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Coaching Cures The Loneliness of The Small Business Owner
Recently, I was asked to develop a show for a broadcasting company, and to get an idea of what they’re up to, I listened to an archived business program pertaining to sales.Normally, I don’t have time to listen to other sales trainers or purported gurus, but it was lunchtime, and this was research, so I tuned in.After getting over the geekiness of the guy’s voice, I started to listen to his message. It wasn’t earthshaking or really new.I found myself responding positively, nonetheless, because it is the voice of somebody interested in the same thing that I’m interested in, sales and training.“I’ve been there,” is what this otherwise bland, nondescript character is saying, and to me, at that particular lunch hour, sitting by myself, well, I found it comforting.This is one of the basic foundations of business coaching; one of the main reasons it’s thriving. In a word, most small business owners, despite their expertise and success, are lonely.They don’t have anyone to talk to, or to listen to, for advice and support.I feel just a little funny writing about this, b

yment each month, plus a partial payment on the delinquent amount. An initial down payment is required. Most lenders have a forbearance program. However, you must be diligent in requesting forbearance even if it means speaking with a manager with authority to approve the plan. Request that the approval be sent to you in writing.

Affordability

An important subsection in acceptance of forbearance is the probability of successfully completing the plan. It is easy to agree to any repayment plan when desperately trying to stop foreclosure. You will be happy to stop the process by any means necessary.

I have had clients who agreed to ridiculous repayment plans that they obviously did no

Linking From High Pagerank Sites the Easy Way
One of the components of getting traffic from the search engines is to have another site linking to you.You want to get links from a site that is frequently visited by the search engine spiders. The spiders will crawl the site and find the link to your page.To find sites that get visited by the spiders frequently, you can view the pagerank of the sites. I will not go into detail about how Google determines pagerank or even what pagerank is for brevity.You can find the pagerank of a site by either installing the Google toolbar or visiting third party sites such as:Sites are given pagerank between 0 and 10. A rule of thumb is that you'll want to get links from sites with a pagerank of at least 5. Those sites get visited by the search engine spiders at least once a day.To get links from sites with pagerank of 5 you can send the webmaster a link exchange request, submit content for their sites or you can take the simple method as outlined below.Ezinearticles.com is a site where people visit and submit their articles for other publishers to use as content on t

Financial literacy is the means of empowering consumers to make informed financial decisions through exposure to accurate and timely information. In no other area is the void of accurate information more evident that in the area of foreclosure.

The national foreclosure rate is at the highest level since the Great Depression. Families fall behind on the mortgage payments because of illness, job layoffs, business failure, divorce and marital problems, and bad money management decisions. Foreclosure and the loss of the home is the usual result. Foreclosure is financially and psychologically devastating to the stability of the household.

This article provides information to expose homeowners to the financial principles of loss mitigation. Loss mitigation is essential to asset protection because it provides the borrower with information necessary to make good decisions. Learning the programs or "tools" available as an alternative to foreclosure is the key to preserving home ownership.

For example, If I told you that the mortgage servicing industry reports average loss of $20,000 to $30,000 per foreclosure, then you may be inclined to believe that foreclosure is not an efficient and cost effective means of collections for the lender. According to Vic Draper, President of Universal Default Services, "33% of all mortgage defaults that go to REO never made contact with the borrower!" The lender does not want your home and will work out a financial alternative if you speak their language.

LOSS MITIGATION TOOLS

A homeowner should know and understand options available during times of crisis. It makes the difference in gaining ground in challenging situations. A point well presented by Gerry Spence, legendary attorney and best selling author of “How to Argue and Win Every Time,” a book I first bought as a young attorney and have since read numerous times. Spence stresses that you cannot make the winning argument if you are speaking English and the other person is speaking French. Parlez-vous Francais?

The following financial tools act as a safety net that allows for a quicker recovery. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has been instrumental in establishing guidelines to assist homeowners experiencing financial hardships. The goal is to offer financial alternatives to foreclosure, while allowing lenders to make determinations based on certain risk criteria. Lenders also benefit from the prevention of losses due to foreclosure sales. Without these programs, millions of people would lose homes each year.

FORBEARANCE PLAN

Immediately contact the lender to report a temporary loss or reduction in income and signup for a forbearance. A forbearance plan is designed to bring payments current over a period of time by paying a full payment each month, plus a partial payment on the delinquent amount. An initial down payment is required. Most lenders have a forbearance program. However, you must be diligent in requesting forbearance even if it means speaking with a manager with authority to approve the plan. Request that the approval be sent to you in writing.

Affordability

I have had clients who agreed to ridiculous repayment plans that they obviously did no

Part VI - Getting Your Site Indexed in Alexa
Although Alexa's search results are driven by Google, this is a definite must in your search engine marketing plan.The reason is that Alexa will provide statistics about your website that no other search engine or web directory will provide.These statistics include:*Your site ranking on the internet *What sites are linking to yours *Detailed traffic statistics *Site thumbnails *Site SpeedThese are just a few examples.You can also use Alexa to search for your keywords. This will tell you who your competition is for the keywords you have selected. You can more carefully study your competition, find out who is linking to your competition, and use what you learn to raise your rankings in the search engines, as well as find better keywords for your website.Alexa also has its own crawler, and eventhough you may show up in the search results powered by Google, you still want to have Alexa crawl your site.Alexa, like Google, may discover your site on its own. However, it's been my experience that Alexa only updates my site when I visit Alexa and make

rs to the financial principles of loss mitigation. Loss mitigation is essential to asset protection because it provides the borrower with information necessary to make good decisions. Learning the programs or "tools" available as an alternative to foreclosure is the key to preserving home ownership.

LOSS MITIGATION TOOLS

FORBEARANCE PLAN

Affordability

I have had clients who agreed to ridiculous repayment plans that they obviously did no

Flesh Eating Spiders And Other Marketing Horrors
After a friend was bitten by a spider, I decided to do some research to find out more about the spider.I came across a website that decided to create a marketing message that focused on fear based selling and over the top lies.To emphasize the fear based factor, the website was illustrated with pictures of spider bite 'victims' that had huge holes in their skin from where the small spider bite supposedly turned into a flesh eating monster.One photograph caption went way over the top by stating that the victim of a horrific spider bite on the leg resulted in the victim having their leg amputated.The business owners then went on to state that if the victim would have bought their product, this never would have happened. And if you purchase their product it will not happen to you.This business chose to base their marketing on deceit and lies to sell their product. Even worse, they valued profit more than people.They chose to paint a horrific picture with their marketing message in an attempt to scare up customers.What picture do

!" The lender does not want your home and will work out a financial alternative if you speak their language.

LOSS MITIGATION TOOLS

FORBEARANCE PLAN

Affordability

I have had clients who agreed to ridiculous repayment plans that they obviously did no

FTC Must Now Sue Themselves; Lap Tops Stolen Personal Information Too
Now I have heard it all the Federal Trade Commission had two laptops stolen here in Scottsdale, AZ can you believe it? From a locked car or so they say as to not look bad. The mighty FTC Federal Trade Commission in all their glory and incompetence indeed?The wonderful agency who was suppose to get rid of SPAM, yet allowed it to increase some 3000%. The wonderful agency who was suppose to look into gasoline pricing? The wonderful agency that attacked Microsoft, making it almost impossible for Microsoft to add FREE FEATURES to their operating system to help computer users?Well isn’t the mighty Federal Trade Commission the same agency which is suppose to protect consumers from Identity Thieves and now they have lost two-lap tops in Scottsdale AZ, perhaps what vacationing on taxpayer’s money as usual at some conference? Apparently reports say that the;“The Commission announced it is notifying approximately 110 individuals that two FTC laptop computers, one of which contained some of their personally identifiable information, were stolen from a locked vehicle.” Well in

for a quicker recovery. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has been instrumental in establishing guidelines to assist homeowners experiencing financial hardships. The goal is to offer financial alternatives to foreclosure, while allowing lenders to make determinations based on certain risk criteria. Lenders also benefit from the prevention of losses due to foreclosure sales. Without these programs, millions of people would lose homes each year.

FORBEARANCE PLAN

Affordability

I have had clients who agreed to ridiculous repayment plans that they obviously did no

Ten Steps To Building Business Relationships: Gateway To International Business
It has been an exciting and wonderful journey for me since I migrated in Canada. I celebrated my 3rd year anniversary and it's amazing how I've grown a lot. One of the secrets is to associate myself with well connected people as well as individuals who are already financially independent or in the financial freedom path like I am. These accelerated my success in a very short period of time in a new country. This year, I've the privilege of being an apprentice by my multi - millionaire speaking coach who "coincidentally" is expanding his seminar business internationally. He started off with Asia which fortunately is my original roots. I will be sharing the stage with him in Phuket, Thailand next month. The topic?!? Ten Steps to Building Business Relationships: Gateway to International Business. Without further ado, here are some of my success secrets to be able to say that in building business relationships strategies that I use, I'm the best in the planet!STEP 1: Meet 10 people per day. Spend a few hours every week networking online and offline. This is 300 people per month, 3,600 individua

Affordability

I have had clients who agreed to ridiculous repayment plans that they obviously did not have the income to cover. In some cases, it appeared that the lender pulled numbers out of the sky without gathering information on the homeowner’s ability to repay. This is poor mitigation technique that will normally count against the client as a broken promise to pay and often leads to the decision to sell the property rather than take additional risk with the homeowner.

During the early part of 2004, a prospective client contacted Save Your Home two days before his home was scheduled for sale. Despite time limitations, we had a very good relationship with this particular lender and agreed to intervene on the homeowner’s behalf.

He had $8,000 to use as a down payment to stop the sale but the lender refused to accept it because a forbearance plan had been put in place three months earlier in which our client had paid a $6,500 down payment, but failed to make the subsequent payments under the terms of the agreement. This made him a bad risk for reinstatement and foreclosure seemed the most prudent financial decision for the lender to recover its arrearage.

However, the truth of the matter was the homeowner agreed to a plan that he could not afford to pay. It was not a good plan because it was based on a higher monthly income due to miscalculations where a quarterly bonus should have appeared on the financial status report. His monthly income had been overstated by $600 per month. When it was time to make the other payments, he was rich on paper but was cash poor. He did not have the income and as a result violated the repayment plan.

We convinced the lender to take another look at the numbers. In the end, the lender accepted a $2,500 down payment and modified the terms of the loan. The client was able to keep his home because he correctly reported his income to the lender. Make sure that you report your income accurately so that you can afford the repayment plan offered to you.

LOAN MODIFICATION

When the financial loss is due to an illness, death or loss of a spouse, or unexpected increase in expenses, (e.g. tax levy, sick child, or other permanent hardships), talk to the lender about a loan modification. A loan modification changes the terms of the loan to lower the payments. Documentation of the hardship will be necessary. Loan modifications are granted frequently. Still, you must aggressively negotiate with the lender. Refer to examples in case study.

REVERSE MORTGAGES

This is a type of home equity loan that allows you to convert some of the equity into cash while retaining ownership. If you are 62 or older and are “house-rich and “cash-poor,” a reverse mortgage is an option to consider. Consult with your family, attorney, or financial advisor before applying for a reverse mortgage. Knowing your rights and responsibilities as a b

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