#booming business

[informationatlas]

The tradition of the Christmas tree originated in eastern Europe more than 500 years ago. Today, it has become a thriving industry, employing nearly 100,000 people and generating almost $2 billion in revenue annually. Approximately 25-30 million natural Christmas trees are harvested each year, with about 30 percent coming from the Pacific Northwest. Sales of real Christmas trees have increased by nearly 20 percent since 2020, and artificial trees are also popular.

While artificial trees have faced criticism for the chemicals used in their production and their environmental impact, live trees also have their drawbacks.

via The Toxic Truth About Your Christmas Tree

[peacheskoo]

No capes/actors AU came to me via a dream and I have since been obsessing over it,,

I have so many ideas over it but my fav is currently that the Jasons are brothers because of the quick switch between seasons/robins and how they couldn’t use the same actor for older Jason so they just asked his older brother to be Red Hood Jason, Little Jason is way younger because they were trying to emphasize how small street kid Jason was

Part 1

[tstorymedia]

9 steps to create a profit-sharing plan with a booming business

1. A written plan

The first step in creating a profit-sharing plan is creating a written plan. It helps establish a good foundation for profit sharing. This plan document is about setting a formula determining the contributions to award to eligible employees and the vesting schedule. If required, hire a plan administrator to manage the plan execution.

2. The percentage to share

The profits percentage you share and make your employees your business partner is up to you. It is the money you choose to share. Paying the profit sharing above or as per the market value is a cake icing for your team.

3. Record keeping

Develop a record-keeping system. It is crucial to have an accurate record-keeping system to follow. It will give you the right track of your business goals, earnings, and benefits. This record-keeping system helps in creating the annual report required for the government.

4. Participation eligibility

Give your employees the plan information, to decide who is eligible to participate. You may notify the employees receiving the participation and the benefits in the profit-sharing plan.

5. Arrange a trust

The assets management by a trust requires proper planning. Hiring a trust to plan your assets should be exclusive to give the employees benefits and focus on customer retention. It should have one trustee at least handling the distributions and contributions.

6. Profit-sharing plan types

Decide on the profit-sharing plan type. It can be as:

Pro-rata plan- It means the employees in this plan get from the employer the same amount as a contribution. It is a fixed percentage of the dollar amount or salary. It is also the standard profit-sharing option.

Age-weighted plan- Considering the age-weighted plan for profit sharing affects the employee’s retirement plan. In this plan, the older employees get a higher percentage as business partners than the younger employees.

Cross-testing plan-In this plan, employers contribute at different rates to different employee groups. This plan gives the employee to reward different groups of employees with different benefits. It is not about similar ages, it allows keeping the focus on business goals for the employer.

7. Communication plan

A profit-sharing plan with a proper communication plan stays effective. Give a comparison of what the numbers they made now to last year in the same month. It offers clarity on where the profits come from. The employees should know profits come only if the revenue increases and expenses decrease. Make it a mantra and remind your employees to keep the team effort going.

8. Profit-sharing qualification

Profit sharing is a way of incentivizing the administration work and the supportive roles. It relates to all the employees and more to people having some ambition levels. Work translating into a better paycheck is pleasing. The deal’s closing is difficult, put more effort into customer retention. It works as a qualification to earn the profit share that employees work hard for.

9. Profit-sharing alternatives

Plan profit-sharing alternatives if you do not wish to roll out the profit directly, it helps achieve business goals. There are ways to inspire and reward your team.

Announce and give them a monetary team reward for achieving a milestone.

Add office perks by including a cappuccino machine or comfier office chairs.

Fund professional training for team members as a sense of appreciation and promote your business.

[bressynonym]

prime cuts 🥩🔪

[keziasorro]

found this sketch of Webs..

[justaz]

merlin owns an arthurian museum with authentic items from the third/fourth century as well as statues, busts, and portraits from different artists over the years of king arthur (and the others). who better to ensure everything is real rather than someone who was there? eventually, people are pushing for him to find more artifacts bc its been a few years and bc history nerds are bloodthirsty beasts. people also want to find excalibur but whatever. merlin caves and is like “might as well see what else fell into lake avalon” so they dredge it up. merlin is relaxing at home when he gets a call. he’s expecting them to say they found something small like perhaps a link or armor or a rare, old jewel. then he hears

“we found a body”

[byemambo]

JES JESPIPAT AS TYME

4MINUTES (2024) | 1.01

Bonus: ghost ship DenTyme LMAO + making blue Tyme's signature color :) also I was kinda (extremely) kicking my feet making this set because of how charming and breathtakingly handsome Jes is like please look at those gazes

[harundraws]

more curiouscat - art requests, this time for a "JEALOUS TAI PLEASSEE" 🤭 tai might be a married woman but i think she's applying the wilderness marriage rules here

[haejjoon]

so yeah pls consider buying/rbing. bigcartel isn't as far reaching as etsy network is so sales are inevitably going to plummet :') help an art college kid out!

use code given at checkout to get 20% off of three or more prints !!

[windydrawallday]

CYBERHYENAS!

Companions I designed for Lockdown based on the AoE Steeljaws plus Megafauna suggested to me by @sug4r-melon ! Not a perfect design tbh but it works-- And made me try fun shenanigans with them:

Because they still retain behaviors from their wilder origins (similar to our modern cats are still miniature fierce predators) in contrast to other types of cybertronian pets, to "program" them properly their owner needs... to start from the very beginning AKA HYENA CUBS!

Yes, like that!

Don't worry... they get better.

Awww! ... Until Prowl arrives with his ability to tame any creature (to Lockdown's chagrin)

"I'll take the kids and leave" becomes a common threat to the bounty hunter if he tries to shoo away the pets x'D

EDIT: The Hyenids got names btw!!! Originally Lockers put something to cryptic so, Prowl renamed them based on flowers and their meanings:

(Astra)Galus: "Your presence softens my pain."

(Jon)Quil: "Return my affection; desire."

Magno(lia): "Perseverance; Love of nature."

Lockdown of course ignores completelly this and calls them in short forms for making his life easy.

That's all! I'm tired of waiting the time to paint these how I wanted and my artblock just GRRRRs at me so... There, hope is enjoyable anyways 🐺💚

[clodstargazer]

A heartfelt thank you from Grizzco Industries for the support shown.

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Avatar vs Antagonist switch up

Aang: Hey, what if we like, did a whole antagonist swap thing? Like instead of me fighting Ozai, I get someone else, and someone else gets Ozai? Korra: Oh god yes, let's do it. Roku: That's not really fair, Korra has a lot of enemies. Kuruk: Says the guy that what? Had Sozin? Kyoshi: I call Sozin! And Ozai! Wan: Wait are we really doing this?! Korra: Kyoshi are you sure? What if it's during the comet? Kyoshi: Comet-shmamet. The fight's mine regardless. Kuruk: Kyoshi you seem a little too gungho about this Kyoshi: I have beef with Fire Nation Royalty. Roku: Kyoshi I don't think that's the best mentality- Kyoshi: I don't care! I'm ending their bloodline! *_* Roku: They're still really strong! Kyoshi: I'm stronger! Easy-peasy lemon squeezy! I'll kick their ass over easy! Yangchen it's your turn! Yangchen: I will take Zaheer and P'Li. :) Korra: Are you sure? They're kinda- Yangchen: I'll take out the combustion woman first, giving myself a head in the fight. Kuruk: A....head. Wait, you don't mean you're gonna blo- Yangchen: After that, I'll marionette her corpse in front of that fraud airbender to show him what a real earthly teather is. Then, I'll show him how the pros rip air out of people's lungs. Aang: Jesus Christ what is the matter with those two. Kuruk: I'm taking Vaatu I guess. Both of them. Korra: Why do you want Vaatu? Kuruk: I don't think anyone else here is capable of taking them on, except you, me, and Wan. Korra: Oh fair. Wan: So like both of our Vaatus on at the same time or- Kuruk: Oh spirits no, I'm 1V1ing them. I'm not crazy like Kyoshi or Yangchen. Tho I suppose I'll have to deal with Unalaq too. Korra: Fine, I'll take all of Kuruk's fights then. Kuruk: You sure about that kid? Korra: Yeah I'll just spiritbend, it'll be fine. Aang! Wan! Roku! Have you figured out what you wanna do? Roku: I guess I can take Jianzhu? Wan: Um......the other two Red Lotus I guess? Don't worry Roku, I'll keep the lavabender away from you. ;) Roku: Thanks Wan. :/ Aang: I'm sorry, but are we seriously going to ignore what Kyoshi and Yangchen said?????!

[azurecoffin]

Casual Boom Boom / Tabitha

Took a lot of inspo from Peach Riot + Scott Pilgrim for this one!

Requests are open if folks have any X-Men they want me to do!

Prev: Boom-Boom Trinary M Armor Pixie

[lemonmatronics]

Have I ever told y’all my super specific completely made up with 0 evidence HC for Metal Sonic but like SPECIFICALLY the Boom version that she’s a twitch streamer and that through streaming she’s actually the breadwinner and is funding all of Eggman’s shit

That’s the real reason she’s barely in the show she’s not under repairs or anything she’s just streaming and making bank

Really just leaves when she’s bored, it’s completely her say when she does and doesn’t stream and in turn probably makes her the most free Metal Sonic and she chooses to be a fucking twitch streamer ndjdjjsx

[wikitpowers]

i think it's really not talked about enough that ty is literally under the impression that kit is in love with livvy like i’m sorry-

[sillyfairygarden]

is it.. is it obvious that i like cle o……….