Contract Awarded for $354,575 to Chris Weyrick for Inscription Services at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery

Posted on November 29, 2011 by admin

Contract Awarded for $ 354,575 to Chris Weyrick for Inscription Services at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery

(PRWEB) November 29, 2011

After receiving help from US Federal Contractor Registration to complete his company’s CCR and ORCA registration and market his company to government buyers, Chris Weyrick has been awarded a $ 354,575 contract by the Department of Veterans Affairs to perform on-site inscription services at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery.

Chris Weyrick’s company Rock Crazy is a small business based in Wapello, IA and performs custom stone engraving services.

Over $ 11 billion in government contracts have been awarded since the beginning of the 2012 fiscal year on October 1st, according to the USASpending website. Over 13% of that $ 11 billion has been awarded by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Headstones, markers and niche covers are furnished by the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration for deceased veterans worldwide. The contract awarded to Chris Weyrick is for inscription services for these headstones, markers and niche covers.

US Federal Contractor Registration completed Chris Weyrick’s CCR registration and ORCA filing in September of 2011.

The Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery is located approximately 50 miles south of Chicago in Elwood, IL. It was dedicated as the 117th national cemetery within the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration. President Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States; he signed the law authorizing national cemeteries in the United States on July 17, 1862. Once fully developed, the cemetery will provide 400,000 burial spaces.

The Georgia Tech Procurement Assistance Center has estimated that nearly 20% of CCR records errors or omissions. It is extremely important that contractors’ CCR and ORCA registration are complete and accurate. Failure to complete and maintain the required government registrations can result in payment delays or disqualification for contract awards. Serious errors may even result in fines or punitive action. To win their first contract, most businesses spend an average of 20 months and $ 100,000 marketing their business to contracting agencies. If their registration is incomplete or incorrect, all that time and money will have been wasted.

To help small businesses avoid costly errors, US Federal Contractor Registration is offering a free evaluation and review of vendors’ government registration, including their CCR registration and ORCA filing. During the evaluation, a Placement Specialist will review the company’s government contractor registration to ensure it is complete, contains the correct information and is optimized to help them win government contracts. To receive this free evaluation, interested businesses should contact the toll free Contractor Helpline at #877-252-2700. Placement Specialists can also prepare a free government contracting profitability assessment to help business owners review government spending trends within their industry and identify current contracting opportunities.

US Federal Contractor Registration is a third party registration firm that has helped thousands of businesses complete their CCR registration and bid on contracts. US Federal Contractor Registration pairs businesses with a dedicated case manager who helps them every step of the way from initial registration to bidding on contracts. To request a free evaluation and assessment by a Placement Specialist for your business, call the Contractor Helpline at 877-252-2700 ext 1 or visit our blog at https://www.uscontractorregistration.com/.

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Tim Brady from Credo Group Recognised as Young Business Achiever For Workforce Mobilisation Services

Posted on July 25, 2011 by admin

Tim Brady from Credo Group Recognised as Young Business Achiever For Workforce Mobilisation Services

(PRWEB) February 28, 2010

Credo Group Managing Director and Founder Tim Brady has been honoured with a 40under40 business award which recognises outstanding young entrepreneurs.

The Credo Group, headed by CEO Tim Brady has also been named as one of the 100 fastest growing companies in BRW Magazine’s Fast 100 companies for 2008 and 2009.

“My mother was one of 12 children and my father was raised in the bush by entrepreneurial parents. I was fortunate to come from a supportive and Christian environment as part of a large extended family and these factors have formed my values framework,” said Mr Brady.

A former accountant and national sales director for a recruitment agency, Mr Brady identified a niche in the market for workforce mobilisation services with a strong values based culture.

“We have strong working partnerships with organisations such as Salvation Army Employment Plus and Mission Employment providing opportunities for long-term unemployed people,” said Mr Brady.

Credo translates to mean trust in Latin and its values are credibility, reliability, efficiency, diligence and opportunity. It has an annual turnover of more than $ 20 million dollars and has experienced average growth of 60 per cent over the past three years.

“In line with our company’s values, specifically ‘opportunity’, we set up the Aspire program to develop our employees to their full potential and give back to the community. For example, our partnership with the Sacred Heart Mission assists the homeless by providing them with hot meals every day of the year,” Mr Brady said.

“We actively encourage and enable our employees to volunteer on company time to work in the market garden whose produce is supplied to the Sacred Heart Mission soup kitchen. Our team assists in setting up wire fencing, laying water drip systems and weeding. Another group of our employees stand side by side with veteran volunteers and prepare and serve a hot lunch for the homeless,” Mr Brady said.

Credo has offices in Perth and Melbourne with clients such as Wesfarmers, Woolworths and the giant China Metallurgical Group Corporation.

“The maxims which have motivated me to succeed in my personal and professional life are derived from my values, they are “no pain no gain” and “there has got to be a better way,” Mr Brady said.

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Niche Markets, Niche Market Products and Services Are Like Sleeping Elephants

Posted on June 18, 2011 by admin

Niche Markets, Niche Market Products and Services Are Like Sleeping Elephants

You’ve probably heard the old African phrase “You can do anything you want to do to a sleeping elephant. But… when the sleeping Elephant awakens, it will become very aggressive towards you!”

That’s my “little” analogy to describe the power of Niche Markets and Niche Market products and services. If you’ve done any research on finding the “perfect” online business for you and your investors, it probably seems as though every possible thing or service that can be sold is already on the Internet to the point of saturation. That can be intimidating to a new online business person.

But here’s the good news! No one website can be “everything” to “everybody.” And if one website could be “everything” to “everybody” it could no longer be considered a Niche market website. Make sense?

One of the reasons I picked my first online business from a business model (Satellite TV) that was already very congested on the web, was that I thought in order to have a successful e commerce website the business would need to be modeled after something that was obviously already very successful.

Which is not a bad concept. Find something “everyone wants to buy, and then sell it! Brilliant! Ameliorated. But brilliant! The biggest “hole” in this “swiss cheese” concept is that it is extremely expensive to advertise your business next to the companies that usually dominate these popular categories.

It would be like a 10 year old child trying to advertise a front yard lemonade stand on your local TV station. The advertising cost for that lemonade stand on a television station will be cost prohibitive making it next to impossible for that 10 year old business person to charge a competitive price for the lemonade.

The fact is, if you have opened a new small online business selling popular products or services it’s going to be impossible to compete on an advertising level to the extent of being noticed alongside the fortune 500 or NASDAQ rated companies, or even the big websites that have been online for a long time. And you MUST advertise your new online business to have ANY opportunity to achieve any type of success on the Internet.

As a new online business person, you probably don’t really want to “hear” that. But if I were here to tell you exactly what you wanted to “hear” I would have to ask you for a fairly large suitcase full of money! (In euros!) Seriously though as a matter of truth… if you do find anything in this article that’s agreeable to you, you can still send me a fairly large suitcase full of money. (smiles!)

The perceived difficulty in finding a unique niche market product or service can also be intimidating. I think that the major problem with this type of thinking is rooted in semantics. (The meaning or the interpretation of a word, sentence, or other language form) Since the word “niche” means ” A special area of demand for a product or service,” it sort of indicates that a niche market, or niche products and services are by nature unique and difficult to think of or find.

Not true! Finding the perfect Niche Market products and services is not as difficult as it may seem! The fact is a “niche market” opportunity is whatever you want it to be! If you can imagine an online business model, then you have already located your very own niche market. Here’s the working concept, to find a niche market just think of any product or service and then start a list. Use your list to narrow down any product or service to it’s lowest common denominator. Start with the most obvious uses for a product or service and then narrow your list down to the least likely uses for the product or service.

Somewhere on your new list you’ll find your perfect Niche Market product and or service. It’s that simple! I’ll give you the perfect example… several years ago when web marketing was still fairly new there was a online business that was actually selling “doo-doo.” Yeah, that’s right they were selling and shipping worldwide, gift wrapped boxes of feces, crap, animal butt subs! (Ha,ha!) That “crap” is still funny to me!! (smiles) Pardon the pun.

(smiles) Butt…how did I hear about this very small online business? I heard about them on the evening national network news! Hows that for free advertising? That’s what I call competing on a advertising level with the “big” well known and trusted companies.

The reason this niche market website received worldwide publicity was that gift wrapped “animal feces” was a new way to sell a very old product. Think about it. People have been selling animal feces for probably thousands of years.

But it has mostly been marketed as manure. (fertilizer) And if you do a Internet search for manure you would probably find thousands of websites that specialize in animal butt subs, crap, “doo-doo, turds, feces… uhh, manure.

But when you do another search for “gift wrapped crap” (feces) you will find a lot fewer accurate search results. Which of course means a lot less competition for the “gift wrapped crap” connoisseur’s and entrepreneurs! Less competition will eventually translate into lower overhead cost for your online business venture.

That is exactly what you want! Let’s say for an example you adore and want to sell toothpicks from your website. I just did a Google search using “toothpicks” and this is what I find: “Results 1 – 10 of about 6,510,000 for toothpicks.” Only two of the results were accurate for what we are looking for. (wagons made from toothpicks)

Now I just performed a Google search for the term “toothpick wagons” and this is what I find: Results 1 – 10 of about 794,000 for toothpick wagon. Again only two of the results were accurate for what we are looking for. That’s a huge competitive difference. Do you agree?

What did you do to efficiently eliminate about five million, seven hundred sixteen thousand of your toughest (5,716,000) competitors? You simply took a fairly popular product and narrowed down or expanded the possible uses for this product.

I thought of the search phrase “toothpicks” spontaneously. No intelligence was required at all other than elementary language and spelling, and “BANGZOOM!” You have just found a new niche market and niche market product to sell plus as an added bonus you’ll have minimal competition from other websites selling toothpick products.

You have just created a new “billion dollar industry” and we’re still dressed in your underwear! Now take a second to picture that image!(smiles) But seriously my friend, it is pretty much that easy for you to think of a new Internet business model.

Pick a product or service, and then either narrow down or expand your list of uses for the product or service. When you begin brainstorming record every idea, no matter how abstract the ideas may be. Remember if there is a worldwide customer base for gift wrapped boxes of feces, crap, animal butt subs, domestic “doo-doo” (Ha,ha!) then it’s pretty much “ALL GOOD!”

There is a market out there for everything that exist. Believe it or not they are even selling bottles of what has been proven to be simple faucet water. Usually for one dollar per bottle.

Water in a bottle. What a niche! The classified section of just about any local newspaper, will list hundreds if not thousands of items that folks are either looking for or selling.

And the great thing about the classifieds… Everything is already digested for you into nice little specialized categories. (Niche’s) The next place that’s convenient and inexpensive to find great ideas for a niche or specialized online business is your closest bookstore or library.

Try looking in the Hobbies and Self Help sections for starters. You’ll find tons of great niche market ideas! Outside markets or “Flea Markets” are another great place you are likely see a lot of unusual items for sale. Just follow the crowd.

You’ll begin to see what others are paying for and their level of interest. If you are an outgoing person, you may even be able to do some impromptu research! Ask a few people what they like about a product. Do they think their friends and family members would purchase the product?

You could also do a quick “interview” (interrogation) of the vendors. Find out how their sales and demand for the products are going. You may also consider Garage sales for good Niche Market ideas and products. And here’s a new way to show a “newly found” interest and enthusiasm for the conversation of your friends and co-workers…

Most people enjoy talking about themselves. Listen, and you’ll hear them talking about the things that they have purchased, want to purchase, wish they could find, and on, and on, and on. And on… Keep listening! I’m sure you will come up with all sorts of ideas, before your co-worker takes a breath! (big smile!)

In closing let me reiterate my original point “Niche Markets and Niche Market products and services are like sleeping Elephants.” Meaning that powerful niche market products, services, and ideas are sleeping all around you. If you awaken just one of these “sleeping elephants” (like the “toothpick wagon”) it can become very aggressive on your behalf.
Always remember… “Any pursuit is GREAT… when GREATLY pursued!

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Nicholas Busbee has been in Sales, Public Speaking to groups of up to and over 20,000 people, and Radio Broadcasting as a Radio Personality for over 25 years. Nick started his first online business in 2004, and has written several articles on the Internet teaching others how to start their own online business.

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The Niche Marketer’s Toolkit – Advanced Niche Marketing Services

Posted on July 20, 2010 by admin

The Niche Marketer’s Toolkit – Advanced Niche Marketing Services
7 Different Ways To Profit. Easy Conversions! Promoting these 7 services to niche site owners will produce fantastic conversion rates. Anyone promoting niche sites (AdSense, Amazon, Cj, etc) will benefit from these 7 services. Target them and profit!
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Choosing a Niche Market

Posted on July 3, 2009 by admin

A niche market is simply a narrowed target market. Developing a niche takes some time, research and thought – but the results are worth it. You start by looking at several possibilities and narrowing it down based on several factors such as the fit between your business and the niche, the possibility for growth, and so on.

Below are 4 criteria to think about and explore when trying to choose the ideal niche for your company:

1. the niche “fits” you

* your unique knowledge, gifts and strengths are a match with the niche

* you like to work with these kinds of people and environments

* you can utilize your expertise in this area and become known as an expert

* you have contacts and/or experience with this niche

* you are passionate and knowledgeable about this specific niche’s issues and problems

2. the niche market is the right size

* not too large that it is impossible (in terms of money, time and resources) to market to it

* not too large that the big companies (who have the money, time and resources) have targeted it

* not too small that there is not enough people to justify and sustain your marketing and business efforts

3. there is competition in the niche

* if there is no competition it usually means that there is not enough demand for any products and services, and there doesn’t exist potential for growth in this niche

* you need to be sure that the people in this niche know they have a problem and are actively seeking a solution

* there should be potential for prospective partnerships and collaborations with other businesses serving the same niche market

4. The niche is reachable and receptive

* you have several different ways to connect with prospects and clients in this niche – i.e. media, publications, online and offline strategies, etc.

* you need to make sure there are several ways in which you can be highly visible to the people in this niche, i.e. writing, speaking or networking

* this niche market is open to getting help and spending money on products and services to aid them

Use these 4 points as a guide to helping you choose a particular group of people to offer your products and services to. Remember that when you choose a niche market to focus your marketing on, this doesn’t mean that you can’t work with others who may come to you – via your website, speaking engagements, referrals and so on. All it means is that your efforts and resources are focused on marketing to your niche and getting really well known in your niche.

Many people get panicked at the thought of having to choose one niche only and spending the rest of their business lives catering to them. Don’t forget that marketing is a process that changes and grows as you and your business evolves. You can always refine your niche market as you learn more and there’s nothing stopping you from having multiple businesses that cater to different niche markets!

Jody Gabourie, The Small Business Marketing Coach, delivers simple, innovative and powerful marketing strategies to help business owners find and keep their most profitable clients. To learn more about how she can help you take your business to the next level, and to sign up for her FREE special report, ezine and articles, visit her site at http://www.JodyGabourieMarketingCoach.com
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