Tuesday, February 28, 2012

How to Use the "Nest Egg" Approach to Skyrocket Your MLM Prospect Base


As a professional network marketer, you are well aware of various ways to approach prospects about your home business. However, did you know many networkers are using now using a very unique, low-key, and non-threatening approach? You could call this the "Nest Egg" approach. What's the actual "Nest Egg"? Why retirement! As it turns out, this technique is very motivating. Here's how it works.

First of all, you loan your prospect a copy of the book, "How To Get Rich Without Winning the Lottery". These books are very inexpensive and run less than $1.50 per copy. So, you can afford to get plenty!

What this book does is explain how anyone can accumulate wealth using any of the strategies listed. Some of the strategies include:

-Spending less than you earn and investing the difference

-Earning more money by having a part-time job and investing the difference

-Starting a part-time business and investing profits

-Collect a network marketing check for what you already doing, and investing your profits

Can you see how effective this approach can be? Most people will immediately identify with one of these approaches and get excited about it! This is because they realize their "nest egg" can be built more quickly this way. Retirement could come much sooner rather than later! What you do is to just loan the book for three days and then go pick it up.

When you go pick it up, don't be surprised if your prospect wants to add it to his/her personal collection. This is the ideal time for you to ask if they would be interested in doubling or tripling the amount they save. Nine times out of ten, their response will be an affirmative "yes"! Now, you can tell your prospect about your network marketing opportunity. They will be happy to listen to what you have to say because of the awesome information you shared with them by loaning them the book.

What really sells them on the idea is that they will be able to take the money from their network marketing business and add it to their "nest egg". They will begin to view your home business opportunity as a vehicle that will assist them in reaching their retirement goals a lot faster. What also nice about this approach that you will end up with distributors who are stable and will most likely be with you for the long term.

So, take the step and begin to use the "Nest Egg" approach in your network marketing business today!




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Monday, February 20, 2012

No Nest Egg? Why Making Money Online Is Critical to Your Retirement!


Are you getting older and are now realizing your nest egg is not as big as you would like or worst yet, its non-existent? Do you feel your retirement age is fast approaching and you are starting to wonder how on earth will I have enough money to retire?

Or, did your nest egg get wiped out from the recent economic downturn? The good news (if you want to call it that) is you are not alone.

It has been said, more than once, that more than half of those baby boomers who haven't retired yet, have delayed their retirement because they didn't feel they saved up enough money to retire or loss too much money in their investments.

What should I do? What are other people in my situation doing? They just keep working past their retirement years. Prisoners to their J-O-B!

What is a better SOLUTION?

The better solution is not to keep trading hours for money but to find a form of residual/passive income where you work once and keep getting paid month after month.

Where can find this great way to make income? Yes, you probably guessed it by now... Online! Yes, on the internet. There are thousands, actually millions of ways to make residual/passive income online but one can waste a lot of time filtering through all the "get rich overnight schemes" and find yourself holding a bag of knowledge of what not to do!!!

How do I know this? Been there done that... I have spent countless hours (years actually) reading and trying the latest gimmick that promises you the world and makes it look so easy only to find out that it's only one piece of the puzzle. Sometimes, not even a piece...

The key is to find someone that has made a considerable amount of money over the years and has a passion to share his knowledge. Not only one piece of his knowledge but the whole enchilada.

The person has to be willing to not only provide all the information but be available to walk you through any challenges that make come up on your journey to become an online millionaire.




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Pensions, Will You Be Saving a NEST Egg?


The recent simplification of the pension proposals has been met with widespread approval from the business community, but what will individuals make of the plans?

From 2012, employees will be automatically enrolled in the scheme which will claim 4% of their salary. A tax relief will contribute a further 1%, in addition to a contribution from their employer of between 1% and 3%, depending on the timing of the payment.

Employees will be given basic information about the NEST scheme, after which they can choose whether to stay in or opt out. As with most standard pension schemes, employees cannot have access the funds until the minimum prescribed age by the state - currently 55.

It will be interesting to see how many people opt out of the scheme. Government forecasts expect to attract more than 2 million members by late 2016 from those employees earning between £15,000 and £30,000 per annum. This is the earnings bracket that is said to be disengaged from the savings process. The question is, is this disengagement because they cannot afford to save, or because they have a distrust of financial institutions?

The government has already spent £363,000 rebranding the scheme from "Personal Accounts" to "National Employment Savings Trust." If you are in that target income bracket and struggling to make ends meet, this is exactly the kind of government expenditure that smacks of waste. Will there be a free duck house to the first 100 employees who enroll?

With further tax rises likely to be announced from whoever wins the next election, 4% is a lot of anyone's salary. On the other hand, perhaps the grimness the thought of retiring on the state pension alone will be enough to scare people into joining the scheme.

Yvette Cooper would like to believe that the scheme will improve the lot of low paid employees everywhere, claiming that 'even during these difficult economic times, employers, industry and unions agreed with us that these reforms were vital in giving millions of people the chance to save in a pension for the first time.' However, the introduction of NEST might have the unintended consequence of worsening the pension package that such employees are offered. There is a danger that employer contributions of more than 3% will become rarer, as employers only do the bare minimum.

And in any event, at the current rate that pensions laws are being changed, who knows what the provisions will look like in 2012?




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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Personal Finances - Build Your Child's Nest Egg Saving A Dollar A Day


Are you a young parent and worried about how to build a nest egg for your children so they do not have to struggle like you might? Savings and compound interest are a great thing for our future generations. A simple $1.00 per day put in a savings account drawing and average growth of 8% will leave your child wealthy by the time they are ready to retire. But where do you find that money?

Simple things around the home use up our children's future and all we have to do is save a little on our home utility costs.

To find you a dollar a day savings let's start with your water bill.

1. When doing laundry, do full loads and not just the daily.

2. Check that you have no leaking toilets or faucets in the house. Even though it may seem like a small amount of water it is a constant flow.

3. If you water your garden do it between 6AM and 8AM to avoid evaporation

4. Use short showers as opposed to baths and do not use larger amounts of hot water. The minimum temperature that you are comfortable at will also save electricity. Check the temperature of your hot water heater and lower it to 160 degrees rather than 180 degrees.

5. Long term plant shrubs and bushes around your home. This will improve the value but will also use the runoff water from your roof more effectively. It will also help cut down n your heating and cooling bills.

6. Do not use a running faucet for brushing or shaving or doing the dishes and especially for washing your car.

If you use propane or natural gas to heat your home try the following.

1. Zone your home and only heat the rooms that you use. Most of us have areas of the home that we do not use on a daily basis, such as the laundry room.

2. Dress for the season, by wearing layered clothing in the winter inside your home it reduces the temperature you require to stay comfortable.

Other monthly expenses that you can control: Insurance cost, Phone bills, Internet, Pest Control and Pet care. While these all may seem like little things remember all you are trying to do is save $1.00 per day per child. $30 per month is all you have to save for each of them. And don't panic that you can't get an 8% return on investment now for them, the economy works in cycles and we will see higher interest rates soon.

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Planning Your Retirement - Building a Retirement Nest Egg for Your Golden Years


What does retirement means to you? What is the retirement nest egg that you would require during your golden years? Is it surprising to you that many people have avoided answering these questions and procrastinated in planning their retirement until it is too late in life?

The baby boomers generation is now coming into their retirement years. Unlike their parents, baby boomers can expect to live longer and have higher expectation of a better life in their golden years, travelling more and doing things that their parents did not dreamed of. However, with the higher expectation of a better lifestyle during their golden years and longer lifespan, the need to build sufficient funds in their nest egg to finance their retirement has amplified and is greater than before.

If you are one of those who do not intend worry about your financial situation and to burden their loved ones with medical expenses during their retirement years, then the task of planning your retirement has to be taken seriously. It would require your commitment to carry out that little homework and proper planning to attain the necessary financial needs through a long term savings and investment plan.

You may need some help in determining your required retirement nest egg for those golden years. The three steps process described below may assist you in planning your retirement and reaching your retirement fund target:

1. Determine the funds that you will need throughout your retirement years. Look at your current expenses and estimate how they may change after you retired. You may have paid off your house loans and for your children education by then but more expenses may go into your health care costs. It is probably reasonable to assume that your monthly expenses during your later years will be 80% of your present monthly expense to maintain your present lifestyle. Due to effects of inflation however, you will need to allow for the yearly inflation rate. By this first step, you will be able to determine how much you will need to put aside for your savings and investment plan.

2. Start your savings early in life. The great scientist, Albert Einstein once stated that compound interest is the eight wonder of the world. You should never underestimate the power of compounding interest. A financial planner friend once gave an example of the power of the compounding interest. Two friends, say Bill and Bobby started their investment saving 10 years apart. Bill started his contribution amounting $10,000 annually into his investment saving account at age 25 for 20 years. Hence, his total contribution was $200,000. Bobby started contribution amounting $10,000 annually into his investment saving account at age 35 for 20 years. His total contribution also amounted to $200,000. The computation based on a 9% constant annual growth rate for both Bill and Bobby investments show that at age 55, Bill has double the amount Bobby has in his account due to the reason that he started his contribution ten years earlier, demonstrating the power of compound interest.

3. Be investor savvy. The prevailing low interest rates that banks give out for savings deposits these requires us to be investment savvy to ensure that the value of our savings do not lose out to inflation. To generate the retirement fund, it is prudent to seriously learn the techniques and strategies of investment for a higher rate of return for your savings. As highlighted above on power of compounding interest, an investment of a rate of return of 12% is vastly superior to the investment with only a rate of return of 4%. Engaging an experienced financial advisor will help you on the asset allocation and time horizon to ensure that you are able to achieve your target.

Accumulating enough for your retirement nest egg may be intimidating and a tough call for many. However, if you sit down and work through the process of determining your future expenses, compute the necessary savings and working out your investment plan with unwavering commitment and also by planning your retirement early, accumulating enough for your golden years is achievable.




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Sunday, February 12, 2012

Save A Nest Egg For Your Child

A great time to start saving for your children's future is today! By putting a small amount of money aside each month, you can build up a nice little nest egg. Wouldn't it be great to be able to give your child a big financial boost forward on their 21st birthday?
Imagine if you had saved enough money to allow them to pay cash for a car or to put a deposit down on their own home? The following examples show the power of regular saving over a period of 21 years. The results are very impressive!
$25 A Month
Starting from a current savings balance of $0, if you save $25 per month for 21 years you will save a total of $11,108.54.
During this period you will:
1. Have contributed $6,300 in monthly payments
2. Earned a total of $4,808.54 in interest based upon a 5 % return
$25.00 PER MONTH IS ROUGHLY $5.75 A WEEK!
$50 A Month
Starting from a current savings balance of $0, if you save $50 per month for 21 years you will save a total of $22,217.09.
During this period you will:
1. Contribute $12,600 in monthly payments
2. Earn a total of $9,617.09 in interest based upon a 5 % return
$50.00 PER MONTH IS ROUGHLY $11.50 A WEEK!
$75 A Month
Starting from a current savings balance of $0, if you save $75 per month for 21 years you will save a total of $33,325.63.
During this period you will:
1. Contribute $18,900 in monthly payments
2. Earn a total of $14,425.63 in interest based upon a 5 % return
$75.00 PER MONTH IS ROUGHLY $17.25 A WEEK!
$100 A Month
Starting from a current savings balance of $0, if you save $100.00 per month for 21 years you will save a total of $44,434.18.
During this period you will:
1. Contribute $25,200 in monthly payments
2. Earn a total of $19,234.18 in interest based upon a 5 % return
$100.00 PER MONTH IS ROUGHLY $23 A WEEK!
As the above examples show, earning interest on your child's savings is a great way to add extra money to what you contribute, so you can build a greater nest egg for your child. In all cases shown above, you will have personally saved 57% of what you have accumulated over the 21 years. The remaining 43% is what you earned from interest paid on the money you had saved.
In the above examples an interest rate of 5% has been applied. To help your child's savings grow at a faster rate, if you can invest the money at a higher interest rate, then your overall return over the long term will be much higher.
With any investing though, you don't necessarily want to concentrate on only earning the highest interest rate. You need to also ensure your money is protected and that you aren't going to lose the money you have so diligently saved for your child. Often higher interest rates are paid because there is a higher risk. You need to carefully balance the risk of where you invest your child's money and the overall return.
This article is designed for example purposes only to give you a rough indication of the likely results from the power of saving a regular amount of money for your child over a period of time. There are many factors that will influence your individual long term savings results such as the interest rate paid on your savings, any account keeping fees and your individual taxation position. These examples are of a general nature only and do not take into consideration your own personal situation or circumstances. You should always obtain independent advice specifically tailored for you.



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Retirement Nest Eggs

Retirement nest eggs have been well and truly cracked by the Global Financial Crisis. So much for the financial planners, investment advisers, fund managers etc. supposedly looking after your retirement money. Not only were they not bothering to sit on the nest for you they were for the most part to blame for the market meltdown. Now firms such as Goldman Sachs are on the mat for skull-duggery and well they should be! Best you ignore them in future and take steps to personally restore your retirement nest egg with the only investment which remained unscathed by the tumultuous financial devastation. While the sky was falling forex traders were jubilant. Volatility in the currency markets made them billions of dollars collectively - and millions for some individual traders.
Forex markets are impervious to financial calamities. There is always a currency going up in value while others decline. Making money in forex is simply a matter of re-balancing your investments to take advantage of the fact that currency prices change. Instead of the traditional wisdom touted by financial planners of buy and hold successful forex traders adopt an active strategy consistent with following the direction of the markets. The key is quickly taking a position in the direction whenever a breakout occurs and adding to winning positions as the trend continues. With a trading approach to making money buying and selling currencies there are a number of essential rules to follow - such as always having a stop-loss and never risking more than a set percentage of your trading capital in any one trade.
Learning how to trade forex for a living is not difficult. It does not require a college education. You simply must be able to follow instructions and not behave emotionally about investing in Foreign Exchange. Banks have been making billions of dollars annually while they monopolized the market. However now with advancement of electronic trading and the internet anyone with a few hundred dollars can open a trading account and also acquire the latest trading technology which most professional forex traders use. The latest trading technology in forex trading is the automated trading robot, which processes data at blindly speeds and can operate 24 hours around the clock placing buy and sell orders while you sleep or play golf.
Automated trading robots do have periods of losses as do their human counter-parts. However this is to be expected - even though much of the marketing material promoting them would have you believe otherwise. Still investing in an automated robot to trade forex for you can be quite profitable if again you learn about the markets and follow the rules. Robots are not infallible but they can be programmed to minimize trading losses and to maximize profits. Once you gain your forex trading education you will realize that you do not need to be correct more than 50% of the time and you can still be successful in making an extremely large income trading currencies.
As the amount of capital needed to open a forex trading account is quite small - nothing like the hundreds of thousands of dollars required to invest in real estate many traders are making $1,000 a day even with only a few hundred dollars of initial capital. It is possible to double your capital progressively by compounding your investments as you make profits. Some traders have turned a thousand dollar account in to a million dollar account in less than a year by doubling their capital profitably every 30 days. Who would not like to double their retirement nest egg?
The strategy retirees should adopt to double their retirement nest egg with forex is not to put all of their savings into a forex account. In fact all they should be considering is to put less than 10% of their capital in to their forex trading account. And this should only occur after you have gained an education in forex trading and proven to yourself your capabilities by first practicing live trading on a demo account, available from most forex brokers. Forex trading has wrongly been termed high risk - by people who have never learned to trade forex or who are competitors such as stock brokers and real estate agents with a vested interest in having their clients shy away from their own doors.
Do not listen to those responsible for your nest egg shrinking learn how easy it is to restore your retirement nest egg today!



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