Posted in Money Talk on March 20th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; you can’t start planning your retirement too early. The younger you are the better.
Tax Deferred Accounts
Make maximum use of these accounts (IRA or SEP), it’s basically free money. You can read a bit more about this in Some tax tips for the investors.
Saving for retirement
You can […]
Posted in Business Talk on March 19th, 2007 No Comments »
If you’re reading this you probably “suffer” from low self esteem. There are several ways to overcome low self esteem, but before we get to the tips let’s define what self esteem is. Wikipedia says:
In psychology, self-esteem or self-worth is a person’s self-image at an emotional level; circumventing reason and logic. The term differs from […]
Posted in Business Talk on March 18th, 2007 No Comments »
The Great Idea is basically an idea that will or has become a great success. All of you, the readers of this blog, probably know someone who is waiting for The Great Idea so he or she can become wealthy and/or successful. Maybe you are that someone, maybe a friend or a familymember.
Waiting for The […]
Posted in Money Talk on March 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Many people think before taxes. Ie. a friend is earning € 2000 a month before taxes and he is in the lowest tax bracket here which is 34%. It’s a fulltime, 40 hour week, job. Let’s call my friend Joe for the rest of this post.
The common thought
Joe wants to buy a new iPod, the […]
Posted in Ramblings on March 15th, 2007 No Comments »
GoDaddy is having a sale on .info domains. They’re only $.99 each plus $.25 ICANN fee per domain. Still a very good price.
If you go to their How to pay page, you see they also accept payments with paypal. Great! I wanted to register 31 info domains for some niche minisites, added them to my […]
Posted in Business Talk on March 13th, 2007 2 Comments »
If you run a business, no matter the size of it, you will at some point face bad customers.
There are several reasons why having bad customers is not good, here’s a few;
They waste your time in several ways
No matter what you try or do, it’s never good enough
They love leaving negative reviews of your product […]
Posted in Money Talk on March 12th, 2007 3 Comments »
The younger you are, the more important it is to realize the largest benefit of saving money; compound growth.
What is compound growth?
Compound growth, is growth over growth. When using a savings accounts, we talk about compound interest, which is interest over interest. Say you have $100 now, you get 5% interest making your total $105. […]
Posted in Business Talk, Money Talk on March 10th, 2007 No Comments »
As you may have read in the About page, I’m a snake keeper and breeder. I’ve been keeping and breeding snakes as a hobby for the last 14 years and I find myself specialising more and more in the high end morphs (the expensive color or pattern mutations).
Keeping snakes and everything related to it taught […]
Posted in Business Talk, Money Talk on March 10th, 2007 No Comments »
When people start to get greedy they often start to fail as well. Let’s take investing for example. Say you have a portfolio of 5 different mutual funds and one is rising like a maniac. As you probably know you should never take investing decisions based on emotions. Greed is such an emotion and more […]
Posted in Business Talk, Money Talk on March 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
Many people think that in order to be successful, one needs luck and/or great expertise on some subject. If you fail you can’t have success, it doesn’t fit in the picture of success. Well, the truth is different…
To become successfull you have to know what does not work, and what does work. If 9 out […]