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How to Invest Money and Make It Grow?

Learn how to grow your money through investing. Investing is one of the best ways to achieve financial freedom but there are required skills and knowledge to succeed. Aside from your knowledge and skills, you also have to “take risk”, do not be afraid to risk because you can manage risk, minimize it by equipping yourself a skills and knowledge. As the old saying goes, in investing you should know what you are doing to avoid loss of capital investment.

Before Investing Money

Before you invest money, make sure you have prepared the following important things. Make sure you have paid all your debts or liabilities. Make sure before you invest you have your cash reserve or the emergency funds needed to help you in case there is an emergency so that you will never pull out your investment.

The ideal amount of emergency funds should at least 3 to 6 months of your income. So, if your income is $2,500 per month. You should have $15,000 emergency funds good for 6 months.

You should also have to buy a life insurance. A life insurance is for protection. You need life insurance just in case something bad happened to you. Life insurance can help your family to recover from financial losses in case you died.

The ideal life insurance coverage should at least 3 years of your total annual income. If your annual income is $60,000, you should buy a life insurance that has a face amount of $18,000 good for 3 years to help your family to recover from financial losses.

After you have paid your debts, have emergency funds and bought insurance, it’s time to know your risk appetite.

Know Your Risk Appetite

It always depends on your age, of course if you’re still young, you can take high risk and for mid 40s to 50′s you have to take medium risk and for 50s and above, they should only take low risk investments.

For low risk investments, money market funds, time deposits and bonds are appropriate investments.

For medium risk investments, combination of bonds with equities are appropriate investments.

For high risk, you can choose to invest purely on stock equities.

Make an Investment Goal

After you analyze your risk appetite, you have to make an investment goal. What is an investment goal? It is goal wherein you should know the purpose of your investments, how much should your investment cost your every month or annually. When should you start investing and when is your plan to redeem your investments.

Take Investing Action

A plan is good if you work for it. You can never see a result of your investments if you didn’t work your plan. You have to take action, just do one thing at a time. From opening your investment account, funding your investment account. And if you choose to invest in the stock market, you should buy your first stocks, you don’t need to be afraid. All is easy especially if you really want to grow your money. Just ask the financial advisor or financial experts, there are advisors in the bank or any financial investments firms.

Achieve Financial Freedom

Saving is good because it will teach you the habit of managing your money. If you are disciplined money saver, you will also be a disciplined investor. Ste aside money from your salary or income every month and fund your investments account such as mutual funds, stock broker account or fund your savings account intended to use as a business capital

I hope you do learn many things in this article. To achieve financial freedom, you must “take risk” and reap the rewards someday. Thank you for reading this article, I wish you a prosperity and financial freedom. If you have time, read other financial blogs, business and finance books and magazines or attend financial literacy seminars.

Plan To Succeed With Information Product Creation: Why You Need To Split Your Process Up

One of the keys to succeeding in information product creation is to break the process up into discrete steps. This frequently isn’t an instinctive reaction for the typical information marketer. Especially on the internet where small sized learning products are the norm.

However, it is extremely important to your ultimate success. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if you don’t do this you probably won’t succeed… even when you are starting out let alone as you move forward.

Your product creation system should do this for you if only to help you to understand the overall task.

But why?

In this article, I’m going to ignore chunking and focus on the practical aspects. That’s not to say that chunking isn’t important. It is. It’s important to understanding and to learning the process. But while you can use the same chunks as you move forward, long term your focus needs to be on the operation of the system not the understanding of it. Unless of course you are constantly training new people!

So why is chunking important to long term use of the product creation process? (Yes, I know systems design uses a different term for this process but I’m not teaching you systems design. So I’m going to use the word learning content designers use.)

The first reason that having individual discrete tasks is important is one of schedule estimation. Frequently it is very difficult to estimate how long the total task of creating a product will take. After all, the size and type of the products matters as does the number of products in your product funnel. And those are just the most obvious elements. However, estimating a discrete task is often much easier. The total can then be estimated as the total of the discrete tasks.

Secondly, scheduling a large task can be problematic. However, by segmenting the task into a number of discrete tasks, you gain a much greater flexibility in scheduling. Not only that but as your business begins to add people you are able to schedule multiple people to the product creation.

Finally, segmenting a large task into smaller discrete tasks allows you to have much better control over the product creation. This affects two different areas — status and quality.

By segmenting your process into discrete tasks you are able to schedule and record the progress at much more detailed level. As a result you are more in control of the status of the product creation. You know what everyone is doing. When they should complete it. And how much it should cost. You also know exactly what has been done.

You also improve your overall quality. Instead of waiting until everything is done you can check quality as you go. This allows you to immediate react to low quality products without absorbing their costs. This means that you have less rework and your rework costs less. And if the product is not going to meet its quality requirement you will know about it in time to stop the development, change the requirement or fix the product.

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Home Based Business Opportunity – Getting Started – Information

If you are having difficulties and struggling to make ends meet because your income has stopped, whether from a job, unemployment compensation or business, there is a practical solution to your problem.So, if your J.O.B. is keeping you Just Over Broke then it is in your best interests to bring it to a close and remove that yoke from around your neck in 2010. A home based business opportunity is what you need to do so. It will allow you to take control of your financial future and never depend on a job ever again. This is the year to fire your boss and achieve financial independence.You must believe you can do it and that you will make it happen. Most people are not suited for a home business online. This is one of the reasons why most people work for someone else.The Internet makes it extremely easy and inexpensive for almost anyone to start a home business these days. There are thousands of legitimate, valid home business opportunities out there among the illegitimate ones.When you start a home business on the Internet, you are in control of your destiny. You reap the benefits from all your hard work including being your own boss.No successful home business person will tell you what they do is easy. However, they will tell you they love what they do and would never trade it for anything else, no matter what.It does not matter whether you end up selling information, services, or hard goods, the one thing to keep in mind when starting a home business opportunity is that you must love the subject, product, or service.What will you need to get started?You need to have a state-of-the-art personal computer and a broadband Internet connection as well as a working knowledge of operating the computer and basic Internet skills. If you do not have these skills you can easily learn when you accept the challenge of starting a home business on the Internet. The company you joined will provide a website, training and support in order for you to be successful.Also, there are many tutorials on computers and the Internet offered (in many cases for free) all across the Internet. Further, you must understand that you will be in a constant state of learning and training because the Internet is evolving at a fast rate. If you do not keep up with changes and new developments your chances of success are limited.If you are the kind of person who is self-motivated, disciplined and do not mind hard work, then start a home based business opportunity and get on the path to financial freedom.