Archive for the 'Ask an Expert' Category

Build Your Real Estate “Investor” List in Eight Steps

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Building an investor list is the key to success in real estate investing. The concept is simple: Find a list of investors who buy houses, then go out and find the inventory to flip to such investors. Let these investors know that you buy houses, too. The more people in your network, the easier it [...]

How to Manage Sales Stress

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

You can’t get away from it. But you can learn to manage it.
Added stress is inevitable in sales and I actually believe that a little stress can even productive.
Whether they admit it or not, most people in this industry are affected in some way by the stress of this career. While I feel strongly that [...]

Selling ANY House in a Slow Market: 5 Tips

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

The market is slowing and investors are drowning in house payments. Is there an end in sight? Probably not. But, there is something you can do about it. Dropping the price until you get it sold is one way to do it. But, Ive got a better solutionsell the house.
What amazes me is that most [...]

Binary Network Marketing Pay Plan Explained

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

There is so little information floating around on the internet these days on the comparison of network marketing pay plans. Companies and distributors always play the high points of their plans against the competition without helping the prospect (potential new recruit) really understand what are the benefits of each plan.
Our focus here is to highlight [...]

How To Ship Hazardous Material

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

There have been a lot of inquiries into how to ship hazardous material and questioning whether you can ship it at all with today’s transportation laws. The United States Department of Transportation (DOT) heavily regulates the transportation of materials in the United States.
The specific regulations define hazardous materials and specify how to conduct practically [...]

One Million Dollars or $22,000? Tax Planning May Be the Difference

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Donald Trump says that if you want to be a millionaire, you must get your tax affairs down to the legal minimum.
Money Mastery is a book written by a gentleman named Alan Williams, who said the exact same thing.
There are a lot of reasons for that, but Donald Trump used a slide in a [...]

How To Buy UL Labels

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

UL stands for Underwriter Laboratories, which is an organization that is an independent, not-for-profit product safety certification organization that has been testing products for consumer safety for many years. Many of these products require a label to designate that the product has passed the UL inspection and is safe for the consumer.
UL labels can be [...]

Why Paranoid Inventors Fail

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Every inventor knows that it’s a mistake to go around bragging about your idea to everyone who will listen. Careless mistakes should obviously be avoided. However, there is another kind of inventor who commits just the opposite mistake, and suffers the same failure. That mistake is paranoia. It is an irrational, unfounded fear of everyone [...]

New Technology Development Steps for Inventors

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Developing new technology is, as Edison once said, “one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” It makes sense when you consider what technology really is: technique. It is, at root, a new way of doing something; presumably a way that never existed before someone painstakingly established it. Since developing new technology is hard work, it [...]

Soda Vending Machines and The Vending Business

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Soda machines are very popular these days particularly in hospitals, colleges, bus stands and airports. We like convenience, options, low prices, and vending machines offer all of these. Vending machines, an extremely profitable market, have become a significant new battleground in the soft-drink business. We’re in a period of intense competition among bottlers and full-line [...]