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Every decision – from buying a home to grabbing a latte on the way to work – has costs and benefits, personal and financial. In her new book The Real Cost of Living; Making the Best Choices for You, Your Life, and Your Money, Carmen Wong Ulrich shows us how to make better decisions, and [...]
If you are a business person and own an iPod, Blackberry, or Android, you can benefit from a few of the thousands of business apps available for your smart phone. The following five downloadable applications are particularly helpful for businesses of all sizes in terms of improving your productivity, profitability, and time management: SQUARE – [...]
Couples often structure their household finances where one partner takes care of all the bill-paying and investments. But all too often, the non-financial partner is left widowed or otherwise alone and has no understanding or knowledge of household expenses, investments, or what it takes to live on month-to-month. That is why both partners need to [...]
In her newest book, communications expert Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts delivers timely advice for anyone in business – owners, managers, employees – on surviving and succeeding in today’s technology-dependent workplace. She focuses on the trend toward a virtual workplace and emphasizes that excellent communication skills are more essential than ever to keep up with the pace of [...]
Entrepreneur Media has offered up a list of Top 10 predictions for changes to expect in the small business climate in 2012. After sifting through predictions by a handful of forecaster pronouncements and government reports, here is what they came up with as the Top 10: Volatility ahead. With Europe now teetering, economic uncertainty will [...]
In this latest offering from Daniel H. Pink, the author argues that the secret to high performance and satisfaction is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. The problem that most business have in motivating employees is that [...]
Every year on the Friday after Thanksgiving – known as Black Friday – millions of Americans hit the malls and big retail outlets in search of holiday shopping bargains. This year, nearly 138 million shoppers are expected to swarm retail stores the day after Thanksgiving — most of them lined up and ready to storm [...]
The workplace of the future is being shaped by the convergence of two emerging trends – Web 2.0 and the emergence of the Millennial Generation in the workforce. Web 2.0 is a collection of breakthrough social media technologies, while the Millennial Generation is made up of people born between 1977 and 1997. This generation of [...]
UNTHINKING is Beckwith’s fifth marketing book and is the result of his lifelong fascination with one question: “What unique forces drive us to choose one product or service over another?” His research stems from thirty years of working with hundreds of businesses worldwide, including 24 Fortune 500 companies. Unlike other marketing experts, Beckwith eschews technical [...]
Bank-issued debit and credit cards are used every day, and have become common in shopping and paying bills. Credit cards were introduced in the 1950s, while debit cards came out in the mid-1970s. By 2006, there were more than 984 million bank-issued Visa and MasterCard credit and debit cards in the United States. Whereas debit [...]
October 3-9, 2011, marks the *Financial Planning Association’s (FPA’s) tenth annual Financial Planning Week! Financial Planning Week is a celebration to help individuals discover the value of financial planning and make smart financial decisions to achieve life goals and dreams. There are many topics to consider when thinking about a financial planning strategy, including the following: [...]
