Creating A Revolution

I just downloaded a great report by Michelle MacPhearson on leveraging Social Media sites (like Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, etc) for getting more traffic to your website. The best part is that you can go through the report, do the steps yourself every day for a week and then hand it off to any assistant to implement for you daily.

To get the report, go to Social Media Daily. The best part, it’s free!

Michelle’s credibility in driving traffic is legit, too. Her site ranks 107,161 in traffic volume based on Alexa’s stats, which means she’s in the top ranks in the world.

So go get your free copy of Michelle’s “Social Media Daily” report and start driving traffic to your site today.

The online bank and financial provider ING is running a campaign right now about hitting ‘your number’ for retirement and how we all have a number we need to reach to be able to retire comfortably. The fascinating thing is that this is coming from a rather progressive company that is a leader in new banking strategies, yet they are promoting a concept (hitting your number) that is ancient in the financial planning world and has been proven to be flawed for a number of years now. Read the rest of this entry »

This post is courtesy of Tim Ferriss, the mastermind behind the rave success ‘The Four Hour Work Week‘. It is focused on the essentials from his study of high growth and high profit businesses and the 11 tenets they follow to achieve their success.

Go read it here and print it out for future reference. It’s that good!

Ok, gas is pretty out of control at $4+ per gallon, but let’s keep our heads about us and think a few things through before rushing out and joining the Green Revolution.

First off, I have to admit that anytime I hear someone say we need to reduce our ‘carbon footprint’ or conserve our precious natural resources and be friendlier to the environment, I want to go by a Hummer. Not the chinsey Jeep looking kind, but rather the one Arnold made famous in the mid-90’s that is Military grade and can climb the Empire State Building.

Please realize, too, that I live by numbers as they rarely lie and help eliminate the emotion of buying so many of us get caught up in.

With that said, please don’t Read the rest of this entry »

I wanted to take a minute and give you a quick overview of what the Credit Bureaus really look at when they calculate your credit score since we’ve primarily gone over tips and strategies to improve your score so far.

Realize that this is just an outline of guidelines they claim to use and that access to the actual algorithm they run each credit file through to produce a score is known by few people on earth. And even if they know about it doesn’t necessarily mean they understand it or can explain exactly how it works, too!

Also, it helps to know that the WHOLE reason the credit scoring system was created was to help creditors calculate what your chance of defaulting on a loan given to you would be. Read the rest of this entry »