Life and Business Improvement

One of the most critical steps in creating a new website is the design phase.   Many people skip this phase entirely, and it’s easy to tell when you look at their site.   The signs are everywhere and easy to see: site difficult to navigate, purpose of site difficult to discern, too many graphics and not enough text, bad colors, and other obvious errors.             Designing a web site is easy.   Sit down at a table with a stack of paper in front of you and think.   Just think for a while.   What is the purpose of my site? What do I want a visitor to do? Buy something? Send you emails? Join an association? Whatever is your purpose, that is what your site should be designed around.             If you want your visitors to purchase something, then you must make it easy and convenient.   Everything must flow to the purchase, and nothing must stand in ...

Are you planning for your retirement? Do you know that you can retire financially rich and in good health? When most people think of retirement, they are essentially thinking of having enough money to maintain their lifestyle after signing off from their regular work.   While this is important, it is definitely not the only thing that anyone planning for a peaceful and glorious retirement should be focusing on.             There are a lot of other things that you should be thinking about that will ensure that you enjoy every single day of your life after retirement ever before your family requires the services of a funeral undertaker.             Being in superb health is one of them.   And I want us to take a closer look at this important subject in this piece.             Just like retirement itself, which many d...

A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door. SON: 'Daddy, may I ask you a question?' DAD: 'Yeah sure, what is it?' replied the man. SON: 'Daddy, how much do you make an hour?' DAD: 'That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?' the man said angrily. SON: 'I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?' DAD: 'If you must know, I make $50 an hour.' SON: 'Oh,' the little boy replied, with his head down. SON: 'Daddy, may I please borrow $25?' The father was furious, 'If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being so selfish. I don't work hard everyday for such childish frivolities.' The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door. Th...

There is no doubt that the stock market is a great place to turn your savings into wealth.   But you will again need to be guided by some helpful tips once you make the first start at share investing. ·          Establishing a clear investment objective: what do you want to achieve by investing? ·          By having a clear idea of what you want your investment to accomplish, you will be in a good situation to put your money to work for you through investments. ·          If your overall aim for investing is to become financially independent, you should form the habit of investing regularly to achieve the objective. ·          You don’t put down some money once and go to sleep, No! In order to realize any plan at all, you need to constantly work it into fruition.   This is also true of your investment plan. ·  ...

Many people in different countries of the world have gradually moved from the realm of millions to billions. Most budgets now are done in billions. There are so many books on becoming a millionaire. It’s high time you become a billionaire-in-training so as to become a billionaire indeed. I will show you how to go about it. Adjust your seat very well for you are about to discover something that will change your life FOR REAL!!! To start with, the billionaire thinks and acts differently; therefore, let’s start with the thinking process of a billionaire-in-making. Ralph Waldo Emerson assert that “everything begins with a thought”. Life consists of what a man is thinking about all day.   What we think determines who we are. John Locke also said, ‘who we are determines what we do’. The action of man remains the best interpreter of his thought. Good thinkers are great money makers.   A person who knows how, will always have a job, but a person who thinks and knows why, will alwa...

Many stagnant, unproductive and struggling families abound today, because we have allowed the enemies of progress to gradually creep in and take over in the home. These enemies of progress have been allowed to disrupt and destroy the power of the family to move forward; unfortunately, people involved in families often leave these destroyers unchallenged. Let’s check out these enemies of family progress: #1. Faulty Foundation: Too many families cannot achieve real progress because of their faulty family foundation.   A family built on sex, money, beauty, wealth etc cannot but crash in the face of challenges of life. #2. Disobedient to God: A family that is fond of disobeying God can never move forward.   Disobedience to God through non-payment of vows and offerings, adultery, etc can also cause stagnation in families.   If they are not prepared to change, they may not enjoy divine grace. #3. Ignorance: This is another enemy of progress in the family.   What you...

Do you want to create an entirely new market? Or do you want to dominate an existing market but don’t have the marketing budget to compete with the big players?   Do you want to inspire customers so that they can build your brand for your? You can do all of the above and more.             There is no one formula to achieve marketing success , but there are strategies that work better than others.   Even if you have little or no start-up funding, even if you are facing strongly entrenched competitors, you nevertheless have the opportunity to steal the market using innovation and creativity .             The single most important focus in your business should be the creation of outstanding value for your customers.   You will always have the opportunity to create further value for a customer; people are never satisfied with the value they currently have and are alwa...