Nov 28th, 2008 | Leadership | No Comments
The reason they don’t work is not always because the author didn’t know his business or was a scam artist. The strategy may very well have worked once. But once many people know a strategy, it ceases to be effective in the forex market.
There are two primary methods of forex trading swing trades and day trades. Most experts will advise you to stay away from day trading. The volatility within a day is mostly random and can’t be predicted. Therefore if you spend your money on a day trading system, you’ll probably end up with an empty account - especially if you’re a novice. Even with a swing trading system, there are certain precautions it is wise to take.
Nov 27th, 2008 | Leadership | No Comments
A new report, published by Andrew Beveridge, a sociologist at Queens College in New York City, indicates that young women are outearning their male counterparts in major urban areas. The trend is for these women to delay marriage and childbirth, allowing them to develop a career before settling down. This of course is a major change from previous generations, where the norm was for young women to marry and have children at a relatively young age, typically in their early twenties.
Nov 26th, 2008 | Leadership | No Comments
The future for the Irish economy is bright for those who grasp the opportunities presented by the new world that we’re all moving into, make no mistake about that.
Now is truly a time of incredible transition. Yes, the internet arrived over 10 years ago, and the first crash has already occurred, and while some prospered and some didn’t, the revolution has been pretty quiet.
It happened quietly to begin with. Initially, the change that it represented wasn’t compelling or necessary enough for many to take the leap of faith and immerse themselves in what is without question the single most age transforming development of our lifetimes, bar none.
Nov 23rd, 2008 | Leadership | No Comments
You’ve probably heard these two, seemingly contradictory sayings: “God is in the details” and the “Devil is in the details.” Guess what - both are right! You see, it’s the details - the little things - that often make all the difference. This is especially the case for businesses. It’s those “minor” details that all add up to create a either a positive or negative customer experience… a quality or inferior product… and a successful or failing business. What this means is that getting the minor details right - by systemizing them - is crucial to business success… so that God (not the Devil) ends up in the details!
Nov 23rd, 2008 | Leadership | No Comments
One of the most powerful aspects of implementing systems in your business is the ability to bring about continuous improvement. There’s a saying that “what can measured, can be improved” which highlights one of the key benefits of systems.
When you implement a process - for instance, by preparing a cashmap, which documents the process from start to finish - you are NOT setting anything in stone. On the contrary, you are merely documenting the best currently known way of producing a given result.
Nov 23rd, 2008 | Leadership | No Comments
Many people who are unfamiliar with - or who are not sold on the concept of systemizing their business - believe that systems will stifle their creativity or freedom.
Nothing could be further from the truth! By implementing systems in your business, you will actually free up both yourself and your staff to apply your and their creativity to those matters that require creative thinking… rather than requiring them to apply their minds to reinventing the wheel on routine tasks.
Nov 21st, 2008 | Leadership | No Comments
Success means different things to different people: for some it is building wealth; for some it is successful relationships; for some it is creativity and independence; and, for others it some form of leadership.
Whatever constitutes your definition of success, you will find some common principles that are needed to make it achievable. Consider the following four actions. Notice that they are called actions. Some would call them attitudes, but attitudes are birthed out of actions that you willingly embrace over time.
Action # 1: Embrace New Information
Nov 21st, 2008 | Leadership | No Comments
Finding the paid survey sites is both easy and difficult to do. While you can certainly do a search for “paid surveys” or “online surveys” through Google or another search engine, the results you get back may not always be as helpful as you would hope. It’s likely that many of the results you get back are membership sites that require a payment to join. Otherwise, you need to go through hundreds of results to find all the good paid survey sites that you should be joining to be successful as a survey taker. While this works, it is a long and time consuming process.
Nov 20th, 2008 | Leadership | No Comments
Finding first a hungry crowd to sell food to rather than making the food first is advice that many entrepreneurs do not get early enough. Indeed its nuances can even be evasive to a seasoned entrepreneur. This we can view as a technical error in an internet business start up. But it does have a antecedent. And this precursor is a state of mind. It’s the underlying reason you want to go into business, online or off.
Nov 20th, 2008 | Leadership | No Comments
Imagine a builder whose plumb line was somehow defective. Let’s say due to magnetic forces. The plum line missed the perpendicular by one degree. Such an error would probably be inconsequential on a ten foot wall of a bungalow. It may not even be such a big problem for a 25 foot wall on a two story mansion. But it starts becoming a precariously hanging wall on a 80 plus foot wall on a ten floor storey building. If you building a one hundred plus floor story building like the former towers of the collapsed World Trade Center in New York, one degree error in laying the foundation of the walls would require you to bring down the building and start again.
