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    In the same genre (what a great, funny word that is) as past articles, this is another in a series of investment strategies that can exceed the long run returns of the major indices and is also non-correlated with the performance of the U.S. equities market. Exceeding the returns of the major indices is an obvious goal. Otherwise, we should all be in S&P ETFs paying low fees and beating the 80-85% of actively managed mutual funds out there that extract a 1-2% fee for losing money to a lowly index. However, diversifying your portfolio with multiple streams of income from multiple investment categories that are either weakly or slightly inversely correlated with the majors is critically important and woefully absent from the portfolios of most individual investors.

    Note that during the recent market downturn stemming from the Asian meltdown, not only did the international funds tank, but so did the U.S. Blue Chips, Small Caps, Energy, and even gold, a perennial stalwart in such circumstances. Diversification is harder to achieve than it once was, as the world has grown smaller and practically all investment categories have grown to be inexorabl

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    Many small time wannabe marketers who write marketing, advertising and sleazy sales books will have you believe that the over all marketing plan is the quintessential reason for success or failure in your business. Indeed business plans and marketing plans are of value but before you start a business you have no idea where it will take you.As an entrepreneur you may plan to have a certain market mix and then find the customers are leading you a different way, as they want to buy something else and more of it than less.You cannot fight the flow of such things and you would be ignorant to try, that is if it is profitable to deliver what those c
    the U.S. equities market. Exceeding the returns of the major indices is an obvious goal. Otherwise, we should all be in S&P ETFs paying low fees and beating the 80-85% of actively managed mutual funds out there that extract a 1-2% fee for losing money to a lowly index. However, diversifying your portfolio with multiple streams of income from multiple investment categories that are either weakly or slightly inversely correlated with the majors is critically important and woefully absent from the portfolios of most individual investors.

    Note that during the recent market downturn stemming from the Asian meltdown, not only did the international funds tank, but so did the U.S. Blue Chips, Small Caps, Energy, and even gold, a perennial stalwart in such circumstances. Diversification is harder to achieve than it once was, as the world has grown smaller and practically all investment categories have grown to be inexorab

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    e for losing money to a lowly index. However, diversifying your portfolio with multiple streams of income from multiple investment categories that are either weakly or slightly inversely correlated with the majors is critically important and woefully absent from the portfolios of most individual investors.

    Note that during the recent market downturn stemming from the Asian meltdown, not only did the international funds tank, but so did the U.S. Blue Chips, Small Caps, Energy, and even gold, a perennial stalwart in such circumstances. Diversification is harder to achieve than it once was, as the world has grown smaller and practically all investment categories have grown to be inexorab

    Cross Selling Across Divisions
    I don't know of an organization that does not want its salespeople to cross-sell. The big question is why it is so difficult to successfully implement a cross-sell strategy, especially across divisions. Certainly product knowledge is a real issue and so is compensation - What's in it for me? But more than that are the issues of risk and trust.Many salespeople are afraid to "expose" their client to their colleagues. This could be based on their own bad experience, "what ifs", or on internal horror stories where colleagues from other divisions have not delivered and have damaged relationships. Although confidence in your colleagues' ability to deliver
    tant and woefully absent from the portfolios of most individual investors.

    Note that during the recent market downturn stemming from the Asian meltdown, not only did the international funds tank, but so did the U.S. Blue Chips, Small Caps, Energy, and even gold, a perennial stalwart in such circumstances. Diversification is harder to achieve than it once was, as the world has grown smaller and practically all investment categories have grown to be inexorab

    How Clear Are Your Goals?
    It was a foggy mid-October day as I made my way into the office to commence my work day. I was stuck in our normal morning commute and not able to see the buildings in Calgary’s downtown core. I began thinking to myself-- do I know where my end destination is? Absolutely, I could not see the building that holds my office however I still knew where to go.As my thoughts went on, I started to thinking about business and how some entrepreneurs hesitate to shoot for their goals simply because they cannot see their destination. They just do not go for it. They wait for the weather to clear so they can see where they want to go. What would happen if
    Small Caps, Energy, and even gold, a perennial stalwart in such circumstances. Diversification is harder to achieve than it once was, as the world has grown smaller and practically all investment categories have grown to be inexorably linked together. So the question is, how do I achieve similar returns in any market?

    An excellent option is to become a lender. Previously, this was impossibly impractical for individuals unless you were "connected" with the right people or institutions. Well, now, it's possible.

    Prosper.com is a relatively new site that pools together lenders and borrowers and uses an EBAY-like bidding system to match up willing parties based on everything from credit risk and past history to debt/income ratio and "groups" the borrowers belong to. Upon researching this option, I was immediately skeptical. Wouldn't this be a scam artist's paradise? Couldn't one just keep setting up mock accounts, borrowing thousands of dollars, then walk away?

    Well, here are several intriguing answers to these questions; legitimate enough that I signed up this weekend to become a lender, with the intent of returns in the 9-11% range

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