While doing research for my book, I’ve been spending some time digging into building friendships and relationships with people around you. How valuable are they, really? How can you make them more valuable? Are online relationships valuable at all, or just a distraction? In the process of researching these…
From the Herald Tribune series on mortgage fraud in Florida: Lenders failed to heed red flags Fraudulent property flippers had an unlikely accomplice during the real estate boom — the lending industry. A yearlong Herald-Tribune investigation into thousands of suspicious Florida flip deals found that lenders of all kinds approved…
This will be a very busy week for economic news, and some of the key data will be new home sales for June released on Monday, the Case-Shiller home price index for May released on Tuesday, and Q2 GDP from the BEA on Friday. At the beginning of this dark…
This blog post is a continuation of a previous post regarding my quest to reach a minimum of 500 leads for the month of August. To Go Fishing You Need Bait If you want to receive a lot of home buyer leads you need the bait that will attract…
BHAG, Big Hairy (Fill in the Blank) Goals! You gotta have some BHAG in your business plan because if you shoot for the Moon and miss you may just end up in the STARS. One of my BHAG is for the month of August 2009 and it is to generate 500…
Each Monday, The Simple Dollar opens up the reader mailbags and answers ten to twenty simple questions offered up by the readers on personal finance topics and many other things. Got a question? Ask it in the comments. You might also enjoy the archive of earlier reader mailbags .…
Over the last year, I’ve been jotting down individual notes and thoughts that I’m intending to include in my next book. Now that the time has come to start putting this together, I sat down and finally did a thorough accounting of all of the notes. I made them…
An acquaintance from my previous career wrote to me recently asking about the steps I took when I made the switch to working at home: It’s official: I’m ready to get out of here. I’m tired of working here and I have a lot of people lined up to…
One of the most effective means of targeting customers is by using internet leads. Although traditional lead gathering has its place, there are some definite advantages to online leads. Let’s take a look at why these leads can be so strong and what they can help you accomplish for…
If you want to take advantage of the power of pay-per-click marketing, there has never been a better time to do so. Unlike many forms of marketing, the entrance cost is remarkably low and you are able to completely control all of your costs. Even the smallest companies can…