May 25th, 2007 by Russell Shaw
Stock Market Investing sometimes has its pitfalls.
And if you make the wrong choices, or go into it with blind optimism, those pitfalls can include investing in the wrong mutual funds- and with the wrong expectations to boot.
The Motley Fool website is one of the leading investor resources. While one of their central purposes (which they [...]
May 25th, 2007 by Russell Shaw
Smart Marketing practices need to take into account the reality that sometimes, prospective customers are not going to call you right back. Maybe it is disorganization on their part, but there are strategies you can use to get yourself ahead of the line.
How do I know? Although I am a writer and not a salesperson, [...]
Relevant Tags: marketing practices
May 25th, 2007 by Russell Shaw
Real Estate Investment will likely lead to some time spent with real estate inspectors.
As National Real Estate LLC of Michigan points out, most real estate inspectors can literally sentence your project to a kind of death.
That is unless you know how to deal with these inspectors.
With that in mind, the National Real Estate LLC offers [...]
Relevant Tags: real estate inspectors, real estate investments
May 25th, 2007 by Russell Shaw
E-Commerce Secrets and related advice abound on the website called gotwww.com.
One of the more intriguing lines of advice is for you to encourage impulse buys on your website. The important strategy here would be to instill a sense of urgency in your prospective customers, but not to overdo it with too much shrill salespersonship.
In other [...]
May 25th, 2007 by Russell Shaw
Debt Elimination strategies can be subverted if you do business with an incompetent or dishonest credit card debt consolidation company.
On American Chronicle, Apurva Shree offers tips on how to spot these companies before you become entangled by them.
Here’s some pointers that you should spot right away when you first approach these companies (or they approach [...]
Relevant Tags: debt consolidation
May 16th, 2007 by Russell Shaw
E-Commerce Secrets best practices followed by many American businesses from large companies to one-person operations sometimes include email newsletters.
These email newsletters often have descriptions of popular and new products, as well as direct links to order pages.
With these direct links, your customers and hopefully customers-to-be can click from within the body of the email newsletter [...]
May 14th, 2007 by Russell Shaw
Debt Elimination is often a cause to celebrate.
Take last year, a good friend of mine threw a party.
Now lots of friends of mine throw parties, but this one was special. Ron wanted to celebrate the fact that after three years of indebtedness that had approached $40,000, he was now free and clear.
He had an interesting [...]
May 14th, 2007 by Russell Shaw
Ken King, who is Executive Director of the Sheboygan, Wisc., Family Service Association, responds to a reader of his column in the Sheboygan Press.
The reader wanted to know some Stock Market Investing tips.
For his primary source for the answer, King selected a book by Dr. Steve Sjuggerud titled “12 Timeless Rules of Investing: Guidelines Every Investor [...]
May 10th, 2007 by Russell Shaw
Smart Marketing advice on Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) is offered by the colorfully named website, Free Tips and Wits.
But first, here is a definition of MLM from the free Internet online encyclopedia Wikipedia:
Multi-level marketing businesses function by recruiting salespeople (also called Distributors, Independent Business Owners, IBOs, Franchise Owners, Sales Consultants, Beauty Consultants, Consultants, etc.) to sell [...]
May 9th, 2007 by Russell Shaw
In terms of Real Estate Investment strategies, The website Mortgage Business Daily has a short, but very informative piece on Real Estate Wholesalers.
“Wholesale real estate is a vibrant industry and controls a large percentage of all, real estate transactions,” Mortgage Business Daily notes. They add that the stimulus for generating wholesale real estate opportunities is finding [...]