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Exact Market Introduces 6 New Ways to Approach Meetings in the 21st Century

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Exact Market Introduces 6 New Ways to Approach Meetings in the 21st Century
Entitled “Embracing the Future: Exact Market's Template for Hosting Successful Business Meetings in the 21st Century”, the guideline helps business leaders run productive meetings in a new business climate. Tips include: Reconsider How Meeting …
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IPC and Nexusguard Team Up to Offer World-Class DDoS Defense with …
The partnership will see IPC providing frontline services to enterprise customers, helping them properly set up best-practice DDoS defense mechanisms and develop mitigation strategies. Nexusguard will use its experience in mitigating DDoS attacks …
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Organising successful franchise discovery days
Holding your discovery day on a weekday also allows you to showcase your office or the template franchise during actual working hours, which increases the credibility by highlighting that your business works. Marketing your discovery days. Make sure …
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Stock market live blog: Sharply lower; S&P, Dow see biggest monthly loss since …

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Stock market live blog: Sharply lower; S&P, Dow see biggest monthly loss since …
While we're on the subject of Europe, a lot of investors piled into the Continent in the latter half of last year on ideas the U.S. rally was getting frothy. While U.S. stocks actually kept moving … But potentially bad news for Amazon customers …
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The rise and fall (and rise) of the billion-dollar social network
As Gladwell suggested, any idea, trend or company could “spread like wildfire” once it reaches a tipping point. As a result, online social networks now race to add users by “infecting” them with an idea and then giving them multiple ways of sharing …
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To VC Or Not to VC – What is the State of the Venture Capital Market?

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During the second quarter of 2009, U.S. Venture Capital funds raised $ 1.7 billion vs. $ 9.3 billion in the second quarter of 2008, representing a drop of almost 82 percent! This startling statistic reinforces the fact that you MUST be prepared when trying to raise capital with Venture Capital firms. Companies are going after a much smaller pool of capital, so Venture Capital firms will only fund your company if you’re presented in a way that’s professional, memorable and believable.

Here is a checklist of 8 things to address that can increase your chances of gaining interest from Venture Capital firms:

Be honest with yourself – Is your company a viable candidate for Venture Capital?  If you go through all the steps in preparing an Executive Summary/Business Plan, you’ll have the answer to that question.  You may have a very viable business but it may not be a Venture Capital candidate.
Problem or Opportunity – What specific problem or opportunity are you addressing with your product or service?  You need to be clear about the pain or opportunity and how you’re going to reduce costs, increase revenue, reduce time-to-market, etc.
Solution – How are you going to fix the problem?  What hardware, software, and services are you offering?
Market Opportunity – What specific market segment are you targeting?  Remember, there are riches in niches!  You’ll show that you’ve done the research needed to have a strong go-to-market strategy.
Unique Selling Proposition (USP) – What is unique about your product or service offering and why would a client pay you money vs. all the competition in the market?  (for emerging technologies where there isn’t business competition, you’re competing against inertia)
Management Team – Who will be running the business and how are they uniquely qualified to make your company successful?
Financial Projections – Remember, investors will only invest in your company if you can show them how you will make them money.  Your five year financial projections should clearly demonstrate how you will do this…but they need to be believable or you’re wasting your time.  Nothing turns off an investor faster than projections of your company reaching unrealistic revenue targets.
Funding Request – Many business plans fail to include how much capital they require and its uses.  If you are requesting a certain amount for Phase 1 and plan a subsequent round for a later Phase, state that as specifically as you can.

These are only a few areas that must be addressed to be successful in raising the financing you need for your company.  You need to get “thick-skinned” when dealing with rejection because a low percentage of deals actually get funded with Venture Capital.  Following these steps will not guarantee you success but will greatly increase the chances of raising capital for your company when properly prepared.

For a free, no-obligation “To VC or Not To VC Consultation”, contact us and we’ll be happy to provide you the concrete feedback you need to increase your chances of success.

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FPgirl Market Insights Program: Gen Z Girls Prefer Gaming Over Lifestyle Apps and Admire Zendaya Colemans Sense of Style

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Beverly, Massachusetts (PRWEB) April 24, 2013

FashionPlaytes, Inc. today released new data on what tween girls think about fashion, style and entertainment as part of its FPgirl Market Insights Program. The data looks at Tech Trends and Fashion Influences and delivers a unique understanding of how tween girls view the world of mobile apps, as well as how they identify their style with celebrities.

Tech Trends: In a world of mobile apps, FPgirls skew heavily to arcade-style games, preferring Temple Run and Subway Surfers over other games, and even other app types. 56% of the over 2,600 voters selected these apps above others such as Instagram, Pandora, Angry Birds and Kik. Although 1 in 5 of the girls selected Instagram as their favorite app, and commented on their love for texting via Kik, the results show an overall high interest in gaming-related apps instead of the lifestyle/ entertainment category.

“We have been exploring how tween girls find and use apps through a series of surveys and polls,” said Andy Komack, FPgirl Market Insights program director. “When we ask girls in an open forum to volunteer apps that they love, they lean heavily to games. When they vote on top apps, the same pattern emerges,” adds Komack. “We are currently working with our community of girls to understand how they find and use apps in the world of fashion. The information we have gathered so far is fascinating, and points to interesting ways that they perceive apps.”

Fashion Influences: FashionPlaytes also gave a sneak peek at their celebrity series of data in the Market Insights program, where Zendaya Coleman was a clear winner in terms of providing fashion inspiration for girls.

“As you might imagine, tween girls rapidly evolve their tastes and preferences,” says Komack. “In an earlier poll, girls clearly stated that they derive fashion inspiration from themselves, instead of from celebrities. At the same time, girls do obviously follow celebrities. We have seen that our girls have moved fluidly between Taylor Swift, Victoria Justice, Lucy Hale, Zendaya Coleman and others in terms of who provides inspiration.” The data about Zendaya Coleman leading the poll is also closely aligned to an earlier poll about favorite TV channels where FPgirls heavily skewed to watching the Disney Channel, where Zendaya reigns, with 70% of their vote.

About FPgirl Market Insights:

FPgirl Market Insights pulls information from FPgirl’s 700,000+ member fashion design community, where girls regularly post information, interact with each other and provide unique input via the site’s polls. The program is designed to provide previously unavailable information on everything from what girls wear, how and where they shop, and how they like to be entertained. Insights uncovered through the FPgirl Market Insights program gives brands a unique and unfiltered glimpse into what makes these digital natives tick.

Subscribe to the Market Insights Program here. For more details or to ask about partnership opportunities, please contact insights(at)fashionplaytes(dot)com.

About FashionPlaytes and FPgirl:

FashionPlaytes is the creator of FPgirl.com, the online fashion and style destination where girls are designers and set the trends. The FPgirl community is filled with vibrant, talented, and supportive girls who create cool custom clothing, crowd-source designs, and share their insights about what it’s like to be a girl in today’s world. FashionPlaytes celebrates all girls, providing a fun, safe, interactive environment. Its engagement-driven ecommerce platform is fueled by girls, for girls.

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Risk Management Basics For Stock Market Traders

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To be a successful stock market trader, you must follow a risk management plan. A risk management plan helps preserve trading capital while earning consistent returns. It also helps curb your emotions while enforcing self-discipline. The main elements of risk management include determining the risk amount and position size, identifying the stop price, and examining the risk/reward ratio.

Determine the Risk Amount

The risk amount is the maximum amount you are willing to risk on any given trade. It is usually a set percentage of your total account value. A common rule of thumb is to risk 1-3% of your total account value with each trade. This amount should be reduced in periods of high volatility. So, a trader with a capital of $ 50,000 that risks 2% per trade would risk $ 1000 on each trade.

Identify Stop Price

Before entering a trade, you should set a stop loss price in order to help minimize losses and the influence of emotions. This price represents the level at which your position will be closed if the trade moves against you. It will be triggered automatically when the stock price trades at or past that level. Keep in mind that slippage may occur and you may lose more than you had initially calculated. A stop loss order guarantees execution, but the price may move further against you before the trade is actually executed.

Calculate Position Size

Once you have determined the risk amount and stop price, you can then calculate number of shares that you will trade. This number, or position size, can be calculated by dividing the risk amount by the risk-per-share. The risk-per-share is the difference between the stop price and the entry price. So, assume that your maximum risk amount is $ 1000 per trade. If your entry price is $ 30 and your stop loss price is $ 28, then the risk-per-share would be $ 2. In order to calculate the position size, simple divide $ 1000 by $ 2. Your position size would be 500 shares.

Entry price $ 30 Stop price $ 28 = $ 2 Risk-per-share
$ 1,000 / $ 2 = 500 shares

Examine Risk/Reward

Examining the risk/reward ratio is extremely important in determining whether or not a reasonable profit potential exists relative to the risk. It is an extremely important component to your overall money management strategy. The reward-per-share is the difference between the target price and the entry price. The risk-per-share is the difference between the entry price and the stop price. The risk/reward ratio should be established before entering a trade and should never be less than 1:3. In order words, the profit value for every trade setup must be at least three times larger than the risk value. If your entry price is $ 30 and your target price is $ 36, then the reward-per-share would be $ 6. With a stop loss of $ 28, your risk/reward ratio would be 2:6, or 1:3.

Entry price $ 30 Stop price $ 28 = $ 2 Risk-per-share
Target price $ 36 Entry price $ 30 = $ 6 Reward-per-share
2:6 = 1:3 Risk Reward Ratio

More Money Management Tips

For online day trading, only trade stocks that have an average trading volume of more than 1,000,000 shares for day. For swing trading, only trade stocks that have an average trading volume of more than 300,000 shares per day. Also, you should only trade stocks that are priced above $ 5. Technical analysis may fail on stocks below this price since they can be easily manipulated.

Summary

Understanding and following proper stock trading risk management guidelines will help you minimize your losses while earning consistent returns. Strictly following your money management rules will help keep the emotion out of trading and the odds in your favor. Successful traders always stick to their money management plan and do not let their emotions take over.

This article was written by Mary Hedden, owner of http://www.techtradersystem.com. TechTraderSystem.com provides valuable information about technical trading systems and technical analysis of stock charts that can be used to save time and increase stock trading profits. Please click here for more information about risk and money management for stock market traders.

Social Media Real Estate Marketing E-Book Offers Hope To Stressed Real Estate Market

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Valencia, CA (PRWEB) February 10, 2010

Its no secret that many struggling Realtors have given up in the past few years; in fact, National Association of Realtors’ numbers show that their ranks have shrunk 11 percent since the peak of the market in 2006.

However, there is hope for those who are willing to use new methods of real estate marketing . Real estate broker, Naomi Trower has discovered a new way to market her business using social media, and shes been so successful at it, she has written an ebook outlining her methods step by step. The book, Social Media Marketing: Market Your Real Estate & Mortgage Business Using The Power of Social Media, is available at http://NaomiTrower.com/ebook .

I have seen so many people leaving our industry during the past 3 years, so that prompted me to look at alternative cost effective strategies to market our business, Trower explained. The past 2 years I’ve integrated internet & social media marketing into our marketing strategy, and I have had so much success using these strategies to increase my business even in these troubled economic times, that I wanted to share that success with everyone in the real estate market.

Trower found that using sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube has proven to be an extremely cost effective way to market her services. It also provides her with the opportunity to reach a huge new audience who she might never have been able to reach with expensive traditional methods of advertising.

Her ebook shows how anyone can strategically grow their Twitter following to tens of thousands; how to come up with the social media marketing plan thats right for them; how to build up fans for their Facebook business page; how to ensure that their blog is not just found in search engines, but ranked highly; and many other valuable insights into using social media to find more customers and make more sales.

I’ve been able to obtain 15 to 20 new leads per week with the use of these social media strategies, and I can show everyone the exact steps that Ive used, according to Trower.

Trower, a social media strategist, avid blogger, and entrepreneur, is a real estate broker in the state of California. She owns Premier Equity Group, Inc. & Premier Realty Group. She has a team of real estate agents and mortgage consultants.

In addition to being a real estate broker, she enjoys helping others achieve real estate and business success.

Those seeking more information or wishing to purchase her ebook can visit http://NaomiTrower.com/ebook

Request a free Chapter by contacting her via email.

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IE Professor David Bach on Non Market Strategy: The Next Frontier in Competitive Advantage

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IE Professor, David Bach discusses the importance of looking beyond traditional drivers of competitive advantage within markets, and finding opportunities in the nonmarket environment. As CEOs increasingly worry about political and regulatory pressures, he proposes to proactively engaging nonmarket actors and building competitive advantage through nonmarket strategy.
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An interview with AG Lafley, Chairman and CEO, Procter & Gamble. Innovation is at the core of P&G’s business strategy. See how P&G makes innovation an everyday practice in their organization.

Market welcomes Woodside's $2bn sale of Browse gas stake

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Market welcomes Woodside's bn sale of Browse gas stake
PETER Coleman has pulled off his first major deal since taking the reins at Woodside Petroleum a year ago, selling a chunk of the company's stake in the planned Browse gas project to Japanese interests for $ US2 billion ($ 1.9bn).
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The City of Riverside Has Selected PICS
PICS supply chain management program will allow us to ensure that each and every supplier we use has been screened for safety, compliance and sustainability. This is vital information for the management of risk in our city projects.
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Ivanhoe Mines Board of Directors Appoints New Chief Executive Officer and …
The management changes were contemplated by the memorandum of agreement signed with majority shareholder Rio Tinto on April 18, 2012. The agreement included a comprehensive financing package, which is intended to cover Ivanhoe's total funding needs to …
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Market Trend: Phoenix's Office Vacancy Increases to 20.8%

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Market Trend: Phoenix's Office Vacancy Increases to 20.8%
Vacant sublease space increased in the quarter, ending the quarter at 1174811 square feet. The largest lease signings occurring in 2012 include the 80158-square-foot lease signed by Rancho Solano Private School at 9180 E Via de Ventura in the …
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Market Trend: Tucson's Office Vacancy Decreases to 12.0%
Vacant sublease space decreased in the quarter, ending the quarter at 37385 square feet. The largest lease signings occurring in 2012 include the 11532-square-foot lease signed by Concentra Medical Center at 4600 S Park Ave in the South market. Rental …
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Market Trend: Inland Empire's Office Vacancy Decreases to 14.4%
Vacant sublease space decreased in the quarter, ending the quarter at 215219 square feet. The largest lease signings occurring in 2012 include the 6480-square-foot lease signed by Caroldean's Resale Therapy at 441 S Palm Canyon Dr in the Inland Empire …
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