Starting your own business is not just about having a dream. There are real steps to ensure your business is a success. What should you consider before launching your new brainchild? This initial checklist will help to clarify your thinking, while prioritizing some activities for your planning and start up mode.
Find your niche market. It [...]
by Connolly Properties |
Workable space means efficiency, productivity, synergy and health. It is often necessary to transform your existing office space to meet these important goals and create these aspects of workable space. Having the ability to modify the space to your needs is similar to making a house a home. For business owners who [...]
by June Milligan, M.Ed., CCHt |
It is so important to become aware of our financial mental programming, those beliefs around money, which may be subconscious, but keep surfacing in our lives in dysfunctional ways.
What are your beliefs about money? It‘s vital to become consciously aware of them, because until we do, they can sabotage [...]
by David Branby |
People often ask me how much they should allocate for marketing. For many years, the rule of thumb was 2-3 percent of revenues for large companies (think Procter & Gamble), and 5-10 percent of revenues for small businesses, especially start-ups. Today, there are many exceptions to this rule. Thanks to the Internet, [...]
by David Branby |
I was talking to my favorite yoga instructor this week about what constitutes healthy business in times like these, and her take on it mirrored my own belief: business is always hard. Not surprisingly, in times like these, business is really hard. So the first rule of healthy business today is to [...]
Jungian Dreamwork Series:
Consciousness
and the Problem of the Shadow (part III)
Written by Andy Drymalski, EdD
Just as the projection of one’s shadow (the disowned part of our personality) is a fundamental process in the psychology of people, it is an aspect of the psychology of groups of people. Like the individual, groups are organized around a certain [...]
Reduce the Impact of Market Volatility
Written by Steve Lindquist
Recent market swings have millions of retirees and pre-retirees seeking safe places to stash what is left of their nest egg. Some may even be contemplating indefinitely postponing retirement or re-entering the workforce to help rebuild their retirement assets.
A Possible Scenario
Emily, 66, has $500,000 of retirement savings. [...]
Annuities are issued by life insurance companies to provide benefits during your lifetime. An annuity in the payout phase provides a guaranteed income that you can elect to have start either immediately after purchase or at a future date. You don’t have to pay federal income tax on accumulated earnings until payouts start. Withdrawals are [...]
