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Greenback Mentor Archives
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401(k) Smartest Book -- Smart Read for the Wealth Builder?
The new book on 401(k) investing, cleverly titled the "smartest 401(k) book you will ever read" seeks to provide the large majority of retail investors, who are invested through their company 401k plans, the best way to utilize this tax advantaged investment vehicle to prepare for their eventual retirement. There are many resources on 401(k) available, including some excellent articles on this site . . . read more >>
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Required Business Performance Index -- Better Stock Performance?
A new stock tracking index is making the rounds, the Required Business Performance Index as part of the Dow Jones RBP Index Series supplied by Transparent Value LLC. It is based on the simple notion of estimating the bar that a company has to cross in order to meet its earnings estimates. While the idea of such estimation is a good one, coming up with a methodology that can rigorously test this and predict this is not. The required business performance index . . . read more >>
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Perils and Profits with CANSLIM stock picking methodology
CANSLIM is the stock picking methodology advocated by William O'Neill through his books and his newspaper, Investors Business Daily. The method advocates combining company fundamentals with technical analysis through charts to watch stock price movements on high volume and follow-through buying. It is a method based on William O'Neil's own experience . . . read more >>
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How to Invest Money -- Picking your Comfort Level
There are many great ways to invest your money -- whether in oil futures, in undervalued companies, by shorting the dollar, by buying the S&P 500 index and many more. Choosing a particular method of investing for yourself is however dependent on your comfort level, which in turn dictates "how to invest money" using any one or more of . . . read more >>
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Marketing Strategies for Your Small Business
Marketing strategies for small businesses are not significantly different from those of large businesses except for three key elements -- focus, focus, focus. Large businesses can afford to place generic advertisements on television without accounting for its value, simply going for "awareness" and "number of impressions". Small businesses have to be very focused on return on investment on each of their marketing techniques-- revenue generated versus cost of marketing . . . read more >>
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Google AdSense Average Income
Google AdSense has become a well-understood method for monetizing website traffic. Essentially you are permitting Google to place advertisements on your website, which it does in a context-sensitive, unobtrusive fashion. Each time a visitor clicks on an AdSense advertisement, you get a portion of the total money that the advertiser is paying Google for placing the advertisement. The payout for this may range from $0.01 to as high as $3-$4 per click. Obviously, the more clicks you get . . . read more >>
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Saving in Euros -- A Wealth Building Imperative?
The US dollar has been in a long-term decline since the turn of the twenty-first century, especially with the availability of a strong alternative currency in the form of Euro, a currency backed by thirteen developed nations. The euro was created as an alternative to the dollar, and it carries behind it an economy approximately 80% of the size of the US economy. With the rapidly rising value of the euro, from a low of $.85 to a high of $1.45 and with more to come, is it prudent for you, as a wealth builder . . . read more >>
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Best IRA Firms for a Wealth Builder
IRA (Individual Retirement Account) come in two flavors, Roth and Traditional, with somewhat different rules regarding tax treatment during the years you are building up your nest egg and during withdrawal years. There are other rules, including contribution limits that apply to each -- and there are good resources that explain these issues. Placing your IRA with a good firm -- a discount brokerage, full-service brokerage or mutual fund account . . . read more >>
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Wealth in Different Societies -- Lessons for a Wealth Builder
Wealth building possibilities for the common citizen throughout history has been a function of not only individual entrepreneurship, but also the overall economic and political structure of the society in which the individual is living. This is reflected in the structure of different societies in the world today -- and thus the wealth in different societies . . . read more >>
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Profiting from Mergers and Acquisitions -- A Wealth Building Strategy
A reasonably reliable method of profiting in the stock market is by focusing on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and by buying the stock of the company that is about to be acquired. The purchasing firm generally pays a premium to the market price resulting in a corresponding percentage rise in the market price itself. This gives you a quick profit of a few percentage points, at which time you exit the trade. The difficult part in this strategy . . . read more >>
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Can a MBA boost your Mid-Career Development Prospects?
Several career professionals choose to pick up an MBA degree after a few years of professional experience, hoping to boost their prospects of a higher income as well as an executive role in large multi-national firms. Many schools dangle the prospect of a serious upgrade in the career paths of its students as well as high six-figure . . . read more >>
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Stock Market Cycles: Reality or Myth -- A Wealth Builder's Friend?
Stock market observers have attempted to discern patterns in stock markets from very early days. Charles Dow pioneered the work with the Dow Jones Industrial and Transport Averages, and looked for confirmation or non-confirmation of trends between the two. Other technical analysis tools such as trend-watching, cup and handle formation, double-bottom, head and shoulders . . . read more >>
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Mid-Cap Stock Investing -- Road to Wealth?
As most wealth building investors know, investing in the stock market is often divided into large-cap, mid-cap and small-cap investing -- each style of investing being based on the size of the market capitalization of the companies being invested in. This methodology of dividing up companies by market size . . . read more >>
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The Big Credit Crunch -- How is a Wealth Builder to Ride it out?
Unless you have been completely ignoring the financial news of the day (which is a good thing), you would be aware that there is a massive credit crunch that is underway in the financial markets with serious implications for real-estate as well as business loans. As loans become harder to come by, it affects business expansion, home-ownership, car-buying patterns . . . read more >>
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Is the Uranium Bull Market Dead?
The Uranium Bull Market that got underway in the early part of this decade and saw the prices of spot uranium rise almost twenty-fold now seems to have hit a roadblock, even as the prices have dropped a steep 30%. This has removed underlying support for many uranium mining companies, especially juniors which are still prospecting for uranium and have no production . . . read more >>
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Leisure, Joy and Wealth -- Can they Co-Exist?
For a world that is built on the notion of non-stop action, with the apparent pursuit of wealth and happiness as its golden goal -- wealth alone has rarely given the satisfaction it has promised. Is the aim to really to be gainfully working towards a worthy goal? Does that act of pursuit provide you with the peace and joy you seek? Is the measure of a . . . read more >>
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