Beating Business Burnout 5 Remedies for relief when the pressure's on Victoria Nuttall is a graphic-arts consultant with skills that should have been appreciated. "I was working 50 to 55 hours a week, feeling like a real hero to the company because I was putting out work no one else could do at that time," she says. "They had me train people and expand the department, but never consulted me on new equipment purchases and procedures. Add to this a...more
Business cards are such wonderfully creative little marketing products. Most of them, unfortunately, end up in the nearest trash basket. Nobody wants to be bombarded with a big sales pitch. If you meet someone and within two minutes you are promoting your own business or stretching out that business card, your card will more than likely end up in the trash.Fact is, people do business with people that they feel comfortable with and with whom they...more
You buy or trade stocks, bonds and mutual funds. Perhaps you invest in a 401(k) plan. You can us "Options" as part of your short or long term investment objectives.Did you know you may be using a form of options as a part of your everyday life?Do you pay a premium every quarter for house, auto, and medical insurance?You have purchased insurance as a safeguard against a fire in your home, a crash in your car, or large medical bills. Some investors use options on stocks or cash indexes to protect and insure the value of their portfolios.A major advantage of options is their versatility. They can be as conservative or as speculative as your investing strategy dictates. Options enable you to tailor your position to your own set of circumstances. Consider the following benefits of options: You can protect stock holdings from a decline in market price. You can increase income against current stock holdings. You can prepare to buy stock at a lower price. You can position yourself for a big market move even when you don't know which way prices will move. You can benefit from a stock price rise without incurring the cost of buying the stock outright.What Is An Option?An option is a contract...more
Did you know that banks can "create" money?The vast majority of people have only the vaguest idea of how banks and financial institutions in general, operate. They just go about their lives never understanding what happens every time they deposit money into their bank.I guarantee you if they did know what went on behind the scenes, they would...more
If you are like most people today, you have either thought about investing in the stock market or you actually went out and bought some stock. If so that's great, there is lots of money to be made in the stock market, but the important question is; How do you pick your stocks?Are you buying the stock, because your brother told you to?Did you get a...more
Stress is the nastiest 4 letter word you ever met. Don't stress, I know it is six letters but it packs the wallop of the meanest 4 letter word you ever heard.Stress can affect your health and keep you from being all you can be to borrow a phrase recently made popular by the U.S. Army.Psychologists, scientists and those who study this particular beast say its origins may be physical, financial, environmental, social or emotional. I say that covers everything in which we as humans engage so to bypass a long discourse, let's just say stress is all around us and manifests itself through one or more of the aforementioned categories.Given this is true, there must exist commonalities that are recognizable so, if we choose, we can deal with it regardless of its particular origin. Of course, the medical types may disagree and say its source must be known before treatment. I don't know about you, but just sitting in a waiting room stresses me out. Therefore, I'd rather have general recognition parameters so I can at least sound intelligent should I have to transmit my self diagnosis to my doctor.This way, we both have something we possibly recognize and may be can come to the same conclusion...more
The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, signed into law on Dec. 4, 2003, gives every American the right to a free credit report every year from each of the three major credit bureaus -- Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.What the law doesn't do...more
I often have to create structural steel supports for dust collectors or baghouses and at first I spent a lot of time making repetitive structural steel details of the gussets, braces, baseplates, columns and angles.The shape of the gussets and...more
The last time you spoke with your broker did he use any of the following words? Diversification, Price-to-earnings ratios, discretionary trading, lifting a leg (he's talking to you not your dog), leverage, divergence, fee-based compensation,...more
There are a number of common theories and misconceptions about opening gaps and how to trade them. Trader Jack himself has always maintained that it is wise to 'mind the gap', and strongly recommends not dashing madly after a market powering away...more
Venture capital (VC) people are very lovable. They are the ones giving you the opportunity to say hocus-pocus in the journey of converting your idea into money. So far, VCs have spoilt the North American and West European idea pioneers more than...more
How can I "know who knows"? None of us can personally know more than around 250 people, yet we want our companies to be smart, learning organisations where it's easy to find the right person to talk to. This is why many organisations create "yellow...more