Posts Tagged ‘psycholgolical’
Detroit, 1966, Testing Ground for the Civil Rights Act of 1964
#detroit #detroitriots #civilrightsact #riots Detroit was just another city, as far as I knew. Then my boss at the Minneapolis office of The Travelers called me one morning in the fall of 1965 to tell me that I was being transferred to the Motor City. I ran the two blocks from the bus stop on…
Read MoreBarter Theater Performance of “October, Before I Was Born” — Reviewed by John J. Hohn
The play October, Before I was Born, a gritty drama directed by Mary Lucy Bevins, takes place on October 4, 1960 with the explosion at the Aniline Building at the Tennessee Eastman Company complex. Conveniently, the television is disabled at Martha Matthews’ residence, which program notes tell the audience is a home supported by blue…
Read MoreInternet Marketing Requires High Impact Photography to Attract
Authors who self publish face many challenges in marketing their work. In my previous posts, I tried to establish several key concepts: The task of Internet marketing is to attract. Promotional efforts must focus on identified markets with available points of entry. No data attests to the efficacy of one approach over any other. Sales…
Read MoreSelf Publishing Succeeds only with Competent Marketing.
I chose the self publishing route for my novel, Deadly Portfolio: A Killing in Hedge Funds, and went to press with it before I understood all that was involved with marketing a book. I assumed my experience as a career salesperson, as I have reported in previous blog postings, would carry me. I wanted to…
Read MoreInternet Sales Require Trust Building Skills of the Salesperson
Recently, I was asked if my experience as a successful career salesperson transferred into the world of Internet sales, an area in which I am actively promoting my novel, Deadly Portfolio: A Killing in Hedge Funds. My initial response was that no, that it did not. Then I began to think about it. My publisher…
Read MoreDon’t Ask Your Portfolio To Do More Than It Is Designed To Do.
Some people want more from their investment portfolios than gains and income. Like other major arenas in life—some load more baggage onto a portfolio than it is designed to carry. Making more money guarantees nothing except it will make a person wealthier. An unhappy person will be an unhappy investor. Assuming grinding poverty is not…
Read MorePsychological Factors Magnify and Prolong the Negative Impact of Market Losses
Wealthy people can take losses in their retirement portfolios lot easier than middle-income households who have plans for every dime that they have invested. But investors with large portfolios—portfolios that could be reduced by half and still not put their retirement in jeopardy—often fail also to employ coping strategies that help in rough times. In…
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