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How to Write a Formal Letter

Sometimes in our lives, we need to write a formal letter for something. Once I had to send such a letter and I realized, that I don’t know how to structure it! And that was bad because I had to quickly write it, but I couldn’t find the appropriate information about how to do it! A friend of mine helped me with this situation, and I did well. And now I am creating this post, and I hope it will be helpful for people in a similar situation to mine. Some Basics Here are some simple steps, that will help...

What Is A Dividend? How To Invest In The Best Stocks That Pay Dividends

What Are Dividends? Dividends are a great way for companies to distribute their profit among their owners (shareholders). This is a way for shareholders to generate income from the companies they own. A dividend is simply a payment by a company to its shareholders, it’s usually calculated as a certain amount per share (55 cents per share for instance). So everyone who owns shares of a company that pays a dividend will get the per-share amount multiplied by the number of his/her shares. Companies by default are not obliged to pay dividends, their management decides whether or not a dividend...

What Is a Business Model? A Simple Definition For Dummies

I bet that everybody has heard about business models and even many use these words. Many think of them as beautiful sweeties dressed in suits (okay, probably I just do…), others think about handsome guys in suits 🙂 … But most probably very few of you fully understand the real meaning… So, here you will have the chance to go through a simple explanation answering the question: “What is a business model?“. Let’s start with a Definition As I promised to give you a very simple explanation, I would not go through the details here. I want to write a...

An example of dividend announcement and dividend dates of Royal Dutch Shell. There are 2 dividend dates - one for the two types of shares (a and B) the company has. The other dates are the same for A and B shares.

When Companies Pay Dividends – Declaration, Record, Ex-dividend, And Payment Dates

In this article, I will explain in simple words the most important dividend dates. If you still don’t know what a dividend is, I strongly recommend reading this article first… Everybody who invests in dividend-paying stock must know what each date means, and how it is used by investors. There are 4 important dates: declaration date, date of record, ex-dividend date, and payment date. Here are some details about each and if you still don’t understand them, you can check out the example below. What These Dates Actually Mean Declaration date – this is when the board of directors declares...

This is how your investment grows when compounding...

The Real Secret For Successful Investments – You Will Be Amazed

There are hundreds of investment funds out there and each of them is trying to actually outperform the market. Many of them have fancy words in their names as growth, low risk, high yield, etc. But the truth is that most of them are … gamblers. Yes, they are gambling with other people’s money and at the same time, they are charging decent fees to do this. According to a study tracking the performance of 355 investment funds for 35 years (from 1970 – 2005), just 7 of them managed to beat the market by more than 2%. 9 out...

What Is Forex? Beginners Guide On FX Trading, Strategies, Money Management, Risks, Currency Exchanges

The FOREX (currency) market is the biggest and the most liquid financial market in the world. Its name comes from FOReign EXchange and it’s actually the place where people and institutions from all around the world exchange currencies. It’s so big that more than the worth of $5 000 000 000 000 (5 trillion US dollars) are traded every single day there. This number is huge, having in mind that all the services and goods traded in the United States for a year are around $17 trillion. Just for a little more than 3 days the FOREX market beats the...

How is world wealth spread among people...

How Is World Wealth Spread Among People? The World Wealth Pyramid Showing How Much Assets People Own

What is your net worth excluding your primary home? If you are wondering what actually ‘net worth’ means, this is the wealth you own excluding all of your liabilities. This is the amount of money you would have if you sold all of your assets and paid down all of your debt. The calculation is pretty easy and everybody could, at least tentatively, assess her net worth right at the moment. So, how much is it? Do you have more than $10 000 of net worth? This doesn’t seem much, but did you know that 68.7% of all people in...

The most potential e-commerce niches for 2014

The Best E-Commerce Start Up Business Ideas For 2014 And After – Major Trends

E-commerce has been a growing economic sector for many years now. And its uptrend will probably continue in 2014, too. Considering the fact that only a third of the world’s population has regular access to the Internet, the future of e-commerce looks really bright even in the longer term. So if you are going to start a business and you are still brainstorming different ideas, you should seriously think about selling something online. We prepared a cool infographic, on which you can see the best-performing niches in the e-commerce sector for the last year. Actually, the infographic was created by...

Moziah Bridges - Mo's Bows Age When Started: 9

How to Make Money As A Kid? Moziah Bridges Started A $150k Bow Ties Business at 12

Who Moziah Bridges is and how to be an entrepreneur as a kid Moziah Bridges is one of the most amazing kids I have ever read about. Currently, he is the CEO and the founder of Mo’s Bows and he is just 12 years old. This little entrepreneur started his bow ties selling the business when he was just 9 when he came up with the business idea. He found out that there were no places, where cool and interesting bow ties could be bought. Nobody was selling such and this problem actually was seen as an awesome business opportunity...

The most successful business ideas

6 Of The Most Successful Business Ideas You Can Start

Which would be the most successful business ideas you can start? Probably you know that most businesses fail after a while… The majority fail between the third and the fifth years, while the rest follow suit within 10 years. Depending on who you ask, and which metrics they are using, this percentage of business failures will be anything from 50% to 80% in the first five years, and also between 70% and 90% within 10 years. These statistics still do not stop new entrepreneurs from launching new business ventures. The majority will still fail, while few will succeed, and very...