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How to Become a Successful Entrepreneur

Running a business is a challenging, creative, and flexible for the future of a person and become your own boss. Besides making money, it also creates a new walk in life. To be an entrepreneur requires a review in the future, persistence, and courage. You will get out of your comfort zone that gives you a salary and step into the territories of uncertain business world.

Entrepreneurship requires a different character. Do you have these characters?

How do you know which one is better, an employee with a monthly salary or a successful entrepreneur? Although there is no formula that guarantees success of the venture, according to some studies there are some specific characters owned by entrepreneurs.

1. Have Confidence:

To be a successful entrepreneur, you need to have tremendous confidence. Are you willing to overcome all obstacles and achieve your goal?

If you have confidence you can do it, it will give you all the confidence needed. Can you calculate your own self confidence?. Of course you can do it, by trying to push yourself to do a little more than the usual every day. And before long, you will find yourself completing the things that may have previously considered impossible.

2. Have Confidence In The Future of Your Business:

Ask yourself, are you really sure the business you are doing. If you’re not too sure, you need to keep looking until you can determine the one thing which you are willing to commit. To succeed in business, you have to focus for 24 hours a day. You will continue to build, repair, and investment. This requires a tremendous commitment to yourself.

3. Focus On Your Strengths:

Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. To become an effective entrepreneur, you need to determine your strengths and focus. You will be more successful with your efforts to be able  best in your area. For example, if marketing is your skill, then you need to sharpen those skills and use fully in the business. And ask for assistance in the areas of your weaknesses, such as looking for an accountant. You can even transform weakness into strength by practicing or studying area.

4. Has Skills Recognizing Opportunity:

If your business is destroyed to the next day, how do you respond? May regard as a great loss, or as an opportunity to make a new beginning – to improve, grow, rebuild?

Entrepreneurs who succeed at everything as a source of opportunity. They have an inquisitive nature and ask everything. Not looking at what is before him, they always wonder if there are ways of doing things better. And if they think that there is a better way, they will find a solution by itself or get help from experts. Also, opportunities can be found in many ways and places, and with the help of the internet, many opportunities are knocking on your computer screen. If you are a true entrepreneur, you will see opportunities everywhere.

The Savings and Credit Cooperative Corporation Ltd. Centre over 17 years of institutional life, has been serving microenterprises in the city of Quito where they have located their headquarters, at the repeated request of our partners with the aim of improving the coverage and service have established various agencies and offices nationwide, which are located in the areas of Carapungo, Tumbaco in Jaime Roldos Housing Cooperative and the Cooperative Housing Chillogallo Buena Ventura in the city of Quito, is also has offices in the cities of Loja, Cuenca, Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Machala and baths, as well as several points of national attention thanks to a cooperation agreement with the Ecuadorian Foundation Development.

This year at the request of the inhabitants of the Parish of Zámbiza in the City of Quito, and Canton Caluma in the Province of Bolivar, the Board approved the opening of these new offices, the same as those in operation. We provide our partners, financial and nonfinancial services, for which we have made strategic alliances with various institutions, as Servipag PAGOAGIL your product by which our partners in a single window can perform multiple functions as the collection of Development Bond Human cancel the payroll of the National Telecommunication Corporation, payment of Simplified Taxation System Ecuadorian RISE, cancel TVCABLE sheets, can also make airtime recharge their cell phones of any of the operators in the country, and will soon provide the CORPAIRE payment, and receive deposits Produbanco, waiting in the next few days to extend all the services offered Servipagos the benefit of the community and our partners, ie as a Financial Institution of the People’s Economy and Development, recognized in the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador, and the Law of Popular Economy and Financial System Development and People’s Solidarity, which was approved by the National Assembly, closer to communities, neighborhoods, parishes and other areas that lack such services and that the traditional financial system also satisfies, hence, led to the life of Ecuadorians to develop in their own community without having to leave to perform these procedures out of their environment.

Also under an interinstitutional agreement with COOPSEGUROS OF ECUADOR, our partners have for 0.99 cents life insurance, in which relatives of members who died from any cause receive $ 1,600 for death I dismembered by any accidental cause $ 1,600, disability total and permanent addition to these benefits, is provided for medical expenses per accident $ 150 for ambulance service $ 50 and $ 300 for funeral service, which may alleviate the needs of the bereaved partner. In the same way they can acquire and renovate the SOAT in special conditions, with the same insurer.

Our members can make deposits and time deposits and withdrawals at any of our windows, because we have technology that allows us to link our national agencies, thereby facilitating the socio its financial operations, we can also transfers of funds within and outside the country, soon we will have ATMs.

“Whoever offers and birthday is honored, but he offers meets and welfare plans for the other generations, it is wise.” Words Egüez Pacific Falcon brand Canton Mayor Pedro Vicente Maldonado, whose labor of love, is making progress and welfare of its inhabitants, as it has been determined to make, at best the Northwest of Pichincha. “We want to become Peter Vicente, a city that has all the characteristics of large cities. Infrastructure work in first order, we strive to provide our residents quality services such as water and sewer. The education sector is our priority. We are managing to get in the canton is built Millennium Education Unit. We have achieved the foundation of an information center, which is a system in which everyone can access the Internet, as we will be the only city that has a massive digital system. We are taken into account for the county pioneer in the region to develop the project. We will be a digital city, “he commented.

The Municipal Government through the management of Public Enterprises, Municipal Water and Sewerage, the support of NGOs and collaboration of the Government of the Province, has invested around $ 546,000.00, with items which are financed storm sewer work and health as the health of its people is paramount. In general, the cantonal head, have done work cleaned up the streets, pavement, sidewalks, curbs, their goal is to reach 90% of cobblestones in the city. “We have other commitments with the community of Madrid. These monies are already committed for the construction of other projects such as sewage San Vicente de Andoas, studies of sewage and drinking water in the Celica, works that the community needs to be able to develop. The expected closure of Trade Integration Center, the construction of a park, this will provide the conditions for young people and children to have fun. Will feature sports fields, playgrounds and family spaces, “said the mayor, whose vision is to make Pedro Vicente Maldonado in a developed city in all aspects of both cultural and economic and social. Meet the needs of its inhabitants as a priority and invest in education and infrastructure.

A blue sky, the flight of seagulls, the blue sea and white waves that settle on the broad beaches of Pedernales, form an enviable natural paradise, coupled with the best food and accommodation offered by the companies of José Cedeño Intriago , entrepreneur manabita 29, which together with a team of first class, they make the tourists enjoy the most of your stay and return to this paradise unforgettable.

With just 22 years, Jose Intriago Cedeño, began his business career in Quito. Pedernales time later traveled to meet with his mother, who for health reasons he moved to this city, but while recovering, began one of the oldest restaurants and more recognition in Pedernales.

“Bubbled out of stock” and is considered Joseph, who seven years ago took the baton to his mother, to stand in front of the restaurant “La Choza”, the first site of typical food in front of the beach. Sensing a potential tourist progress of the city, Joseph has experience in the field and work in progress, along with collaborators, has positioned the restaurant in high level.

Casserole and grilled seafood and meats are the specialty of “The Hut”, with an Argentine chef, nine assistants and the most varied delights of Manabi and Ecuadorian cuisine. Zambrano Fatima and her husband, general managers are concerned with efficient service and performance of the restaurant which is open from Wednesday to Monday from 8h00 to 23h00.

The perfect complement to the beach, sun, sea and great-tasting food is definitely a comfortable and affordable accommodation, which offers Stephany Hostel, located on the top of the restaurant. As pointed out by Joseph, “gushed” is a businessman and entrepreneur by nature, why a year ago, the young manager and entrepreneur, took over management of the hotel and combines two companies with high growth potential.

The hostel has ten double rooms and ten family members, equipped with all facilities and a capacity for 70 people, open daily, 24 hours.

Following Korea-Japan World Cup 2002, the Ecuadorian professionals rose their price in the international market.

Before the World Cup Korea-Japan 2002, very little was said in the pages of the foreign press about Ecuadorian footballers played for teams located outside the limits patriotic.
The most notorious were those of the Necaxa Alex Aguinaga and Edison Mendez (PSV Eindhoven of Holland). Ivan Kaviedes (Perugia Celtic Spain and Italy) and Agustin Delgado (Southampton England) also wrote its history.
With the presence of the Tricolor in this international competition, the market traded greatly to the extreme of becoming a South American power, mainly Mexicans stage where our country currently has a number of his figures as Christian Benitez, Joe Rojas, Felix Borja , Christian Smith, Michael Arroyo and Jaime Ayovi.
By the time Antonio Valencia (Manchester United) is the most important player in Europe Ecuador. It is known that its annual revenues exceed a million and half dollars.

Opportunity

For the lower strata of Ecuador, professional football has become an undeniable opportunity, thanks to the Ecuadorian figures and high salaries they receive for their services, both within and outside the country.
Salaries that exceed $ 10,000 per month and could exceed the $ 25,000 barrier, are the temptation in the training division of all clubs. To speak only of the local market, according to a recent study by Diario Expreso de Guayaquil, Luis “El Chucho Bolaños, was receiving in 2010 a salary of $ 45,000 for wearing the shirt of Barcelona. Another group of players this club paid 15,000 to $ 22,000: Pablo Palacios, Fernando Hidalgo, Maximo Banguera and Luis Perlaza.
In Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito, Norberto Araujo, Enrique Vera, Juan Manuel Salgueiro, reached the 25,000 monthly. Luis Fernando Saritama (D. Quito) billed $ 30,000, according to the Buenos Aires daily.
Recently, a program Ecuavisa, reported unrealistic salaries for our environment, about 50,000 to 80,000 dollars a month, arriving every month at the hands of players like: Christian Benitez (Santos of Mexico), Carlos Tenorio (Al club Nasser).

SRI
Given the huge profits of these athletes, the Internal Revenue Service, has launched a campaign for clubs, organizations retention contribute their work to the treasury.
Last January, some goods Agustin Delgado, a former striker of the Ecuadorian, were seized by the IRS, reportedly for not meeting their tax obligations. He blamed the disturbance on his former club Barcelona of Guayaquil. The truth is that these athletes also contribute to the state.
More than half a million dollars expected to raise the SRI, in January, tax debts of 32 players from both Ecuadorian and foreign, belonging to several professional teams.

To explore the work of Karl Fierro, brilliant artist and long history, it is worth reproducing part of the criteria versed Zalacaín Fernando Artieda and published in the catalog of art edited by H. Terán Mercedes

Fierro’s work has been breech of ideas, of deep human content of warm silences.
In the neatness with which he works his empty landscapes, landscapes of Quito timeless, as if it had always been there, caught on the tab of God, is understood a regamento of human life. It is the street itself, but a street where people have sweated.

It is not cleaning the box ready to be hung as an ornament, but a painting sunny, sweaty, lived.

But it is also painted crowds motley groups of people, enthusiastic procession, angry or holidays. The power line has been replaced by an objectivity necessary for the emotion is real, not pandering. However, Fierro Karlos characters are anonymous, have no face, they are unidentifiable.

Contribute to this increase in detail the concept of mass audience anonymous, group inequalities reflecting imperfect human beings only his rhythm, his presence and his attitude towards the world but without claiming individuality, rather extolling their solidarity, collective and therefore its greatness.

But it also paints individual men, single men. Here, however, there are no faces. Behind the painted iron. Beings torn from neglect. A gap of silence. The colors of an eternal poncho as the destination, the color of men’s traditional bun native Andean America, sparking the eye of the beholder as if a painless blood shoot out so much contempt for others and their things.

But Fierro, blinded by their sense of race and nation, go and look in zoology its most important. Thus the tradition of cockfighting is spilled on the canvas with the arrogance of the combatants in the fight crested multicolor. Parrots overflow its beauty, its auriazul, their red-green poisonous beauty, dazzling and fatal.

Karla Fierro his vessel berthing at a dock where people cries out irrepressible presence, honest, paradigmatic. The sincere artist can not escape this telluric line, inescapable reliable. It’s so young and creative perserverante has landed the port and has closely embraced the people that claimed to be present and pulsating live in each and every one of the works of the artists honored in the Fatherland.

Rigorous technical processes, procedures and quality control verified custom work are political purifying and bottling plant MANAQUA water to give the people of El Carmen, Manabi a 100% guaranteed.

MANAQUA has all the permits and legal documentation for its operation
The employees responsible for packaging, hygiene and cleanliness remain integral total during this fundamental process.
The packaging machine rooms and have air conditioning and ambient ozone to destroy bacteria.

The company works with dual ozone to purify water efficiently and prolong the shelf life and is found in their presentations: 20 liter bottle, ½ liter bottles, bowling bags of 600 ml and gallons of 4 and 5 liters.

Due to the excellent demand for the vital product in the market, Luis Ayala Ch with experience as a distributor of water and motivated to take your business, 4 years ago created the bottling and water purification MANAQUA, thus forging a new draft life and work.

Luis points out that the challenge was not easy, enter the market and compete with large bottlers sued perseverance and vision to open new positions for marketing, but was made with the continued support of his wife and children to strengthen the company.

Xavier Ayala, youngest son of Louis, is constantly acquiring knowledge in technical processes industrial water filtration and purification, with the engineers and chemists who are in charge of monitoring and automation of the plant.

The refreshing feeling MANAQUA, a product of first order with seal of quality comes to different districts of the province.

“We will continue this essential work, advancing day by day with constant training staff filtramiento systems to improve our product and reach other places of Manabi and the country,” said Luis Ayala.

MANAQUA works with well water, which reaches up to two storage tanks, where it is treated with chlorine and polyvinyl chloride, to remove the iron and potassium, which contains this type of water.

After going to the tank of the plant, which stores an average of 70 thousand liters, pumps up the water pressure in the tank and passes through sand filters, activated carbon, that removes all types of odors, and resin absorbing particle of iron.

Then two polishing filters await the vital fluid, preventing any waste pass. Next, the ultraviolet filter eliminates bacteria that have been infiltrated, and finally two more retinal polishing filters any debris.

The vision of the manager, team members and partners is to strengthen Woodfibrous domestically and internationally as a factory where prevail class quality processes, innovation and effective solutions to position itself as a leader in this field.

Veneer boards …
After sorting the plate in two grades, AB type designed for the decorative face of the board and current plate type C for the flipside, the natural wood sheet of 0.6 mm thick, is smoothed and cut lengthwise. These strips are joined to obtain the width of the boards with three industrial sewing machines that work with heat fusible nylon thread that is diluted in the film. Then, the sheet is annealed to strengthen the edges.
With the plate size and quality certified, start working with boards, which go through a gluing machine pouring even more compact and natural glue (urea-based resin) to adhere the sheet to the board.
The board continues along a power line and goes into a press that operates at temperatures of 100 and 120 degrees Celsius, and after three minutes the plate is fixed integrally to the board.
The board is plated workpieces and subjected to rigorous quality control to eventually be ground and stacked for immediate sale.

Inputs, machinery and process …
The Chilean multinational Masisa, provides board Woodfibrous 1. 83 by 2.44 meters, the commercial format in the market. At this point Woodfibrous involved, taking charge of veneer boards, under a qualified and efficient production system. To this effect, has a 50% local and 50% plates imported from Spain.

The factory has 10 industrial machines, purchased in Italy and China, for the plating of the boards. Along with a full team of technicians, workers and a production supervisor, Woodfibrous veneer over 2 thousand boards a month.

Earnings veneered
The performance of a front veneered solid wood processed, represents an optimization of raw material of 500%. Ie 1 cubic meter of solid wood get 700 square meters of veneer, which when plated, is transformed in 140 plated boards. Volume with which we could make a lot of household furniture, which would not be achieved with solid wood.

It is very important to note also is working with savings-plated front panels solid wood in relation to production time, which is in ratio of 3 to 1, ie, by furniture made ??from solid wood furniture can produce 3 boards plated. This represents a decrease of labor cost and less requirement of technology and machinery.

With the unwavering mission to an industrial plant that operates under high quality standards aimed at meeting the needs of the furniture industry, construction and decoration, is a company proudly Woodfibrous Ecuador, with its flagship product, veneered panels, begins to outline a successful action and development in the domestic market, led and managed by entrepreneurs of new generation. began its work over two years. On March 28, 2009, opened its doors in the dynamic sector of northern Quito Calderon, under the management of a group of shareholders, with specific targets and goals relevant. without experience in the timber but with the seed of a true entrepreneur, focused on the results of a marketing plan and the unconditional support of her family, took over leadership of the factory, which specializes in covering boards MDF with a thin sheet of natural wood, known as veneer.

At present the use of solid wood decreases, especially the indiscriminate felling of forests and the scarcity of this valuable input, so the use of the board gaining ground. Given this reality, Woodfibrous, friendly environment with great business vision, concentrating its main action in the production of panels and bonded veneers, strengthens product worldwide with great influence, for its profitable performance, practicality, presentation, cost and demand.

Woodfibrous plating an average of 1,200 cubic meters of MDF, is 25 000 boards a year, of various sizes and characteristics.

The factory brings together 22 partners from administrative and operational staff, produces more than 2 000 boards per month, statistics that motivate the continuous and effective.

Two lines of marketing, place the Fibreboard: the customers that the company has captured its operating time and the agreement it has with Masisa, which supports the factory with its marketing network in Ecuador with over 20 local called Placacentros, distributors and other national boards.

“It is a fundamental support, which has given us Masisa, and to compete against big timber companies that have over fifty years in the market, not a simple matter. Our factory covers 10% of domestic demand, which is a positive parameter for achieving the stated objectives, “said Ibarra Germanicus.

The company’s activities are successful positioning for travel, training and technical fairs processes.

Woodfibrous today, focusing on housing growth Chillos Valley, opened an outlet called Fibrocentro own, located in San Rafael, for the direct distribution of veneer panels and doors, the line marketing boards and products Masisa complementary as lacquers, fittings, abrasives, power tools and everything related to the world of wood.

The vision of the manager, team members and partners is to strengthen Woodfibrous domestically and internationally as a factory where prevail class quality processes, innovation and effective solutions to position itself as a leader in this field.

A dynamic business profile is what we can associate with Mr. Chip Conk. The magnitude of diversity in his entrepreneurial ventures leaves a distinguished edge in the minds of people who know him. Starting from a campus calendar publishing house while he was still young, to a full-fledged real estate agencies, Mr. Conk’s interests lied in many.

From Day Dream Publications to Chelsea Residential to Montecito Property Company, everything became successful with his Midas touch! Or should we say business skills? After he exited the condominium business with Montecito Property Company in 2006, he started with Montecito Medical investment Company. With this venture, he acquired a portfolio of as much as 46 medical related assets which included cancer centers, hospitals and other medical office buildings. The best part was that this portfolio represented a vast expanse of more than 1.8 million square feet.

In the two years between 2006 and 2008, the portfolio grew to become the nation’s largest privately held one exclusively for medical estates. In the June of 2008, Mr. Chip Conk acquired partnership with 2 Cyberknife Cancer Centers at Roper Hospital in Charleston, SC. and Mercy Hospital in St. Louis, MO. This new advent offered the world’s only radiosurgery system that is adept at treating tumors almost anywhere in the body. It uses sub millimeter accuracy and succeeds at what it does.

Mr. Chip Conk is now the CEO of Santa Barbara Medical innovations, a company dedicated to bringing innovative health products into the global market. Apart from the Zerona body contouring device and the EML handheld laser, the company plans to launch more medical devices in the coming months.