The importance of Bona fide, Accountability and Governance is essential for an organization to thrive...

OREM Associates and Winners

The importance of Bona fide, accountability and governance is essential for an organization to thrive.

At the OREM Accounting Tax LLC, the OREM Foundation and the new OREM Realty Inc. we have made  this  policy rather  clear. That is why we have the confidence to serve our clients and community   within   multiple States of the USA.

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Recently, we had the OREM Appreciation Party to thank our Associates, Clients and Networking Partners that helped us to grow beyond our original national plan.

At the OREM Party we also had a Fundraising for the OREM Foundation and its first multinational effort to rebuild the Philippines devastation from the Yolanda Typhoon, the LeapFrog Project.

When you have credibility, when you follow the requirements and you have bona fide you can do great projects like we did by partnering with the AIA American Institute of Architects, with RIBA the Royal Institute of British Architects and more big names coming on board for the LeapFrog Project.

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You can see more of the LeapFrog Project efforts and fundraising in Chicago by visiting the blog I

created last month.

We certainly share a defined goal, and we did take in consideration all opinions about the LeapFrog project at this first Workshop meeting in Chicago.

Celebrity personalities at the
Chicago LeapFrog Fundraising

Other nonprofits with no compliance can lose their 501 © 3 designation from the IRS by not fulfilling their Mission Statements, which is the main reason why the IRS granted them tax exempt status. From our own experience we can say that those 30 application pages were not easy at all. When the nonprofit involves Education it gets even harder to comply and to get approved, it also delays the process. This does not count the time of incorporation prior to apply for tax  exempt status.

“... Leapfrog Project's role and potential for the Philippines is staked out, and a unique role for Filipino architects defined...” - USA Ambassador (ret) John F Maisto, a member of the US White House.

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At OREM Accounting tax we have helped other non profits, corporations, partnerships, LLC’s to reach their success with guidance to the process and identify their weaknesses to fix them.

From our experience, a small portion of clients and non clients can get very emotional and irrational when bad news is delivered. Compliance, compliance and more compliance is the answer. Some are so irrational that want to kill the messenger “literally”, or threaten to sue him.

OREM Associates and Winners

Ask questions, analyze your situation, have an open mind for options, and do not attach emotion to  your choices. Remember that something has  to give for the better of an organization. We can not win all the time so be flexible and negotiating is always your best choice. Be suspicious when somebody wants to impose a one sided idea, sensor the different ideas and when they want  you to just follow the group without even expressing yourself for self interest, privileges, jobs. Etc.

Everybody is entitled to their own opinions, just look around yourself and see who is successful at what they do, who is thriving and who is not. All these decisions  will tell you easily who is doing it the right way and who is not.

Look at our OREM Associates, Clients and Networking Partners at the OREM Appreciation Party, where everybody has its own thoughts. We are an organization where we embrace diversity, but real diversity  is where we enrich our organization with the contributions of all of our individuals and organizations too.

Calysta Videna, Miss Del Mar announcing the iPad winner
proceeds going to LeapFrog Project

Brands, what would the world be without them?

United we stad brand flag

Brands, what would  the world be without them?

What is a brand? Or maybe we should ask ourselves how do we distinguish one company from the other? If you are to buy a car, which one would you buy? And how do you choose from this car from the other one, we have so many options nowadays.

But brands not only entitle one logo and colors, symbols, a good brand makes a company’s experience just pop in your mind when you see the distinctive sings. I am not going to tell you about the history of it or give you a deep definition of it either.

Some people distinguish the psychological aspect, brand associations like thoughts, feelings, perceptions, images, experiences, beliefs, attitudes, and so on that become linked to the brand, of a brand from the experiential aspect.

Just imagine, all these huge corporations began as a small idea, then somebody started it,  and with the year they became huge businesses lik we all know them by now.

Since you are well aware that I am more interested on sharing my personal experiences and thoughts about my anything I talk about, I would like to share with you at the closing of this year a few good brands that I got to know well this year. Most of them are my accounting clients and I would like to share with you their success experiences from my point of view.

Don't be so surprised some day maybe in 10 or 20 more years when these people and businesses that I describein the lines below are as big as the ones described at the united we stad brand flag.

Aleili Centeno – Aleili is a wonderful  girl, she is the personification of what I always encourage people to , which is have a full time job and start your own business on the side and keep it this way until your business picks up and just take it from there. Aleili’s brand is Aleili’s design; Aleili is a full time pharmacist that always has the interest of jewelry design. Aleili decided to start designing her own jewelry and some purses as well, I have seen her designs and let me tell you and I am very impressed.

Link to Aleili interview

Lauren Amber Serna – I know her for years and her brand is Transformational healing and sitting transmission. Lauren is a life counselor and energy healer in California, and she is based in the city of Granada Hills. I have attended some of her sessions at her home, and let me tell you she is good at what she does; Lauren is also a speaker at multiple public events in the greater Los Angeles area. You can learn more about Lauren at the Interview we did back on August this year. Pay special attention to her thought about what is going to happen on December 2012. Please help to develop the likes on her facebook page.

Link to Lauren’s Facebook page

Link for Lauren’s website

Link of Lauren’s interview

Jordan Cappella – His name says it all, and his brand is Jordan Cappella, Jordan is an Australian interior designer who is really amazing at what he does, every time I go to his house I can see he is good at what he does. Just picture yourself visiting a major Hollywood celebrity, and certainly Jordan’s house is full of his own work everywhere, and Jordan’s house is just like any other Hollywood celebrity. I have seen the furniture he designs, candles, soap bars, and of course the spaces he designs. Jordan’s work has been portrayed at multiple magazines; Jordan had appearances on multiple TV shows. Please take a time to like Jordan’s fan page.

Link to Jordan Facebook page

Link to Jordan’s website

Link to jordan interview

Lira Luis – Lira is a Architect based in the city of Chicago. Lira is one best example of how to develop a brand. Lira’s brand is ALL Atelier Lira Luis. Lira has architectural licenses in multiple states. Lira is the architect to meet and hire in the states of Arizona, Illinois, also in Asia and Europe. In her spare time Lira has the time to share her experiences with the world giving speeches all over the world, lira also keeps a blog and I am proud to say that the video interviews I have shot with Lira are the ones that have the most traffic ever in my segment “Enrique & friends



Link to lira Facebook page

Link to lira’s website

Link to lira interview

Luis Pazos – Luis is a multi talented young man, hi is a movie editor, writer, producer  and actor in Hollywood, and his brand is Dasoir Films, I have seen his work which is really good, I also witnessed this year Luis receiving the Toscar Award, that awards the best short films on Hollywood. He won in the categories of the best editing and for the best short film movie in Hollywood. Luis and I went together to the writing boot camp   class earlier this year. Luis was part of this movie Avatar. I am pretty sure you can recognize the guy with him in the picture. This was a great experience. Please give some likes to Luis's Facebook page, we all greatly apreciate it.

Link to Luis Facebook page

Link to Luis’s website

Link to Luis interview

Enrique Otarola- All you know who I am, and the brand that I represent which is OREM which has the multiple divisions such as Accounting, Marketing, Nonprofit and soon Real Estate. We encourage people to pursue their dreams and start your own business and whichever interest you have in life. Please help us to build our friend base and help us to reach 1,000 likes in our Facebook page

Link to our Facebook page

Link to OREM website

Like to Enrique's interview

Darius Paiseka – I know Derek for a few years by now, and I was really impressed by his work this year when I had finally the chance to see his work. His brand is Studio Darek LLC, which is a construction design LLC, his LLC designs and builds projects. Derek is multi talented and his background is in interior Architecture, he is based in Phoenix AZ.  I was impressed to see this building he got and  he transformed it and it is a really hip place. Derek is one coolest person I ever met. And I would like to see his progress on another project he mentioned to me. I still have not seen the cool terrace he had built on his second floor and I am pretty sure we all will enjoy seeing it when I have the chance to interview him there in 2013. Please take some time to like Derek’s Facebook page

Link to Derek’s Facebook page

Link to Derek’s website

Sorry no interview yet, available until 2013.