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Best Car Finance Deal

2008-11-20T11:30:00.001-08:00

Cars are not simply a luxury but today have become a necessity in everyday life. Not merely a means of transportation, a good car is a good investment both for you and your family. Do you buy a new car or go for a secondhand one? Where do you buy? How much are you willing to fork over for that car that will fulfill your dreams? Sometimes you spend an unaccountably long time just looking for the car you want and neglect to take into consideration the actual effect it will have on your finances.

Hunting for a car is not enough it is when you have found the best car finance deal that the search is effectively over. Now anything remotely financial is not an endearing subject, but it is a must when purchasing a car. Buying a car is the second largest single purchase a person makes. Most buyers end up borrowing money and some end up in staggering debt because of this. Lack of awareness of financial options is literally throwing money down the drain. So unless you would not get more for your money, the best advice is to move on to other deals.

Car financial deals are classified into three categories: Car Finance by Make, Car Finance by Body Style and Car Finance by Class. Car finance by Make is the brand of the car. Are you sure you want this Volvo, or maybe the Porsche? Convertibles, sedans and the like fall under Body Style and car finance by Class has the likes of luxury cars, sports cars and so on. Unless you are planning to pay in cash, you will have to apply for a car loan. Negotiations with the dealership will be long and tiring because you need to acquire the lowest possible price, but it is also important to pay attention to the interest rates. Research the latest about auto finance incentives and deals this could cause a sizable saving in your new car purchase.

Car buyers have several options when it comes to loans and this could spell the difference between the best deals and the worst. Personal loans from an independent lender are generally a much cheaper way to borrow the money to buy a car. Shop around for car deals. Those who rely on the first deal proposed to them by their car salesman; end up paying soaring interest rates. Car finance offered in dealerships generally has higher interest rates.

Car dealerships consistently mark up the loan cost without informing the customer. It would have been illegal had you been financing a home, but not so when its a car. Ignorance may be bliss, but this time it could burn you. If you have no idea about it or do not inquire into it, the dealerships salesmen and the finance executives would not be the ones to tell you. The buyer of the car doesn't have to finance the deal through the dealerships alone. He can head to a credit union or to a bank and shop around.

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Ways to Save Money in an Economic Downturn

2008-11-18T09:58:00.001-08:00

It is difficult to watch the news these days without hearing about the threat of an economic downturn. Many people may not even know what an economic downturn is. An economic downturn as a consequence of an expansion that reaches an unsustainable state, which is corrected by a decline. You may be asking how this affects you personally. It affects people in a variety of ways; however, for most of us, it means having to keep a better eye on our pocket books and streamlining our spending. There are many ways that you can save money without drastically impacting your quality of living.

Many of us build our lives around creature comforts, small things that make day-to-day living comfortable. You can still enjoy these things, but you may want to consider rethinking your approach to them. If you are used to buying a nice cup of coffee at Starbuck, consider finding a brand you like at the local grocery store instead. This way you get several cups for the price you would pay for one cup at the Seattle based super-chain. By doing this, you not only saving money, but you save time and you can enjoy the beverage while taking your time to get ready for work. This does not just apply to your coffee, you can also save money by preparing your own meals. Americans spend hundreds of dollars every month on dinning in restaurants. Take the time to craft some terrific meals at home and save yourself the time and money of going out to eat. Remember, this saves you money on gas too!

When you look around the gym, park, or office, you will most likely find people with bottles of water. Each bottle of water we drink costs us anywhere between seventy-five cents to one dollar and fifty cents. When you think about how many bottles of water we consume a week, the budget for water really begins to add up. It is a good idea to buy a good water filtration system and a reusable water bottle. By doing this, you can fill your bottle to your heart's content for pennies a day.

Many of us have "emergency" credit cards that we use for less than emergency situations. For example, we consider things like concert tickets that we cannot really afford emergencies. Try preserving that credit card for true emergencies like car repairs or emergency trips home. Americans pay outrageous interest fees on their credit cards every month. The less you use your credit cards, the more money you save every year.

Another great way to save money is to cut back on utility bills that you do not really need. If you have a deluxe cable or satellite package, consider cutting back to a basic channel package. Do you have to use your cell phone so much? Consider limiting your calls and getting a smaller minutes package. Check with your Internet provider and see if you can get a slightly slower connection for a smaller monthly payment.

Remember, it is your paycheck and only you can track down where all of your hard earned dollars are going. When you stack up all of your creature comforts, you will most likely find that you are spending far too much on comfort and not enough towards savings.

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Help Starting a Home Based Internet Business

2008-11-16T12:33:00.001-08:00

Starting a conventional "brick and mortar" type business is a serious and costly undertaking. This is the real business world. Unfortunately, what most internet wannabe entrepreneurs don't realize is that starting a legitimate internet business is just as difficult as starting a conventional business. It's less costly, at first, which allows nearly anyone to start up an internet business. Because it's so easy to start an internet business, there's far more competition when compared to a conventional business. This is why it's really hard to make money on the internet.

There are many "get rich quick" schemes out there. About 99% of them are scams. The only folks getting rich on "get rich quick" schemes are those who are selling the "get rich quick" schemes. It requires a lot of hard work to build a successful home based internet business. If you're determined to make money online, learn to walk before you run.

First you need to learn how to build a website, using good seo (search engine optimization) techniques. Then you need to host your website, and get traffic (customers) to your website. Of course, you need a product to sell too. Another alternative is to promote someone else's product for a commission. This is called affiliate marketing. If you have your own product to sell, and it's relatively unique, with good demand, it's quite easy to make money on the internet. But how do you determine what to sell? What's a product niche? How do you find legitimate wholesalers to work with you? What if you can't afford to start a legitimate business? (I.E.: get a business license, resellers permit or federal tax id number, and possibly a home occupation permit).

If you're not prepared to start a legitimate business, be prepared to get ripped off by all those money making schemes on the internet. For example, you cannot find a legitimate wholesale supplier on the internet (at least it's very unlikely). Ninety nine percent of online wholesalers, found on the internet, are actually "middlemen," separating you from the real wholesale supplier or drop ship supplier. These "middlemen" take a small piece of the profits that should be going to you. They claim to be a wholesaler, and may even display photos of their large warehouses on their website. But those photos are generally photos of their wholesale distributor. Most legitimate wholesale distributors, do not advertise on the internet. So what if you don't have the money to start a legitimate business? Or what if you just don't have the time or knowledge? After all, running a legitimate business is time consuming, especially if it's just a "one man" or "one woman" operation. You've got to fulfill orders, monitor inventory, promote your products through a website you create, create a merchant account, keep good bookkeeping records, pay taxes, maintain good relations with your customers, etc. Serious business requires a serious, hard working, and professional attitude.

If you're not ready to tackle the chore of creating and operating a legitimate business, there's another alternative. You can get into affiliate marketing at almost no cost to you. But since it's even easier to do this than to start a legitimate internet business, expect even greater competition. The easier something is to do, the more competition you'll have to contend with. It's not impossible though. Again, it requires a lot of hard work. This typically involves finding a product you want to promote, buying it yourself in order to take it on a "test drive," and then promoting it via a website you create from scratch. It's very important that you promote a product or service that delivers what it promises. If you promote something you know nothing about, and the product is a scam, you'll ruin your good reputation.

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Coca-Cola - A Value Stock?

2008-10-31T14:47:00.001-07:00

There has been much talk lately about Coca-Cola and its potential as a value stock as it now spots a dividend yield of 2.6% (which is the highest dividend yield since the late 1980s) and a P/E or less than 21 right at the bottom of its five-year low. Moreover, the current price of approximately $43 a share is also near the bottom of its nine-year range (nine years ago, the last former great CEO of Coke, Roberto Goizueta, was still at the helm of the company). Sure, Coke has had its own set of problems, but it is a great company, they would argue and heck, Warren Buffett is also an owner of Coke shares.

Dont get me wrong. I really like Coke as a company. Its brand is as American as can be, and yet over 70% of all its sales are derived from outside of North America. The country with the highest consumption per capita of Coca-Cola is Mexico. According to Interbrand.com, the brand name of Coca-Cola is worth approximately $67 billion and is the worlds number one brand name. Who could forget the famous declaration of Cokes patriarch, Robert Woodruff? When the United States made the decision to enter World War II, he placed his hand on his heart and famously declared that he would see that every man in uniform gets a bottle of Coca-Cola for five cents wherever he is and whatever it costs. Of course, it didnt hurt that Woodruffs friend, General Dwight Eisenhower, was a great promoter of Coke as well. By the time the war ended, hundreds of thousands of fighting men and women became a fan of Coca-Cola for the rest of their lives.

Under the leadership of Goizueta, Don Keough, and Doug Ivester, Coca-Cola emerged as a growth and must-own stock during the late 1980s and up to the mid to late 1990s. Keough was the great motivational speaker, while Goizueta was unmatched in his ability to manage the stock price and the Wall Street analysts who covered the non-alcoholic beverage industry and Coca-Cola. Goizueta had a habit of watching the stock price of Coca-Cola on an intraday basis on a computer in Cokes headquarters. When Warren Buffett was buying shares of Coca-Cola back in 1988, he and Keough figured it out by watching the action of the trading and tracing those purchases to a broker based in Omaha. Ivester, a former accountant, could have been regarded as a great financial alchemist. Under the financial leadership of Ivester, Coca-Cola bought out many of its bottlers and named the entity as Coca-Cola Enterprises. The bottler went public in November 1986.

When Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) went public, Coca-Cola (the company) owned 49% of its outstanding shares. Because of this, Coca-Cola had the ability to raise syrup prices at will (the former agreement mandated that Coca-Cola only adjusted its price to match inflation for its syrup in the North American market) thus squeezing the profit margins of the bottler but increasing its own revenues and profits. The stroke of genius was this: Because of the fact that Coca-Cola only owned 49% of CCE, it did not have to consolidate any of its financial statements with CCE. At the time, not one single analyst totally understood this relationship. Year-after-year, the company delivered. Goizueta carefully (personally) managed all the information that came out of Coca-Cola. He would personally call Wall Street analysts. Any analyst that dared to question him openly or disagree with Coca-Colas earnings projections would be rebuffed. One such analyst was Allan Kaplan from Merrill Lynch, who at one point wrote a note to his clients observing that Coca-Cola may be depending on Japan for too much of its profits. When Goizueta found out about the note, he responded angrily with letters to both Kaplan and his bosses at Merrill Lynch. Kaplan was banned from attending analyst meetings at Coca-Cola for more than a year. From that point on, analysts knew not to mess with Goizueta and Coca-Cola.

Keough officially retired in 1993 while Goizueta passed away in October 1997 succumbing to lung cancer. Ivester succeeded as CEO but behind the scenes, the company was in disarrays. People loyal to Keough and to Ivester clashed with the former group bearing the brunt of the hardship. The current CEO, Neville Isdell (who was loyal to Keough and the only true competitor for the top job back then) was sent into exile to Great Britain to head up a bottler. According to a recent Fortune article, The biggest problem [with Ivester], though, was his tin ear. Ivester was high in IQ but terribly short on EQ. A self-made, stubborn, very shy son of North Georgia millworkers, he had gotten where he was through brains and hard work. He resented Keough's grandstanding, say people who knew him well, and never fully appreciated the importance of Goizueta's almost daily chats with directors. (Ivester declined to comment.) Before long, head-down and full tilt in a turbulent market, Ivester had alienated European regulators, executives at big customers like Wal-Mart and Disney, and some big bottlers, including Coca-Cola Enterprises (on whose board sat Warren Buffett's son Howard). As he raced to put out fires, he became increasingly isolated from his own board of directors. One person was keeping in touch with them, though, even in his retirementDon Keough.

By December 1999, Ivester was out as CEO, after board members Warren Buffett and Herbert Allen told him that they have lost confidence in his leadership. If anything, the next CEO Doug Daft fared even worse than Ivester. Daft, an Australian and who ran Cokes Japanese operations, did not have a clue about the culture in Atlanta. In a sort of retaliation for Ivesters handling of Keoughs loyalists, he also made many of Ivesters favorite executives leave the company. He also looked for quick fixes for example, by trying to boost Coca-Colas profitability by simply reducing headcount. By May of last year, Daft was out as CEO, and Neville Isdell a former darling of Keough came out of retirement to run Coca-Cola.

Described as charismatic, Isdell may be the best man for the job, but it is still too early to see what he can do at this stage to revitalize the brand. Under the leadership of the trio of Goizueta, Keough, and Ivester in the 1980s and much of the 1990s, the shares of Coca-Cola were a must-have and Coca-Cola was regarded as a growth stock. Please also keep in mind, however, that the run of KO during that time also occurred in the midst of the greatest bull market in U.S. stock market history.

Again, readers should recall that I have always contended that we are still in a secular bear market a bear market not unsimilar to the 1966 to 1974 secular bear market. While indices such as the Dow Industrials, Transports, the S&P 400 and S&P 600 have recovered nicely since the cyclical bear market bottom in October 2002, large caps such as Coca-Cola, Microsoft, or even GE have never really covered, and it is my belief that large caps will continue to underperform once the bear reasserts itself sometime this year. The dividend yield of 2.6% may or may not help, but who would want to hold a value stock once the Fed Funds rate is greater than its dividend yield (as of right now, the Fed Funds rate is 2.5%)? I really do not see deep value here. While a P/E of 20 is at the low end of its five-year range, it is interesting to note that Warren Buffett started buying his shares of Coca-Cola in 1988 when the P/E was only 13 (with a market cap of less than $15 billion) and analysts at the time were proclaiming the stock to be expensive! S&P currently projects a fair value of Coca-Cola at $46, so there is really not a great margin of safety here.

While I believe Coca-Cola is a very strong brand and should be a part of every investors long-term core holdings, I do not believe it is a good time to buy at this point. The growth in the stock price of KO was neither due to luck nor coincidence it was due to Goizuetas shrewd management of the stock price, Keoughs salesmanship of the company, and Ivesters financial genius along with a roaring bull market more than anything else. Despite the lack of leadership in Coca-Cola during the last seven years, part of the old dream of KO being a growth stock has still hung on for far too long. For KO to be an attractive stock once again, this author will need to see a more compelling valuation, such as a stock price of $25 to $30 a share. At some point, however, I believe KO may be a glamour stock once again (as it still has a lot of potential in China and India where only a total of about 850 million cases of Coke finished products were shipped in 2004, compared to 20 billion cases for the entire world), but not until some of the weak hands have been shaken out from the stock.

Please stock market crash your thoughts and opinions. Is KO a buy, hold or sell?

Henry To, CFA, is co-founder and partner of the economic advisory firm, MarketThoughts LLC, an advisor to the hedge fund Independence Partners, LP. stock market crash is a service provided by MarkertThoughts LLC, and provides a twice-a-week commentary designed to educate subscribers about the stock market and the economy beyond the headlines. This commentary usually involves focusing on the fundamentals and technicals of the current stock market, but may also include individual sector and stock analyses - as well as more general investing topics such as the Dow Theory, investing psychology, and financial history.

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How Small and Medium Businesses Market Their Product Or Service

2008-10-28T12:42:00.001-07:00

If I take this question back to 1999-2000 the answer was simple, go to internet, search forsome companies "for eg: software companies, California" and collect email addresses from the search results and shoot an email introducing your service or product. Simple! It was the easiest and cost effective way of marketing the business. Life was good. But Now? It won't work.

It won't work because shooting email without prior consent of the email recipient with a profit making intention is SPAM and your hosting provider may fine you or may block your account from their server if found so. What are the other means/methods/channels for marketing? Tele-Marketing, Advertisements, Direct mail etc but all these would prove expensive or less effective for a small and medium business. Then what is the alternative?

Usually banks and other organizations in India use mobile phones to sms and reach mobile users to market their products. You might have received calls or sms for personal loans, vehicle loans, housing loans, insurance plans from different organizations but due to new government regulations, opt-in service (Mobile users who specifically opt in to receive advertisements on their mobile) only can receive advertisements from these organizations now. How do banks or other organizations reach new customers?

What is the easiest way to promote business? The answer is business networking

Yes, Business networking has arrived and is a successful alternative to email marketing.Businesses' or people who join such networks join with an intention to get new connections and grow their network and reach new customers. It's like an opt-in service database for the businesses and professionals to promote and market their business. Businesses that are already using such networks have started realizing the benefits and are having a competitive edge over others that don't network. Businesses that did not consider yet to network will surely lose the benefits to their competitors. So its time to join the networks to promote and market your business.

Before I conclude a word of caution, I would like to educate the audience about 2 terms Social networking and Business networking. Networking sites like orkut, myspace, etc are purely for social purposes, you can use them to expand your contacts personally but Business networking is a different ball game. There is no space for anonymity and absurdity in business so when you want to network to promote and market your business do not join social networks, instead join business networks like linkedin.com,livebiznet.com and xing.com, etc. These are the sites that are really professional business networking sites that don't entertain nudity or other vulgar images or topics. One vulgar image or word that your customer may see on the network may spoil the reputation of your organization as a whole. So choose a Business networking site for business and not a social networking site.

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Disparity of Katrina Funds Short Changes Bayou

2008-10-27T13:10:00.001-07:00

Division and disagreement over funding and methods of appropriations, for recovery in the communities along the U.S. Gulf Coast, is knee deep in bureaucratic paper shuffling and politics the expanse of Hurricane Katrina herself. The challenge of disentangling the mistakes made before, during and after the storm has started by way of Congressional hearings, such as the one being held by the U.S. Senates Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Thus far, more and more layers of dysfunction in the bowels of multiple bureaucracies are being revealed.

Unfortunately, for residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and Florida who were victims of not only Hurricane Katrina but subsequent storms, Hurricane Rita and Hurricane Wilma, during the 2005 hurricane season, as well intentioned as lawmakers may be, politics has become an integral part of getting future help for hundreds of thousands still trying to rebuild their lives.

Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, perhaps summed it up best when referring to missteps made by the federal government prior to Katrinas coming ashore, stating, An outrage on top of an outrage. But his phraseology could apply to almost everything government and how it is choking on its own red tape. Hopefully, the hearings and the investigations will not derail the efforts of the responsible agencies on all levels of government, playing a game of catch-up, in expediting the housing and rebuilding needs of the displaced.

While the federal government approved $67 billion dollars for emergency relief and long-term recovery in the Gulf Coast region over five months ago, the time frame in which it is to be disbursed and the breakdown for individual states has been met with both angst and approval depending upon the state. The necessary housing for homeowners as well as renters who no longer have inhabitable dwellings, has been a nightmare for Louisiana with thousands of people still living in hotels, motels and even retired merchant marine ships, with less than 2,000 living in trailers, as originally promised.

According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), there is a need for 85,000 trailers just in Louisiana in order to accommodate residents who have temporarily been living in hotels. But there remain discrepancies about how many evacuees actually are residing in over 6,000 hotels in several different states. FEMA admittedly does not know which Katrina victims are occupying over 25,000 subsidized hotel rooms or whether they have sought or have been denied FEMA aid. Due to the American Red Cross initially handling the hotel program, coordinating both housing and aid programs have become unwieldy.

About 20,000 trailers are held in staging areas collectively in Louisiana, Texas, Alabama and Mississippi, However, due to non-repaired infrastructure, there are utilities which remain down and necessary for trailers to be inhabited. With 6,000 trailers allocated for New Orleans parishes, 3,000 have now been delivered, but only 1,950 currently are hooked up. In contrast, Mississippi has over 30,000 trailers distributed and functioning and well ahead of Louisiana in terms of infrastructure repair and the removal of debris, also lagging well behind that of Mississippi. In fairness, the amount of people displaced in New Orleans and Louisiana vastly outnumber the amount of victims of Mississippi.

But politics has been a benefactor for Mississippi as well, evidenced by the rewards they have reaped and in the smoothness in which they have been carried out through the efforts of Governor Haley Barbour and Senator Trent Lott (R-MS). For instance, in Mississippi, 33,378 occupied and hooked up trailers are meeting the housing needs of approximately 89% of the displaced. Unfortunately, there have been 34,000 maintenance requests, according to U.S. Representative Gene Taylor (D-MS), for trailers which were to have cost $19,000.00 each and have now escalated to nearly $75,000.00 since FEMA acquired them. Pro-rated over an 18-month period, FEMA will be paying $3,200.00 monthly per trailer, arriving at that figure.

Yet, this endless bad dream for so many shows no sign of ending for 90,000 displaced families of New Orleans, as the housing assistance allowance for those lucky enough to be in apartments outside of southern Louisiana as well as those in hotels, is set to end shortly. The housing aid will only be extended beyond February 7, 2006, for those getting the run around for five months, on a case-by-case basis, with the 2006 hurricane season but four months away.

But the most difficult pill to swallow for many has been what many federal, state and local officials from Louisiana say is a gross miscalculation of its share of the $67 billion approved by the U.S. Congress in 2005. Out of the $67 billion, $11.5 billion has been approved for hurricane relief through the Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) program from which Louisiana will receive $6.2 billion. Mississippi will receive $5.3 billion and Florida will receive $83 million, with Alabama and Texas to receive $74 million each. The maximum allowed any one state under the relief law passed by Congress at the end of 2005 is 54% of the allocated amount which Louisiana was given.

That now leaves Louisiana with $6.2 billion which it must specifically pass on to the 20,000 homes destroyed outside of federally insured flood zones, essentially giving up on 185,000 home owners with destroyed homes, many of whom have been denied their insurance claims by either their provider or the federal flood insurance program, or those who did not have adequate insurance. Louisiana will now be required to find alternative funding for the state and its parishes for debris removal, barely begun, infrastructure repair, law enforcement, re-opening hospitals and schools, in addition to helping businesses rebuild.

Andy Kopplin, Executive Director of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, called it an inadequate distribution. No one believes that Louisiana had only 54% of the damages, he said. The department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) oversees the CDBG program. U.S. Representative Bobby Jindal (R-LA) said, I certainly think we will need more. The key to getting more is spending the money well. However, how the money is spent must be approved by HUD. And the U.S. Stafford Act mandates how federal dollars will be spent for any additional appropriations to be made.

The announcement in late January 2006 of the $11.5 billion being approved for the disbursement of funds will follow a payment schedule, the bulk of which is not expected to come through until 2008, according to lawmakers. Prior to the announcement, U.S. Representative Richard Baker (R-LA) submitted a redevelopment plan to the White House which was outright rejected. It had the bi-partisan approval of federal and state lawmakers which calls for creating a federal supported Louisiana Recovery Corporation. It requires purchase of large tracts of storm-damaged homes in Louisiana, borrowing up to $30 billion in U.S. Treasury bonds. The corporation would absorb the costs of home repair and resell the homes to either developers or to their original owners.

Baker believes those homeowners who lived in flood plains should be accorded an out, as it was the federal governments responsibility to maintain the levees, through the Army Corps of Engineers, which breached and thus flooded New Orleans. Under the present funding, the most damaged areas of New Orleans would be unavailable for homeowners relief. And given that the federal flood insurance program is near bankruptcy, the Baker proposal would offer quick buyouts to homeowners in rebuilding efforts. But in another Catch-22 scenario, rebuilding must meet the approval of new advisory flood maps which FEMA officials said will not be available until mid-March 2006. Therefore, commitments to invest in rebuilding are on shaky ground without as of yet fully repaired levees, and not knowing whether they will be additionally funded in order to sustain more than a Category 3 hurricane.

With so many agencies, at this point primarily federal, without their own proverbial maps on how to proceed in un-chartered waters, it necessitates new ways of doing business in order to meet the imminent needs from the Gulf Coast disaster. Creative and critical thinking, something in short supply in bureaucratic management, is essential. Mechanisms to encourage better communications and oversight between the federal and state levels must be implemented in order to be prepared for future disasters, whether they be Acts of God or acts of terror. Only then will those people in the Delta who have sacrificed and suffered so much feel redeemed. And only then will lawmakers, and the agencies they are responsible to hold accountable, recover from the breached trust of the American people.

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Diane M. Grassi is a freelance columnist, reporting and writing commentary on current events of the day providing honest and often politically incorrect assessments. From U.S. public policy to Major League Baseball, she is an eclectic thinker, and demanding of her readers to reflect on their own thinking patterns from an alternative perspective. Whether you agree with her or not, Diane M. Grassi will have you coming back to note her opinions, and if at best she wakes you up, then her goal will have been accomplished.

Ms. Grassi is featured with the online publications: New Media Journal.us; American Chronicle; Mich News.com; the Federal Observer; Opinions Editorials; the Conservative Voice; the Las Vegas Penny Press; the Sierra Times as well as many others. She also writes regular columns on Major League Baseball where she is a featured online columnist with The Diamond Angle Baseball Ezine and Sports-Central.org. Ms. Grassi may contacted at: fisher funds

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Personal Finance, Corporate & Public Finance

2008-10-26T12:26:00.001-07:00

Finance basically revises and deals with various methods by the means of which businesses, companies, and individuals hoist, distribute, and utilize financial supplies over a stipulated time, along with considering the threats involved in their assignments. Hence, the expression of finance may engross any of the below mentioned stuffs:

The execution and outlining of the assignment's threats.

The art of executing funds.

The administration and execution of the resources.

The revision of funds and other capitals.

In consideration of the expression "to finance", it signifies to offer finances for commerce or for an individual's huge purchases such as house, car, etc. The commotions of finance are the submission that individuals and firms utilize for executing their funds, specifically the variations amidst earnings and expense along with the threats of their assets.

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For the earning that surpasses its expense list may provide or spend the surplus income. Simultaneously, an individual whose earnings are less than the expenses may hoist assets by purchasing or lending the equity claims, reducing its expenditures, or boosting its earning. Now, the lender can find a borrower, a monetary mediator, as such a bank or can purchase notes or shares from the share market. Further, the lender acquires interest rates, and the borrower shells out a bigger interest rate than the lender acquires, and the monetary mediator concise the variation.

Banks amass the commotions of several lenders and borrowers, and it also welcomes the deposits from various lenders, on which it shells out the interest rate. Further, the bank lends these deposits to the borrowers, and by this method bank permits the authority for both the lenders as well as the borrowers of distinctive horizons, to synchronize their financial commotions. Hence, banks are described as compensators of money streams in space.

For example, if an individual buys one share of ABC Inc, and the firm posses 100 shares in stock, then the individual becomes 1/100 possessor of that firm. Obviously, in favor of the stock, the firm acquires cash, which it utilizes to enlarge its commercialization in a procedure called as "Equity Financing".

Utility:

Finance is utilized by almost every individual (personal finance), commerce (corporate finance), by government bodies (public finance) and by a huge range of institutions engrossing school, colleges, and all the non-profit institutions. Usually, the objectives of each of the above mentioned commotional bodies are attained by the utilization of proper financial implementations, along with systematic contemplation of their organizational backdrop.

Hence, finance is one of the most crucial phases of business administration. A fresh business venture is bound to fail, if appropriate financial concepts are not utilized. Administration of funds is the most necessary stuff for ensuring a safe financial future for both the firms as well for the individuals.

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Why a Merchant Account?

2008-10-25T12:17:00.001-07:00

Do you own an e-commerce business? Want your business to flourish? Wish to offer your customers the various payment processing options and better services online?

Then a merchant account is the answer to all your needs!

Currently being used by millions of businessmen globally, merchant accounts are a must if your want to earn some serious cash. A merchant account enables you to accept credit and debit card payments and help you make a mark in the online business community. You become capable of processing transactions and are able to accept all the major credit cards. Major advantage you get a strong customer base and will never again turn down a credit/debit card processing request.
With a merchant account you are able to market your products online, linking you to a whole new e-commerce market with broader horizons.

Merchant Account Basics

With a merchant account you can offer your customers the ease of paying online with their credit cards and give them security. Its true that searching for the right merchant account provider can be a difficult task as most merchant account providers seem to be providing the same services with different prices. What you basically require is a merchant account provider who can offer you international merchant account services along with:

These are some of the basics for a merchant account. Choosing the right merchant account provider for your business is important as you do not want to end up with the wrong choice. Dont forget to research around a bit in the market for the merchant account provider before signing up. Review the policies and get your facts straight before entering into an agreement with your merchant account provider. Also dont forget to ask questions and make an estimate of the monthly fee and the credit volume etc.

With Instabill.com you get all the basics of a expense account and so much more. Our fraud protection system, virtual terminal and expense account are secure and reliable and offer you a safe environment to process your transactions in.

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Business Results - Four Critical Success Factors

2008-10-24T13:41:00.001-07:00

Scenario One

During a recent presentation, a business owner was given the following challenge. If 10 of his 100 employees were asked to name the top 3 organizational goals for the current year as they perceived them to be, would he receive the same 3 goals from everyone or would he receive 5, 10 or even 25 different goals? The business owner shook his head and thoughtfully responded, No, I am sure that I would receive more than 3 goals. He was then asked to consider what these misdirected actions from his employees were costing him in terms of missed opportunities.

Scenario Two

At another presentation, a business owner was asked if she set goals? She responded quite enthusiastically, Of course, I set goals. She was asked a follow-up question: Can you state with 100% conviction that your employees know how to consistently achieve both their personal and professional goals? After a few moments, she replied No. She was then asked how this lack of knowledge potentially affected her bottom line?

Scenario Three

A president of a company was asked: Have you ever seen behavior inconsistent with your strategic plan? He quickly answered Yes! A second question was asked, What did you do about it? Well, we sent them to training and within 6 months we had to send them back again? A new question was then posed to the President. Are these performance failures a result of a lack of knowledge or skills or due to poor attitudes and habits? The president immediately said Why bad attitudes and poor habits. Again, the facilitator asked another question: What are all these re-dos costing your company?

Scenario Four

During the annual meeting, the CEO of a manufacturing company informed her executive team that she wanted to achieve a 10% growth during the next 12 months. The VP of Operations made plans to purchase new manufacturing equipment for some new products while the VP of Marketing & Sales began to implement a plan selling existing products. The CFO decided to cut budgets to capital improvements and marketing. All three executive team members believed that their actions would help achieve the 10% growth.

These scenarios shared four critical success factors (CSFs) that impede all organizations from achieving consistent results: communication, goal setting and goal achievement skills, attitudes and alignment.

Critical Factor #1: Communication is the key to unlocking the potential within businesses as well as individuals. When the goals are in alignment with the vision and consistently communicated from top down, then performance excellence is much more likely to happen. Inconsistent communication contributes to missed targets and lowers the performance for the entire organization.

Critical Factor #2: Goal setting and goal achievement are learned skills. Unfortunately, many presume that these skills are acquired during the K-12 educational experiences through the Osmosis Process. Also, these skills are not actively taught in the corporate setting. Yet, consistent goal achievement or the results are what every organization seeks.

Critical Factor #3: Attitudes drive behaviors that result in change. Many companies focus on trying to change negative behaviors because they are experiencing negative change. However, when the negative attitudes are replaced with positive attitudes, those attitudes will drive positive behaviors creating positive change. By failing to address negative attitudes, new trends, changes or initiatives, the result is wasted resources creating a negative drain on the KASH Box.

Critical Factor #4: Alignment is necessary to ensure that the desired results are achieved. Performance excellence happens when the strategies, systems and people are working together to build loyal internal customers that drive loyal external customers. The much heard adage about Getting everyone to row in the same direction is true, but probably should be amended to include the following by using the same paddles.

When these four CSFs work together, results happen quicker and create a culture of working smarter and not harder. The following questions may help you to achieve the consistent results that you desire as you work your strategic plan:

1. Do I know with 100% accuracy that every employee can clearly articulate the top 3 goals for the organizations?

2. Does every person within the organization consistently sets and achieves all of his or her personal and professional goals?

3. Does everyone within the organization at ALL times consistently demonstrate positive attitudes?

4. Are the strategies, systems and people in alignment to build loyal internal customers?

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Leanne Hoagland-Smith, M.S. is a speaker and Indianapolis business coach & Chicago business coach who has written hundreds of articles with a focus on improving individual and organizational performance through excellence in leadership to executable strategic plans.

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