Marketing Your Business Online

If you are not already marketing your business online, it is time to start. Although there are a few exceptions, just about every business can benefit from online marketing. There are just so many advantages to this type of marketing. First of all, it is extremely affordable to market your business online. Other advantages to marketing your business online include the ability to reach a large target audience, the ability to reach potential customers all over the world and the ability to customize the marketing for different sectors of the target audience.

The affordability of Internet marketing is one of many reasons why many business owners are turning to the Internet for advertising. Advertising online is incredibly affordable especially when you consider how many potential customers a business owner can reach with an online marketing campaign. Most methods of online advertising are quite affordable and some of them do not have any direct costs. For example, you may choose to market your business online by participating in industry forums and posting links to your website whenever it is appropriate to do so. In this case, the cost of creating and maintaining the website is insignificant in comparison to the number of potential clients you could reach through online marketing. Additionally, the costs associated with posting links to your website are incidental. You could consider the cost of having access to the Internet as part of the cost but you most likely require Internet access for other reasons as well so it is completely worthwhile. 

Reaching a large target audience is another very worthwhile reason for marketing your business online. You may have spent a great deal of time and energy doing market research and determine who your target audience is. You may have also spent a great deal of time trying to figure out the best way to reach this audience. This is a very sound marketing principle but as it applies to market on local television, radio and print media it only allows you to reach a limited audience. However, when you take your marketing to the Internet you automatically drastically increase your potential target audience because you now have the ability to reach members of your target audience around the world. 

This ability to reach customers around the world is another major advantage to marketing your business online. Regardless of where you live and operate your business, you have the ability to reach those who have an interest in the products you sell or the services you provide no matter where they live. This makes it possible for you to do business with customers around the world.

Likewise the fact that the Internet is available 24 hours a day is also very beneficial to those who choose to market their products or services online. Shopping for products and services in person can be very difficult especially for individuals who work long hours or those who work unusual hours. These working conditions make it difficult for these individuals to do business and make purchases of products and services they need during regular business hours. However, business owners who have an online presence are much more convenient because unlike stores and calling centers, the website never closes. This convenience gives potential customers the ability to view products and services, compare these products and service to the ones offered by competitors and make a purchase at any hour of any day. 

If you are a business owner who is reading this article and you do not already have a strong online presence, you need to immediately start learning more about the world of Internet marketing. This is so important because if your competitors are marketing online, you may find they are gaining a steady advantage and are becoming more appealing to potential customers. Before too many of your potential customers become loyal customers of the competition it is time to start figuring out how you can market your business online and keep up with the competition. 

In Life to Manage Pressure and Positively Thrive On It

For a normal everyday person, pressure seems to be the twin sibling of life. Being pressured can happen to everyone, even the most laid-back easy-going person on earth. You might feel it pressing on you like a boulder, making your headache constantly. Some people even fall sick during extreme situations. It is an unpleasant fact that pressure is second to human nature. However, there are ways to combating pressure and thriving from it like a deep-water fish.

First, you have to pinpoint the origin of your predicament. Do not try to put it behind you because the only way you can go forward is to resolve what was in your past. Take a gander at what had transpired and sift through them to recognize what had caused it. Is it work? School? Family? Friends? You have to pinpoint your priority and put a stop to the ambiguity of the situation. 

Next step is to list out what these feelings of pressure have done to affect you. Sit down, get a pen and paper and make a list. Some examples of these effects are sleepless nights, migraine and listlessness among others. What you think might be an ordinary headache might actually be caused by pressure. You have to recognize these ill effects to be able to put a stopper on them. Do not leave it to affect you for long periods of time because these effects themselves add to the root of your pressure.

After you have recognized the causes and effects, it is now time to strategize a solution. Before you plan on anything, lift your worries from your mind first to be able to think rationally. Keep a level head while thinking of how to solve your problems. Plan your realistic short-term strategies. It is important that you see some immediate results so you would not be discouraged and do a full circle by giving up halfway into your plans. 

When you have made your plans, think of the things they will bring into your life and keep it positive. Channel your energies into positive thinking to uplift your damaged spirits. In the middle of your plans, recognize which bring the best effects into your life and carry it out until the end. Whether or not you go through with the rest of your strategy depends entirely upon your discretion but do not give up on the one, which brings the most positive effects on your life. Draw strength and energy from these positive effects so you would feel satisfaction from life. 

As you go further into the process of executing your strategy, never divert from the method you intend to use in the beginning. Remember, the end does not justify the means. Do not take the shortcut to achieving your goal because then it would not mean much. The destination matters little to those who wish to better themselves - it is the journey which really matters. Through this journey, we learn and become better, happier people.

These are only some tips to make your life a little easier. Though it might sound easy when being read, it will take a lot of effort for one to live these tips out. Do not expect it to be smooth sailing all the way, you are sure to encounter some bumps on the road. However, if indeed you do, do not give up. Go back to step one and start all over again and before you know it, you will have become that deep-sea fish which lives AND thrives in pressure.

21 steps to freedom

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Money is just a way to achieve that freedom…

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Stock Research - Hedge Fund Fraud Leads To $160 Million Bear Stearns Settlement

Hello,

It was announced recently that a Federal Bankruptcy court judge ordered Bear Stearns, one of America's top-tier trading firms to pay $160 million to investors who lost money with a hedge fund that cleared through Bear Stearns. While doing stock research on publicly traded brokerage corporations, we came across the settlement. This spurred us on to thinking, what does this mean for the everyday investor, and what does it mean for stock research in general. Here's the real story.

Hedge Fund's Asset Base SKYROCKETS

Hedge funds have become a significant force in the investment world. At the beginning of the 1990's, hedge funds controlled less than $40 billion in assets, less than Warren Buffett's personal investment portfolio. Today there are more than 9000 hedge funds controlling in excess of $1.1 trillion dollars of assets.

Hedge funds also use leverage, averaging some six times their asset base. This means the industry today controls investments of about $7 trillion dollars. These investments are on both the long and short side. The mutual fund industry can only go long, and never on margin, which means no leverage.

Now leverage is a two-edged sword. When things are going your way, it creates excessive returns or alpha. When trades go against you, however, it can wipe out your investment in lightning-like fashion. The hedge fund borrows money on its asset base from prime brokers and other lending institutions. The lender always charges a fee, and the fees are big. For the brokerage firms involved, these fees may make up the vast bulk of their bottom line depending upon the firm involved.

Hedge funds must clear through clearing firms that are referred to as prime brokers. The prime broker sees every trade the hedge fund does unless the hedge fund employs multiple prime brokers. Now let's say, the hedge fund lays on a massive trade using margin borrowed from the prime broker, and the trade goes against you, meaning paper losses are sustained. What happens next?

The hedge fund has to make a decision as to whether to close out the trade or not. Some funds believing that the momentum will turn, will double down, or increase the investment. The success of this transaction lies in whether or not the momentum is, in fact, changing at the time of the double down. If not, then the second investment will be under water as well.

Now a prime broker will never allow a hedge fund's trades in total to be under water. This would mean that the hedge fund has gone negative equity, and the prime broker would be at risk. The prime broker never wants to be at risk, nor will it allow itself to be.

Enter the Manhattan Investment Fund

What happened with the fraud we mentioned in the title of this article is that a hedge fund called the Manhattan Investment Fund clearing through Bear Stearns lost nearly $400 million of their assets. These assets belonged to rich investors, and the fund's managers made the wrong bets on Internet stocks in the late 1990's. Apparently, Manhattan Investment Fund sought to cover up or delay the inevitable consequences of its trading activities by issuing FALSE reports to its investors.

This led to the creation of an inflated track record, which allowed the hedge fund to bring in even more money, which in turn allowed them to pay off early investors with money from new investors. In other words, a classic Ponzi scheme began.

Bear Stearns probably caught onto the scheme when one of its managing directors met an investor in the Manhattan Investment Fund at a party, and the investor talked about how his reports from the hedge fund showed a 20% return. The managing director understood from internal knowledge at the firm that the actual trades going through Bear Stearns were in conflict with what the investor was reporting.

Bear Stearns did follow up with the hedge fund's manager Michael Berger who is now a fugitive at large. Berger got out of the problem by telling Bear Stearns that Bear Stearns was one of only 8 or 9 prime brokers that the hedge fund was doing business with. In other words, we're losing money with you as a prime broker, but not with the other prime brokers we deal with. It's a great story, and even makes sense, but apparently, Bear Stearns did not check out the story by calling the other prime brokers to see if it was true that the hedge fund was doing business with them as well.

Somebody at Bear Stearns figured something was amiss because months later, Bear asked the hedge fund to put up additional margin or cash in order to raise the margin requirement to 50% from 35%. The fund sent over another $141 million as margin payments. When the fund went out of business subsequently, Bear Stearns was secure and did not suffer a loss.

Judge orders Bear Stearns to PAY

The bankruptcy judge controlling this case has ordered Bear Stearns to pay $160 million to the investors in the hedge fund. The judge's ruling stated that Bear Stearns as prime broker failed to properly supervise the fund's activities prior to the 2000 collapse of the Manhattan Investment Fund.

This ruling is going to be appealed because to allow it to stand would create much greater risk for the prime brokerage industry than the industry feels it is being properly paid to manage. Bear Stearns only made $2.4 million in profits from the hedge fund's activities, and now it is faced with a $160 million judgment.

What you the Investor need to know - Diversification?

If you are an investor in hedge funds, what you need to know is that any hedge fund can go belly up. That's right, any of them. You cannot outthink someone who while running a hedge fund, is trying to defraud you. The only answer is DIVERSIFICATION in your personal investment structure. You must own an assortment of hedge funds if that is your investment vehicle choice, and not just one. Your funds should also use different investment strategies, and not just be equities long, or domestic, or any other classification.

Since you are searching for the elusive alpha (outsize returns), it's your responsibility as an investor to be aware that fraud exists. Even just plain bad investment strategies can result in the loss of all your capital since these funds are using 6 to 1 leverage in the attempt to create the performance.

You might also want to consider a FUND OF FUNDS vehicle. This is when you invest your money with a fund manager who makes no direct investments himself, but instead selects other hedge funds for you to be invested in. This involves a double layering of fees. If the returns are there for you year after year, then it doesn't matter but be careful, fraud does exist, and so do poor investment managers.

Goodbye and Good Luck

Richard Stoyeck

You’re just a few days away from building your fortune

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Speak soon,

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