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Community and Music - How to Showcase and Get Noticed
You know me. I know you. You know someone else. I know someone different. We all know each other. These are our networks and communities.In a band or music sense, network and community is essentially what it's all about, when it comes time to share your music around.You or your band writes, performs, and records music true, but unless you’re a real purist, and enjoy your music for yourself, for the music, for your own CD rack at home alone then, at some point in time you may want to let others know about your band, your performances, and your music.We know we are a band, and we know that we want to share our music. What you need next is Exposure.It's no good lining your best coat with your CD's to wander the streets and flash passers by, as this only gives you limited exposure, except in the cas

one that isn't designed to fund every politically sensitive entitlement that compromises itself down the aisle. We need a simplified benefit structure that supplements privately funded (untaxed) retirement programs. [Healthcare just has to be a separate issue, perhaps an actual (managed) Trust Fund, and certainly something that should not be funded by private citizens until there is meaningful tort reform in this country.] Pshew! Back to the point... We can elimi

Site Promotion Tools - A New Visual Experience
A great way to advance your strategies in site promotion is through the use of visual arts. Often this is accomplished through video, but it can be done with photography to great effect.Following the Greensburg, Kansas tornado in the spring of 2007 a radio station known for their audio presence took their new web site design and demonstrated that a visual presence could be an effective means of enhancing the experience for online visitors.Two different photo slide shows were developed with music. Thousands of individuals downloaded the moving presentations and sent others to do the same.In this case the expectation was less about site promotion and more about information in an emotionally moving format, but the idea has applications for your website.If you have an online business that deals in f

As an investor, I've always wondered why Social Security is such a problem. What's so difficult about managing this particular Trust Fund, and why is it so different from other investment accounts that pay out a constant stream of income? The private sector does it routinely with defined benefit pension plans and fixed annuities, so what's the big deal? Is Social Security failing because it hasn't been invested soundly, or is there some other reason?

The most obvious explanation is politics, but we're running out of time for finger pointing, and Social Security is solvable in a surprisingly painless manner. It will require a whole new approach that uses old ideas and institutions in ways that most of us have pretty much given up on. As hopeless as the Bush Administration's Nicotine Patch for Social Security would have been, it pointed in the right direction. Now don't hit when I refer to "privatization", or when I mention one of my own most hated financial products, the "annuity". Both are needed to permanently fix the Social Security mess, to get it away from people who are neither managers nor investment specialists, and to make the whole system work more economically. The purpose of this article is to get you to think about it... and to elect a hero with the guts to fix it. Unfortunately, Joe DiMaggio has left the building!

Are you surprised that there is no "Social Security Trust Fund"... no investments and no Investment Managers. This is a gigantic Government designed and controlled Ponzi scheme that has worked incredibly well in spite of congressional tinkering and prohibitively high cost. There was always a tax plan for funding the benefits, but never an Investment Plan. And as difficult as it is for me to admit, no sophisticated Investment Plan is really necessary. We just need a new (reduced) contribution plan, one that isn't designed to fund every politically sensitive entitlement that compromises itself down the aisle. We need a simplified benefit structure that supplements privately funded (untaxed) retirement programs. [Healthcare just has to be a separate issue, perhaps an actual (managed) Trust Fund, and certainly something that should not be funded by private citizens until there is meaningful tort reform in this country.] Pshew! Back to the point... We can elimin

Communication in a Changing World
The Advertising, Marketing and Broadcast community currently reside in a tramline society, a society that has got used to its ruts and its blinkers and prefers its own ways, however dreary, to untrodden paths and new ways of looking at things.An analogous story is of the Peruvian Indians who, seeing the sails of their Spanish invaders on the horizon simply put it down to a freak in the weather and went on about their business having no concept of sailing ships in their limited experience.Likewise Advertising Agencies have absolutely no understanding of the communication process. Similarly they pay only lip service to the much-needed concept of accountability!The huge changes about to engulf this community need not be painful, however these changes are inevitable because the old ways of marketing and

t obvious explanation is politics, but we're running out of time for finger pointing, and Social Security is solvable in a surprisingly painless manner. It will require a whole new approach that uses old ideas and institutions in ways that most of us have pretty much given up on. As hopeless as the Bush Administration's Nicotine Patch for Social Security would have been, it pointed in the right direction. Now don't hit when I refer to "privatization", or when I mention one of my own most hated financial products, the "annuity". Both are needed to permanently fix the Social Security mess, to get it away from people who are neither managers nor investment specialists, and to make the whole system work more economically. The purpose of this article is to get you to think about it... and to elect a hero with the guts to fix it. Unfortunately, Joe DiMaggio has left the building!

How To Get An Auto Loan With Bad Credit?
You have found the car of your dreams, but you know your credit is not the greatest. You ask yourself, “How can I get an auto loan with bad credit?”You are not alone. Thousands of people ask the same question everyday. Just because you have bad credit, does not mean you can not buy that car of your dreams. When considering bad credit auto loans, you can save yourself thousands of dollars when you know about the options available to you.You can get all the resources you need to compare auto loans with competitors trying to earn your business online. Now you can shop online from the comfort of your home. An auto loan online can save you the hassle of many long hours waiting at a car dealership for an approval.5 Ideas To Help Get A Bad Credit Auto Loan1. The first step is to find out what your cred

when I mention one of my own most hated financial products, the "annuity". Both are needed to permanently fix the Social Security mess, to get it away from people who are neither managers nor investment specialists, and to make the whole system work more economically. The purpose of this article is to get you to think about it... and to elect a hero with the guts to fix it. Unfortunately, Joe DiMaggio has left the building!

Niche Marketing – Do You Have An Unique Selling Proposition?
Do you have your own USP? To stand out from the crowd, your business needs a unique selling point. Unless you have invented your own product, you will have competition. Depending on what your business offers for products or services, you must present the aspect of your business that makes what you bring the market that is Unique. When you develop your own unique selling point, the best place to start is with your competition.Make it a priority to know your competition. Sit down and visit the most popular web sites of your competitors to make notes of what they promise their customers. From free shipping to lowest prices, your competition will bring their own unique selling proposition to your niche market.Brainstorming for your own unique selling propositionCreate a two column worksheet. Start w

"Social Security Trust Fund"... no investments and no Investment Managers. This is a gigantic Government designed and controlled Ponzi scheme that has worked incredibly well in spite of congressional tinkering and prohibitively high cost. There was always a tax plan for funding the benefits, but never an Investment Plan. And as difficult as it is for me to admit, no sophisticated Investment Plan is really necessary. We just need a new (reduced) contribution plan, one that isn't designed to fund every politically sensitive entitlement that compromises itself down the aisle. We need a simplified benefit structure that supplements privately funded (untaxed) retirement programs. [Healthcare just has to be a separate issue, perhaps an actual (managed) Trust Fund, and certainly something that should not be funded by private citizens until there is meaningful tort reform in this country.] Pshew! Back to the point... We can elimi

Turn Your Wisdom Into a Workshop
The Technical Revolution has done a lot for us -- we merely have to pick up a phone or send an email to conduct business. Yet, there still is no substitute for live, personal appearances when you want your teaching to count, and that’s why I love workshops. Your participants benefit from the short-term intensity of the experience, and you benefit from actually seeing your principles and exercises in play.If you’ve got the solution to any problem that’s out there, you can deliver it in workshop form. Here are some steps I’ve developed in my years of designing and delivering self-help workshops:1. Put together a workshop people actually need. What’s the biggest problem your target market faces – and what do you know about solving it? This is the key to filling your workshop. Find the problem you are uniquely qu

After the repeal of the Social Security tax and implementation of mandated Individual Retirement Plan Contributions, the Social Security bureaucracy will retain several important functions: 1) Qualifying private sector companies and licensing them to provide Social Security Retirement Income Annuities (SSRIAs). Thousands of providers will be needed, but only, fixed income experienced, profitable companies need apply. 2) Developing a computerized system for participant/provider matching... inspired randomness is essential. 3) Proactive monitoring of compliance with the minimal rules, installation of fraud detection systems, and investigation of all violations by providers, participants, and retirees, 4) Keeping the plan sacred, simple, and principally unchanged by future legislation. The plan must be kept: simple and profitable for providers; painless and visible to participants; timely and comprehensible to retirees.

The SSRIA is a new and improved version of the ancient Deferred Fixed Annuity Contract... a boring but guaranteed retirement benefit vehicle, funded by both mandated and voluntary payroll deductions, with a whole bunch of new wrinkles that make it an ideal Social Security replacement program. For example, and unlike existing annuity contracts: 1) Participants will be allocated to "qualified SSRIA providers" so there will be no sales commissions, no business acquisition or retention costs, no advertising expenses, etc. 2) All SSRIA contracts (regardless of provider) will contain the same terms, interest guarantees, retirement benefit choices, and pre-retirement death benefits, thus eliminating any incentives for internal fraud

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The first stage of most business decisions, such as marketing, hiring, and investing, is gathering data. In most cases the information is captured in the form of words. Once the words are available, the next step is analyzing them. In light of some recent scientific research, should you believe in your analyst’s interpretation of these words?

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