CP22 John Lee Dumas from EOFire Talks about Starting Growing Successful Podcast

CP22 John Lee Dumas from EOFire Talks about Starting Growing Successful Podcast Welcome to the 22nd episode of our podcast with John Lee Dumas from EOFire!You can download the podcast to your computer or listen to it here on the blog. Click here to subscribe in iTunes. INTRODUCTION IDEA OF EOFIREMartin: Hi Folks. You ever wanted to start a passive income business, or maybe you are interested in interviewing high class people and starting a podcast. Today we have the expert on board with John Lee Dumas from Entrepreneur on Fire. Hi John, how are you doing?John: Martin, I am fired up to be here, brother! Thanks for having me!Martin: Great. Can you tell the people, what is actually Entrepreneur on Fire?John: Entrepreneur on Fire is a daily podcast that I started 4 years ago where I interview today the most successful and inspiring entrepreneurs and we talk about their journey, their worst moments, lessons learned, their aha moments, how they turned those aha moments into success. Then we have a lightning round of questions that is meant to give gold to the listeners. We have now done over 1300 episodes to date, we are consistently getting over one million listeners per month of the show, and its simple been a blast.Martin: Great. I mean, basically it s the same stuff that I am doing.Why did you start this kind of podcast? Did you just stumble into that and then at one point in time you realized there could be some business opportunity? What is the story behind Entrepreneur on Fire?John: Entrepreneur on Fire is really a solving of my own problem.I mean the reality is this, Martin, its that I was a struggling business person back in 2012/11/10, and so I was looking to consume content that would inspire me and motivate me, that would bring me to the next level and I found podcasting, and I loved podcasting. But the reality was there just wasnt a daily podcast, there was a weekly podcast, there was a podcast that was going twice a month, it just wasnt enough quantity for me. Because I was driving to work every single day by myself, I was going to the gym, I was doing this, doing that, I wanted to consume this content all of those times. I searched for the daily podcast, it didnt exist, I decided to follow Gandhis great words and be the change you wish to see in the world, and that was the launch of EOFire.HOW TO START A PODCASTMartin: Awesome. Imagine that you are just having this idea of starting this podcast, how did you find the first podcast interview partners?John: It wasnt easy, but the reality was I saw that there were a lot of people who were guests on other shows. And so I said: Well, those people will most likely want to be guests on my shows as well. So I reached out to them one by one and I said, “Hey, you were a great guest on this show, I really enjoyed your content, I would really like you to come and share a similar story on my show. But I have a very unique format; we talk about your worst moment, your aha moment, I have these lighting round of questions. Would this be something you would be interested in having a conversation about?” Then slowly but surely, step by step I would be getting one guest to 2 guests, and then those 2 guests would recommend a third guest and I was really able to build a great back log of guests and interviews that way.Martin: Nice. Nowadays you have like 1 million podcast listens a month, awesome.How did you start with your podcast marketing and really attracting the first 1000, the first 10,000 subscribers?John: For me again it goes back to that building a foundation, I think thats so important. I launched just like everybody else launched, with zero listens, and then every single day I woke up and I said how can I just add to my listenership? How can I go find where my perfect listeners are right now, expose them to Entrepreneur on Fire, to my podcast and to maybe excite them to join.It wasnt easy, I had to hustle, I had to go into Facebook groups and LinkedIn groups, I had to go find Reddits and go repost that were being written by entrepreneurs and commented by and contributed. I had to really get out there and do some gorilla marketing.Then of course having a show that goes live every single day with a successful entrepreneur, I would ask that guest of my show to share with their audience so then every single day, my guest was sharing EOFire with their listeners, with their audience. And that was growing exponentially the show every single day.Martin: When you had like maybe 5000, 10000 subscribers, did you approach some kind of podcast advertisers or did they approach you? At what point in time did you think: Okay, lets start rolling the US dollars.John: At the 6 month point, I was really getting to a place where I said men, I am getting about 3-4 thousand listens every single episode, this is a significant number, maybe its time to start looking for sponsors. So I started kind of looking around on my own.But sometimes how the universe works and you put things out there in the universe, I got reached out to by a broker that was a sponsorship broker and the company was called the Midroll. The guy emailed me and said, “Hey John, I would love to jump on a call because you know we are the Midroll, we find sponsor s for podcasts. We are looking to bring in a business podcast, right now we pretty much focus on the comedy shows.”My show appealed to them for a number of reasons; number 1, it was a daily show so there was a lot of opportunities for sponsorship spots on a daily show, 30 a month specifically. So we tried it out and by the end of that same week, that broker had already booked over $12,000 of sponsors on my show for the following month. EOFire went from no sponsors and almost no revenue for the first 6 months, to generating 5 figures a month from month 7, and then by the 12th month, so a year later after we launched we had entered the 6 figure a month category.Martin: I can really imagine your face dropping down when you said: What? $12,000 in sponsorship?I mean if I am calculating just in my head, having one billion monthly listeners and you are getting like $80,000 that approximately translates into $80 CPM. Why is that CPM so crazy high and what is your expectations on the podca sting CPMs for the future?John: The CPMs are so high because with podcast listeners, it is a very intimate medium. I mean they are choosing to press play on your content, unlike a radio where you just find a radio station and do this, do that. Podcast listeners have found the content, they have found the hosts that they want and they have decided to press the play button, and they get to know the host. They get to know, like and trust the voice behind the microphone so to speak. So why spend 6 months growing a great fire nation now they trust me. So when I recommend a product or a service to them, they are much more likely to try that service because it is coming from somebody that they know, like and trust, not just some voice that is sharing with them the ups and the downs in a very sales marketing pitchy kind of way.So thats why CPMs have sometimes, for podcasts, been anywhere from, you know, fill in the blank, anywhere from $15 CPMs all the way up to $60 CPMs, and I have seen th em range all in there since I started and its a very powerful medium.Now, the future of podcasting is interesting because, like everything in life, now people are becoming a lot more used to sponsors on podcasts so they are becoming a little more tone deaf to that, when back in the day it just was kind of a special day and so if you are able to use a unique read and keep the listeners interested, they probably listen.But now its a little bit different, it is a lot more crowded of a market place. I kind of foresee CPMs decreasing in the future, but never to a level of like a radio or a newspaper or a bill board, but just kind of down from the stratosphere they have been up for so long.Martin: Yes, definitely, because I would also add one more dimension Because you said basically you have a higher trust therefore the CPM is higher, but apparently the audience is getting used to this therefore the conversion rates thereby the generated sales decrease, therefore the willingness to pay f rom the advertiser will go down. But one factor I would like to add is there are so many new podcasts reaching out and actually competing against each other. Because if they are millions of business podcasts out there, then you should give me a very good reason advertising on your podcast versus another one.John: I definitely agree. Again, that was when they first reached out to me. My broker, they said: We haven’t sponsored on any business podcast before, we havent used any, like I was literally the first business podcast that this broker, which is the biggest broker that is out there, The Midroll is their name, they actually just acquired Stitcher radio, like a week ago. Its just crazy.LISTENERS ACQUISITIONS PODCAST STATISTICS OF EOFIREMartin: Are you looking into your podcast marketing or user acquisition statistics? Can you give us some kind of detail on where are the new users coming from? What type of marketing tactics are you using in order to use that?John: Really the new types of acquisition are coming from:#1: my current guest sharing to their audience when they are on the show, thats always bringing new ears to the actual podcast, and#2: it is just organic iTunes. Like on iTunes we have people that are very single day they are searching for content, and when they are looking for the top ranked business podcast, they are searching for key terms on the iTunes search bar, whether they be entrepreneur or fill in the blank, and they are coming across my podcast that way, so discover ability with an iTunes and then also just sharing with our audience, with the guest audience.Martin: Are you doing anything on, lets call it podcast SEO or something like that? Optimizing key words, etc.? So that your discoverability is improved.John: No, nothing in that area.Martin: Okay cool.EOFIRE COLLABORATION WITH FREELANCERSMartin: On your site, I have seen that you are working with freelancers and virtual assistants, let me understand how is your work day, or your w ork week structured? And how are you collaborating with those freelancers?John: Yes, we have actually 5 full time virtual assistants and then 2 freelancers, 2 independent contractors so to speak. Our 5 virtual assistants work 40 hours per week, so they are just working full time, they have their tasks, they know what they are doing. Then the independent contractors, we actually have them on retainer, so we have them for our designers 40 hours per month and our web developers 30 hours per month, and we pay them based off of that. We have them for a minimum those amount of hours every single month.And then just as different campaigns come up or opportunities arise, we will then reach out to them and have them fix it up for us and have them do a design or fix up a website or add this or add that in kind of a very one-off basis.Martin: I would assume that the virtual assistants are working on your interview partner backlog so to speak arrange the meetings, maybe do some transcribing or something like this. Anything else that they are doing?John: Yes definitely. Like you said, we have the transcribing, we have a lot of email follow up going on, we have a lot of social media, whether it is Twitter, or Facebook or whatever, it might be kind of keeping the conversations going and making sure if theres any direct questions to me, then I get those questions, etc. There is a lot of different things we do on a day to day basis for sure and that my virtual assistants do, going forward that they just know because, its their 40 hours per week.EOFIRE REVENUE STREAMS HOW TO MONETIZE A PODCAST?Martin: I have also seen that you have a very diverse type of revenue stream, so from affiliate earnings from podcast advertising, from product sales and so on and so forth. Can you elaborate a little bit on that, and how did you experiment with those different revenue streams over time? And how do you think this revenue split will change over the next 12 months and why?John: Yes, revenu e streams are definitely something you always want to keep your finger on the pulse with when it comes to be an entrepreneur because things are changing. The world is changing, opportunities are changing, new things are coming up, old ways are dying, etc. So you always want to keep your finger on the pulse.And thats one thing that we have always done that I am very proud of as EOFire, is that we are very open and transparent and honest with our personal revenue. So every single month we publish an income report where we break down all the revenue that we have generated, how we have generated it, we break down all of our costs and expenses within the business and exactly what that looks like. So we give a really great snapshot of our business every single month; the trends, whats working, whats not working, etc.That has been a really big part of our business, is continuing going forward with that transparency. So thats been huge, thats been a big plus for what we do. Because it is al so allowed for me to say what is working revenue wise, what is the 80:20? And that meaning, what is the 20% that is actually contributing to the 80% of the overall bottom line, and really making sure that we focus on that 20% and kind of just let the other 80% of stuff that is just not doing the big impact kind of drift off into nothing. That has kind of really allowed us to hone our skills.So some of our big revenue sources right now are podcasters paradise, which is our podcasting community, where we teach people how to create, grow and monetize their own podcast.Another one is the freedom journal, which is a physical book that I have created which teaches people how to set and accomplish their number 1 goal in 100 days, and its done via this gorgeous leather bound journal that has a very unique step by step process on setting and accomplishing your number one goal.We do a lot of great affiliates and joint venture sales and revenue. And that is where like another entrepreneur, one of my friends, whatever, might have a course, a product, an offering that definitely aligns with my listenership and my audience. What are we able to do, boom, we are able to go ahead and bring them on the show or send an email about them and recommend their product or their service and if anybody converts then we have a commission off of that as well.Those are some ways we generate revenue and going forward, I can say I am working on another project right now thats very similar to the freedom journal, but its going to be in a very different niche and a different spectrum.Oh yeah, and kind of going backwards again real quick, is we generate a lot of money every month as well, via podcast sponsorships, to the tune of sometimes $40K to $50K to $60K per month. So thats a big revenue stream for us as well.Those are some things, and again, going into the future, its looking at another project similar to the freedom journal and another project that I am working on right now is actually c alled Skills on fire, where I am just going to kind of be teaching for a very low level as far as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, just how I use these in a very effective way. This is not like an all-encompassing premium course type of everything, but just how I use these different social media platforms and different marketing platforms effectively, for people that want to kind of study that.Martin: Cool. John, when I am looking at this kind of revenue and the profits that you are making, my question is, what are you doing with the profits? Are you just enjoying your time? Are you investing in organic growth or diversification, which is partly one thing that you are doing? Or are you an angel investor? What are you doing with these profits?John: Yes, and I can tell you its definitely a good question. There are a couple of things that we are doing.Number 1, we are definitely making sure that we are putting a good portion of this away because when we work hard and things are working w ell right now, I know as well as anybody else that things can change in the future at any time. The best part about hosting EOFire is, I start every show with the worst entrepreneurial moments and that is just the reality, so I know that the next worst moment is right around the corner because nobody expects it, it just happens, boom, just like that. We are definitely looking to build up quite a nest to make sure that when things change, and things always change, that we have a nice little nest so that we can make sure that we smoothly transition into that next stage or opportunity in life.At the same time, we definitely are investing back into our business with a certain portion of the money. We are investing in Facebook advertising and different like Amazon growth opportunities like with the Freedom Journal on Amazon. I am looking at different ways of using Amazon advertising to get that in front of more people, etc. We are definitely looking to invest back into the company with o rganic growth and hire people.Another thing is we are actually hiring another employee to our team which is going to add to our monthly expenses, but we know it is going to add to also the overall growth of our business if it is used correctly.So a little combination of organic growth, a lot of savings, just kind of being stacked up or what may or may not happen in the future, so just having that peace of mind.And we are big into charities, like I donate a lot of money every single month, charities like Pencils of Promise where we built 3 schools at over $75,000 in just the past year alone through Pencils of Promise with 3 separate $25,000 donations. So we kind of want to have that full spectrum that makes sense and that is where we are at.  Martin: Cool.LEARNINGS TIPS FROM JOHN LEE DUMASMartin: John, after talking to you about this Entrepreneur on Fire thing, how do I monetize and how do I build this kind of business Now I would be very interested in, for example, if you are looki ng back to this 1300 podcasts, what have been the 3 major learnings or fuck ups or whatever that entrepreneurs have shared with you?John: Wow.Number 1 is just giving into fear. I mean we are all going to feel, fear is always going to be with us when we try something new, when we try something different, when we put ourselves out there, but it is giving into fear, like that is the major mistake that so many entrepreneurs make, and it happens time and time again.Number 2 is surrounding yourself with the wrong people, like you are an average of the 5 people you spend the most time with. So often entrepreneurs, they just fall into this trap where they slowly but surely sort of surround themselves with the wrong kind of people who just dont really have the same morals or the same outlook or the same desires in life and they become the average of that and this is kind of a downward spiral or a downward trend.The third thing would be just having a singular mentor, like not having that pers on that is just where you want to be right now. Because so often in life we look around a room, and whether it is a physical room or a virtual room, and if you are the smartest person in that room, you are in the wrong room, you have got to get out of there and find another room where you are being challenged, where people are holding you accountable, making it happen. So having that one mentor that is pulling you upwards is okay.Martin: How do you know that the surrounding people are the right ones for you, so that you really make sure: Okay, now I am at the right spot, or no I am identifying I am not at the right spot?John: You just sit down and say: What kind of person do I want to be? What kind of things do I want to accomplish? What do I want to stand for? What do I want to be important in my life? Once you have a grasp on that, then you can look around and say: Okay, now I get it, now I want to attract these people to me and spend time with these people. And maybe I am now pre tty aware that friends 2, 3, and 5 just do not have those qualities, those traits, how do I move them off from my top 5. I am not saying cut them off forever, but you got to move them out of your top 5.Martin: John, do you have a mentor? If yes, who is it and how did you find him?John: Yes, I absolutely do have a mentor, that is and going continue to be private, but it is a mentor and I believe in always having a mentor going forward, that is so important. What I did was, I found somebody who is currently where I want to be and I hired him, I said what is it going to take? You name the price, I want to be where you are, I want you to mentor me, and we have been mentor-mentee ever since.Martin: Cool. Because this is interesting, as you said, this is the price where you are paying, because I would have assumed that a lot of people for example, if I am thinking of who would I love to have as a mentor would not be, lets say acquirable for money but maybe for something else.Imagine, I wo uld love to have this is not true, but I would love to have a Bill Gates or Barrack Obama as my personal mentor, because maybe this is what I want to do. I guess I would never be able to pay Bill Gates, because he has all the money in the world, he doesnt need any more money, maybe he needs something else. So what other things could you think of that could motivate a mentor that you really want to be a mentor?John: Maybe showing them that your mission in this world aligns with their mission, I mean maybe they love the charity water. So if you are willing to really become committed to that and moving that forward in a very powerful way, then that mentor would be inspired to say: Wow, if you are willing to give that to something that I believe in so strongly, I am willing to give some of my time. There are other ways to go about it, for sure.Martin: Great. John, thank you so much for sharing your insights, I wish you all the best with your Entrepreneur of Fire podcast and all the othe r ventures that you are starting, and especially one thing that I really like is that you are doing some charity and helping people with building schools and education and so on. Thank you so much for that.John: Martin thank you, I really enjoyed the chat today.THANKS FOR LISTENING!Thanks so much for joining our 22nd podcast episode!Have some feedback you’d like to share?  Leave  a note in the comment section below! If you enjoyed this episode, please  share  it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post.Also,  please leave an honest review for The Cleverism Podcast on iTunes or on SoundCloud. Ratings and reviews  are  extremely  helpful  and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and we read each and every one of them.Special thanks  to John for joining me this week. Until  next time!

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Difference between pornography, erotica and moral realism Pornography is the verbal or pictorial representation of sexual behavior that degrades and demeans the role as well as status of female. It depicts them as sexual objects to be exploited and manipulated (Longino 2006). Pornography degrades, dehumanizes and causes injury and violation to the rights of women.Advertising We will write a custom essay sample on Pornography and Women Issues specifically for you for only $16.05 $11/page Learn More It constitutes of materials that cause pain, injury both physical and psychological, deceits to other people, providing interference to others rights, exploiting other people, perversion and defamation that are characteristics of decadent behavior (Longino 2006). It places women in a position where their role is reduced to that of fulfilling men desires without taking into concern their own emotions. The portrayal of nude pictures that do not show the lack of s elf respect is not regarded as pornography although individual standards may vary. Such pictures can be called erotic. Erotica and pornography differ on the subject of self-respect and the mutual benefit gained from a sexual encounter or an explicit display of the act. They also differ on the issue of degradation and abuse of rights pertaining to one person in the encounter. Moral realism entails presentation of explicit sexual material but that reaffirm the dignity and respect of an individual. For example, learning materials that show rape cases in order to highlight the concerns of such an act to a victim although degrade and deny the victim her rights are understood in the context of its environment to reaffirm her dignity. Therefore, they cannot be called pornography but are classified as moral realism. Thus, pornography is the open demonstration of sexual behavior that degrades one of the participants in a style that proposes the consent of such activity (Longino 2006). Pornog raphic materials mostly represent women and children on the receiving side. In fact, it supports the degrading behaviors in a way that females are represented as providing pleasure to males ignoring the interests and desires of female participants. Pornographic materials always carry texts or audial contents that signify the abuse of one of the participants. Although the audial and written texts can be used to reaffirm participant dignity, sequential portrayal makes the material pornographic whether there is a consent of the participant or not (Longino 2006). Other pornographic materials show violence actions towards women.Advertising Looking for essay on gender studies? Let's see if we can help you! Get your first paper with 15% OFF Learn More For instance, some of the most valued pornographic materials show women bound with ropes to display their gentialia to passersby. Advertisements in pornographic materials show the level of support and endorsement of the degradin g acts in the materials (Longino 2006). Pornography as constituting lies and violence against women Some of the pornographic materials considered to be of high quality exhibit women bound by ropes making their genital or anal areas vulnerable to passersby. Others show rape and physical torture for the purpose of sexual stimulation to male participants. The notion articulated for in movies that women sexual life is to be subordinate to the service of men, pleasures of women lie in pleasing of men and that they ought to be raped, bounded, tortured and murdered for the sake of men pleasure is deceiving. This perception fosters more lies about women sexuality, self-esteem and their human character (Longino 2006). The existence of allegations that justify the immoral treatment of women except from being women fosters lies about them. The continued production of pornographic materials due to their increasing consumption continues to promote the lies about the actions that are meted to fem ale participants. The explicit and public display of sexist materials and the internalization of the actions in the minds of the females foster more lies about them. The entrenchment of pornography in the society endures to reaffirm women’s role in society as mediocre to that of men. The vested attentiveness in men to continue upholding the belief of subordination of women renders women efforts to abolish pornographic materials useless. Pornographic materials that portray women as inferior serve those interests and are therefore deeply rooted in the society (Longino 2006). The nature of pornographic materials through their inherent portrayal of sexuality and their effects on society shields it from overt communal debate. The increase in production and consumption of pornographic materials is correlated to the increasing actual cases of rape and actions of violence against women all over the world. Various researches are being conducted to provide proof of these correlations i n a manner that will lead to the abolition of such materials from the society (Longino 2006). The place occupied by the pornographic materials entity and the continued reception by the communications and performing media shows the level of entrenchment of the ideology in the lives and minds societal members. This conception also portrays the cultural endorsement and support of the messages and actions presented in the materials.Advertising We will write a custom essay sample on Pornography and Women Issues specifically for you for only $16.05 $11/page Learn More The continued social tolerance of these explicit, degrading and deceitful images of women in such huge quantities indicates a general willingness to view women as people lacking essential human privileges and justifies their treatment as displayed in the pornographic materials. The tolerance attitude to vicious shows of women in anguish, rape and repression may cause actual harm in such a manner displayed in the pornographic contents. Society lenience to massive-scale pornographic contents strengthens the application of injurious acts to women. Lack of censorship of such materials supports the male-oriented inferiority mythos about women as subservient human beings. This notion therefore backs to the preservation of an environment lenient on emotional and bodily violence against women (Longino 2006). Reference Longino, E. H. (2006). Pornography, Oppression and Freedom: A closer Look. In Mappes, T., Zembaty, J. Social Ethics: Morality and Social Policy. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Publishers. This essay on Pornography and Women Issues was written and submitted by user Mikayla Cline to help you with your own studies. You are free to use it for research and reference purposes in order to write your own paper; however, you must cite it accordingly. You can donate your paper here.

Exam Paper on Quality Control Management and Six Sigma Essay Example

Exam Paper on Quality Control Management and Six Sigma Essay Example Exam Paper on Quality Control Management and Six Sigma Essay Exam Paper on Quality Control Management and Six Sigma Essay A. Evaluate the organizational changes made by the company in 2005 relative to the theory of LEAN and TQM. Assignment 2 (Weight: 60%): LEAN Value Stream Analysis A. Make a Value Stream Map (VSM) of the companys current set-up B. Analyze the urrent value stream and describe waste and improvement opportunities (Kaizen events). C. Present a VSM future state, and discuss/argue for your choices of design Assignment 3 (Weight: 20%): Six Sigma A. Explain what characterize a process that has a Six Sigma Capability. B. Explain the difference between special cause variation and common cause variation (i. e. assignable variation versus system variation), and why the ability to identify and distinguish between these types of variation is crucial when working with Six Sigma. Case to the exam assignment: Office Chairs Inc. The company Office Chairs, Inc. in the case the Company) designs and produces office chairs. The company is placed in Denmark where administration, design and manufacturing takes place. The company sells its chairs to whole sellers throughout the ELI, who in turn sell the chairs to retailers. Both the whole sellers and companys chairs. Market situation: retailers keep a small inventory o Since 2005 the company has experienced an increasing pressure from the whole sellers demanding: 1. Lower prices 2. Faster delivery performance (lead time) 3. More product variants 4. Customer tailoring (i. . the customer designs his/her own chair) Key financial figures: Figure Year 2006 2007 2008 Total revenue (in million DKR) 235 243 Number of chairs sold (in thousands) 213 241 265 EBIT on million DKR) 31 5 -11 Total number of full time employees 110 114 119 Orders delivered on time -performance 82% 98% Raw material inventory (average, in million DKR) 2 7 11 Work in progress inventory (average, in m illion DKR) 6 Finished goods inventory (average, in million DKR) 4 9 18 Organizational changes made in 2005: In 2005 the company made the following organizational changes: 1 . The company builds a new production plant (schematically shown at the last page f the case) 2. New vision: The company wants to be the best supplier in the EIJ with regards to delivery time. The goal, which the company more or less reached in 2006, is to be able to ship orders the day after the order is placed. Most of the companys whole sellers now expect this fast service, the effect being a significant increase in the companys inventories. 3. The company changed its chair design so that all office chairs are build using the same basic components. The company produces the following components: 2 types of feet (one with and one without wheels) 2 types of seats (soft and hard) types of back rest (low and high) The company orders the following components from suppliers: 1 type of piston (making the seating height adjustable) 1 type of arm rest These basic components allows for 16 different basic models (8 basic models that can be fitted with arm rests if the customer so desires). All components are in the same color (black). The company offers 5 different types of fabric (for the seat and back rest) in 10 different colors. 4. With the new design the company also changes the way offices chairs are ordered by retailers. The company have made a catalogue and an order sheet showing the ifferent design components (i. e. types of feet, seat, arm rest ) fabrics and colors, and the customer (end user) simply fill out this order sheet in the retail shop. The retailer then fills out an order form that is faxed directly to the company (or to the whole seller that taxes the order torm to the company). . Customer orders are processed in the Customer service and order processing department, where the faxed order forms from the retailers/whole sellers are registered in the companys ERP system. The ERP system contains all delivery orders as well as data on inventory evels of all raw materials, work in progress inventory and finished goods inventories. The ERP system automatically transfer packaging and invoice instructi ons to the shipment department, who is responsible for packaging and shipment of all incoming orders. Orders received before 2 0clock are made ready for shipment before 12 0clock the following day. The whole sellers are responsible for arranging transport from the company to the whole seller (or directly to the retailer). 6. The company makes a Department for quality control, that are placed organizationally nder the inventory department. Quality control is done using statistically calculated samples, which are analyzed by specialists from the inventory department. Samples are taken from both the raw materials inventory and the finished goods inventory no later than one week after it is places in inventory. Quality control results are registered in a computer program that will alert the specialist in case the sample deviates from the set specification limits. In the case of deviations from the specified limits the specialist will notify the production department, who is responsible for lacing the inspected lot in quarantine and wait for instructions from the department for quality control. The department for quality control inspects quarantined goods once a week and decides what to do with it (i. e. rework or scrap). Production The production takes place in different production units (see the schematic drawing at the last page): Piston: Delivered by an independent supplier, who receives an order every 14 days. Pistons are ordered when the minimum inventory level reaches 8000 and a minimum order of 15000 is placed. The pistons are delivered within 2-3 days, and are placed in he raw material inventory. Arm rests: Also delivered by independent supplier, who receives an order every 14 days. Delivery time is much longer (typically up to 6 weeks), which is the reason why the minimum inventory level is set at 14000 pairs. Arm rests are placed in the raw material inventory. Feet: The company produces the feet in their own metal casting department. The foot is made of aluminum and the production capacity is 180 feet per production hour. Production is planned when the inventory level reaches 3000 feet, and a minimum batch size of 5000 feet is produces. The feet are the same regardless of wheels or nor the foot is mounted with wheels or rubber cylinders right after the foot have cooled off, and the feet are then placed on pallets in the work in progress inventory (50 feet on each pallet). Change over time is O. Seats: The company produces the two types of seats in their own plastic casting department (casting unit 1), and the capacity is 100 seat per hour. Production is planned when the inventory level reaches 2000 units, and a minimum batch size of 3000 units is produced. The seats are then placed on pallets in the work in progress inventory (40 seats on each pallet). Change over time is 2 hours. Back rests: The company produces the two types ot back rests in their own plastic casting department (casting unit 2), and the capacity is 150 back rests per hour. Production is planned when the inventory level reaches 1500 units, and a minimum batch size of 4000 units is produced. The back rests are placed on pallets in the work in progress inventory (30 seats on each pallet). Change over time is 2 hours. Seat and back rest upholstery: The company prepares and do the upholstery in the upholstery department. The upholstery department is responsible for making sure that there is minimum of 50 seats and 50 back rests on inventory in each of the fabrics and colors offered by the company. The capacity is 250 seats or 250 back rests per hour when all machines are running. The upholstered seats and back rests are placed on pallets in the work in progress inventory (25 seats or back rests on each pallet). Change over time is 30 minutes. The workers in the metal casting department and the two units in the plastic department operates one machine only, and each worker is responsible for getting the raw materials he/she needs from the inventory, and also for transporting the nits they produced to the work in progress inventory. Because it takes 2-3 days of training to learn how to operate each machine, the majority of workers can only operate one machine. Assembly: The assembly department assembles the chairs by mounting a piston, seat, back rest, and arm rests on a foot. The workers assemble chairs based on actual customer orders, sent to the department from the shipping department. The capacity is 200 chairs per hour. When a chair is assembled it is labeled with the customers order number and transported by the worker to the shipping department. Change over time is O. Shipping: The shipping departments prints out shipping documents and invoice, and pack these with the finished chair. The chair is then transported to the loading area where it waits for the whole sellers transport to arrive. Factory layout: The metal casting and plastic casting units are placed in production site 1, and all machines in each department and unit is placed in one line. The other production units are placed in production site 2. Inventory and production planning Production is planned using MRP to calculate inventory levels for all inventories. The MRP is based on a running forecast on the next 30 days of sold chairs. If an inventory level reaches a defined threshold, a procurement or production order is generated. The MRP is done once a week by the production planning department and the result is an overall production schedule for the next 30 days. Based on the estimated production needs for the next 30 days, the production department makes a detailed production plan tor the tollowing week, trying to minimize the number of change over on each machine. Schematic representation of information and production flow in Office Chairs Inc.

Tax Return Reviews by the Canada Revenue Agency

Tax Return Reviews by the Canada Revenue Agency Because the Canadian tax system is based on self-assessment, every year the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) conducts a series of reviews of the tax returns submitted to see what mistakes are being made and to ensure compliance with the Canadian income tax laws. The reviews help the CRA to correct areas of misunderstanding and to improve the guides and information they provide to the Canadian public. If your income tax return is selected for a review, it is not the same thing as a tax audit. How Tax Returns Are Chosen for Review Four main ways that a tax return is selected for a review are: randomlycomparing tax returns with other sources of information, such as tax information slipsthe type of tax credits or deduction claimedthe review history of an individual, for example, checking to ensure that an adjustment was made to a claim that was reviewed. It doesnt make any difference whether you file your tax return online or by mail. The process of review selection is the same. When Tax Reviews are Done Most Canadian income tax returns are initially processed without a manual review and a Notice of Assessment and tax refund (if appropriate) are sent as soon as possible. That usually is done about two to six weeks after the CRA receives the return. All tax returns are screened by the CRAs computer system, though, and a tax return may be selected for a review later. As pointed out by the CRA in the General Income Tax and Benefit Guide, all taxpayers are required by law to keep receipts and documents for at least six years in the case of review. Types of Tax Reviews The following types of reviews give an idea of when you could expect a tax review. Pre-assessment Review: These tax reviews are done before a Notice of Assessment is issued. The peak time frame is February to July.Processing Review (PR): These reviews are done after a Notice of Assessment is sent. The peak time is August to December.Matching Program: This program takes place after the Notice of Assessment has been sent. Information on tax returns is compared with information from other sources, such as T4s and other tax information slips. The peak period is from October to March. The Matching Program corrects the net income reported by individuals and corrects errors in a taxpayers RRSP deduction limit and spouse-related claims such as child-care expenses and provincial and territorial tax credits and deductions. The Matching Program also covers the Beneficial Client Adjustments initiative which identifies under-claimed credits relating to tax deducted at source or Canada Pension Plan contributions. The tax return is adjusted and a Notice of Reassessment is issued. Special Assessments: These tax reviews are done both before and after a Notice of Reassessment is issued. They identify both trends and individual situations of non-compliance. Requests for information are sent to the taxpayer. How to Respond to a CRA Tax Review In a tax review, the CRA first tries to verify the taxpayers claim using the information they have from third-party sources. If the agency needs more information, a CRA representative will contact the taxpayer by phone or in writing. When you respond to a CRA request, be sure to include the reference number found on the upper right corner of the letter. Answer within the time frame specified. Be sure to provide all documents and/or receipts requested. If all receipts or documents arent available, include a written explanation or call the number on the bottom of the letter with the explanation. If your tax return is being reviewed under the Processing Review (PR) Program, you may be able to send scanned documents online using the CRAs guidelines for submitting documents electronically. Questions or Disagreements? If you have questions or disagree with information received from a CRA tax review program, first call the phone number given in the letter you received. If you still dont agree after talking to the CRA, then you have the right to a formal review. See Complaints and Disputes for more information.