How to Manage Your Money

As most of the people who I surround myself with know, I read a lot— all for education. What I find to be disturbing is the fact that so much of what is out there being sold by “experts” about debt is bad information. There are two things I know. First, don’t fear your debt. Second, not all debt is bad. Debt is complex. Not all of it is good, and not all of it is bad. When used to accumulate assets, not liabilities, you can actually use debt for building wealth. Seem odd? I’m sure. It’s opposite of everything most “experts” teach. This is one of the reasons that I wanted to develop the How to Manage Your Money course. Using debt for building wealth is one of many concepts taught in the course, which will become available soon. What Are Others Saying About RICHDAD? “Again thank you for such a great program. We greatly appreciate the assistance that has been provided us. We look forward to continuing our financial journey and plan to use all the information from your program to do so.” Continue Reading–Joel and Tiffany

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Global Economic Prospects

January 6, 2016— Global economic activity should still pick up modestly to a 2.9% pace, from 2.4% growth in 2015, as advanced economies gain speed. Spillovers from major emerging markets will constrain growth in developing countries and pose a threat to hard-won gains in raising people out of poverty.

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Can we really put a price on meeting the global targets on drinking-water and sanitation?

When the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were signed, a commitment was made to deliver improved water and sanitation to half the unserved population. This ambitious target was met for water but not for sanitation, with 2.4 billion people still lacking improved sanitation in 2015. The first part of our new study, The Costs of Meeting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal Targets on Drinking Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene, estimates the cost of finishing what was started as part of the MDG target. Continue Reading

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More Money and Better Service Delivery

More Money and Better Service Delivery: A Winning Combination for Achieving Drinking Water and Sanitation Targets

In addition to money, strong institutions, accountability and mechanisms that turn investment into effective services for people who need it, are critical to achieving universal water access and safe human waste management, according to a report by the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) in partnership with the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation.

Today, 2.4 billion people still live without access to improved sanitation, about one billion people defecate in the open, and more than 640,000 people lack improved drinking water sources. With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals on water and sanitation (SDG 6), countries of the world committed themselves to change this situation over the next 15 years not only by reducing to zero the number of unserved population but also upgrading the current levels of water, sanitation and hygiene WASH (6.1 and 6.2) services.Continue reading>>

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Seven steps to Small Business Marketing Success

Step1: Strategy Before Tactice

"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat" by Sun Tzu
Small businesses always want to grab the idea of the week. And small business owners are absolutely the worst at this because they’re doing a hundred things.

Step 2: The Marketing Hourglass

“When it comes to lead referral generation, the customer experience is it.” –!John Jantsch Most marketers are familiar with the concept of the Marketing Funnel: a whole bunch of leads are loaded into the top of a funnel, and they’re choked until a few buyers squeeze out the small end. With the introduction of Twitter and Facebook, people are even hungrier for more leads. #e game is always about putting more and more leads into the top of the funnel.

Step 3: Publish Educational Content

“Your content and publishing efforts must be focused on achieving two things: building trust and educating. ” –!John Jantsch Read Full>>

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