think out-of-the-box to come up with modes of communication that nobody has probably thought of before.


For instance, we can start reaching out to our immediate and extended family members, friends and other acquaintances, many of whom are in the WhatsApp groups, day in and day out. Since these are people with whom we converse informally, we can during our interactions introduce subtly conversations pertaining to property and tell them about us and how we would be able to help them with their immediate property needs.


As people in these groups belong to varying income groups and each of these individuals would have their unique requirements and budgets, we should be able to convey to them that as experts in this field, we are capable of catering to these diverse interests. We can simultaneously seek feedback from them on how they would want this information to be delivered, be it the medium or format.  


Email marketing is another effective form of reaching out to people. The mails we should send them should be engaging and must include other elements, like infographics, projects of various real estate dealers, mini videos, etc. In other words, they should be able to leave a lasting impact on the readers. 


Of course, social media can be used in so many ways to convey to our prospective clients to let them know that you are the right intermediaries between the sellers and them.