• Buy and sell stocks in TV shows, TV channels, Studios, and stars
• Short sell and cover the same stocks (Short selling and covering is the opposite of a buy or sell, if you short a stock, you hope the price drops so you can gain money on the fall.)
• Rate or vote for popular TV shows
• offer easy to use registration that is seamless
• design the market system for extreme modularity so we can add in new features as we develop them without interrupting the market itself.

That list has now significantly expanded - this is the current list of functions and capabilities for the Stocks Online application...

• buy and sell stocks
• Short and cover stocks
• Rate or vote for a random list of 10 stocks
• easy registration process
• retain modular market system for additional modules without extensive recoding or rebuilding
• Display stocks not yet released so players can see upcoming stock listings or IPO's
• Allow players to pre-buy IPO stocks before they go live at the IPO price
• Flash-based stock ticker pulling information off of a cron-built data file that is updated every 15 m
  Leading Change - Why Are We Doing This?
  "I think Ed has a point."We were in the Boardroom of a $1.5 billion consumer goods manufacturer when the CEO made that statement. Of course he was responding to what I had just said."If you gentlemen don't know why you’re doing this project, how on earth do you expect the rest of the company to get behind it?"You see this outfit was way behind on their promises. The same Executive Team that sat before me that day had two years previously made the decision to implement a new ERP system. You remember, ERP, enterprise resource planning system. They were all the rage in the nineties. That meant a lot of money for the vendor s
  f a buy or sell, if you short a stock, you hope the price drops so you can gain money on the fall.)
• Rate or vote for popular TV shows
• offer easy to use registration that is seamless
• design the market system for extreme modularity so we can add in new features as we develop them without interrupting the market itself.

That list has now significantly expanded - this is the current list of functions and capabilities for the Stocks Online application...

• buy and sell stocks
• Short and cover stocks
• Rate or vote for a random list of 10 stocks
• easy registration process
• retain modular market system for additional modules without extensive recoding or rebuilding
• Display stocks not yet released so players can see upcoming stock listings or IPO's
• Allow players to pre-buy IPO stocks before they go live at the IPO price
• Flash-based stock ticker pulling information off of a cron-built data file that is updated every 15 m
  Starting a Business
  In economics, business is the social science of managing people to organize and maintain collective productivity toward accomplishing particular, creative and productive goals, usually to generate revenue.The etymology of "business" refers to the state of being busy, in the context of the individual as well as the community or society. In other words, to be busy is to be doing commercially viable and profitable work.Starting and managing a business takes motivation and talent. It also requires a lot of research and planning. Although initial errors are not always catastrophic, it takes extra specialization, discipline, and har
  ty so we can add in new features as we develop them without interrupting the market itself.

That list has now significantly expanded - this is the current list of functions and capabilities for the Stocks Online application...

• buy and sell stocks
• Short and cover stocks
• Rate or vote for a random list of 10 stocks
• easy registration process
• retain modular market system for additional modules without extensive recoding or rebuilding
• Display stocks not yet released so players can see upcoming stock listings or IPO's
• Allow players to pre-buy IPO stocks before they go live at the IPO price
• Flash-based stock ticker pulling information off of a cron-built data file that is updated every 15 m
  How to Target Your Ideal Customers - Part 2
  Before making one telephone call or placing any advertising or putting one word to press release or promotional copy, spend time clearly defining your target audience. Don't worry about your message and content at this point. It's critical to first identify your ideal customer or client.Who wants and needs what you have to offer? The only wrong answer is “everyone.” You want a niche, and the more focused the better.When looking at your target audience, visualize one person and capture as much detail as possible about that person. Get inside his/her head and become an expert in his/her daily life. Top 10 questions to ask: and sell stocks
• Short and cover stocks
• Rate or vote for a random list of 10 stocks
• easy registration process
• retain modular market system for additional modules without extensive recoding or rebuilding
• Display stocks not yet released so players can see upcoming stock listings or IPO's
• Allow players to pre-buy IPO stocks before they go live at the IPO price
• Flash-based stock ticker pulling information off of a cron-built data file that is updated every 15 m
  5 Steps to Continuous Process Improvement
  Part One of Creating Well-Defined Processes SeriesWhat if your sales increased from $100,000 to $110,000 per day and your profit increased from $10,000 to $11,000 – did you improve by 10%? The answer might shock you...Because the answer is no. No improvement occurred. In fact, your process deteriorated. Sure, revenue increased, but is this really an improvement? Let’s take a look at the problem by looking at revenue and expenses.Extra Expenses Prevent Process ImprovementLet’s examine the before and the after scenario. Say, in the before picture, you have sales of $100,000, fixed costs of $20,000
  ks not yet released so players can see upcoming stock listings or IPO's
• Allow players to pre-buy IPO stocks before they go live at the IPO price
• Flash-based stock ticker pulling information off of a cron-built data file that is updated every 15 minutes
• hot-links in the stock ticker so players can go to individual stocks as they stream across
• Generate a top 10 list of stocks so players can see what stocks are moving
• A function to make a stock featured
• Put a hotlink on the main page that shows a random pick of an IPO stock released that day, a featured stock that is being promoted, and the top moving stock in regards to share volume
• Different stock types so there can be easy separation between categories such as shows, people, and studios or channels
• cross-link stocks so if one stock goes up or down in price, all associated stocks also feel the adjustment to a smaller degree.
• An admin function for stock price adjustment that allows for all cross-linked stock to be effected by the price adjustment without the cron cycle
• a stock hold function with cash out ability so we can put a stock on hold and cash it out if it delists or go's onto a hiatus
• Allow a player to rate individual stocks for a reward