Here is a perfect video for a Saturday giving more ideas to start the new week by implementing something new from Anthony Robbins. Enjoy!
No office, no boss, no boundaries — rise of the nomadic rich
I just found this article on Cnn Travel about the new breed of cash-rich, entrepreneurial mavericks who are taking the dream and traveling with it. The author of the article says that they also pay a price – loneliness and strange relationships. I don’t agree with this as most of the highly successful internet marketers from my circle have superb families or gorgeous girlfriends, spend a lot of time with them and their friends and enjoy most their lives. It’s a great read.
Two New or Improved Business Models – it is 1999 again
By being connected with many online entrepreneurs all over the world I have the privilege to see things before they happen, be invited to JV’s in the early stage of the project and also to understand the newest directions. Would you like to own a piece of the business model pursued by Facebook, Ebay, Amazon or Youtube?
They found niches in the market and built verticals on them and ended owning marketplaces almost everybody use. Think only how will be your professional life if you will own a percentage of the earnings from let’s say the mobile usage in a certain area, the Visa payments which are made in a certain neighbourhood or from the Facebook Ads which are placed by companies from a certain industry. Still being in the first month of 2012 it’s 1999 again because they are two new or improved business models available which are appealing to certain markets and by joining them you can have the early bird advantage of being among te first to embrace them:
1. Instant affiliate commissions – there’s no point of writing about how big is this industry … it is huge. Still one of the main issues especially the beginners have is that it takes a very long time until they see the first check or payment. The instant affiliate networks solve this and the trend in this direction is more and more popular. For affiliates is simple: just sign-up for the account, enter their payment data (usually paypal), find products, ask the product owners for approving them as affiliates (to prevent spam), start promoting using various way and being able to see results very fast. This is also a solution for savvy affiliates who can monetise better and faster the e-mail lists they already have or other promo tools. For a product owner, it is usually simple to upload for sale products, setup commissions split and having lots of affiliates ready to promote their stuff. In such networks both sellers and the affiliates are paid instantly according with the split agreed. The platform collects a percentage from processing the payments. Just recently, JVZoo.com was launched and it is the best i’ve seen in the market. More and more product owners and affiliates will adopt this model either as a primary income source or an alternative to other networks. It’s a trend which will grow exponentially and it is your turn not to miss this opportunity by signing up here.
2. Webinars – What is a webinar? A webinar is an online presentation which uses a dedicated platform where the presenter, the eventual guest and the attendants can be in the most different corners of the world. The technology brings them together. There are many business models for webinars: free webinars with a product pitch at the end, webinars containing an interview with an expert and also paid webinars as part of trainings, coachings and membership websites. For product owners, using webinars for promoting them it is a no brainer because for the pitch at the end, of course, depending on many issues like the quality of the presentation and the product offered the conversion is 10% which is way bigger than the one from e-mail marketing which is 2%. More and more companies and individuals use webinars all over the world. Now imagine that you put such a webinar is a platform where there are hundreds of affiliates waiting to promote your webinar and cash in instantly commissions from the sale of the product pitched at the end. Can you imagine the power of this? Yes, is again 1999 and this business model exists and takes over like a storm. Basically you can promote other people’s webinars or submit your own and leverage the power of the affiliates. Powerful? You can sign-up here to catch this huge wave before everyone will know about it.
Intelegerea fenomenelor macro din Romania
Cand vreau sa inteleg ce se intampla pe o piata caut liderii din domeniul respectiv si vad/ ascult/ citesc ce au ei de spus. Primesc cu placere orice fel de feedback dar il apreciez in special pe al celor care performeaza in domeniile in care il ofera. Economia functioneaza in cicluri peste tot si o intelegere a fenomenelor macro este esentiala pentru a face pasii potriviti si a lua deciziile corecte.
Daca Tiriac spune ceva despre investitiile straine, citesc cu atentie. La fel daca Isarescu spune ceva de inflatie. Pentru piata bunurilor de folosinta indelungata ma uit la Sucu si Ostahie. In domeniul media snt atent la Sarbu. Lista poate continua. In domeniul imobiliar am intalnit o persoana deosebita care poseda o capacitate pe care rar am intalnit-o de a prelucra informatiile din domeniul imobiliar astfel incat sa iti ofere niste previziuni pe urmatorii ani care au la baza elemente demografice si informatii foarte specifice. Este vorba de Dan Ioan Popp, managerul Impact Developer & Contractor SA.
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Napoleon Hill– 12 Things That Make Men Rich!
As Napoleon Hill stated money is one of the last things from the list of 12 things that make men rich.
His book – Think and Grow Rich – you can download it free below is the result of 25 years of studying the richest people in America. Seeing many interviews with different really important people, most of them read it at least once on their way to build their wealth and fortune. If you think that this can benefit you in a way, don’t hesitate and give it a try.
Napoleon Hill Think and Grow Rich
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3 Ways To Become A Media Bimbo
Bimboism is rampant in today’s media climate where those who do get their fifteen minutes of fame squander it with empty words and idiotic antics. Think about how much of YOUR time is wasted when you watch TV, listen to the radio or read newspapers or magazines. How long do you stay with a story if it’s not pertinent to your interests or if the interviewee is dull? With so much competition for your attention it’s easy to move on to the next best thing.
Bimboism is rampant in today’s media climate where those who do get their fifteen minutes of fame squander it with empty words and idiotic antics. Think about how much of YOUR time is wasted when you watch TV, listen to the radio or read newspapers or magazines. How long do you stay with a story if it’s not pertinent to your interests or if the interviewee is dull? With so much competition for your attention it’s easy to move on to the next best thing.
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‘Date’ Your Customers; Keep Them Coming Back
In business, the customer is always right – sometimes confused, misinformed, rude, stubborn and changeable, but never wrong. Ever date anyone like that?
In business, the customer is always right – sometimes confused, misinformed, rude, stubborn and changeable, but never wrong. Ever date anyone like that?
Customers are the reason you have a business. Without them, no matter what you do, there isn’t any business.
Therefore, you should approach customer service the same way you approach a date. Nurture it with good habits and relentless care. Each date builds on the previous one. Each sale does the same in building customer retention.
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Panama City’s Rental Market–What A Difference Two Years Have Made!
“I’m planning to move from the sleepy Panamanian town where I’ve been living for nearly two years, paying US$200 a month to rent a three-bedroom house at the beach,” writes Editorial Assistant Rebecca Tyre, “back to Panama City, where I lived for two years before moving to Las Tablas.
“Boy, how the rental market in Panama City has changed in the past two years!
“Two years ago, I lived in a three-bedroom, three-bathroom apartment in the heart of the city. This apartment was big–about 140 square meters. I had a balcony that overlooked the tree-lined streets of El Cangrejo. For this, I paid US$450 a month in rent.
”No, the building wasn’t new. It was about 20 years old. An older building means less modern finishes and fewer amenities, but it also means bigger. The older apartments in Panama City are larger than the apartments being built today.
“The location was ideal. I could walk to grocery stores, movie theaters, casinos, restaurants, bars, and pharmacies. The building had a security guard on duty 24/7 and featured covered parking. It was only four stories tall but had an elevator, something that is not common in older buildings.
“Today the same apartment I rented for US$450 a month is being rented for nearly triple that amount.
“Two years ago, a friend in my neighborhood in El Cangrejo was renting a one-bedroom apartment. It was big compared with most one-bedroom apartments in this city. My friend paid US$250 a month to rent it.
“I recently saw a classified ad for that very same apartment. The owner is today asking US$800 a month.
“In both these cases, the apartments have not been renovated, and the buildings have not been improved. There are no new services or amenities. Nothing has changed from two years ago.
“Nothing except the market. Landlords today are able to ask much more for their rentals. It’s simple supply and demand. There aren’t enough apartments to go around in downtown Panama City.
“Based on my previous rental experience in the city, when I launched my search this time, I decided I would look at apartments in the US$500 a month range.
“Two years ago, that budget would get you your pick of ocean-view apartments in older buildings in appealing neighborhoods.
“Today, US$500 to US$600 gets you a one-bedroom apartment a half-hour from downtown or in a rundown neighborhood with gang activity.
“It’s not just the neighborhoods that are undesirable in that budget range. Apartments in the US$500 range are also rundown. Cupboards falling off the walls, bathrooms filled with mold, ceilings stained with water. In each case, I’ve turned around to walk out seconds after entering. I didn’t need to see anymore.
“The large, older apartments are now going for US$1,200 to US$2,200 a month. In that range, you will have no problem finding a nice place in an appealing neighborhood. The local newspaper classifieds and rental websites are filled with rentals in desirable areas starting at US$1,200.
“If your budget is less than that, frankly, you’ve got your work cut out for you.
“It won’t be this way forever. Hundreds of brand-new apartments will be coming online over the next 6 to 12 months. Many of these have been purchased by foreigners with the goal of renting them. The supply/demand ratio is going to right itself.
“Meantime, don’t come to Panama City right now looking for a bargain rental. At least not in a neighborhood where you’d want to live.”
Kathleen Peddicord www.liveandinvestoverseas.com
The best and realistic way for large property developers to survive this financial crisis
I received this article through Linked In and it is a new approach to me. What do you think about this?
·A practical help to decision makers.
Currently in Asia, Dubai, Europe, or other places in the world, it is a pity to see that a lot of real estate companies have stopped their important projects or even face bankruptcy because of the difficulty in financing.
Here I want to share with the large real estate developers and conglomerates about how to use a best and realistic method to succeed in financing and then survive this crisis. I call this method Optimized Retail Real Estate Securitization, or ORRES, which I conclude from my job, and used for many times.
ORRES, is to practically sell your mature retail real estates, or shopping centers, to get significant cash revenue in the shortest time. You can use this cash injection to support your important projects and weakening company. Better to sell the retail real estate than to die.
However, how to attract the investors to buy high value retail real estate in current market? How to avoid the problem that investors cannot get loans from banks now?
Asset Dividing –> Sales & Marketing –> Cash Injection –> Buyback Scheme
For example your company has a mature shopping center that is 80,000 square meters. The average value for this shopping center in your country is US$ 10,000/square meters.
1) The first step: ASSET DIVIDING.
Divide this shopping center into 80,000 pieces. So 1 square meters / piece. And define the actual location of every piece in the shopping center.
Notice: this is not equity REITs. In REITs you only get a security, which does not reflect the real location of the asset you hold. In this case the buyer is the actual owner of every divided asset.
2) The second step: SALES & MARKETING.
Sell the 80,000 pieces to the public. Critical items:
A) The average price of every piece is US$ 10,000. Every buyer should use CASH to buy the pieces instead of the loans from the banks. So for the small individual buyers, they can use a small amount of money to buy one piece. For the large institutional investors, they can buy a lot of pieces.
This gives everybody an investment alternative, and an opportunity to invest a trusty mature shopping center. Now, the absence of investment alternatives is a major theme.
You can get the separate deeds for every piece from the authorities where you got separate deeds for every independent shop in the past when you sold shops in new developments.
B) In the first three years, your company will pay the buyers 10%, 11%, 12% respectively (or other numbers that suit your country) as their fixed return, whatever the shopping center will doing well or not. And the rentals of this shopping center will belong to your company, whatever it will be higher than the fixed return or lower.
It will be better if the fixed return can be guaranteed again by another independent organization (the third party) to make the investors reassured.
C) From and including the fourth year, the buyers will get the rentals as their return, not the fixed-return guaranteed by your company.
D) From and including the fourth year, the buyers will set up a Management Commission to manage and operate this shopping center. The Management Commission will appoint an independent shopping center management company to manage it. Of course the original management team used by your company will be one of the candidates.
The Management Commission is like a board appointed by the shareholders. In this case, the buyers of the 80,000 pieces are the shareholders of this retail real estate.
The mechanism of Management Commission should be settled at first. The buyers who do not agree with this item are not our sales targets.
3) The third step: CASH INJECTION.
Because this investment is accessible, attractive, and flexible, your company will get US$ 800 million sales revenue in CASH quickly, which you can use to support other important projects and weakening company.
4) The fourth step: BUYBACK SCHEME.
Several years later, your company wants to recapture the ownership of this mature and famous shopping center, when the financial situation of your company and the global financial market recover. Your company can use buyback scheme to achieve it.
The two sides can set up a mutually satisfied future price when they initially make this transaction. Of course your company can give up this right if your company do not like the ownership anymore. And if there are some investors who refuse the buyback scheme, your company can still control this shopping center (see commentaries 7).
Important Commentaries:
1) ORRES is not equity REITs. In ORRES, the buyers are the actual owners of the every independent piece of asset. ORRES sells properties, not securities.
2) ORRES avoids the difficulty to set up a REIT. It is apparent that you need a long time to launch a REIT.
3) ORRES gives the quickest way to generate a large sales turnover. Because it gives all kinds of investors an accessible (in terms of amount of money), attractive (in terms of the asset – a mature shopping center), and flexible (in terms of free combination of asset pieces) way to invest in current market which lacks investment alternatives.
4) ORRES suits the large companies and conglomerates that need immediate cash injection very much. ORRES does not suit the companies who pay more attention to the properties rights (feeling of ownership) of a famous shopping center, or to the long-term stable cash flow brought by a mature shopping center. The users of ORRES believe that better to sell the retail real estate than to die.
5) ORRES is based on the regulation that this retail real estate can be managed by the Management Commission, not the buyers themselves.
6) Fixed return is to eliminate the doubts about the future operation of this shopping center in this slowing-down market, and as such to make this investment much more attractive and trustworthy.
7) ORRES gives the opportunity that your company can still control the shopping center after the fixed return period: just sell less than 50% of this asset and then your company will be the majority in the Management Commission.
8) 10%, 11%, 12% fixed return and a period of 3 years are just an example. The actual numbers should come out from the detailed research about the current market of your country.
9) US$ 10,000 is the average price of this whole shopping center, but not the price of every piece from the ground floor to the top floor. You need detailed job to decide every piece’s price in every different location.
10) The location of every piece is not important to the buyers, because they do not actually run the retail real estate but get fixed return in the first 3 years and rental income in the future. Based on the average rental of the whole shopping center, you can design a coefficient to define the rental of every piece.
Written by Frank Cheung, Board Executive Director & General Manager at UF Property Consulting Group, China. February 22, 2009.
·Welcome to contact for communication: Frank Cheung’s work email: fcheung@ufproperty.com personal email: frankfccheung@hotmail.com
·Or you can get in touch through http://www.linkedin.com/in/frankfccheung
Grand Arena din Berceni, deschis fara zona de distractii si cu 80 din cele 180 de magazine anuntate
Mallul Grand Arena din Berceni, care a implicat cea mai mare investitie pentru un proiect de retail finalizat in Romania – 187 de milioane de euro – urma sa fie deschis astazi cu doar 80 din cele 180 de magazine anuntate in spatiul de 50.000 de metri patrati.
Proiectul este, de altfel, centrul comercial din Bucuresti cu cel mai scazut grad de inchiriere in momentul deschiderii, dezvoltatorii avand semnate contracte pentru 80% din spatii, adica aproximativ 130 de magazine, din care 80 sunt deschise astazi.
Intregul articol pe zf.ro.
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