Posts Tagged ‘financial health’

• Mixed Money Messages
  barrieabalard, March 11th, 2010 at 12:01 am, Comments: 0

  This week’s post holds no secrets regarding getting free help or stuff. Nor does it tell you how to make more money or cut your budget. Instead, it concerns thinking about your spending habits, but not in a, “I’m so bad with money” way. Do not beat yourself up. Instead, think about the sorts of [...]

• Rolodex: Your Last Asset or Your Best Asset?
  tamelarich, February 10th, 2010 at 6:07 am, Comments: 0

  When I liquidated my industrial and environmental cleaning business I kept my customer list. While all my competitors claimed they wanted it, none wanted to pay me for it outright. I got lots of "earn out" proposals that promised to pay me a commission each time they did work for my clients, but I didn't [...]

• Is Candor the Best Approach?
  tamelarich, January 27th, 2010 at 1:33 am, Comments: 0

  A woman I know owns a food preparation business in NC. The kind of place that does all the shopping, cutting and cooking so that customers simply come to her kitchen to assemble meals, which they then reheat at home.
  In November she sent an email to her list laying her cards on the table: business [...]

• Wind it Down?
  tamelarich, January 13th, 2010 at 12:02 am, Comments: 0

  One of the reasons I didn't shut down my unprofitable business sooner was that I had no idea how to do it.
  Don't laugh. No one goes to business school to learn how to wind a business down and every red-blooded entrepreneur wants to focus on growth, not failure.
  Here's what Rick Mitchell, bankruptcy attorney (and Chapter [...]

• Seven Financial Resolutions for 2010
  barrieabalard, December 31st, 2009 at 12:01 am, Comments: 0

  Whee, it’s almost 2010! Have you thought about ways to improve your financial health in the new year? Here are some ideas to get you started.
  1. I will read my bank and brokerage account statements and develop and execute a plan, if one is needed.
  When things go south, a lot of people like to behave [...]

• Budget is Not a Four-Letter Word, or, Cutting Back Creatively
  barrieabalard, October 29th, 2009 at 12:01 am, Comments: 0

  Budget. For a lot of us, it’s a difficult, joyless word that means deprivation and pain. It’s human nature to avoid things that bring us pain, so we often don’t take a hard look at our finances when the money is plentiful. But when a setback such as a job loss, a pay cut, or [...]