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Dallas Financial Planner – Leap Wealth Management – Advance & Protect

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What would make you read a personal finance blog?

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

Question by jlstitt: What would make you read a personal finance blog?
I’m thinking of starting a personal finance blog. The types of topics I plan to cover are: budgeting, building wealth, risk management, asset management, and other topics that, admittedly, can be a bit “dry” to many people. I want to attract a wide variety of people, not just bean-counters; I’d like it to be for everyone.What would it take to make you read a blog like that? Humor? Some additional, more interesting topics? Bios of wealthy people? Contests?

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Answer by ryan 7
It would have to be different. Anyone can recycle the same old dogma of diversify your stock portfolio etc., etc. There are probably lots of blogs in this field so yours would have to be unique. Fun ways to save money or to make money to invest would be something people might be interested in as opposed to take money from your paycheck and invest in stocks blah, blah blah.

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Life Planning is Financial Planning Done Right-George Kinder

Posted on February 12, 2012 by

kinderinstitute.com George Kinder of The Kinder Institute of Life Planning Nationally recognized as the father of the Life Planning movement, George Kinder is the Founder of the Kinder Institute of Life Planning. His book, “The Seven Stages of Money Maturity Understanding the Spirit and Value of Money in Your Life,” is considered by many to be the seminal work in the burgeoning field of Life Planning. When we met with George he shared the three questions that, he believes, we all must ask ourselves when considering our relationship not only to money, but to life itself.

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Catholic School Officials Gather in San Antonio to Begin the Revitalization Of U.S. Catholic Schools

Posted on February 11, 2012 by

Catholic School Officials Gather in San Antonio to Begin the Revitalization Of U.S. Catholic Schools

(PRWEB) February 09, 2012

Catholic school administrators gathered in San Antonio February 8 to address new research and important opportunities in the growth of the U.S. Catholic school system. Hosted by the consulting firm O’Meara Ferguson, Whelan and Conway (O’Meara Ferguson), the three-day event, “Sustaining the Mission: Integrating Finance, Development, Planning, and Operations to Strengthen Catholic Education” will assist Catholic school systems in designing financial management plans while maintaining their Catholic mission and identity.

The symposium follows the recent release of “Revitalizing Catholic Schools”, a report by O’Meara Ferguson that provides statistical analysis of more than 400 Catholic schools throughout the Midwest. This data analyzes financial and operational data in Catholic schools, identifying key opportunities for financial success. Findings from the report include:

Many struggling Catholic schools do not have enough students enrolled at the right tuition rates to pay the bills while addressing mounting maintenance and fixed operating costs. In many situations, especially at older schools, pastors and principals see additional students as added costs for teachers, aides, and supplies; and so are reluctant to increase enrollment. This zero sum game approach leads to underutilized schools with empty seats and lost opportunities for thousands of children.

Underutilized schools, long thought to be the result of changing demographics and higher tuition rates, are in truth a management opportunity. While demographics and increasing costs may indeed play a role in the demand for Catholic education, enrollment is in fact, far more dependent on management behavior and sound revenue management practices.

Began with Mass celebrated by Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller at the San Fernando Cathedral, the oldest continually functioning church in North America, and continuing at the Marriott San Antonio Rivercenter, the symposium brings together 50 school systems from across the country, joined by their goal to proactively address these challenges, other issues and new opportunities specific to the Catholic school system.

“The goal of our work is to collect and analyze real time school data in tell to furnish mechanisms that drive positive results,” said Patrick O’Meara, President and Founder of O’Meara Ferguson and co-author of the report.

Each attendee, in addition to hearing expert speakers and peer commentary, will receive a new publication from O’Meara Ferguson, “Sustaining the Mission: A Manual to Revitalize Our Catholic Schools”. A “manual” for attendees, it provides diagnostics, exercises and strategies that address the conditions revealed in the initial report.

“We’re sharing the tools to develop practical, actionable solutions that yield sustainable operating and capital structures which can provide contemporary solutions and new opportunities to millions of students, their educators, and thousands of parishes across the country,” O’Meara said.

About O’Meara Ferguson Whelan and Conway
Our mission is to provide Catholic organizations with advice and counsel on the outflank potential use of their temporal resources as they work to further their missions. O’Meara, Ferguson, Whelan, and Conway integrates specifically crafted financial strategies, unmatched access to capital financing alternatives, investment management advice, and stewardship-based fundraising advising to manage and leverage financial assets to constructing our clients’ fiscal strength and independence.

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Memoir ?Autobiography of an Agoraphobic? Tells Author?s Remarkable Story

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

Memoir “Autobiography of an Agoraphobic” Tells Author’s Remarkable Story

Lombard, Ill. (PRWEB) February 08, 2012

Michael R. Patrick was a healthy young man attending DePaul University when he experienced an episode of shortness of breath, palpitations, chest pain and dizziness. Patrick thought that he was going to die. He was rushed to a local hospital, where he was misdiagnosed as having suffered from hyperventilation and a panic attack. This misdiagnosis led Patrick into the tumultuous period of his life that served as inspiration for his book, “Autobiography of an Agoraphobic: One Man’s Struggle with Panic Disorder” (published by AuthorHouse), which he hopes will spare others from the physical and genial pain he endured.

The hospital sent Patrick to a psychiatrist, who he sees clearly nowadays as “incompetent” and “a bully.” After spending six years with the psychiatrist and repeatedly being told to “get over it,” Patrick finally determine to seek new help. His new psychiatrist propose that he see 1 of the top cardiologists in Chicago and the Midwest. Using a special technique, the doctor listening to Patrick’s chest and noticed a grade two murmur and a click in his mitral valve, diagnosing him with mitral valve prolapse. Missed almost a 3rd of the clocked by an echocardiogram, Patrick was fortunate to be in the hands of a cardiologist who remarked, “There is no substitute for a good set of ears.”

The stress of the misdiagnosed panic attacks had caused Patrick severe depression, isolation, frustration and led to agoraphobia, a fear of open spaced. After years of these spells and difficult side effects, Patrick finally had an answer. The diagnosis explained the panic attacks, chest pain and shortness of breath. He was put on a beta-blocker, which eradicated his mitral valve prolapse symptoms. Patrick had his life back. Although he still deals with agoraphobia, it is much more manageable. For all practical purposes, Patrick considers himself cured.

He credits for his recovery not only accurate medical diagnosis, but also God, who helped him to become “whole again.” Patrick looks to God as the impetus for writing his book, which he hopes will keep as many people as possible from suffering and dying needlessly from mitral valve prolapse.

“Michael R. Patrick has provided us with a wealth of information about the little known, but widespread, mental illness of agoraphobia,” writes Father Andrew Miles. “More importantly, he has shared a very personal and moving testimony of how God brings healing to this illness and how He brings good out of every trial.”

About the Author
Michael R. Patrick was born in Chicago and lived there until the age of 9. After a few years living in New Jersey, Patrick moved back to Chicago at age 13. He studied seeded at DePaul University and went on to become a successful mortgage broker. He currently lives in a suburb of Chicago, where he devotes his free time to writing.

AuthorHouse, an Author Solutions, Inc. self-publishing imprint, is a leading provider of book publishing, market, and bookselling serving for authors around the globe and offers the industry’s only suite of Hollywood book-to-film services. Committed to providing the highest level of customer served, AuthorHouse designating each author personal publishing and marketing consultants who provide guidance throughout the process. Headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana, AuthorHouse celebrated 15 years of service to authors in Sept. 2011.For more information or to publish a book visit authorhouse.com or call 1-888-519-5121. For the latest, dawdle @authorhouse on Twitter.

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What questions should I ask a financial planner?

Posted on February 8, 2012 by

Question by inbam8: What questions should I ask a financial planner?
I just ‘won’ e-mail services from a constituted financial planner. I would like to know what I should ask and how to maximize the 6 months of asking I have. Thanks so much!

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Answer by tere616
Ask them to give you a plan for increasing your financial plan. Ask them how to maintain your financial income, where to place to get fastest and high uprise. You can maximize that kind of issue within 6 mos.

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Q&A: What is the best personal finance site that you know?

Posted on February 5, 2012 by

Question by Mike E: What is the best personal finance site that you know?
I’m looking for an outstanding personal finance site to help me figure out where my little amount of cash is disappearing to.

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Answer by Gabriela .
I am reading lots of personal finance blogs which I found very helplful: the simple dollar, get rich slowly, lazy man and money, free money finance are just a few that come to my mind. If you are interested google them and you will find more blogs on their blogroll.

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Weather Trends International Brings Exclusive Long-Range Weather Forecasting to FOX Philadelphia

Posted on February 4, 2012 by

Weather Trends International Brings Exclusive Long-Range Weather Forecasting to FOX Philadelphia

Bethlehem, PA (PRWEB) January 25, 2012

Weather Trends International (WTI), the world-wide leader of actionable year-before business weather guidance for retailers and manufacturers, has an ongoing relationship with Philadelphia’s FOX affiliate. The partnership between the parties includes four parts which comprehend both broadcast and interactive components.

Under the terms of the agreement, WTI provides the station’s site with a netted-based vacation/event planner that allows users to find the III best weather weeks over the next year for whatever global location. This vacation and event planner is not available on the Web through any other entity. It also features a customizable email alert system that presented personalized weather information and severe weather alerts. Also featured on the FOX website is Weather Trends 28-Day forecasts and links to weathertrends360.com to view year-ahead forecasts and 14 unlike global weather maps.

“Within days of its debut, the FOX29wt360 app surged to the Top 5 best seller spot among the 1,000+ apps on ‘The Top Paid iPhone Weather Apps list,’” said Bill Kirk, chief executive officer of Weather Trends International. “Together FOX and WTI can reduce Philadelphia’s weather worries.”
On the broadcast side, WTI is providing on-air support for the long-range forecast to allow consumers a sneak peek into the weather for the coming months.

There are also co-branded iPhone and Android apps. These apps allow consumers access to global weather forecasts up to one year in advance. Both apps utilize WTI’s unique math-based statistical forecasting methodology that was previously only available to their clients such as Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Target and Johnson & Johnson, to determine weather-based financials and retail purchasing. They project high and low temperature, rainfall and snowfall trends up to a year ahead for more than 6.4 million locations in 195 countries with industry-leading 80%+ accuracy, as verified by an independent auditing firm. Consumers can now book preferred weather vacations and timeshares, plan weddings, arrange golf and tennis dates, plan their best garden party days and more, months ahead.

“We have been a trusted weather information provider to more than a hundred marquee companies for almost a decade and now we’re thrilled to bring year-ahead endure forecasting to FOX,” stating Kirk.

About Weather Trends International
Weather Trends International (WTI) is the global leader of actionable year-ahead business weather guidance for retailers, manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, agricultural firms, financial analysts and now consumers worldwide. The company’s business-to-business clients include some of the world’s most respected and successful companies such as Wal-Mart, Kohl’s, Target, AutoZone, FOX 29, Anheuser-Busch, Johnson & Johnson, Central Garden & Pet, Clorox, Energizer, 3M, JP Morgan and Hershey’s. Its business-centric weather solutions and understanding of how consumers respond to the weather is used throughout organizations to help “manage the weather risk.” Utilizing technology first developed in the early 1990s, WTI’s unique, statistical, math-based forecasting methodology projects temperature, precipitation and snowfall trends up to a year ahead world-wide with industry-leading 80%+ accuracy (as verified by an independent auditing firm). The company has received a dozen business and technology awards and in 2009 was listed #5 on Forbes’ list of America’s Most Promising Companies. WTI is headquartered in Bethlehem, PA with offices in Bentonville, AR. For more information, visit http://www.wxtrends.com or http://www.wt360.com.

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Boca Raton Roofing Service helps Homeowners With Free Roof Inspections and These Easy Tips for Finding a Good Roofing Contractor.

Posted on February 2, 2012 by

Boca Raton Roofing Service helps Homeowners With Free Roof Inspections and These Easy Tips for Finding a Good Roofing Contractor.

Boca Raton, FL (PRWEB) January 31, 2012

Jason Blair, a representative of Free Roofing Pro (a free Boca Raton roofing service), tells us “If a roofing contractor is having money problems, those problems can rapidly be passed on to an unsuspicious homeowner.”

This is an all too familiar story from South Florida that makes homeowners terrified of hiring the wrong roofing contractor. The truth is that fifty-fifty good roofing contractors can mess things up.

Here are some tips from Free Roofing Pro on how to find a good roofing contractor:
1. Visit their offices. You can tell a lot from their place of business.
2. Talk to their suppliers. If they pay their suppliers, they probably pay the rest of their charge.
3. Talk to their employees. If their employees aren’t getting paid on time, it is a red flag.
4. Check for liens. Multiple liens that are filed can be a sign of financial difficulties, or poor service.
5. Check your city and see how many permits they pull a year?
6. Check their license at MyFloridaLicense.com
7. Make sure their insurance covers roofing, and that their workers’ comp covers a list of in house employees, or that the subcontractors have workers’ comp to cover their in house employees. Contractors need to provide all insurance certificates upon request.
8. Some companies have general construction insurance, and that is not the same as roofing. Their insurance award must say roofing specifically or it is not covered. Most municipalities are unaware of this or simply ignore it.

“It is a lot to consider, and just think – you need to do this until you find 3-4 good contractors. Who has the time for all that? This is the reason why people get scammed. It is nearly impossible for a homeowner to be 100% sure what they are getting into when hiring a roofing contractor.” he says.

Mr. Blair adds “even if you call someone like Service Magic, or check on Angies’ List, you still have to find the time to meet with 3-4 contractors and compare the proposals. It can be very time consuming. In the end you still may not get all the info we can provide you, or the coaching you need to get the job done right.”

“We provide free roof inspections, advice, and citing. We are not selling you anything. We simply come out, survey your roof, and say you what we think. If you need a good roofing contractor, we can find one for you, if not that is ok too.”

“We provide a free roof inspection and give you a written evaluation. If you like we can then write up the scope of work, get all the pricing, research the companies, and provide a previous customer report, all for free. You choose which proposal you like and we do the rest. All the paperwork is already done and the colors are picked so it expedites the entire process. We collect a small fee from the chosen roofing contractor for bringing him the work. There is never a charge to you from us.”

If you would like more information about Free Roofing Pro and their services, you can visit them on the web at http://www.FreeRoofingPro.com or call them toll free at 877-593-6656

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35 Years of Successful Market Presence Sparks Mitchell Humphrey?s Third Generation of Financial Management Software

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

35 Years of Successful Market Presence Sparks Mitchell Humphrey’s Third Generation of Financial Management Software

Saint Louis, Missouri (PRWEB) January 31, 2012

Before there was your average office computer, Mitchell Humphrey & Co., a provider of software solutions and services, began their software company and focused on financial management systems. They are now celebrating 35 years of success through their quality products and dedicated customer service. To begin their anniversary, Mitchell Humphrey & Co. is planning to release a few details on their newest and third generation of Financial Management Software.

CELEBRATING A MILESTONE
Thirty-five years ago, Mitch Humphrey had a vision of providing software development, implementation, and consulting services to health care organizations that had been assay to utilize decades old systems to respond to the rapidly increasing information demands facing their industry. With his first client, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the company was off to a good start and soon many more were to follow.

Since 1977, Mitchell Humphrey has been providing computer software and services to clients in both the public and individual sectors. Their complete line of software products are completely designed and supported by their own team of CPAs, business specialists, and IT professionals.

In 1999, Mitch Humphrey decided to pass ownership of the company he built to the employees. Mitchell Humphrey & Co. formed an Employee Stock Ownership Plan which provides for the distribution of stock shares to employees.

In 2002, Mitchell Humphrey & Co. acquired the software of a company that designed and developed a host of community development solutions for local governments throughout the State of New Jersey and the Northeast. This software was the basis for their decision to develop a brand new line of citizen services solutions.

In 2008, Mitchell Humphrey introduced an additional product line, called FastTrackGov®, in partnership with Microsoft. FTG® was built using the rapidly growing Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform, which provides a powerful infrastructure for their products. FastTrackGov is designed to provide government organizations with an easy-to-use, feature-rich suite of netting-based solutions for Licensing, Local Permitting, Code Enforcement, Inspections, Citizen Request Tracking, and Cashiering through CashTrackGov.

THE NEXT GENERATION OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
Today, clients all across North America benefit from Mitchell Humphrey’s solutions in citizen services, accounting, financial management, human resources/payroll, community development, and cashiering. Mitchell Humphrey’s latest creation focuses on maximizing the user experience and making information more accessible to everyone in the organization. “Over the years, we have continued to succeed in the volatile, rapidly changing software industry thanks in part to a sound business philosophy, but most importantly, thanks to opportunities to work with and serve our clients,” stated Mitch Humphrey.

The new generation will have an entirely new interface including tabs, sidebars, and ribbons. There will be a grid layout for all inquiry and select functions. It will offer attachments by journal entry and easy AR/AP recurring invoices, to name a few. “Our focus is on providing the same robust functionality we have been recognized for, while concentrating on creating the best possible user experience by simplifying performance of every day transactions,” stated Kim Schaefer, President and COO.

The new generation is designed to make the user’s experience easier through a SharePoint dashboard, alerts, and a web-based query tool. Lastly, there will be a web interface for distributed functions such as procurement and inquiry.

To learn more about Mitchell Humphrey, visit their web sites at http://www.mitchellhumphrey.com and/or http://www.fasttrackgov.com or schedule a complimentary on-line demonstration or web-based learning session on the new features at http://www.mitchellhumphrey.com/schedule-a-demo. For more information about Mitchell Humphrey’s software solutions or to request a quote, visit http://www.mitchellhumphrey.com/get-information-now.

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35 Years of Successful Market Presence Sparks Mitchell Humphrey?s Third Generation of Financial Management Software

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