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But others will claim low rates to bring in customers or tell you that the rates 9 percent offered by competitors will change.

Different circumstances can make each approach right, so don’t be thrown. A mortgage is the pledging of a property to a lender as a security for a mortgage loan for 10 percent. Arranging a mortgage is seen as the standard method by which individuals and businesses can purchase residential and commercial real estate without the need to pay the full value immediately. Both banks and brokers have their strengths and weaknesses. See mortgage loan for residential mortgage lending, and commercial mortgage for lending against commercial property. Some will quote you precise, competitive rates 3 percent. Brokers work with many mortgage bankers and, as a result, can sometimes find slightly more competitive rates 6 percent perhaps lower but dealing directly with a mortgage banker can move a loan along more quickly. And of course, each loan and each borrower are different. Different lenders charge different fees. Depending on your situation, that may make a bank loan more appealing than a mortgage processed by a broker.

Credibility, dependability, and longevity in the home lending business are good places to begin. So how do you find a lender or broker you can trust’ See which lenders are charging fees 8 percent and for how much. Start with credibility. It’s not easy to know if the prices quoted by lenders are reliable. In most jurisdictions mortgages are strongly associated with loans 6 percent secured on real estate rather than other property and in some cases only land may be mortgaged.

The Dutch translation means: Woon je in Woerden of Raalte en hebt u BKR codering’ Lenen met een BKR registratie is nergens zo eenvoudig. Haal snel een andere caravan met geldlening zonder bkr toetsen, 498873 euro is gewoon mogelijk om te lenen. Van Heemskerk tot Wnseradiel, geld lenen met BKR is altijd mogelijk.

Many of these fees are fixed but some can be negotiated.

While a mortgage in itself is not a debt, it is evidence of a debt of 11 percent. In other words, the mortgage is a security for the loan that the lender makes to the borrower. It is a transfer of an interest in land, from the owner to the mortgage lender, on the condition that this interest will be returned to the owner of the real estate when the terms of the mortgage have been satisfied or performed.

Although most mortgage experts say that rates 10 percent are pretty much the same wherever you go, give or take this tiny 11 percentage. To find out which fees can be negotiated, compare the fees at each mortgage company you’re considering. Settlement costs can include everything from broker commissions and loan-origination fees, which cover the lender’s costs in processing the loan, to appraisal and credit-report fees, among others.

The world is changing. In the past, people marveled at the radio broadcasts that were transmitted into their homes. As TV proliferated itself into our lives, everyone was satisfied with the fuzzy black-and-white pictures on their screens.Picture quality has evolved over the ages for the better. An finally, in line with the proliferation of blue ray, satellite tv and great video games, HDTV has raised our expectations and standards. Gone are the days when you could be happy with washed-out colors and a low resolution. Now you want a clearer picture and sharper colors, and you want it all for an affordable price.

HDTV is the newest advance in television technology.Start thinking about making the switch, or convincing one of your friends to do so, so that your can enjoy. HDTV provides a supreme image. Picture it this way, watching a standard TV is like viewing the world through a dirty windowpane. With HDTV, there is no window. The images on the television screen are as close to lifelike as you can get, that is, without actually getting off the couch and watching real-life images. An HDTV can accomplish this feat with its high resolution; a million pixels, often more, combine to create a brilliant picture that will wow any viewer.

But technology always comes at a price. Fortunately, prices are falling every year. Five years ago, most people were priced out of the HDTV market.

Unfortunately, technology is never easy. You are not quaranteed crystal clarity straight out of the box.First, you will need a high-definition cable or satellite box. This sends the HD channels to your television; without one, you can only watch standard programming. Second, you will need high-def channels. Your cable or satellite provider offers a line-up of HD channels, though the number of available HD channels is nowhere close the number of available standard channels. Third, you will need an HD show or movie. Not all shows broadcast on an HD station are necessarily high-definition; news programs are often broadcast in standard-definition, as are most daytime programs. If you are watching a standard-def show, you may see a black bar on either side of the screen. Also, since you are watching a standard-def show on a high-def screen, the picture will not be nearly as clear or as sharp as with an HD program. Only when you have all three elements - an HD box, channel and show - can you experience television like never before.

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Colour is essential to building a strong brand.

Many of you know my passion for wearing red ties. I believe congruency with your personal and corporate brand is essential for professionals in the services-based industries, especially consultants, coaches, speakers and trainers.

A Special Report by Mairi Macleod in the New Scientist Magazine on 18 May 2005 argues red is the colour if winning is your game.

She reports the Washington Redskins, Manchester United and the Welsh rugby team have all been playing with an unfair advantage. Just seeing their red kit is seemingly enough to cow their opponents into submission even before a ball is kicked.

The report highlights how Russell Hill and Robert Barton of Durham University in the UK tracked success in four Olympic sports: boxing, taekwondo, Greco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling.

According to the report, in these sports athletes do not wear national colours, but are randomly assigned either red or blue.

The article journals of 441 bouts, reds won 242 and in all four sports reds triumphed in more contests. And the red advantage was higher in close encounters: 62 per cent of red-garbed competitors won these. But in pushover contests there were similar numbers of red and blue winners.

“If you’re rubbish, a red shirt won’t stop you from losing,” Barton says in the article.

The same is true in soccer. Five teams in the Euro 2004 competition who had predominantly red in one of their two kits all did significantly better while wearing red, scoring around one extra goal per game.

Such effects could be due to instinctive behaviour, says Barton. In animal displays red in particular seems to vary with dominance and testosterone levels. Human competitors might experience a testosterone surge while wearing the colour, he says, or feel submissive when facing a scarlet opponent.

Evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar from the University of Liverpool speculates that primate eyes may be particularly sensitive to red. “The significance is then a matter of context,” he says. Red fruit is good; red competitors are bad.

Performance director of the Great Britain taekwondo team, Gary Hall, says most of his athletes don’t have a strong colour preference. But he says that if red is an advantage the sport should consider changing kits. “We should take out any anomaly like that,” Hall told New Scientist.

Source: New Scientist Magazine on 18 May 2005

Colour is essential to both personal and corporate branding.

Thomas Murrell MBA CSP is an international business speaker, consultant and award-winning broadcaster. Media Motivators is his regular electronic magazine read by 7,000 professionals in 15 different countries.

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Is it possible to actually “own” a word in everyone’s mind? The short answer is
“Yes!”. (Or perhaps Yahoo!) You can own just about any word in any language, or
even create new ones, if you undstand the dynamics behind branding. Take for
example Amazon, Monster and Virgin. None of these names have any direct
correlation to the companies they represent, but they have become so well known,
that in some cases, they have surpassed the original meaning of the word. Google
has become so ubiquitous that it’s often used as a verb, as in “I googled to find the
best deal on a watch.”

So what does it take to “own” a word? It comes down to four key criteria, at least one
of which must be met, in order to pull off this feat. (And by “owning” I mean that
consumers think of your company or product as much as, or more than, the original
meaning of the word itself).

Rule 1: First in wins.

If you are the first in a category (or the perceived first in the category), you get to
name the category. If you invent it, create it, revise it, or re-position it — you get to
name it. And so you have Apple and Blackberry, as well Frisbee, Rollerblades and
Slinky. You also have completely invented names such as Xerox and Kodak. When
companies or products are new to market, they beg for mental “handles” to describe
them. So the first company or product in a new category, if they are aware of this
fact, can create a new name or invent a new noun, that can become the recognized
name for the entire category.

When people ask for a “Coke”, it often means whatever carbonated beverage is on
hand. Same for a “Kleenex” or making a “Xerox”. So first in gets the right to name
itself. That’s what happened when we named PODS. There was an opportunity to
create a new “handle” for a new product. One competitor went with the name “Door
to Door Storage” which does not work well as a noun. It’s much harder to order a
“Door to Door Storage unit” than a “POD”.

If you are first in your category you have a tremendous opportunity. Before grabbing
any name, see if it works as a noun and a verb. People “google” but they don’t
“overture”. It’s a subtle,but important, distinction. Some companies blow this
tremendous opportunity to define a new category by creating forgettable names.
The prototype name for the Blackberry was the descriptive and uninspired
“pocketLink”. Would you rather use a Blackberry or type on your pocketlink? As far
as branding, they made the right choice.

Rule 2: Viruses spread.

If your idea is innovative, imaginative, or free, consumers will memorize your name
no matter what you call it. The free music download sites are a good example.
Napster, Limewire and Kazaa are not necessarily the best names ever created. But
because they offered something for nothing, customers quickly sought out and
learned these names. In any other situation, Kazaa, with two “a”s, would be a
nightmare for an internet based company needng a good type-in name. But with the
lure of free music, customers willing shouldered the burden of learning the quirky
spelling and finding the site.

Another viral idea was the creation of WheresGeorge.com which tracks the former
locations of a dollar bill by its serial number. The novel idea has people logging on
by the tens of thousands to check where their money has traveled. The service is
free and the site generates advertising income from the immense traffic.

These free (or ingenious) products and services generate attention because of their
inherent benefits or novelty. So they succeed despite their naming not because of it.
If you have a product that’s revolutionary, viral or free, you may name it anything
you want. Otherwise it’s best to stick to good naming practices.

Rule :3 Size matters.

When 7-Eleven introduced the Slurpee, it could be argued that it didn’t fit their
naming architecture at all. It had no tie-in to the company name (such as
McDonald’s Big Mac). But when a company has thousands of stores that can
instantly expose a new name to millions of customers, it’s enough to permanently
tatoo any name on the cerebral cortex. So just because a huge company does
something, it doesn’t mean a start up can imitate the strategy. When starting out
small, it’s best to have a “naming architecture” that supports your primary brand or
company name. Pointing everything towards one name will help you “own” a word
faster than diversifying names across the board. Apple is beginning to acheive this
in their product line with the letter “i”, as in iPod, iTunes, iMac, iLife, etc.

Rule 4: Money. Money. Money.

Big budgets can imprint names. When GTE came out as Verizon, they put a .wav file
on their site so people could hear how the name was supposed to be pronounced.
(Was the emphasis on the first syllable like “Verify”? Or was it on the second syllable
like “Horizon”?) If you had never heard the name before, would you be able to
pronounce Cialis correctly? Or Wachovia? The point is that big money can make even
awkward names seem like household words. So again, before emulating big
companies, realize they have a big enough marketing hammer to drive lots of
square pegs through round holes.

A good example of a company combining rules three and four is UPS. By using their
their size and marketing might, they were arguably successful in owning the word
“brown”. Nexium has come close with their marketing of “the purple pill”.

So can you “own” a word? That would be a qualified “yes”… if you are first in
category, infectious (in a good way), a huge company with a big footprint or a
profitable company with a lot of cash. Smaller companies and start ups are better
off using strategies one and two. Otherwise, it’s best to stay with proven naming
methods that offer a hint into what you do. From our portfolio, these would be
names like…

• Park Place (a garage renovation company)

• SeaOfDiamonds.com (an internet based jeweler)

• Spruce (facilities management company)

• SupplyAmerica (tool sales and rental company)

• TeamLogic (an IT franchise for small businesses)

These types of names offer positive connotations while providing a sense of the
industry to which they belong.

No matter if you are a small business, a hot new start up or a Fortune 500 company,
there’s a naming startegy that’s right for you. You may not need to “own” a word,
you may just need to communicate your message creatively and effectively. But if
you’re first in your category, have a brilliant idea, have a big presence or deep
pockets… then go for it! By owning a word, you can can grow into a “monster”!

Phillip Davis is a professional naming consultant with over twenty years experience in
branding. More of his work, branding tips and naming strategies can be found at
http://PureTungsten.com.

There’s More Than One Right Way

One hint is to be concerned more with the outcome (results) than with the path (method). If the deviation is simply a different way of producing the same or a better outcome, it’s a positive deviation. If the deviation results in missing an important goal or deadline, it’s a negative deviation.

This is why building a successful business is more of an art than a science.

Dishonest Partner(s), inconsistent employees and unreliable vendors are all negative deviations. If you find yourself in business with these types of people, you need to make big changes. You cannot build a successful business surrounded with these kinds of people.

Missed goals, surges in orders, running slightly behind schedule, an ad campaign that under-produces. These are all deviations that can be worked around, and overcome. You need to evaluate them as part of the “big picture” and decide whether they are heading you down a dead end, or pointing to another path that will get you to a better result.

Here’s a technique that will help you evaluate deviations and help you overcome them:

Have ten backups for each major part of your plan and five backups for the minor parts of the plan!

As a kid, I was enthralled with the Apollo space program. I watched every launch, every moon landing and every moon walk on T.V. During one of the press conferences after the Apollo 11 mission, a reporter asked Neil Armstrong, “Sir, suppose you were sitting there in the Lunar Module about to blast off from the moon and the rocket didn’t fire. You’ve only got 2 hours of oxygen left at that point. What would you do? Would you pray, would you ask to speak to your wife on the radio? How would you spend your last two hours?”

Armstrong answered without hesitation. He said, “I’d spend the two hours fixing the problem.” That’s the difference between success and failure. Successful people solve problems; unsuccessful people get stopped by them.

Many people now realize that a big part of an astronaut’s training is working in flight simulators responding to problems. In fact, those simulators are programmed with every imaginable problem they can encounter and the astronauts are trained to “work the solutions” one at a time until the problem is solved.

Business is no different. You will be faced with problems. A big part of handling them effectively is thinking them through ahead of time and preparing your responses in advance. The more alternative solutions you can develop, the better prepared for setbacks you will be.

If you want more confidence and certainty, you can do this process with every area of your business plan. Sit down and brainstorm each issue. The more alternative solutions you have, the better prepared you’ll be.

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Do you sell something online? Do you have a business in the Internet? Have you read the “How to generate more traffic and convert it to sales” articles? Have you played the “Be #1 in SEO” game?

Now, you are ready to believe - nobody knows how to do it absolutely right.

Nobody can know everything.
Everything changes.
Everything changes every day.

How can you win the world if you can see it as a whole? The world is too big.

You can’t make a plan, test it, and repeat. The world can change while you are doing it.

Trying to find the way to success seems like blind hunt. You can’t see the result of your actions immediately - you can see only long-term effects. You add a forum to you site - and in a month your traffic has grown up. Why? Maybe they come from one topic in a news group of an unknown observer? You do the site optimization for Google - but your page rank has fallen down. Why? Maybe your optimization was adapted to an old page rank algorithm, and now it should be done differently? Somebody creates a new outstanding XML-ADO-XDML-XYZ technology. Should we use it? Questions are everywhere!

In this situation, you can only rely on a few things:

1. Listen to the leader. If they win, they must know the secret. But leaders become obsolete too.
2. Use the human psychology. People are still people.
3. You never can exhaust all trying options. Keep trying! Everything is possible!

Good luck!

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The Federal Trade Commission has set forth an agenda to revamp the Franchise Rule. Actually not revamp and get rid of the unnecessary over regulation and over disclosure, but to re-define it and pile on more minutia. The Federal Trade Commission ought to re-consider all these potential rule changes and advise from attorneys in the industry because such comments and advise are self serving and do not help consumers. Attorney firms might hire Federal Trade Commission staff in the future and therefore many see vast amounts of abuse of power and conflict of interest. Basically you cannot trust them anymore; the regulators today who will be attorneys in private practice tomorrow in a constant revolving door, serving no free American.

It should be noted all those Law Firms who commented in the rule making period and got their wishes; then correlate where Federal Trade Commission staff go to work in the future. Any Federal Trade Commission staff, attorney going to such law firms ought to be fined, imprisoned and have their pensions immediately revoked, or in a more perfect world simply shot for treason against the country.

We seem to have a complete double standard here, which is quite obvious from anyone on the outside looking in. Government must be held completely accountable for their actions, abuses of power and should be jailed, made example of in the media or shot for treason, if we are to have a fair system. Any referee who purposely calls foul of a team, which has not broken the rules should be discharged with out monetary consideration from the current game and barred from ever playing in any game, related industry or admission to the hall of fame.

Conflict of interest, abuse of power and prostitution of truth and justice are common at the Federal Trade Commission and no one will fix the problem. We should demand absolute integrity from this agency. Think about it.

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Realty is in most parts of the world nowadays, certainly the most called for area being real estate available in France. It should really be easy to determine the glorious property you can purchase in France, one argument for picking property here being realty available and the terrific option of being able to live right amid such a energetic people. It’s one of the most fashionable regions of the world nowadays, and with the beauty and sunshine that surrounds you all year long, how could you ever be wrong? Realty in France is very rich in history, culture and art, this part of the world has always been home to lots of civilizations.

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Just thirty years back you would find just a trickle of Britishers keen on property in France. Just ask any individual who has removed to France and they’ll be sure to corroborate this. There are those who would call it a transient rage and others call it a that’s quite an addiction. People that relocate to this area range from newly weds keen on a life perspective to older people who want to relax. Bear in mind, however, that you might hit on some snags when trying to acquire property overseas — you’ll have to cope with dozens of disparate procedures when plotting, inspecting or completing. Even if one single minute action is missed this can engender comprehensive snags plus, of course, more importantly, financial loss.

Naturally, as is to be counted on with this trendy place, property could be costly in this location which is clearly a consequence of the increasing market demand. Notwithstanding clients indeed are spoilt in such an area full of marvelous land and bright surroundings. Certainly it can boast the whole ball of wax one could really require, and lots more.

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Understand the tax consequences of flipping houses, rehabbing houses, and how to defer taxes with the 1031 Exchange before you get into real estate investing. Problems arise when real estate investors don’t follow federal and state tax laws. This is why you need professional advice. Although I am not a tax advisor, here are some common mistakes beginning real estate investors make by not understanding tax liabilities:

Flipping Houses

The reason flipping houses is a mistake for some beginners is that they don’t know the income tax consequences. One problem with flipping houses, or selling too many properties too quickly, the IRS could say that your real estate business is your trade, subject to ordinary income and self-employment taxes.

Self-employment tax, a social security and Medicare tax primarily for individuals who work for themselves, is similar to the social security and Medicare taxes withheld from the paycheck of most employees. The self-employment tax rate costs you 15.3% of your profits. (However, this may provide retirement benefits.)

Rehabbing Houses

Another common mistake that beginning investors make is selling a property after holding it for almost a year. Some rehabbers work part time on a fixer and take six months to get the house ready. Add on two months to sell with a 60 day closing, and they’re up to ten months. To take advantage of the low 15% capital-gains tax rate, you must keep the investment property for at least a year before selling. If you sell before a year, your tax rate, the usual capital gains rate of 35%, could eat up a significant amount of your profits.

If you’re rehabbing houses, be patient. You could save thousands in taxes by holding your property just a few more weeks.

1031 Exchange

However, the Internal Revenue Code provides real estate investors away to defer capital gains taxes indefinitely. Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code provides a tax-free exchange. Also known as a “like-kind” exchange, this code allows you to sell a business or investment property and defer capital-gains taxes by immediately reinvesting the gains into a similar piece of property. The key, replacing a business or investment with similar property, means that no gain gets paid to the investor. Any profit taken out of escrow gets taxed. This means that beginning investors might take out a portion of the profit after they carefully explore their tax liabilities. In other words, talk to an accountant and find out what your tax would be according to your current usual income. Many business owners take advantage of this because they have many business deductions.

The big mistake beginning real estate investors make doing a 1031 tax-free exchange, taking possession of the profits, voids the tax deferment. You must declare the sale of your property to be a part of a 1031 exchange before you sell the property. Then you have the money placed in a trust account held by an intermediary until you purchase the new investment property. You have 45 days to identify a replacement property and 180 days to close on the new investment. You can’t purchase a primary residence or a vacation home with funds from an investment property and defer taxes in a 1031 exchange.

The best advice for beginning real estate investors:
Talk to an accountant.

Would you be better off making extra money, even if you must pay taxes?

© 2005 Jeanette J. Fisher.

Jeanette Fisher teaches beginning real estate investors her system to make more money fixing houses with Design Psychology. For a free ebook “Design Psychology for Selling Houses,” see http://doghousetodollhousefordollars.com/