Category: Business & Marketing

For any professional sports team, proper branding is essential to grow and maintain an engaged fan base. While winning championships can increase the revenue of a professional sports team, so can a strong team brand.

For example, the New York Knicks placed at the bottom of their division during the 2014-2015 NBA season. However, the Knicks was the only team from its division to make it to the list of Most Valuable Sports Teams of Forbes in both 2014 and 2015.

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Are you ready to quit the daily grind? Or maybe you’ve already become your own boss, but you’re struggling to match your old pace or worried about meeting your new quotas.

If you’re one of the millions of people working from home (one in five Americans work from home, according to Forbes), here are four useful tips to ensure that you’re making the most out of your self-directed workday.

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As most business owners are well aware, a company’s earning capacity is integral to ongoing success. However, there is more to creating a sustainable business model than just turning a profit on those goods and services provided by your business. This is where recurring revenue comes in.

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There are many companies in this world that do business in different countries. These companies rely on their foreign profits to boost their bottom line. One of the things that can cause foreign business deals to fail is the inaccurate translation of documents. Having critical information on a document get lost in translation in something that companies can’t allow to happen.

Here are three reasons why your should hire a professional translation company involved in international business.

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Unlike bank loans, which are based on the borrower’s credit, hard money loans are based on real estate assets. Under hard money loan agreements, your real estate properties become the collateral for your financing agreement.

While some individuals may not be willing to use their property as collateral for a loan, other individuals may welcome the idea of being able to skip an extensive background check to have access to financing. A major difference between traditional bank loans and hard money loans is that in the latter, lenders focus their attention in assessing the value of  a property. Evaluating the market value of a property can often result in much faster lending decisions.

There are a number of factors to consider when choosing which loan is the right fit for your real estate investment. For investors needing a quick turnaround to take advantage of the best new opportunities rather than moving at the speed of traditional banks, a hard money loans could be the answer. However, real estate investors should keep in mind that hard money loans have a much shorter payment period than traditional mortgage loans. That shorter payment period usually ranges between 1 and 3 years.

Take a look at this infographic to learn more about some important facts and figures about hard money loans. Continue reading “Hard Money Loans Infographic: The Facts and Figures”

In life, there are good problems and bad. When you win the lottery, bliss may be replaced with shock when you find the change that a huge monetary prize has on your life and that of your loved ones.  After finding out that you now, there are two key action items that you need to follow.

The first thing to realize is that $800 million in lottery prizes goes uncollected each year, so that is why the very first thing that you need to do is to secure your winning ticket.

The second one is that while you may be tempted to go on a social media spree to let people that you have won the BIG ONE, you should avoid the spotlight because lottery winners immediately become targets to scam artists and thieves. Winners often are often the target of such intense harassment by family, friends, neighbors, and strangers, that the winners need to move away to maintain their anonymity and safety. This may sound a bit extreme, but keep in mind that six states (Delaware, Kansas, Maryland, North Dakota, Ohio, and South Carolina) have laws that require the lottery to release the name and city of residence of lottery winners.

In this infographic from Wookdbridge, find out what to do now that you have won the lottery.

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Are you tired of wasting your life in a cubicle? Are you ready to throw off the shackles of conventional employment and become your own boss?

Here are just five ways to say goodbye to a 9-to-5 existence while still making bank.

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Bulletin boards focus groups (also known as BBFGs) are extended online discussions that take over 3 to 5 days, or more. BBFGs may have between 18 to 25 participants per group and develop in an asynchronous, threaded, self-paced fashion. 

Here is an overview of bulletin board focus groups and their advantages and disadvantages.

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Since 2013, I have been writing on personal finance and, along the way, I have received all kinds of questions. However, the most common question that I receive is “Damian, how do I make some extra cash online?” With their no-waste philosophy, Millennials are the ones that look to multitask their income the most by making money completing little tasks during their breaks of their full-time jobs.

I could write a book on the different ways that you can leverage social media, marketing research, and the sharing economy to land a few extra dollars in your bank account. For now, I will get started with Part One from this series. Here are 5 ways to boost your monthly income through the Internet.

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