11,298 articles on "finance"

What is a Mutual Fund

Ever wondered what is a mutual fund? A mutual fund is a pool of money run by a professional or group of professionals called the “investment adviser.” A mutual fund is a company that pools money from many investors and invests the money in stocks...

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Structured Settlements – Should You Sell Yours

In recent years, it has become more common for victims of accidental injury who accept a settlement from the at-fault party to accept a structured settlement instead of a lump-sum payment. With a structured settlement, the injured party receives paym...

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Emotional Fulfillment - Controlling Your Own Destiny

Emotional Fulfillment - Controlling Your Own Destiny by: Dennis Schooley Does A Franchise Meet Your Needs? When you think of becoming a businessperson by making the transition from employee to Franchisee, you don’t generally think in terms of ...

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The Truth Behind Linear Selling: Why It Can Make Prospects Run The Other Way

The Truth Behind Linear Selling: Why It Can Make Prospects Run The Other Way by: Ari Galper Sean works for a major telecom company. During one of our coaching sessions, he told me, "I've been diligent about following the sales process that...

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What the Mail on Sunday Said

What the Mail on Sunday Said by: Nicola Bullimore Anyone considering Bankruptcy may have experienced fear after reading an article written in The Mail on Sunday with the headline “Bankruptcy cheats face crackdown”. But, how much of what was ...

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Using Photos As Graphics In Marketing Your Business

Using Photos As Graphics In Marketing Your Business  by: Valerie Siple More and more businesses are seeing the value of photography in marketing their business. Websites, html emails, business cards, banners. Scanners and other digital equipment...

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Three Business Lessons From The US Postal Service

Three Business Lessons From The US Postal Service by: Denise O'Berry There was a buzz in the air recently about the US Postal Service. Seems as though they were running into a budget deficit in the billions. The Postal Service claimed they...

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The European Bank for the Retardation of Development

European Bank for the Retardation of Development by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. In typical bureaucratese, the pensive EBRD analyst ventures with the appearance of compunction: "A number of projects have fallen short of acceptable standards (notice the pa...

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Peggy Smedley Author of Mending Manufacturing, How American Can Manufacture its Survival to Address Pronto North America Users Conference

Peggy Smedley is the editor of Start Magazine and will be addressing the first annual Pronto North America Users Conference on Thursday, May 5th. Smedley was recently profiled in the Wall Street Journal and authored Mending Manufacturing, How America...

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Invisible Entrepreneurs

Imagine yourself so tiny you're sliding down a nanotube.These things are the latest tech invention that are sosmall that only single molecules can pass through them.Now imagine that you are the size of a mouse, that's thething under your ri...

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