GM Announces 800 New Jobs On Third Shift at TX SUV Plant

GM Announces 800 New Jobs On Third Shift at TX SUV Plant

General Motors announced plans Friday to add a third shift at its SUV plant in Arlington, Texas, as the company continues to ramp up production after deep cuts during the financial crisis.

The additional shift will keep the facility running around the clock, and will generate roughly 800 additional jobs, GM (GM, Fortune 500) said.

The Arlington plant produces Chevrolet Tahoes and Suburbans, GMC Yukons and Cadillac Escalades. GM said demand for full-size SUVs remains "stable," though sales of the Escalade, Yukon and Tahoe are down so far in 2012 versus last year.

If you are interested in applying for jobs with General Motors in Arlington, Texas, click here more for details.

How Writing Down Your Thoughts Are Important To Achieve Goals

Writing on a daily basis can be beneficial to anyone. Lets admit, we all are guilty of going days, weeks, even months without writing. I'm not just talking about writing one or two words, but expressing your thoughts, ideas, and things that you would like to accomplish on paper. Often times we tend to become too busy to write, have more important things to do than to write, or we just don't write at all. It is very important that we take at least 5-15 minutes everyday to write.

Three specific reasons why it is so important to write down your thoughts, ideas, and the things you accomplish daily:

1.) Your thoughts are like specks of small pieces of gold that are found deep in the earth. Just think about it; your thoughts are full of precious imagery and imagination, that produces into an idea. The similarity of gold and writing your thoughts down is this: the earth represents your brain, and gold represents your thoughts. So, if your thoughts are like gold, why don't you cherish it as that?

2.)Your idea set the stage for your success. Anytime your mind produces a thought, that thought eventually turns into an idea,which enfolds into a process called, "Planting a Seed."

3.) Your accomplishments become noticeable. Your accomplishments allows you to appreciate the steps taken forward, even when you may not realize that you have taken those steps. Afterwards, those steps become milestones which you can allow yourself to look back on to see how far you have come in your journey.

"Write because after a while those things we don't acknowledge will be forgotten." -IWRITE, Ltd Co.

Revamp Your Business Plan To Incorporate The Growing Mobile Technology

Small Business Owners Reinvent Themselves By Working Harder and the Growing Technology [Infographic]

Small businesses are stepping up their game in an uncertain economy, according to a survey by Sage Small Business.

The survey of more than 250 small-business owners reveals that they have been working harder and longer now than they were five years ago. While stress may be higher, business owners are employing new strategies, like using mobile apps, to streamline tasks and management.

Sometimes this means updating and revamping your business plan as well. Here at IWRITE Ltd Co, we can help you renew your business plan to incorporate the new and growing mobile and technological strategies emerging every day.

Get your business plan done by IWRITE professionals.

Check out this infographic from Sage to see how else small-business owners have adapted to changing times.

 (See infograhic in larger view HERE)

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Government Funded Entrepreneurial University Helps Create Jobs for Business Starters

 The Government's Entrepreneurial University Helps Create Jobs for Business Starters

This is a great opportunity for business starters to get the training they need to start businesses that will be profitable in their field.

The Huffington Post reported:

Intersect Fund, a non-profit group that supports entrepreneurs, is leading the effort. Sponsored by the State of New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the fund will offer 60-hour training programs for those who are currently unemployed but wish to start their own business.

The program, called Entrepreneurial University or ETPU, which benefits those who have been collecting unemployment benefits for 26 weeks or are no longer eligible, is offered at several locations around the state, including some community colleges. Once the program is completed, the entrepreneurs can borrow up to $10,000 in order to start their business.

"The program's goal is to give participants the tools they need to start profitable businesses. That means knowing where to find one's customer, knowing how to manage the money and knowing how to plan for growth," said Joe Shure, associate director of the Intersect Fund.

If you live in the New Jersey area, you can benefit greatly from this program.  Along with the training, you will need to get your ideas and goals down on paper about what your business is all about and where you see it going years to come. You can benefit from getting a business plan completed by one of our IWRITE representatives who are have the expertise to help you produce a professional business plan.

Good News: Washington state has a Self-Employment Assistance Program or SEAP, through which those collecting unemployment benefits can receive self-employment training and business counseling. Colorado recently extended its job training program for another two years, which trains the unemployed to fill high-demand positions and to run their own business.

So please take advantage of any of these opportunities to become the success you want for your business venture.

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How You Can Turn $1,000 Into $1 Million with Your Business

 How You Can Turn $1,000 Into $1 Million with Your Business

In the following article, it describes how a few businesses were interviewed and how they turned a small amount of money into a serious cash flow with their own businesses. Are you put for the challenge and the reward?

Read below about a how these people did it:

Many of these individuals started businesses with less than $1,000 and are now earning more than $1 million per year in revenue. All of them bootstrapped their own business with no outside cash and a minimal capital investment from their own bank account. Here is a brief primer on bootstrapping a business.

So how does one start with very little money and turn that into $1 million per year? Here are five stories of regular people building million-dollar businesses. Also keep in mind many of these businesses came from a passion of what they loved to do.

PostcardMania. Joy Gendusa was a freelancer who wanted to buy some postcards to advertise her business. She was shocked by the unnecessary fees she had to pay just to get some postcards made, so she decided to start her own postcard business with a friendly price structure for customers. PostcardMania was born.

Gendusa started the company with no capital investment and used the money from the first customer to pay the printer for her first postcards. In the early days, the payment schedule was tight. She had to get money from the customers and use that cash to pay her printer, but she kept bringing in new business and eventually built up a little bit of cash.

As PostcardMania continued to grow, Gendusa noticed customers asking for other services. They would say things like, "Who built your website?" or "Can you do email marketing too?" So PostcardMania started branching into those areas as well. Today, the company offers all sorts of advertising and marketing for its clients and makes close to $20 million per year.

As you can see direct sales and marketing is what made her business the success it is today!

Blue Buddha Boutique. Rebeca Mojica went to a Renaissance Festival and noticed a unique metal belt made from chainmaille rings. After searching for something similar, she couldn't find the belts anywhere and decided to try and make her own.

Mojica spent $20 on that first set of rings and sold a few belts to a few friends and family. However, it wasn't until she started teaching other people how to make the belts that she really saw the potential for a business.

Mojica began teaching chainmaille classes and decided to sell the rings and pliers needed to make the belts to her students. She made $300 the first time she sold the supplies. Soon after, Blue Buddha Boutique was born and it rapidly became one of the top sellers of chainmaille jewelry supplies. Blue Buddha Boutique now has 13 employees and is set to break the million dollar mark in 2012.

M&E Painting. Matt Shoup worked as a painter during the summers in college. When he was let go from his job his financial services job a few years later, he decided to start a painting business.

Starting with just $100, Shoup woke up the next day and went door to door in his neighborhood, knocking on houses that looked like they could use a paint job. He enlisted a few friends for help and M&E Painting made more than $500,000 in that first year. Seven years later, the company has more than 4,000 customers and makes between $1.5 and $2.5 million every year. Source

As you can see, the passion to do what these business owners did, resulted in an overflow of revenue for them and with very little money. It did not happen overnight, but with hard work, dedication and a will to do their best, true success happened for them and it can happen for you!!

Take some time out to see what you've been wanting to get started. You may never know what you are losing out on if you never get your business idea and business plan into motion. 

IWRITE can help you with your business plan and get you started on your way to not just dreaming of being a success but really living it!

IWRITE Can Help Baby Boomers With 2nd Career with New Resume or Business Plan

 IWRITE Can Help Baby Boomers With 2nd Career with New Resume or Business Plan

We know those who are at the retired age are not giving up on being productive in society. The truth is: they don't have to. Read the following article from US News is about how baby boomers are seeking new careers with stride:

Many baby boomers plan to keep working in some capacity after retirement. While some people will delay retirement because they need the money, others will take a job to ward off boredom and keep busy.

Previous generations of retirees may have envisioned retirement as a relaxing, stress-free escape from the demands of the working world. A more labor intensive and often physically demanding work typified earlier careers, and retirement was often necessary for a tired and worn out body.

However, the demands on today’s knowledge workers are more mental than physical. Many baby boomers, who have already begun to reach age 65, are far from physically exhausted and often have much more to give. Few of these active seniors have a physical need to retire from the working world. And many baby boomers are choosing to continue working well beyond age 65...

Instead, retirement can be a time to explore creative new avenues, and put the skills you have cultivated throughout your career to work in new ways. Your second career can be an opportunity to venture down an avenue that has interested you, but that you were unable to pursue due to circumstances. In retirement, you have the freedom to choose what you want to do rather than what you have to do. 

So, there is no reason why anyone has to retire and be made to feel like life is over, because it is not. Baby boomers are free to explore career avenues they dreamed of but were not able to pursue years ago.

Now is the time to get your resume renewed and refreshed. How about getting a business plan done by our IWRITE professionals and getting on the road to operating your own business?

The time is NOW to get started and IWRITE can help you make those critical first steps to pursuing dreams you have always wanted.

Call or contact us today. We will be happy to assist you!

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Pictures from IWRITE Resume and Cover Letter Event!

Pictures from IWRITE

Resume and Cover Letter Event in

Darlington, SC 2012!