Posted on : 19-04-2010 | By : Allison Thompson | In : Financial News
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Improving your finances doesn’t always have to be a question of saving money. Taking steps to increase your income is a legitimate option, and can make the books much easier to balance in the end. One of the most important strategies is to ask your boss for a raise: the worst that can usually happen is a “no”, but with proper preparation, you may be able to convince your boss to say yes. Here are some easy ways to improve your odds.
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Ask for it: If you haven’t had a raise in a while, asking for one may just be the motivation your boss needs. Take a good look at your personnel file and see how you stand out from the crowd — be prepared to win over your boss. If you ca
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Posted on : 19-04-2010 | By : Jesse Lee | In : Business Advice
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In part one of this series, we looked at the free Google keyword SEO tools that can aid your keyword choices, such as the Adwords Keywords Tool and Google Insight for Search. Here are more free Google tools to get your SEO honed and efficient.
Google Trends
What are people searching for right now? While their Insight tool can give you trends on a specific keyword, you can use the Google Trends to find “hot” topics that generate the highest searches currently. This can be a great way to boost your own blog search results. Find the hot topics, and include those keywords in a new post and your RSS feed right away.
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Posted on : 18-04-2010 | By : Jose Gonzalez | In : Financial News
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Dalit Waissman took sued Life Insurance Company of North America (LINA) when the company terminated her long-term disability payments in May 2006. In arguments presented before District Judge Jeremy Fogel of the U.S. District Court’s Northern District of California, San Jose Division on January 20, 2010, Waissman’s disability attorney did his best to show that the material in Waissman’s claim’s file demonstrated beyond doubt that Waissman was disabled according to the definitions laid out within her former employer’s long-term disability plan.
→ Click here to continue reading Did LINA wrongfully deny disability payments to claimant with multiple sclerosis? (Part II)
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Posted on : 18-04-2010 | By : Jesse Lee | In : Business Advice
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10 years ago, a business website consisted of simple html coded pages that were static, dull, and lacking in any type of relationship between a business and its customers. A webmaster may have once thought that a blinking .gif image banner was swell and added a “dazzle” to a website. Ultimately, the business website was simply an extension of a Yellow Pages ad and offered no interaction with online customers.
Now, however, we have viable proof that websites work when people relate to a business. A business website doesn’t need all the slick Flash or Java coding to make it interactive. Howev
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Posted on : 17-04-2010 | By : Andrew Miller | In : Financial News
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April 19 () – Property for Industry, which has a portfolio of 55 industrial properties, reported little-changed first-half profit as rentals rose and the company took one-time adjustments for a drop in the value of interest rate swaps.
Profit was $3.42 million, or 1.59 cents a share, in the three months ended March 31, from $3.44 million, or 1.62 cents a year earlier, the company said in a statement today. Rental income rose 3.2% to $8.19 million.
The investment group managed by AMP Capital Investors held its dividend unchanged from a year earlier at 1.55 cents a share. P
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Posted on : 14-04-2010 | By : Allison Thompson | In : Financial News
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With some of the lowest certificate of deposit (CD) rates in history bank profitability may be up, but the account balances and investment income for senior citizens are down. Although all investors are feeling a squeeze on their investment returns, senior citizens are by far getting squeezed the most. If you take a quick look at the interest rates for the past four years since Bernard (Ben) Bernanke became the chairman of the Federal Reserve in 2006, it paints a picture of how seniors have watched their incomes deplete. In 2006, when Bernanke came on the scene, the federal funds interest rate was 4.5 percent.
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Posted on : 14-04-2010 | By : Jose Gonzalez | In : Financial News
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ForeclosureIndustry.com has posted an article that discusses the changes to Fannie Mae that were decided upon on March 30th of this year. Beginning May 1, 2010, MERS cannot be named as a plaintiff in any foreclosure case whether it’s judicial, non-judicial or if the mortgage was securitized or if the loan was/is owned by Fannie Mae.
MERS is the mortgagee of record when either a mortgage names MERS as the original mortgagee and is recorded in the applicable land records, or a completed and recorded assignment names MERS as the mortgage assignee.
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