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4 Things to Remember When You Start Your Career in Real Estate

Investing is a big step. And it’s natural to feel the need for proper guidelines before jumping into industries like real-estate where even the tiniest mistake can cost you a fortune.  So here it is;four things to remember when you are planning to start your career in real-estate. Hopefully, this will guide you throughout your experience as a newbie in real-estate investment. 1.    There’s no right time   Flower blooming may have a right time, hiking may have a right time, a birthday may have a right time; but there’s no right time for you to start investing and set up your career in real-estate. People often compare real-estate with the stock market. That’s why they believe there should be a right time to jump in, just like the stock market. But trust me when I say this, there is no right time.  You can spend the next decade looking for your perfect time but honestly, you won’t get it. Because there isn’t any. So, if you have the startup funds and ...

Why is Fintechless appealing to the Elderly?

Because of trust issues. Yes, I answered your question in the first line. But you likely want to know more. And if you are smart enough, you’ll start asking yourself why the trust issues with Fintechare making the elderly insecure? So,I’m here to answer that. But before we discuss why trust issues led to fewer appeals from the elderly, let’s explain what Fintechis briefly. What is Fintech? The answer as simple as its name. Fintech or Financial Tech is exactly what it says. Every piece of virtual programs, techs, tools, instruments,and service used in finances, is labeled as Fintech. To be precise, Fintech is a computer program or any other technology that helps in the banking and financial sectors. The Trust Issue If I tell you that denizens of Generation X were more than twice as enthusiastic about trying a digital payment solution than any of the baby boomers, would you be shocked? Will you roll your brain and eyes so fast and hard that t...

Should you become a Franchisee?

There are lots of entrepreneurs who want to get involved in business, but they don’t want to do the business plans and come up with an idea to start from the scratch. For them, franchising is a good opportunity to get involved in a business management without needing to come up with a business idea in the first place. In franchising, everything is done for you to take control. You just need to train and manage your team and the franchise in general. Seems easy, right? It’s not. But if you think that you can pull it off, it’s time for you to ask yourself some questions before you buy a franchise. Are you interested in growing a business instead of building one?  Some entrepreneurs are really creative, and they always look for opportunities to use their creativity. If you are one of them, you shouldn’t go with a franchise. Even if you buy a franchise and start managing it, you won’t be satisfied because you’d feel that the core idea and thoughts of this fr...

Getting a Payment Processor for Vape Products

If you are planning on selling vapes online, the very first hurdle you’ll need to get passed is finding the right merchant service who accepts your business. There isn’t a long list of merchants who are willing to back you up because they know that the sale of electronic cigarettes, vapes,and other similar products area high risk. That’s why many payment processors might reject your proposal. Giant payments processors like PayPal, Square, etc. have been seen to freeze merchant accounts that are considered high-risk, without any legal warning. But vaping is a massive industry that makes over a billion in revenue each year. Also, it has been helping people leave tobacco for good. So there’s no doubt that vape and electronic cigarettes will exist for a long time. But without a payment processor, how can you run your business smoothly? Don’t worry, there are plenty of ways to get a payment processor for vape products. But first, you should know what affects On...

Brands are now missing out on the affiliate marketing opportunities in Asia

For those souls who don’t know, performance marketing or affiliate marketing is a traditional and cost-effective performance channel that a digital marketer can have in its armory. The affiliates or the performance partners, as some people like to call it, are paid only on a CPA, i.e. Cost Per Action basis. This means the affiliates receive their commission after the sales have been driven to the advisor’s site from the affiliate’s site. This is a great opportunity for advisers because they won’t have to spend any money unless the sales are happening. So, what are the opportunities? The affiliate channels already have a mature and strong presence in North America and Europe. It was the year 1996 when the first affiliate program was launched in the United States. The first affiliate network followed shortly in the year 1998. Since that time, the affiliate marketing industry has grown and updated to today’s model that we are now familiar with. In the US alone, affiliate marketi...

Surprising Things that every Business Plan should include

A business plan seems like a lot of work. It actually is. Creating a Business plan is not easy at all. But all the hardships will go in vain unless you have something extraordinary in it that will make the business plan stand out amongst a horde. Here are some things that may surprise you, but should be included in a business plan. Review of the Competition A business idea is not only about the company’s own agenda and goals. It should be the whole industry’s reflection and that includes your competition in the industry. You need to make sure you have assessed your competition well enough to spot where they are doing great and where they are failing miserably. Innovation  At the beginning I said, if the business plan doesn’t have anything that may stand out from the horde, all your hardship will be in vain. Well, this is what I’m talking about. If your business idea isn’t something unique or groundbreaking, why should people bother with...

Dreadful Marketing mistakes that you should avoid

Marketing is a big part of your brand’s success. The entire future of you and your company depends on how well you do the marketing for your products. Just like one good marketing move can make your to-be-customers crave your products, one bad move can ruin everything. So, here are some dreadful marketing mistakes that you should definitely avoid these days. Not taking the leap from the personalization to the individualization At this age and era, marketers are still doing mass marketing for their products. This is not only backdated, but is also inefficient when it comes to drawing customer’s attention. Today, marketing should be individualized to suit different persons from different castes, thoughts,and lifestyles. Mass-level marketing will not work in 2018. So, it’s high time marketers changed their strategy. Not following the cardinal 80/20 formula I’m talking about Pareto’s principal which says that eighty percent of the result comes from twenty perc...