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Instant Gratification:  Cash in Your Pocket
Why Company Owners Need To Outsource Business Services
By Steuart J. Pereira

Surviving the Worst Economy in a Century
The economy has been devastated since the housing bubble burst in October of 2007, and the whole world is feeling the brunt of a fiscal meltdown the proportions of which have not been seen since the Great Depression.  The number of home foreclosures has quadrupled.  The number of companies going out of business has tripled.  Bankruptcies have more than doubled.  More than one hundred banks closed in the United States in 2009. How does the business world repair itself?  If we as a society are to get out of this mess, we must start by pulling our bootstraps up at the work place.  Businesses must recover and, to do that, they must learn to operate in new ways, innovate, cut costs, and generate new streams of revenue.  First businesses must stop failing.

Why Businesses Fail
In most cases, business failure is the result of overhead costs running out of control and owners ignoring some basic business operating concepts.  Capitalism and business fundamentals are still what they were prior to October of 2007, but the marketplace has changed, and businesses must adapt.  Exuberance and overspending must be forgotten, whereas creativity and ingenuity must be exploited to survive in today's world.  Many businesses have been devastated by the change in the economy, but there are still other companies thriving.  Pereira Enterprises is a prime example of a company that helps other companies survive and thrive in this painful economic climate by helping firms cut overhead costs by outsourcing outdated functions that traditionally have been an excessive operating expense.

Pereira Enterprises, Inc., offers interior designers the fastest and easiest way to avoid many common problems, problems that face and destroy many design firms today: