Even when you do everything right in your job interview, things can go wrong when it comes to hearing back from the employer in a timely manner. Many job candidates today find themselves either ghosted – where an employer simply doesn’t communicate after a job application has been…
As a business, here’s why you need to focus on yourself (and not on your competition)
As per Webster, the definition of competition is “the effort of two or more parties acting independently to secure the business of a third party by offering the most favorable terms.” As such, for those of you who engage in competition, it can prove to be rather advantageous as, ideally…
What are mortgage bonds?
A mortgage bond is a bond in which holders have a claim on the real estate assets put up as its collateral. A lender might sell a collection of mortgage bonds to an investor, who then collects the interest payments on each mortgage until it’s paid off. If the mortgage owner defaults…
6 ways to figure out if your side hustle idea will be a quick failure or a long-term success
The number one thing I love to do in my free time is brainstorm new business ideas. I find it fun thinking about problems and solutions in the form of innovative, unique, and interesting side hustles. My friends know this about me and at some point, at every dinner or phone call, I ask them if they want to chat about random ideas and see if any of them have potential…
5 key steps to increase the value of your business
How valuable is your business? Does it depend on your social media following? Does it depend on your sales? Does it depend on the leadership?
Have you ever attended an auction? What is so intriguing are the various prices being bid on the same item, depending on the value that...
How to use real-time data to fine-tune your business decisions
When it comes to decision-making, timing is essential. Recent research from KX confirms that businesses miss out on the full return on their investments when they don’t think fast enough. How do they do this best? Data.
Although nearly two-thirds of organizations agree that…
Index funds vs. mutual funds: What’s the difference?
New investors often want to know the difference between index funds and mutual funds. The thing is, sometimes index funds are mutual funds and sometimes mutual funds are index funds. It’s like asking the difference between apples and sweet food. Apples can be sweet or sour, while sweet food includes more than just apples. So it is with mutual…