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Entrepreneur Home Business Challenge

Jul 13

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The best course of action to take sometimes isn’t clear until you’ve listed and considered your alternatives. The following paragraphs should help clue you in to what the experts think is significant.

Entrepreneurs are constantly looking for opportunities to be able to work at home and save on overhead cost.Young parents who want to be with their children when they get home from school are now becoming entrepreneur home business owners. Are these home business entrepreneurs making good money? Of course they are or they would not stick to such business at all.

Working from home has many advantages. First, you can work on you own time. You can work as early or as late as you want and nobody will ever call you attention to your working habits. If you don’t feel like working, you can always take the day off and go somewhere to relax and unwind. When you work at home, you don’t have to bother with dress code. You can work in you pajamas if you like. Anyway, it’s your output that your clients will be after not how you looked when you did the work.

Most of this information comes straight from the entrepreneur home business owner pros. Careful reading to the end virtually guarantees that you’ll know what they know.

Becoming an entrepreneur home business owner is a good option for young parents. Working from home would give you more time to be with your kids and supervise their daily activities. You can wake up with them early in the morning a join them for breakfast before they leave for school and go back to bed after they left if you want. You can even walk them to school and get that needed exercise. When the kids come home from school, you can always be there to welcome them. Work at home parents can spend as much time as they want with their kids as there are no fix rules or working hours if you work from home. The only thing that you should be concerned of is making enough sales to give you financial independence and to enjoy comfortable living. The idea of working at home is to earn without sacrificing quality time with your family.

How does one become an entrepreneur home business owner? There are many business areas where an entrepreneur can engage. Your guide would be your personal interest and your existing resources. Why personal interest? If you like what you are doing, you would not mind putting in a lot of time and effort to make things happen. Wanting something is already a big step towards achieving something so try to work within your sphere of interest and not jump into something you are not familiar with. Familiar things give you more confidence as entrepreneur home business owner. Aside from working with familiar things, you should always take into considerations the resources you have at your command. The scale of your business undertakings should always depend largely on how much resources you have so make sure you know what you have to prevent overexposure. Spending within your means is a cardinal rule for entrepreneur home business owners.

Now might be a good time to write down the main points covered above. The act of putting it down on paper will help you remember what’s important about entrepreneur home business owner.

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Race Horses and Mutual Funds

May 19

Posted by Al Thomas in business, mutual fund | No Comments

For years investors have been taught to look
into the composition of a mutual funds. In other
words the “experts” want you to take the time to
analyze the stocks within the mutual fund
portfolio, categorize them by industry group and
try to understand the objective of the fund
manager. This is nonsense.

When I go the track I look to see what the horse
has been doing for the last several races. I
don’t give a hoot what he had for breakfast. All
I want to know is has he been fast? Is there a
good chance he will finish in the money in the
next race? I only want to know how he has been
performing.

Most mutual fund managers, except those who
follow index funds, are always trading. You have
no idea that what is in the portfolio today was
there yesterday or will be tomorrow. Some fund
managers trade more than others, but you can
prove this to yourself by looking at the fund
prospectus at the beginning of the year and one
of the updates that funds publish quarterly.
Many of the stocks will still be there, however,
you don’t know if the percentage holdings are
the same.

By the way, don’t bother reading a mutual fund
prospectus. They are worthless when it comes to
making money. Consider that most of the
information in it is about a year old by the
time you read it. Think about this seriously for
a minute. Is there anything you can find out in
the document that will show up in your bottom
line? I’ll wait while you think. OK? There
really wasn’t anything was there? All
prospectuses are basically worthless.

But you say the SEC (Securities and Exchange
Commission) in Washington approved this. No,
they did NOT. They don’t approve of anything;
they just read it to be sure it meets the
regulatory requirements for disclosure. There is
almost no difference between the prospectus for
the worst mutual fund and the best mutual fund
and both of them may have been read by the same
Dilbert in his cubicle at the SEC.

There is one excellent way to find out which
fund to buy. It is based on performance. How
much has the fund increased in price during the
past 12 months? Just 12 months. Many financial
analysts want you to look at 3-year, 5-year and
10-year performance. Remember that horse? I
don’t care how many races he won 3 or 5 years
ago. Can he run NOW? There are many publications
and web sites that tell you the best performers.
Investor’s Business Daily prints a list of best
performing funds each day. You might have to see
the paper every day as they sometimes just tell
about the long-term performance. You want the
last 12 months and the last 3 months.

Three years ago you could have bought the best
performing fund on the street and today have a
dog. I call a dog any mutual fund that is not
outperforming the S&P500 index.

If you were a jockey you would want to ride the
fastest horses because in many races you get a
percentage of the purse. The same applies to
mutual funds. You must own only the best
performing funds at all times. Like the jockey
you must pick the fastest horse if you want to
be a winner.

You should review your fund holdings monthly to
see that you are only in the best funds. It
might take you an hour, but you will find that
you will double the current return on your
mutual fund investments. Do it!

Author: Al Thomas
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Team Building & Multiple Intelligences

Apr 2

Posted by Alvin Quah in business, Leadership | No Comments

Team building and multiple intelligences, to many people, have as much similarity as a company dinner and an i.q. test. if you are new to multiple intelligence, the following is a brief explanation:

The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

The Theory of Multiple Intelligences surfaced in 1983 when Dr. Howard Gardner’s renowned book titled, “Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences” was published. Within the next 10 years, educators world wide embraced the theory as a basis to identify talents in the children they work with.

Before that, most people perceived people to be intelligent if they score high in an I.Q. test or other psychometric tests, or are good with logical thinking, mathematical, musical and perhaps, linguistic skills. In his book, which has been described to have caused paradigm shifts, Dr. Gardner identified 7 distinct types of intelligence:

1. Linguistic Intelligence

The talent to learn and use languages, it includes the ability to effectively use language to express oneself rhetorically or poetically, using language as a primary means to remember things. Poets, writers and translators are people with high linguistic intelligence.

2. Logical-Mathematical Intelligence

The capacity to analyse problems logically, performs mathematical operations, and scientifically investigate issues. Scientists and mathematicians are some examples of people with high logical-mathematical intelligence.

3. Musical Intelligence

Skills in the performing arts, composition, and appreciation of music. It also includes the capacity to recognize and compose musical pitches, tones, and rhythms. Examples of people with high musical intelligence are: musicians, composers and singers.

4. Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence

The use of one’s whole body or parts of the body to solve problems. It is the ability to use mental abilities to coordinate bodily movements. Some examples of people with high bodily-kinesthetic intelligence are carpenters, seamstresses and chefs.

5. Spatial Intelligence

The potential to recognize and use the patterns of wide space and more confined areas. Designers and architects are people with high spatial intelligence.

6. Interpersonal Intelligence

The capacity to understand the intentions, motivations and desires of other people. People with well developed interpersonal intelligence tend to work effectively with others. Some examples are educators, religious and political leaders and salespeople.

7. Intra-personal

The capacity to understand oneself, to appreciate one’s feelings, fears and motivations. People with high intra-personal intelligence have a good idea of what they want to do in life, what they can and cannot do and when to get help. Some examples are high achievers and entrepreneurs.

Brief History of team building

No one can be sure how the term “team building” was formed or when team building first started. The term “team building” is probably the combination of the words “team” and “building”, which means “building a team”. team building could have started as early as the 1930s, when Professor Elton Mayo’s research in The Hawthorne Experiments (1927 to 1932) concluded that the need for recognition, security and sense of belonging has a greater effect on workers’ morale and productivity than other working conditions.

Today, team building can mean different things to different organisations. To some it may simply mean building cohesion among participants, while to others it may mean improving communication and sharing of information between departments.

So How Does Multiple Intelligence Help
team building?

Multiple intelligence has been widely applied to children, particularly in the early detection of talents and gifts in children. So does the theory of multiple intelligence still hold true among adults? Are we able to apply the theory to adults? We began to ask these questions a few years ago when we were helping clients with their team building exercises.

Over the years, we have successfully conducted team building sessions for many corporations, using multiple intelligence in our games, to bring out strengths of different people in different situations, creating an environment to promote mutual respect, understanding and patience with adult participants.

Organisation may define team building in different ways, yet one very basic reason for team building is to get the participants to acknowledge the importance of teamwork and appreciate that people are different.

Dr. Sandy E. Kulkin, founder of Institute for The Motivational Living, Inc, USA (the world’s largest publisher of DISC personality profiling system) once said, “People are different, but they are predictably different”. Dr. Sandy is an expert in human behaviour and he develops courses, trains and certifies professional trainers in behavioural analysis for personal and business settings. He is a firm believer that in order for us to be better able to work with one another, we need to understand why people behave in the way they do and how they look at things differently from us.

Thus in our view, if we can help participants realise that people are different and see these differences as strengths in the other person, we will be able to help them learn to celebrate the differences, thereby creating mutual respect.

Understanding multiple intelligence helps broaden our perspectives of the people around us. In the context of team building, it uncovers the types of intelligence fellow team mates possess, which may never surface within the office setting. This brings about better understanding among the participants.

Exposing participants to multiple intelligence during team building also creates an environment in which participants share their knowledge in the type of intelligence that they possess with their fellow colleagues; it helps participants to be patient with one another as they take turns to learn from one another.

It can also be a humbling experience when we realise that there are other types of intelligence which may not be well developed in us. Introducing multiple intelligence during team building can also help participants become conscious that if we work as a team, we will be well-equipped to tackle different issues and problems as people who are more developed in different areas of intelligence tend to look at different aspects of an issue. These people will also be better at solving different challenges that the team face.

Here are some of Dr. Howard Gardner’s books on Multiple Intelligence:

o The Arts and Human Development (1973)

o Art, Mind, and Brain: A Cognitive Approach to Creativity (1982)

o Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligence (1983)

o The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach (1991)

o Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice (1993)

o Changing the World: A Framework for the Study of Creativity(1994)

o Intelligence: Multiple Perspectives (1996)

o Intelligence Reframed – Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century (1999)

The article was contributed by Alvin Quah, a certified behavioral analyst(in business consulting perspectives), who is registered with the Institute for The Motivational Living, Inc, USA. He can be contacted through the website: Team Building Singapore

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Meeting With The Entrepreneur

Mar 27

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Running a small home business, unless it’s a totally Internet business, at some point in time may mean meeting with a local client. Even if the entrepreneur works all over the globe, clients or vendors and others involved in the firm in some way or another may find themselves in town and just want to meet face to face with the entrepreneur they’ve talked to by phone and e-mail.

This is something that can be very beneficial for future business dealings and may lead to referrals for the small home business. The question, though, is where to meet with this client or business associate  surely not the small home business location. Here are some options.

The least costly place would be the library. And while we tend to think of the library as a place where you must whisper, that’s no longer the case. They often have meeting rooms, quiet corners with comfy chairs away from the crowd and many even have business centers with copy machines, wifi and fax. This is a great alternative for a small home business owner on a limited budget.

Another alternative is a coffee shop or McDonalds. McDonalds is now in the midst of a national wifi installation. Starbucks, Borders or Barnes & Noble all offer coffee and a quiet comfortable place to talk.

There may be a local telework center as well, which can be rented by the hour, day, week or month, with conference room, phones, fax, copy machine, and computers. Firms such as HQ Global Workplace offer office space, videoconferencing, postal services, phone, computer and computer access and even receptionist. These can be rented for an hour, an afternoon, a day, a week or month to month. Many have catering services for an additional cost in case of a large meeting. While it’s a little more difficult to find a telework center the best place to inquire is of the local college. Major cities are bound to have them. Telework centers are plentiful for small home business owners in the Washington DC metropolitan area of Maryland and Virginia.

While most small home business owners want to present themselves at first as one of the big guys, a client that is dropping in to finally meet the entrepreneur he or she has talked to so often will probably be pleased to learn of the small home business. The entrepreneur might well be surprised to find how the office location apart from his home, might open the door to some very interesting conversations, such as I wish I could do that or surprisingly often, Oh, yes, I work from home too.

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Free Business Books for Your Kindle

Feb 18

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Free Business Books for Your Kindle

http://tinyurl.com/4zeahur “Best Practices for Persuasive Presentations” — This is actually a collection of three separate guides, including the amusing titled “So What? How to Communicate What Really Matters to Your Audience.” “Instant MBA” — Don’t confuse this with a study guide. Instead, the book teaches you the best of “MBA thinking,” all with the idea of accelerating career advancement. “The Lazy Project Manager” — A humorous take on project management and how managers can and should strive to be “lazy” by being intelligent about organizing and running their projects. “Leading at a Higher Level” — Renowned management guru Ken Blanchard offers his take on becoming a better leader, serving your customers at a “higher level,” and coaching to boost performance at every level. “Marketing in the Moment” — Published just eight months ago, this guide for business owners explains how to choose from the growing array of “new marketing” options (Tumblr, Ustream, etc.) and make them work to their fullest potential. In case you’re wondering, each of these books is rated at least four stars out of five, and most of them normally cost around $20. The total value is well over $100.

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Business & Corporate Law Attorney

Feb 9

Posted by Henry F Pikus in business | No Comments

In Need of a Business & Corporate Law Attorney? Business and corporate offices are dependent upon a sturdy legal framework and would otherwise struggle through their affairs without sound legal advice. Business and law attorneys provide that advice that can help secure and shape the framework for any office. They have years of experience within the field which gives them the edge when it comes to knowing how to protect and advance a company. With real-world solutions and modern methods, business and corporate law attorneys can assist business of all sizes, from those just starting out to those who have been clients for up to 80 years.

Clients need to have a firm understanding of the most effective policies, contracts, and training tools in order to keep the company functioning and growing. If a company is lacking the legal resources, it runs the risk of losing money. Other negative side-effects can include bad publicity, shareholder and property disputes, and disgruntled employees. However, if a company finds itself in a legal predicament, business and corporate law attorneys can ensure that the legal tools are utilized to the fullest. These tools will set the groundwork for future prosperity and success of a business.

Business and corporate attorneys offer more than just the advice and groundwork needed to handle publicity. Banking and finance law, employment and labor law, mergers and acquisitions are just a few areas that an attorney can help with. Their knowledge also expands into the realm of negotiations and drafting of contracts, as well as business succession planning and construction law and litigation.

Individual goals are the priority of even business and corporate law attorney. They strive to help each client meet their goal no matter how big or small it may seem. With acute attention to detail and modern solutions, attorneys can help clients tackle legal details without stress or confusion. Business and corporate law attorneys offer a variety of strategies when it comes time to negotiate and draft contracts, plus they are trained to sort through the legal details presented by software development and licensing arrangements.

Business and corporate attorney’s can also offer advice on business purchases and sales, as well as guide clients in succession planning, dissolutions and buy-outs. Their help will ensure that every client receives maximum benefit and satisfaction and that both parties are satisfied with the outcome.

Business and corporate attorneys want to protect the intellectual property and advantage in the marketplace of their client. They will do their best to provide answers regarding multiple issues including business structuring, shareholder and buy-sell agreements, and capitalization. With their help and answers, businesses can rest assure that the most productive results are reached so that the future of the company is secured.

If you are searching for an Attorney Chaska MN than look no further then MHS Law. MHS Law are expert Lawyers Chaska Minnesota.

Author: Henry F Pikus
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