Since 1976, Mazon Associates has been lending money to businesses based on the creditworthiness of our clients' customers.  The monthly sales volumes of our clients range from $5,000 to $1,000,000.  In 2008, Mazon factored millions of dollars with a loan loss ratio of less than one-tenth of one percent.
 
Mazon has recently expanded our services to include managing accounts receivable collateral for banks and businesses.  This product functions under Mazon Accounts Receivable Management, Inc. and utilizes the same processes as our current factoring product, but with the bank being the funding source, if needed, to its customers and Mazon being the manager of customers' accounts receivable on behalf of the bank or business. Former Mazon clients who have enjoyed success with Mazon's business factoring services, and have since moved on to bank financing, may want to utilize our services through our new bank program or on a fee basis for a business.  Mazon can help a company manage their accounts receivable by providing credit information, processing invoices and payments, making collection calls on past due accounts and producing detailed reports.  Please contact us, or have your bank contact us, with any questions you might have.

 

 

One of the most important lessons you can learn on your road to success is that failure is not a final destination, but rather a place you pass through on your way to achieving your goals.  There is only one road to Success City.  The road to Success City passes through Failureville.  One of the main reasons people never reach Success City is because they are so afraid of driving through Failureville that they never begin their journey.  So what does this mean in the real world?  It means that failure is not the opposite of success, as many people assume.  On the contrary, failure is an important part of achieving success.  In fact, it is usually through the process of trying and failing that we learn the lessons we need in order to ultimately achieve our goals in life.  A favorite quote regarding the relationship between failure and success comes from the legendary basketball player, Michael Jordan:  "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career.  I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed.  I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."  When you understand the fact that success lies on the other side of failure, you will be much better prepared for the journey that leads to achieving your most important life goals.  (Quoted from Anthony Fernando, www.anthonyfernando.com).

 

 

You type a word or phrase into your browser's search box, press "enter," and up pops an array of ". . . about 25,000,000 results" (more or less, depending on your particular search)!  Hoping you found the right item, you pick one of the topics, click on it, and up pops a website page.  But what happens behind the scene?
 
Search marketing is the bread and butter of Google, Yahoo, MSN and others and keeps the internet financially secure.  Individuals and businesses who subscribe to search marketing to help their businesses grow usually set up a price-per-click ("ppc") for their "key word" and "key phrase" searching (also called an advertisement).  Each time someone searches on one of these key words or phrases, and then clicks on the resulting "ad," there is a charge to that website business for you visiting their site.  Sometimes, if a business's budget is small and the daily budgeted dollars have been used up, the search word/phrase will stop and disappear from the internet search engine until the next day, or the next month, depending on their internet marketing setup.  For this reason, sometimes you may search for the same website at a different time of the day and cannot locate it!  Bigger companies with bigger budgets may have unlimited searches for their word and phrase ads , but the advertising costs are still there.
 
And, what about those other 24,999,999 results from your internet search?  The highest "bidders" for internet search space will always appear on the first five pages of a searched word/phrase.  Search marketing firms guesstimate that internet users will tire of looking at more than the first five pages, so what remains searchable are actually lower-cost or free search words, phrases, or website names that get lost in the mix of the world-wide-web ("www") - and these websites rarely if ever get found during a general internet search.  (Note:  Website businesses are not charged for visitors who access their sites directly from the browser's address bar, or from a direct clickable link to their site, such as in a document or email.)

 

 

The following recent recalls were issued by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.  More details can be found at www.cpsc.gov.  Ergorapido, Pronto and Precision Vacuums (Dist: Electrolux Home Care Products, Bloomington, IL); AC Adaptor used with ThinkVision Soundbars (Mfg: China); Outerwears Funnel Pre-Filters (Mfg: Outerwears, Schoolcraft, MI); Clothing Irons (Dist: Conair Corp., Stamford, CT); Log Splitters (Mfg: Brave Products, Streator, IL); Spektrum DX6i Radio Transmitters used with model aircrafts (Mfg: Horizon Hobby, Champaign, IL); Illuminated Round Rocker Switches (Imp: RadioShack, Fort Worth, TX); Rocketfish Model RF-INV80 Universal AC/DC/USB Portable Power Source (Imp: Best Buy, Richfield, MN); Insignia 26-inch flat-panel LCD model IS-LCDTV26 televisions (Imp: Best Buy, Richfield, MN); Signature Gourmet 12-Cup Programmable Coffeemakers and Kitchen Gourmet 10-Cup Coffeemakers (Dist: Atico International, Fort Lauderdale, FL); Stanley Stud Sensors 200 and Stanley FatMax Stud Sensors 400 (Imp: The Stanley Works, New Britain, CT); GE Profile Freestanding Dual Fuel Ranges (Mfg: GE Consumer & Industrial, Louisville, KY); Folding Patio Chairs (Imp: Ross Stores, Pleasanton, CA); Toaster Oven/Broilers (Imp: Haier America Trading, New York, NY); Bally Total Fitness, Everlast, Valeo and Body Fit Fitness Balls (Mfg: EB Brands, Yonkers, NY).   

 

May 1: May Day, Law Day, Lei Day, Loyalty Day, Save the Rhino Day; May 2: Brothers and Sisters Day; May 5: Cinco de Mayo; May 6: National Nurses Day; May 8: V-E Day; May 10: National Receptionist Day; May 12: Fibromyalgia Awareness Day; May 15: Peace Officer Memorial Day; May 21: National Waiter/Waitress Day; May 22: National Maritime Day; May 25: National Missing Children's Day, National Tap Dance Day; May 25: Memorial Day.  May is also American Stroke Month.
 
Notice:  Mazon's offices will be closed on Monday, May 25th in observance of Memorial Day.  We will resume normal business hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 26th.  You may still submit invoices during our closed hours via fax, e-mail or drop-slot to be processed on Monday.

 

 

Mexico had declared its independence from Spain on September 15, 1810 but it took 11 years before the Spanish soldiers were forced to leave Mexico.  In December 1861, the French, along with Spanish and English troops, had landed in Mexico intent on collecting foreign debts incurred by Mexico resulting from the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and the Mexican Civil War of 1858, which had left the country devastated and bankrupt. The English and Spanish quickly made deals with the newly-elected government of President Benito Juarez and left.  However, under instructions from Emperor Napoleon III, the French had come to stay.  They brought with them a Hapsburg prince (a relative of Napoleon) to rule the new Mexican Empire.  Napoleon's French Army had not been defeated in 50 years, and it invaded Mexico with the finest modern equipment and with a newly reconstituted Foreign Legion.  The French were not afraid of anyone, especially America - though it was sympathetic to Mexico's cause, it was embroiled in its own Civil War and could not support Mexico.
 
Then, on the morning of May 5, 1862, about 4,000 poorly-armed Mestizo and Zapotec Indian Mexican soldiers led by Texas-born Mexican General Ignacio Zaragosa Seguin and the Mexican cavalry under command of Colonel Porfirio Diaz, defeated the 8,000-strong French and traitor-Mexican army at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City.  One year later, France regrouped and again invaded Mexico (and won!).  France was subsequently expelled from Mexico three years later with political and military assistance from the United States.  Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a symbol of Mexican unity and patriotism.  (Resources:  www.vivacincodemayo.org, www.mexonline.com and http://clnet.ucla.edu)