7 Salesman Tactics to Avoid When Shopping at a Dealership

Car salesmen get a bad reputation; there is no doubt about that. Like any other salesperson, their job is to convince someone that they have to put themselves behind the wheel of a car on their lot. If you are in the market for a used or new car, then the only way to come out ahead is by making a budget, sticking to it, taking the emotion out, and not getting caught up in high-pressure sales tactics.

Car salesman

Before you start looking for the car that suits you and your business, make sure to look out for these seven sales tactics that can have you making a not-so-good choice, courtesy of our friends at Applewood Nissan Richmond dealership.…

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Trading 101: What is Margin Call Trading?

If you are buying shares on margin, you should maintain the minimum balance in your account as stipulated by the broker. The margin balance should be maintained so that you will be eligible for margin purchase. If you fail to maintain the margin money in your account, you will get a margin call.

Trader is doing margin trading

The margin call will be made by the broker to request you to deposit more money in your account so that you will not be penalized. If you fail to manage sufficient money in your account as per the margin call definition, you should want to sell equities to manage sufficient balance.…

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Expanding The Effectiveness Of Your Content Marketing

A Small Seed Makes A Great Tree

Content marketing represents an increasingly profitable forward investment. With each piece of content you create, you essentially carve out a niche of digital real estate. That digital real estate will very likely remain on the internet forever. Even if the site it is initially posted on is taken down, there are archival efforts in place which will yet retain the data and that’s why you have to keep an eye on optimizing your pages from the very beginning.

Content marketing is like a growing tree

When you continuously produce content, it’s kind of like using a pen to fill in empty space in a coloring book.…

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An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Whole Person Development

The idea of separation between one’s home and work life is not only an archaic way of thinking but a complete myth when it comes to life as an entrepreneur. That’s why there has been a paradigm shift toward Whole Person Development amongst entrepreneurs, executives, and coaches across the world.

Adopting whole person development paradigm

What is Whole Person Development?

Whole Person Development is a psychologically-based theory that in order to be successful, one must optimize the key components of life. The six components include emotional intelligence, physical, psychological, professional, social, and spiritual.

Most people are strong in some aspects and lacking in others. This disbalance can be caused by putting too much focus on one area and not enough on others, or simply by not recognizing how each aspect can impact the bigger picture.…

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3 Highly Effective Ways to Build Your Local Business

If most of your customers come from your local marketplace, then the fastest way to grow your business is to become well-known in the community. Although it’s not difficult, you do have to be consistent. Over time, your company’s reputation will grow through word-of-mouth.

Local coffee shop owner

Moreover, chances are that your competitors won’t be doing it; or, if they are, then they won’t be doing it in a strategic way, and, as a result, they won’t be consistent enough to get noticeable results.

Let’s look at some strategies to build your brand, market your business, and improve your sales.

1. Build your brand

Strategy: create a booth at county fairs

The county fair is part of American tradition.…

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How to Find a Reliable Asset Protection and Living Trust Attorney

A living trust refers to an estate-planning document with a list of instructions about what will happen to your assets after you die. Most people opt for living trusts instead of wills because they help avoid unnecessary expenditure and time wastage. It might be a good idea to sort out your living trust in case of something unexpected happens.

Asset protection and living trust attorney

Probate proceedings involve many complications and are tiresome, so you should consider setting up a living trust. If you are looking for a reliable asset protection and living trust attorney like a Garden Grove CA asset protection attorney, here are some tips that will come in handy:

Qualifications

You need to exercise caution when looking for a lawyer to help with your living trust.…

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Is Cash really Dead? 4 Reasons Why You Should Avoid Using It

Plastic have become so much the in thing when it comes to financial transaction that cash might as well be dead. Well, maybe not. But while there may be some benefits in using cash for your purchases and everyday transactions, they are even more benefits to using credit cards.

Using a credit card

If you can use plastics responsibly, you find that you are better off doing your payments with a credit card than with cash. Let us examine why the credit card comes out on top and why you should minimize your use of cash.

Credit Card builds up your credit rating

When you charge your expenses to your credit cards and promptly pay them up every month, you are building up a very strong credit score.…

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Business Visa Interview Tips for Those traveling to the United States

If you’re a businessman and you wish to travel to the United States of America, you probably know that a business visa is required and, for the same, you need to clear the interview round. When we talk about the interview around, there are many assumptions made by people such as grammatical activity on a particular accent will be tested but this is not true.

US visa

All you need to know is that you should demonstrate your purpose of entering the United States and your financial stability, along with your strong ties with your home country. Apart from this, the following tips will help you in getting through with the interview.…

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6 Business Tips You Must Ignore

When you want to start your own business, you start looking for information on the Internet to get some tips. It’s possible to find so many tips that you can feel totally overwhelmed and confused.

In this article, we have gathered some “bad” tips you should avoid, helping you in realizing how you need to act.

Ignoring bad business advice

1. Don’t even try to start

Just from the moment you’ve got a great idea for your startup, begins bad advice from others. Of course people that say this are just very cautious and they really might not with you anything bad. But be prepared that even your friends or relatives may tell they don’t like your business idea, and you shouldn’t even start it.…

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Q&A with James Turner, the Managing Director of Turnerlittle.com, on American Adults’ Attitude Toward Cryptocurrencies

Cryptocurrencies’ popularity blasts through the roof.  In fact, the search term “buy bitcoin” is being used more than “buy gold” – an indicator of people’s behavior toward buying/selling or investing in cryptocurrencies, specifically bitcoin.

Bitcoin (illustration)

So, it’s safe to say that bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are supported by many, right? Well, not necessarily.

A recent survey conducted by YouGov on more than 1,000 American adults interestingly reveals that their attitude toward cryptocurrencies isn’t all that positive.

In this session of Q&A, we talk with James Turner, the Managing Director of Turnerlittle.com, discussing the findings from the YouGov survey, as well as offering his insight on what’s the future hold for everything related to bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. …

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