February 10, 2012

What is the best product to sell and make money?

The title of this post is a usual question when you explore the business world, well the answer is very easy, the best product to make money is yourself. You should start selling to yourself before trying to make money with anything.

When you go to a store what products you chose? … the products that you need and among them the products that look better or maybe has more gadgets.

If you think that you are a product … will you buy to yourself?

You are always “selling” you, as a husband or wife, as a father or mother, as employee or boss. As any product of a store, you should look the best way that you can, you have to project an image of success.

Projecting an image of success is a powerful tool that gives you authority. If you see someone with a BMW or Mercedes and another who did not even have a car and both give you a tip for making money, which of them would believe more?

Then the first business idea you have to develop and sell is yourself, apply all rules of marketing to yourself.

Music conversion from CD to Mp3, Mp4 for iPod or iPhone, a business idea to make money with your music passion

Many of us have still CDs which not upload to our iPods or iPhone or any device that we used for play our favorite music.

Happen also that our iPhone is a total mess where is impossible to find our play lists.

Well, if you like the music, here there is a field to develop a business idea that you can do from home with very little investment as is the case of  HungryPod, its founder Catherine Keane (23) now earns thousands of dollars in it.

Their business is basically to convert music CDs to format for iPods or other MP3 music player or other digital medium.Obviously she adds value to their services, sorting music and even give recommendations on which to listen.

Her market is people without time but with a lot of money for sped in this kind of services.

The New York Times made a report about HungryPod, they said:

“For those who lack the time or the know-how to transfer their record collections to their iPods, an entrepreneur has created a service that will do the trick. The service, HungryPod (hungrypod.com), converts CD’s to MP3 format and loads them into an iPod or any other digital music player.”

You can visit HungryPod by clicking here on this link

How to teach your children the value of money and become millionaire

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Saving only U.S.$100 per month beginning at age 4 and ending at age 18 you could become millionaire if you invest that money and remains untouched until age 62 as the above chart show.

The picture has been taken from Yahoo Finance. The secret to being a millionaire is to start as soon as possible. Instead of buying toys for your children you should start saving in your child’s name and teach them the value of money. About it at Yahoo Finance website you can find interesting guides about How To Teach Your Children The Value of Money. You can read there: 

“5. Make Saving Interesting

You hear it every time you walk by a toy store: “I want…Buy me this… !” Again, pause and take a moment before responding. This situation presents a great opportunity to teach another important lesson about personal finance: savings and interest. Explain that people often save their money for items they want to buy.

A simple savings lesson involves using a piggy bank, shoe box, or empty peanut butter jar. Make the lesson fun by having your children decorate the “bank,” while explaining to them how you also use a real bank to save your money. Encourage your children to save a portion of their allowance for a special goal. As they save money, you might reward them with a small additional amount, just like a bank pays interest. At the end of each month, calculate how much they have saved and then chip in a certain percentage as interest.

Last, to further encourage the learning process, you might consider plotting a visual chart of their savings (include the goal) so they can easily see their savings grow. Remember to keep it as simple as possible, geared toward each child’s level of understanding.”

You can read these guides on Yahoo Finance by clicking here on this link

Secrets for invest in stocks and make money from a top university investor

The Wall Street Journal report that Harvard, Yale Are Big Losers in ‘The Game’ of Investing. The report said:

The schools were hurt by investments in assets that can’t readily be sold, such as private-equity partnerships, which were pummeled in the past year after stellar results over the previous decade. In the category Harvard calls “real assets,” including timber, commodities and real estate, annual losses neared 40%.

However the advices of David F. Swensen who manages no less than U.S. $ 22.5 billion Yale Foundation in the United States, still are valid.

On an interesting interview given to The New York Times, he gives us 3 simple tips for the individual investor wants to invest in securities:

1. Keep things simple and not complicated to make any investment.
2. Keep investment costs low and
3. Make a periodic review of our investments in line with our long term goals.

I recommend you to buy and read his book “Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment” (Free Press, 2005):

He proposes a portfolio of 30 percent domestic stocks, 15 percent foreign stocks, and 5 percent emerging-market stocks, as well as 20 percent in real estate and 15 percent each in Treasury bonds and Treasury inflation-protected securities, or TIPS.

The idea that diversification is that you get an adequate return. Anyway always remember that any investment involves risk.