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What is in it For the Customer?

Anyone who is going to shell out cash usually wants to know what the item will do for him or her. As a matter of fact, 70% of all purchases are made on an emotional level. So for the most part, buyers are not interested about the logical features and benefits of the purchase. If they were, the vast majority of us would be driving little, fuel-efficient cars with one-speaker stereos.

Build Up Your Business Credit

It is incredibly important to build up your business concern credit scores to be able to avail of financial loans to fund your small business enterprise. In truth, small endeavours are now clamoring about for loans to better their business by using the money for improvements, or buying inventory to meet consumer requirements.

Building up your business credit takes a lot time and effort, and demands a paper works by the dozen. Here are some tips on how to get started in giving your business credit rating a healthy advance:

Set a business identity first

Do You Have Super Powers?

DaveOJ shared a quote with me today and I love it so much it prompted me to think about how having special powers can catapult us into the spotlight and success!

 

"A Unicorn is just a horse, with a better marketing department" Author Unknown"

 

What are special powers and who has them, I can hear you asking. Well let's take a look at the Unicorn for now and use this fictional animal as an example. From Wikipedia: . A mythical animal typically represented as a horse with a single straight horn projecting from its forehead.

 

Dealing With High Gasoline Prices

The high gasoline prices has everyone concerned about the future. Of course, with gasoline being the fuel of the most standard form of transportation today, who would not be? And since gasoline is still a major fuel used by most cars in the world, there is nothing that can be done except deal with the prices. People may not have that much of an influence in lowering the current gas prices particularly with the great need for gasoline elsewhere in the world.

Busting the Top 6 Life Insurance Myths

Term life insurance has many advantages. But understanding term life insurance and its advantages means sifting through the myths encompassing it; and there are many myths about life insurance. These life insurance fiction and delusions can result in too little insurance coverage causing fiscal hardship for families suffering the loss of a loved one.

To avoid this from happening to you, we’ve taken a look at the most usual misconceptions about life insurance to set the track record straight–helping you to make the right life insurance option for you and your family.

A Little Bit of This And a Little Bit of That

Do you know all the difference ways we can connect with our target market today? Better still we can connect with people who are not our target market, but they could know someone who is. In fact, we can connect with the whole world if we really want to get our name out there.

Steve Bentley CFP: Small Business Financial Focus: June 2011

Many entrepeneurs start their own businesses because they want to be their own bosses. But many sole proprietors aren't just their own bosses; they're also their own sales staff, secretaries, accountants, publicists, customer service departments, and financial planners. Running your own small business means wearing many different hats sometimes all during a single day. But all the myriad of tasks associated with running a business don't have equal value, especially if we look at them in terms of our Personal Return On Investment (ROI).

Delegation 101

I’ll bet that when you launched your business one of the main reasons was freedom: from doing things someone else’s way and freedom to enjoy a different lifestyle. You knew you’d have to work longer and harder to reach your goal but the sacrifice seemed worth the reward. Now you’re successful but the freedom still isn't reality. Could it be that you’re missing freedom because it’s difficult to surrender some of your work to others?

Critical Illness...Is It Really Important?

Unless you have substantial net worth, even in the UK or Canada, catching a life-threatening illness, such as cancer, can be a very pricey matter. Most importantly, not only do you need to consider how contracting such a critical illness will affect your savings due to the extreme expense of any medical care costs, but you also want to consider that you may well not be able to bring in any income to cover you day-to-day expenditure. As a result, making sure you apply for a critical illness coverage policymay well be one of the smartest and astute financial decisions you make.

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