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Did you know that more than half of all U.S. businesses are home-based? Did you likewise recognise – according to the Small Business Association – they estimate approximately 6.6 million of these businesses provide more than half of their household income? The homeprenuer trend is growing, and will only carry on to intensify. So how do we formulate that home office to provide us with a positive environs in which to grow?
Since almost 90% of home-based enterprisers have families, separating the living and working environments may prove to be a little tricky. So pick a spot in your home, where noise and traffic are at a minimum and privacy is optimum. A distinguished guesthouse outside, or a room above your garage, would be the idealisti emplacement for your home office, but the reality is that the typical home-based business is located inside the house.
Entrepreneurs, tend to be highly originative and progressed people – and their work environments ought to reflect that aspect of their personality. If your home office space is stimulating and sparks innovation, then your ability to create just flows. When it’s dull, drab and dingy your work will suffer the same fate. We’ve entered a new decade. Isn’t it time to “Up the Ante”?
Whether you’re purchasing new office furniture, re-painting your space or plainly accessorizing, punch up your home office environs and infuse a few of these cool new design trends into your plan.
2010 Design Trends:
Eco-Friendly:
* Nature-inspired design and green products.
* Natural environmentally friendly furnishings.
* Paint colors that work with your company’s branding, logo and website. (Use Low VOC or Zero VOC paints.)
* Introduce a chalkboard wall to save on paper and brainstorm ideas.
Eclectic Designs:
* Blending and layering of bold colors and graphic patterns.
* Large-scaled patterned wallpapers and grass cloths are back in vogue.
* Clean, simple and flexible office furniture styles.
* Office seating upholstered in bright bold fabrics with neutral pillows.
Color Trends:
Yellow:
* It’s THE color for this year’s palette. Wall color or accessories.
* If it’s good for the White House, it’ll be great in your house.
* Epitomizes warmth and a sunny outlook toward the future.
* Sparks imagination and innovation.
Mauve:
* Defines refined luxuriousness and elegance.
* Represents a sense of royalty and power.
Green:
* Natural colors of sand, trees and moss green.
* Creates a sense of remainder and harmony.
* Aqua/Teal will be a hot summer accent color.
Grey:
* Charcoal and slate grays are the new neutrals and showcase the brightly colored furniture.
* Metallic grays in furniture, leather and metals are hot this year – and blend beautifully with each of these trend setting colors.
Neutrals:
* Ecologically driven neutrals and organic tones.
* Muted colors always invoke a sense of calm – but infuse a lot of color for accent to keep you jazzed and awake.
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Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.WHAT IS LATENT DEMAND AND THE P.I.E.?
The conception of latent demand is rather subtle. The term latent specifically refers to something that is dormant, not observable, or not yet realized. Demand is the notion of an economic amount that a target population or market requires beneath dissimilar assumptions of price, quality, and distribution, amid other factors. Latent demand, therefore, is ordinarily specified by economists as the industry earnings of a market when that market becomes accessible and beautiful to serve by competing firms. It is a measure, therefore, of potential industry net profit (P.I.E.) or total revenues (not profit) if the United States is served in an effective manner. It is distinctively conveyed as the total revenues potentially extracted by firms. The “market” is specified at a given level in the value chain. There may be latent demand at the marketing level, at the wholesale level, the formulating level, and the raw materials level (the P.I.E. of higher levels of the value chain being always littler than the P.I.E. of levels at lower levels of the same value chain, assuming all levels maintain minimum profitability).
The latent demand for leather dog collars, leashes, and other household pet accessaries in the United States is not actual or historic sales. Nor is latent demand future sales. In fact, latent demand may be either lower or higher than actual sales if a market is inefficient (i.e., not representative of comparatively competitory levels). Inefficiencies arise from a number of factors, including the lack of global openness, cultural barriers to consumption, regulations, and cartel-like conduct on the share of firms. In general, however, latent demand is distinctively more prominent than actual sales in a market.
For reasons discussed later, this report does not consider the notion of “unit quantities”, only total latent revenues (i.e., a calculation of price times amount is never made, altho one is implied). The units applied in this report are U.S. dollars not adjusted for inflation (i.e., the figures incorporate inflationary trends). If inflation rates vary in a significant way equated to recent experience, genuinely sales may likewise exceed latent demand (not adjusted for inflation). On the other hand, latent demand may be distinctively higher than actual sales as there are often times distribution inefficiencies that reduce actual sales beneath the level of latent demand.
As noted in the introduction, this study is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, no matter of the players or merchandise involved. In fact, all the current merchandise or services on the market may discontinue to subsist in their present form (i.e., at a brand-, R&D specification, or corporate-image level) and all the players may be substituted by other firms (i.e., by way of exits, entries, mergers, bankruptcies, etc.), and there will still be latent demand for leather dog collars, leashes, and other household pet accessaries at the aggregate level. Product and service offerings, and the actual identity of the players involved, while essential for sure issues, are comparatively not significant for estimates of latent demand.
THE METHODOLOGY
In order to estimate the latent demand for leather dog collars, leashes, and other household pet accessaries all over the states and cites of the United States, I applied a multi-stage approach. Before applying the approach, one needs a basic theory from which such estimates are created. In this case, I to a considerable degree rely on the use of sure basic economic assumptions. In particular, there is an assumption governing the shape and type of aggregate latent demand functions. Latent demand functions relate the income of a state, city, household, or person to realized consumption. Latent demand (often realized as consumption when an industry is efficient), at any level of the value chain, takes place if an equilibrium is realized. For firms to serve a market, they ought to comprehend a latent demand and be capable to serve that demand at a minimal return. The single most essential variable determining consumption, assuming latent demand exists, is income (or other financial resources at higher levels of the value chain). Other constituents that may pivot or shape demand curves include external or exogenous shocks (i.e., business cycles), and or changes in utility for the product in question.
Ignoring, for the moment, exogenous shocks and variations in utility all over geographies, the aggregate relation among income and consumption has been a central theme in economics. The figure underneath concisely surmise one aspect of problem. In the 1930s, John Meynard Keynes conjectured that as incomes rise, the intermediate propensity to consume would fall. The intermediate propensity to consume is the level of consumption divided by the level of income, or the slope of the line from the origin to the consumption function. He approximated this kinship empirically and found it to be true in the short-run (mostly based on cross-sectional data). The higher the income, the lower the intermediate propensity to consume. This type of consumption function is labeled “A” in the figure under (note the rather flat slope of the curve). In the 1940s, another macroeconomist, Simon Kuznets, approximated long-run consumption functions which indicated that the marginal propensity to consume was rather neverending (using time series data). This type of consumption function is shown as “B” in the figure underneath (note the higher slope and zero-zero intercept). The intermediate propensity to consume is constant.
Is it declining or is it constant? A number of other economists, notably Franco Modigliani and Milton Friedman, in the 1950s (and Irving Fisher earlier), explained why the two functions were dissimilar using respective assumptions on intertemporal budget constraints, savings, and wealth. The shorter the time horizon, the more consumption may depend on wealth (earned in former years) and business cycles. In the long-run, however, the propensity to consume is more constant. Similarly, in the long run, households with no income ultimately have no consumption (wealth is depleted). While the debate surrounding beliefs with regards to how income and consumption are affiliated is interesting, in this study a very peculiar school of thought is adopted. In particular, we are taking into account the latent demand for leather dog collars, leashes, and other household pet accessaries throughout the states and cities of the United States. The smallest cities have few inhabitants. I assume that all of these cities fall along a “long-run” aggregate consumption function. This long-run function applies in spite of a heap of of these states having wealth; current income dominates the latent demand for leather dog collars, leashes, and other household pet accessories. So, latent demand in the long-run has a zero intercept. However, I grant dissimilar propensities to consume (including being on consumption functions with differing slopes, which may account for deviations in industrial organization, and end-user preferences).
Given this overriding philosophy, I will now describe the methodology employed to create the latent demand estimates for leather dog collars, leashes, and other household pet accessaries in the United States. Since ICON Group has asked me to implement this methodology to a huge number of categories, the rather academic discussion under is ordinary and may be applied to a wide assortment of categories and geographic locations, not just leather dog collars, leashes, and other household pet accessaries in the United States.
Step 1. Product Definition and Data Collection
Any study of latent demand requires that galore general be traditionalisti to define “efficiently served”. Having enforced respective number of things from which only one can be chosen and matched these with market outcomes, I have found that the optimal approach is to assume that sure key indicators are more likely to reflect efficacy than others. These indicators are given more outstanding weight than others in the estimation of latent demand equated to others for which no known data are available. Of the a lot of alternatives, I have found the assumption that the most eminent aggregate income and most eminent income-per-capita markets reflect the best standards for “efficiency”. High aggregate income alone is not sufficient (i.e. some cities have high aggregate income, but low income per capita and may not assumed to be efficient). Aggregate income may be operationalized in a number of ways, including gross domestic product (for industrial categories), or total disposable income (for household categories; population times intermediate income per capita, or number of households times intermediate household…
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