Why You Should Invest
Investing has become increasingly important over the years, as the future of social security benefits becomes unknown.
People want to insure their futures, and they know that if they are depending on Social Security benefits, and in some cases retirement plans, that they may be in for a rude awakening when they no longer have the ability to earn a steady income. Investing is the answer to the unknowns of the future.
You may have been saving money in a low interest savings account over the years. Now, you want to see that money grow at a faster pace. Perhaps you’ve inherited money or realized some other type of windfall, and you need a way to make that money grow. Again, investing is the answer.
Investing is also a way of attaining the things that you want, such as a new home, a college education for your children, or expensive ‘toys.’ Of course, your financial goals will determine what type of investing you do.
If you want or need to make a lot of money fast, you would be more interested in higher risk investing, which will give you a larger return in a shorter amount of time. If you are saving for something in the far off future, such as retirement, you would want to make safer investments that grow over a longer period of time.
The overall purpose in investing is to create wealth and security, over a period of time. It is important to remember that you will not always be able to earn an income… you will eventually want to retire.
You also cannot count on the social security system to do what you expect it to do. As we have seen with Enron, you also cannot necessarily depend on your company’s retirement plan either. So, again, investing is the key to insuring your own financial future, but you must make smart investments!
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Why Should I Manage My Own Income Budget ?
Show Me (Where Is) The Money!
You say you know where your money goes and you don’t need it all written down to keep up with it? I issue you this challenge. Keep track of every cent you spend for one month and I do mean every cents.
You will be shocked at what the small niggly expenses add up to. Take the total you spent on just one unnecessary item for the month, multiply it by 12 for months in a year and multiply the result by 5 to represent 5 years. Best example..a pack of cigarettes..say you are a casual smoker that spends 5 packets of cigarettes a month. If a pack cost $10, that will bring you back to about $50 a month..$600..a year and $3000 spend on cigarettes over 5 years.
That is how much you could have saved AND drawn interest on in just five years. That, my friend, is the very reason all of us need a budget.
If we can get control of the small expenses that really don’t matter to the overall scheme of our lives, we can enjoy financial success.
The little things really do count. Cutting what you spend on lunch from five dollars a day to three dollars a day on every work day in a five day work week saves $10 a week… $40 a month… $480 a year… $2400 in five years….plus interest.
See what I mean… it really IS the little things and you still eat lunch everyday AND that was only one place to save money in your daily living without doing without one thing you really need. There are a lot of places to cut expenses if you look for them.
Set some specific long term and short term goals. There are no wrong answers here. If it’s important to you, then it’s important period.
If you want to be able to make a down payment on a house, start a college fund for your kids, buy a sports car, take a vacation to Aruba… anything… then that is your goal and your reason to get a handle on your financial situation now.
Click Here! If you want a powerful range of information, resources, tools and opportunities to those individuals seeking more personal and financial freedom. This includes information on all offshore resources (bank accounts, cards, trusts & IBCs), international living, alternative residencies, offshore investing, privacy - and anything and everything to do with individual sovereignty and how to maximise one's individual freedom.
You say you know where your money goes and you don’t need it all written down to keep up with it? I issue you this challenge. Keep track of every cent you spend for one month and I do mean every cents.
You will be shocked at what the small niggly expenses add up to. Take the total you spent on just one unnecessary item for the month, multiply it by 12 for months in a year and multiply the result by 5 to represent 5 years. Best example..a pack of cigarettes..say you are a casual smoker that spends 5 packets of cigarettes a month. If a pack cost $10, that will bring you back to about $50 a month..$600..a year and $3000 spend on cigarettes over 5 years.
That is how much you could have saved AND drawn interest on in just five years. That, my friend, is the very reason all of us need a budget.
If we can get control of the small expenses that really don’t matter to the overall scheme of our lives, we can enjoy financial success.
The little things really do count. Cutting what you spend on lunch from five dollars a day to three dollars a day on every work day in a five day work week saves $10 a week… $40 a month… $480 a year… $2400 in five years….plus interest.
See what I mean… it really IS the little things and you still eat lunch everyday AND that was only one place to save money in your daily living without doing without one thing you really need. There are a lot of places to cut expenses if you look for them.
Set some specific long term and short term goals. There are no wrong answers here. If it’s important to you, then it’s important period.
If you want to be able to make a down payment on a house, start a college fund for your kids, buy a sports car, take a vacation to Aruba… anything… then that is your goal and your reason to get a handle on your financial situation now.
Click Here! If you want a powerful range of information, resources, tools and opportunities to those individuals seeking more personal and financial freedom. This includes information on all offshore resources (bank accounts, cards, trusts & IBCs), international living, alternative residencies, offshore investing, privacy - and anything and everything to do with individual sovereignty and how to maximise one's individual freedom.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Do Not Surround Yourself With Money
The Budget – The Ultimate Financial Management Tool
A carpenter uses a set of house plans to build a house. If he didn’t the bathroom might get overlooked altogether.
Rocket Scientists would never begin construction on a new booster rocket without a detailed set of design specifications. Yet most of us go blindly out into the world without an inkling of an idea about finances and without any plan at all.
Not very smart of us, is it?
A money plan is called a budget and it is crucial to get us to our desired financial goals.
Without a plan we will drift without direction and end up marooned on a distant financial reef.
If you have a spouse or a significant other, you should make this budget together. Sit down and figure out what your joint financial goals are…long term and short term.
Then plan your route to get to those goals. Every journey begins with one step and the first step to attaining your goals is to make a realistic budget that both of you can live with.
A budget should never be a financial starvation diet. That won’t work for the long haul. Make reasonable allocations for food, clothing, shelter, utilities and insurance and set aside a reasonable amount for entertainment and the occasional luxury item. Savings should always come first before any spending.
Even a small amount saved will help you reach your long term and short term financial goals. You can find many budget forms on the internet. Just use any search engine you choose and type in “free budget forms”.
You’ll get lots of hits. Print one out and work on it with your spouse or significant other. Both of you will need to be happy with the final result and feel like it’s something you can stick to.
A carpenter uses a set of house plans to build a house. If he didn’t the bathroom might get overlooked altogether.
Rocket Scientists would never begin construction on a new booster rocket without a detailed set of design specifications. Yet most of us go blindly out into the world without an inkling of an idea about finances and without any plan at all.
Not very smart of us, is it?
A money plan is called a budget and it is crucial to get us to our desired financial goals.
Without a plan we will drift without direction and end up marooned on a distant financial reef.
If you have a spouse or a significant other, you should make this budget together. Sit down and figure out what your joint financial goals are…long term and short term.
Then plan your route to get to those goals. Every journey begins with one step and the first step to attaining your goals is to make a realistic budget that both of you can live with.
A budget should never be a financial starvation diet. That won’t work for the long haul. Make reasonable allocations for food, clothing, shelter, utilities and insurance and set aside a reasonable amount for entertainment and the occasional luxury item. Savings should always come first before any spending.
Even a small amount saved will help you reach your long term and short term financial goals. You can find many budget forms on the internet. Just use any search engine you choose and type in “free budget forms”.
You’ll get lots of hits. Print one out and work on it with your spouse or significant other. Both of you will need to be happy with the final result and feel like it’s something you can stick to.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Know Your Spending Habit Part 2
Spend Wisely to Save Money
Have you ever noticed that the prices of stuffs and items you buy every week at the grocery and hardware stores go up a few cents between shopping trips? Not by so much…just by a little each week but they continue to rise up and up.
All it takes for the price to jump up by a lot is a little hiccup in the world wide market, note the price of crude oil as it relates to world affairs.
There is a way that we can keep these price increases from impacting our personal finances so much and that is by buying in quantity bulk and finding the best possible prices for the things we use and will continue to use everyday… things that will keep just as well on the shelves in our homes as it does on the shelves at the grocery store or hardware store.
For instance, dog food and cat food costs about 10% less when bought by the case than it does when bought at the single can price and if you wait for stock clearance prices you save a lot more than that.
Set aside some space in your home and make a list of things that you use regularly which will not spoil. Any grain or grain products will need to be stored in airtight containers that rats can’t get into so keep that in mind.
Then set out to find the best prices you can get on quantity purchases of such things as bathroom items and dry and canned food.
You will be surprised at how much you can save by buying a twenty kilogram bag of rice as opposed to a 2.5 kilogram bag but don’t forget that it must be kept in a rat proof container.
You can buy some clothing items such as men’s socks and underwear because those styles don’t change, avoid buying children’s and women’s clothing, those styles change and sizes change too drastically.
Try to acquire and keep a two year supply of these items and you can save hundreds of dollars.
Have you ever noticed that the prices of stuffs and items you buy every week at the grocery and hardware stores go up a few cents between shopping trips? Not by so much…just by a little each week but they continue to rise up and up.
All it takes for the price to jump up by a lot is a little hiccup in the world wide market, note the price of crude oil as it relates to world affairs.
There is a way that we can keep these price increases from impacting our personal finances so much and that is by buying in quantity bulk and finding the best possible prices for the things we use and will continue to use everyday… things that will keep just as well on the shelves in our homes as it does on the shelves at the grocery store or hardware store.
For instance, dog food and cat food costs about 10% less when bought by the case than it does when bought at the single can price and if you wait for stock clearance prices you save a lot more than that.
Set aside some space in your home and make a list of things that you use regularly which will not spoil. Any grain or grain products will need to be stored in airtight containers that rats can’t get into so keep that in mind.
Then set out to find the best prices you can get on quantity purchases of such things as bathroom items and dry and canned food.
You will be surprised at how much you can save by buying a twenty kilogram bag of rice as opposed to a 2.5 kilogram bag but don’t forget that it must be kept in a rat proof container.
You can buy some clothing items such as men’s socks and underwear because those styles don’t change, avoid buying children’s and women’s clothing, those styles change and sizes change too drastically.
Try to acquire and keep a two year supply of these items and you can save hundreds of dollars.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Know Your Spending Habit Part 1
How to Avoid The Urge for Adhoc Spending
Please answer these questions truthfully:
1.) Does your husband,wife or partner complain that you are spending too much money?
2.) Are you surprised each month when your credit card bill statement arrives at how much more you charged than you thought you had?
3.) Do you have more shoes and clothes in your cupboard than you could ever possibly wear?
4.) Do you pursue to own every new gadget before it has time to collect dust on a retailer’s shelf?
5.) Do you buy things you didn’t know you wanted until you saw them on display in a store?
If you answered “yes” to any two of the above questions, you are an impulse spender and indulge yourself in retail therapy.
This is not a good thing. It will prevent you from saving for the important things like a house, a new car, a vacation or retirement. You must set some financial goals and resist spending money on items that really don’t matter in the long run.
Impulse spending will not only put a strain on your finances but your relationships, as well. To overcome the problem, the first thing to do is learn to separate your needs from your wants.
Advertisers showcases us hawking their products at us 24/7. The trick is to give yourself a cooling-off period before you buy anything that you have not planned for.
When you go shopping, make a list and take only enough cash to pay for what you have planned to buy. Leave your credit cards at home.
If you see something you think you really need, give yourself two weeks to decide if it is really something you need or something you can easily do without. By following this simple solution, you will mend your financial fences and your relationships.
What you need is a BUDGET
Please answer these questions truthfully:
1.) Does your husband,wife or partner complain that you are spending too much money?
2.) Are you surprised each month when your credit card bill statement arrives at how much more you charged than you thought you had?
3.) Do you have more shoes and clothes in your cupboard than you could ever possibly wear?
4.) Do you pursue to own every new gadget before it has time to collect dust on a retailer’s shelf?
5.) Do you buy things you didn’t know you wanted until you saw them on display in a store?
If you answered “yes” to any two of the above questions, you are an impulse spender and indulge yourself in retail therapy.
This is not a good thing. It will prevent you from saving for the important things like a house, a new car, a vacation or retirement. You must set some financial goals and resist spending money on items that really don’t matter in the long run.
Impulse spending will not only put a strain on your finances but your relationships, as well. To overcome the problem, the first thing to do is learn to separate your needs from your wants.
Advertisers showcases us hawking their products at us 24/7. The trick is to give yourself a cooling-off period before you buy anything that you have not planned for.
When you go shopping, make a list and take only enough cash to pay for what you have planned to buy. Leave your credit cards at home.
If you see something you think you really need, give yourself two weeks to decide if it is really something you need or something you can easily do without. By following this simple solution, you will mend your financial fences and your relationships.
What you need is a BUDGET
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Freelance Travel Agent
Freelance Travel Agent
You might think that going to places like Toscana, Italy, Savannah, Georgia, Aruba or the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico you would be running up a huge balance on your credit cards. However, lots of smart men and women today are getting their dream income not only guiding groups to places like Tahiti, but also arranging travel plans for others. With todays tools, you can even do that from your bedroom.
Becoming a freelance travel agent is not difficult as long as you have the required equipment and experience with the different aspects of the travel business.
What you need to become a freelance travel agent
A travel agent is someone whos work is making travel arrangements on behalf of those who would like to travel for pleasure or business. Employing a travel agent will help greatly in buying cheap tickets, resort deals and other unique travel benefits that the person on the street is not able to find.
Benefits
Working as a freelance travel agent gives the chance for home based travel agents to make a significant income either full time or even part time. If you are wanting a good income, that is a realistic goal, but being a travel agent will also let you fly and go on cruises at cheap prices as well.
Many different benefits are set up for those who want to become freelance travel agents for such things as upgrades to first class, free travel when guiding a group and learning how to tell whether certain travel agent discounts are just a scam.
Resources
One of the successful ways to embark on a freelance travel agent career is through taking a home study course which can teach you what you need to really launch your home based travel business: understanding how to get your business started without outlaying a large quantity of cash, understanding your relationship with a host agency, learning how to earn the highest commissions possible, learning the required bookkeeping, learning how to find the best on location tour guides, learning how to negotiate a host agency contract along with getting the travel discounts you are entitled to.
Getting started
Once you determine to start your own home based travel agent business, there is a huge amount of information out there that can very easily entangle you; but, if you look to a respected online resource which will offer you a course you can easily get started.
You might think that going to places like Toscana, Italy, Savannah, Georgia, Aruba or the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico you would be running up a huge balance on your credit cards. However, lots of smart men and women today are getting their dream income not only guiding groups to places like Tahiti, but also arranging travel plans for others. With todays tools, you can even do that from your bedroom.
Becoming a freelance travel agent is not difficult as long as you have the required equipment and experience with the different aspects of the travel business.
What you need to become a freelance travel agent
A travel agent is someone whos work is making travel arrangements on behalf of those who would like to travel for pleasure or business. Employing a travel agent will help greatly in buying cheap tickets, resort deals and other unique travel benefits that the person on the street is not able to find.
Benefits
Working as a freelance travel agent gives the chance for home based travel agents to make a significant income either full time or even part time. If you are wanting a good income, that is a realistic goal, but being a travel agent will also let you fly and go on cruises at cheap prices as well.
Many different benefits are set up for those who want to become freelance travel agents for such things as upgrades to first class, free travel when guiding a group and learning how to tell whether certain travel agent discounts are just a scam.
Resources
One of the successful ways to embark on a freelance travel agent career is through taking a home study course which can teach you what you need to really launch your home based travel business: understanding how to get your business started without outlaying a large quantity of cash, understanding your relationship with a host agency, learning how to earn the highest commissions possible, learning the required bookkeeping, learning how to find the best on location tour guides, learning how to negotiate a host agency contract along with getting the travel discounts you are entitled to.
Getting started
Once you determine to start your own home based travel agent business, there is a huge amount of information out there that can very easily entangle you; but, if you look to a respected online resource which will offer you a course you can easily get started.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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Monday, January 24, 2011
Build Your Automated Internet Money Machine Workshop 2011
This is a formal invitation to all Singaporean to a hands on Internet business workshop this
coming Sunday 30/1/2011 in Singapore.
It's called "Build Your Automated Internet Money Machine" workshop.
In this 1 day workshop from 2pm to 9pm, you will be guided hands-on by Dennis Bay on the following
how to...
1. How to create your own personal .com website in 1 day!
2. How to promote your own business using the Internet!
3. How to build an unlimited global contacts database!
4. How to generate unlimited sales leads on autopilot!
5. How to have customers calling you every day!
Total Market Retail Value is $8000 SGD but you can get it for only
$198 SGD (non-members), for Team Asia Ventures members it's only
$98 SGD per person.
Here's the e-flyer,
The seats are extremely limited, as we can only train 20 students
hands-on and you will need to bring your own laptop computer as well.
*These 2 sessions are in English only.
Session 1 Date: 30/1/2011 Sunday 2pm to 9pm
Session 2 Date: 20/2/2011 Sunday 2pm to 9pm
Location:
AsiaVenturesHub.com Office
Chinatown Plaza 34 Craig Road #B1-08 Singapore 089673
To REGISTER FOR YOUR SEAT now, please email to shahrini99@gmail.com
OR SMS Sahri at +65-81811809.
1) YOUR NAME
2) YOUR PHONE NUMBER
3) SESSION 1 or SESSION 2
Book now before seats run out, only 20 seats per session!
*** WE WILL CLOSE APPLICATIONS ON SATURDAY 29/1/2011 for Session 1.
So book now before seats are all taken.
Questions? Email or call me.
See you there!
coming Sunday 30/1/2011 in Singapore.
It's called "Build Your Automated Internet Money Machine" workshop.
In this 1 day workshop from 2pm to 9pm, you will be guided hands-on by Dennis Bay on the following
how to...
1. How to create your own personal .com website in 1 day!
2. How to promote your own business using the Internet!
3. How to build an unlimited global contacts database!
4. How to generate unlimited sales leads on autopilot!
5. How to have customers calling you every day!
Total Market Retail Value is $8000 SGD but you can get it for only
$198 SGD (non-members), for Team Asia Ventures members it's only
$98 SGD per person.
Here's the e-flyer,
The seats are extremely limited, as we can only train 20 students
hands-on and you will need to bring your own laptop computer as well.
*These 2 sessions are in English only.
Session 1 Date: 30/1/2011 Sunday 2pm to 9pm
Session 2 Date: 20/2/2011 Sunday 2pm to 9pm
Location:
AsiaVenturesHub.com Office
Chinatown Plaza 34 Craig Road #B1-08 Singapore 089673
To REGISTER FOR YOUR SEAT now, please email to shahrini99@gmail.com
OR SMS Sahri at +65-81811809.
1) YOUR NAME
2) YOUR PHONE NUMBER
3) SESSION 1 or SESSION 2
Book now before seats run out, only 20 seats per session!
*** WE WILL CLOSE APPLICATIONS ON SATURDAY 29/1/2011 for Session 1.
So book now before seats are all taken.
Questions? Email or call me.
See you there!
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