11,298 articles on "finance"

Real Estate Remains A Strong Investment

Real Estate Remains A Strong Investment by: W. Troy Swezey Opportunities to make big, quick profits in residential real estate tend to come and go in cycles. When a local market is hot, families may find it possible to buy a house at an attracti...

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The Sickly State of Public Hospitals

Sickly State of Public Hospitals by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. There are many types of hospitals but the most well known are the Public Hospitals. What sets them apart is that they provide services to the indigent (people without means) and to minoritie...

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Taxes as a Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy

Building an ownership society in a tax competitive world.Like many fellow citizens of this great country, I listened to the President’s Inaugural Address on January 20th. It was interesting, but it just flowed over me with nothing really sticking o...

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Five Crucial Components of a Business Plan

The format of a Business Plan is something that has been developed and refined over the years and is something that should not be changed. Like a good recipe, a business plan needs to include certain ingredients to make it work. When you create a bus...

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Alternative Legal Billing Win Win Strategies

In the old days of legal billing, lawyer's invoices — usually a single page of elegant letterhead—contained only the phrase, "legal services rendered," and a hefty dollar amount. No time breakdowns, no list of activities performed or equipme...

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The Freelance Translator and PayPal

A problem most freelance translators are faces with is how to receive payment. In particular: How to receive payment for small jobs. Many translation agencies are reluctant to pay small fees via wire transfer due to the transaction fees; often they w...

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Influencing With Integrity

Every salesperson — whether selling a product or an idea — must deal with “objections.” Most sales training focuses on how to overcome them. In the first in a series of articles, Contributing Editor Richard Brooke, one of Network Marketing’...

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SETTING NON-NEGOTIABLE STAFF STANDARDS

When a person seeks employment with your company, he or she is basically saying, “I want to work for your company.” What this really means is “I will give up doing whatever I please, show up for work and behave the way you want me to behave, so...

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Collaborate Your Way to Success

The best way to market - or accomplish anything - on the Internet is to be helpful. Netizens appreciate it and try to be helpful in return. As I indicated before, the 3 ways of being helpful are by enabling people to learn, by cooperating with them i...

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How to Keep Your Entrepreneurial Spirit Strong in Challenging Times

Hope, opportunities and possibilities - these are the lifeblood of the entrepreneurial spirit. Yet now, with world events, economic forecasts, and the reality of your own bottom-line your entrepreneurial spirit may be having trouble responding. You m...

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