Money Matters

Service-oriented Marketing

SERVICE MARKETING(tm) Ben Dean, Ph.D., MCC http://www.mentorcoach.com Most helping professionals can master coaching skills. If you like helping others, you find coaching to be fun and fulfilling.  But even experienced professionals can often have difficulty marketing their fledgling coaching practices. There are four keys to building a successful coaching practice: (1)  Building strong, nuanced skills [...]

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Kohler Service EXCELLENT

The contrast with TracFone was never so sharp as when I called Kohler for a problem with our kitchen faucet. The button needed to switch between regular and spray broke a few days ago. I really didn’t want to call, because the faucet is two years old, and their warranty runs for one year. I [...]

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More time needed for figuring taxes, IRS predicts

Taxpayers need 28 1/2 hours to complete an average tax return with itemized deductions and income reported from dividends, interest and capital gains, the government estimated. [ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4749056/ ] I use Intuit’s Turbotax to do my tax return. What drives me nuts is that I really can’t say that I even begin to understand how [...]

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To VC or Not to VC

Rick Ellis whose company pmachine publishes Expression Engine (the weblog/CMS software which runs this site) writes: A common decision faced by small companies like mine is whether to seek outside funding to help growth.  Venture Capital firms and Angel Investors are beginning to look at software and technology companies again after the bubble burst a [...]

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Do-it Yourself Money Management

The movement of do-it-yourself money management is often portrayed as a choice, as if there were viable alternatives. But even if you rely on others for help—or even give others control over your resources—you still have to choose the right people, and keep an eye on them. There are times when people need good financial [...]

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A Modern Fable of Taxing the Rich

The following article appeared in the February 23, 2002 issue of the Lakeshore News-Salmon Arm, British Columbia. Ron Adams, a local financial advisor who writes a regular column in the paper, wrote it. Ron is sometimes a little irreverent and ruffles many conservative feathers in town, but he is often entertaining and usually gets straight [...]

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Adaptation-Level Phenomenon

Part of the reason behind why our material wants can overpower us is because of something known to psychologists as the adaptation-level phenomenon: Whatever it is that’s going on in our life, we immediately adapt to it and then that becomes neutral. So if you get a big promotion and raise, you’ll think that’s wonderful—for [...]

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