25, Apr 2024
Most Business Property Can Be Managed to Higher Valuation

Valuation, the thing by which all property and business is purchased and sold. Someone must value a property/business enough to purchase it from someone who agrees with that valuation. As a business owner, it is important to you to get every fair dollar out of a property you sell, or…

30, Apr 2020
Do You Have What it Takes to Invest?

In over 30 years of helping people invest in a wide variety of investment types, I found the number one problem wasn't lack of knowledge...

27, Mar 2020
Investment Created America

In a time of great challenge by socialist leadership on the left, it is good to remember our roots.

16, Mar 2020
Fed Rate and Bank Reserve Change, Might be Smart

First, as long as lending requirements remain the same, every loan will be closed with a cash deposit, which alleviates some of the problem of making more cash available through Fed Funds.

4, Mar 2020
Investing Power – Teams that Crank!

Real investing has moved away from Wall Street and into a new segment of America made of teams, people who connect business ideas through internet platforms, meet-ups, and group funding

1, Jan 2014
Ownership

Investing your money in a business, or in multiple businesses, means you are taking a position of ownership, and responsibility.  You will be responsible for knowing how the business is doing, how much you should expect to earn and when (could be years away), tax laws, ownership risk, and maybe…

18, Dec 2013
Appease Your Way to the Top

  If the title of this didn’t make you cringe, you may be a wimp.  As far as I can tell by searching the web, nobody has written a book with this title.  There are plenty of accounts of people who tried appeasement diplomacy but nothing regarding appeasement as a…

6, Dec 2013
Went to a KC Chiefs Game and a Third World Country Broke Out

I may be a Kansas City area resident but having lived in the Rockies for a large chunk of my life, I’m a Denver fan, so I took the opportunity to go to a Broncos vs. Chiefs game recently, in Kansas City. This was my first, and maybe my last,…

20, Sep 2012
Good Politics are Most Important to Business Owners

Business and practice owners need to consider the most important thing for the continuing development of their business.  Customer service, sales and marketing, product and service development, and productivity are all a constant but their effectiveness is not.  In the wrong political environment these constants are negatively impacted by slow…

24, Jul 2012
Yahoo! Falling to Ashes

Yahoo! may finally be heading to the pile of ashes, but we don’t know for sure if they will become a Phoenix.  I’ve been using Yahoo and their services for many years.  Once the leader of the online world, only to be dramatically overshadowed by Google which is willing to…