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Sat 20th Mar, 2010
Posted in Insurance at 7:50 am by Levi Quinn
Getting a driver’s license is one of the things a teen-ager looks forward to most in their young lives—and it’s one of the things that parents dread. Not only will car insurance rates increase, thanks to your teen, but you’re putting your child in a steel missile and hoping for the best.
The first time you wave good-bye to your teen driver as they set out on their first solo mission can be one of the most trying times for a parent. All you can do is hope the education, the lectures and the threats translate into a safe driver.
A parent’s greatest fear is getting that phone call from the police or the hospital saying that your child was in a serious accident and is injured or worse. And no matter how much you tell your teen to be careful, chances are they simply are not going to take driving safety as seriously as you want them to. While parents’ number one concern is always for the safety of their child, not far behind is the concern of increased car insurance as soon as you put your teenager on your policy.
Teen-agers get into far more accidents than any other segment of the population, which can lead to paying more than double in insurance premiums. The best way to avoid these increases is to make certain your child never gets into an accident in the first place.
When a teen-ager gets their license, parents need to sit down with their teen and draw up a contract laying down the rules to the road in your house. For example, if a teen is late for curfew, they lose their car keys for a week. If they get a speeding ticket, they lose the car keys for a month. They get caught drunk driving, they lose driving privileges for a year.
If parents spell out clearly the consequences of bad driving, the teen not only comprehends the seriousness of their driving privileges, but understands the consequences of their failure to obey your household’s rules. Put a contract together so you have everything clearly laid out in writing. This gives teens a guideline outlining exact consequences to their actions. If a rule is broken, you can pull out that contract, show them their signature, and impose the punishment.
One of the biggest mistakes a parent can make is being lenient for a first offense.
We all have kids who are great a begging and wheedling and getting out of punishments, but this is one case in which a parent must stick to their guns and follow through. It not only could save you money on your car insurance by preventing increased premiums, your tough love might also save their lives.
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Tue 16th Mar, 2010
Posted in Insurance at 7:17 am by Susan Reynolds
One of the most standard phrases in business these days is “Let the buyer beware” and this is exactly what you need with cheap insurance quotes. It used to be that you would have to physically go to each insurance company and sit down with an agent to get an insurance quote, but today you can do it online or over the phone and you need to use caution when looking at cheap insurance quotes. Don’t get caught up with a quote for a low monthly payment because, unless you are careful, it can end up costing you big time down the road.
As with most businesses these days, competition in the insurance business is tough and you need to be on the lookout for companies and agents that are using dishonest tactics to get your money. You need to know that the company providing you coverage and the company selling you a policy may not be one and the same. This is not a ‘buy here , pay here’ business, so the people you have to deal with once you sign a policy may be completely different than the agent who sold it to you. It is always a good idea to investigate all the companies who service your potential insurance policy with the Better Business Bureau (BBB) for complaints.
Now, don’t get me wrong here. There are a lot of insurance companies and insurance agents who do provide good, honest service and have you, the customer in mind, but there are also people who are driven by greed and will use shady, dishonest and unethical techniques just to take your money. One of the ways these people will draw you in is with a dramatically low insurance quote, which they get by applying every available discount, even the ones you don’t qualify for. When the policy is written, the discounts that you are not eligible for are not applied and your payment is significantly higher than the quote. Your old insurance is canceled, the policy is written and they are counting on you just paying and staying. Usually, they will blame you for not qualifying for the discounts, which many will just accept.
You are taken in by the low quote and the plan is that once your old policy is canceled, your old insurance company will not want to take you back, so in order to keep your coverage you are stuck paying them a whole lot more money than you had originally thought. When the technique is analyzed, it is a completely dishonest way of doing business, but it works or they wouldn’t do it. You have become their customer by default.
Chances are, if it looks too good to be true it probably is. Check any quotes you get very closely for things such as extreme deductibles and discounts for things which you aren’t eligible to get. Examples of these types of discounts might be a multiple policy discount, which you don’t have, or a good driver discount and you know you got a speeding ticket last year. Look for these kind of warning signs when you look at an insurance quote and if you see this kind of unethical practice, then immediately cross this company off your list and get a quote somewhere else.
Susan Reynolds is the webmaster for a leading South African Insurance Portal that provides consumers with the best Online Insurance Quote Options.
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Sun 14th Mar, 2010
Posted in Insurance at 8:35 am by James Scott
When an investor is looking at your business they are obviously looking for the basics: an executive team that has worked with other companies in your industry at the exact stage you are at now with a solid track record of success, an active advisory board that is eager to help and has a solid comprehension of your industry, a board of directors that acts as your company’s strategic think tank and action center where the tough issues get dealt with and questions get answered. Investors also want to see that you are in a growth industry and that all involved have the discipline to step out of the emotional ups and downs of a start up or company seeking capital and look at the business objectively.
All this said, the one aspect to creating a salivating group of investors is your massive and powerful strategic partner database. These partners are able to enhance your company is ways of distribution, sales, contracts, legal, tax etc. The partners that you team up with are often build off of and initiated by the rapport of your executive staff, board of advisers and board of directors. Your corporate attorney and accountant should also contribute heavily to helping you build strategic alliances with like minded companies in their client base. These companies that you are teaming up with allow for rapid expansion and optimal eye candy for people that are interested in placing capital with your company. Having some big names in your corner with the label ’strategic partner’ just sweetens the pot. Companies thrive and dive on relationships.
If you are considering raising capital with a Regulation D exemption like 504, 505 or 506 (also referred to as a Private Placement Memorandum) chances are, your company will be funded by angel investors, private investors and other private equity money sources. Having a powerful partnership base is like adding a blanket and warm milk to your business plan and PPM when handing if off to the investor, it’s soothing and comforting to see that you’re not alone but you have some big names helping you on the road to success.
Are you thinking about taking your business public? The same thing goes. The public wants to see that you are in bed with big names who can step in and help your company out of a tight spot and that you can co-op advertisements and promotional campaigns together.
Raising capital is easier when you are moving forward with establish partnerships to ease the weight of the load and stress that comes with a growing company.
For Corporate Consulting or Strategic Partners, call Princeton Corporate Solutions at 267-233-0183Take Your Company Public the easy way!
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Wed 3rd Mar, 2010
Posted in Insurance at 10:46 am by David Martin
Most of the people do get confused when they purchase their car for the first time. Generally the common question that may puzzle you is regarding the perfect type of car insurance that you can buy online. Those who are not experienced may find it difficult to get the right car insurance for his car. Even if there are several types of car insurances presented out there, but these are a few main car insurances that you will find to insure your car. Though, people are free to purchase more than one insurance policy to offer maximum coverage.
- Liability Insurance: Liability insurance is a necessary if you wish to drive the car. The liability car insurance policy holds the insurer responsible to repay for the damage or injuries caused due to car accident. A portion of the insurance sum has to be given by the policy holder and the left over portion of money is paid by the insurance company. The more you pay, the greater is the tax benefit as you will be paying from your monthly income. Therefore, if you are at fault while an accident, your insurer is liable to pay for the damages occurred due to accident.
- Collision Insurance: If you meet an accident where you car is totally damaged, you can purchase collision insurance to claim the repair costs. However, to claim the collision insurance, the accident or collision was not done purposely, but it was unintentional. If you are not proved innocent, you are not eligible for the claim amount.
- Comprehensive Insurance: Comprehensive insurance provides cover to the policy holder’s car that is damaged due to unexpected situations such as natural calamity, vandalism, threat etc. If you car is damaged due to harsh hail storms, you can claim comprehensive insurance. You must be wise enough to see what is covered in the insurance policy. However, this condition should be mentioned for cover in the policy, then only you can claim for it. Your insurance agent can assist in your claim.
- Uninsured Motorist: If you are unlucky you may get into an accident where the person at fault has no insurance. In this case uninsured motorist insurance will be helpful to reduce the cost of claiming.
Thus, these few types of car insurance policies can help you claim for the amount for repairing the damaged car or paying huge medical bill. You can search on the internet to know about the several kinds of car insurances available as there are many car insurance companies mentioning every car insurance policy in detail. So you can choose the right car insurance policy or car insurance policies so as to offer maximum cover. But, you should choose a reliable insurer who provides the perfect information about every kind of car insurance policy. To check the reliability of the online car insurance company, you can read the reviews about their services. You can even talk to several clients who have already purchased car insurance policy from this online car insurance company.
Learn the benefits of different types of car insurance cover and buying online car insurance.
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Mon 1st Mar, 2010
Posted in Insurance at 9:02 am by Prady Kumar
Life insurance is great for individuals that have a family, dependents and earn the most income to support their family. Life is unpredictable and it is important to ensure your family and loved ones are taken care of financially in case anything happens to you.
It is imperative to choose the right life insurance that fits your bill or which can be customized to suit your particular needs.There are a wide range of life insurance products that are floating in the market. Choosing the right life insurance policy involves assessing your particular situation and evaluating the right policy for you.
A health life insurance is a kind of well, insurance, that covers a lot of things. Funeral costs are usually the major coverage of most health life insurance. In quite a few cases, health life insurance also provides people with the benefit of not worrying about hospital bills. There are also health life insurances that will provide your loved ones with certain amount of money after your death.
Offered by the different public and private institutions, health life insurances can be compared to social securities. People who have got health life insurances are required to pay a minimum amount during a period of time. On insurance policy maturation, the bearer of the health life insurance would be entitled to several benefits agreed in the policy.
A health life insurance would guarantee that you or your family will have the financial means to support and solve whatever life and health related problems will come along the way. Some health life insurance also covers giving certain amounts of money to the beneficiaries of the insurance holder. Depending on the type of health insurance plan, the funds could be received in bulk or in scheduled releases.
People would be free of worrying about the consequences of the death of their loved one. Having a health life insurance of this type will ensure that life would still go on for those who were left behind. Since a health life insurance will cover all the expenses for the funeral and hospitalization, families need not worry about paying bills or getting credits.
Choosing the correct life insurance that suits your needs is simple once you’ve studied your options thoroughly. Utilize the Internet’s resources to educate yourself about life insurance basics. Factor in your personal situation, present debts and future liabilities and you will be able to gauge how much life coverage your family would need.
Many online insurance quote providers can help you with your queries and offer professional advice on choosing the right policy for an individual’s particular situation. And once you factored in all the scenarios, and have numerous term life policies to evaluate, choosing a life insurance not only becomes easy, but beneficial too.
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Sun 28th Feb, 2010
Posted in Insurance at 9:33 am by Jake Black
Phoenix auto glass repair has a number of efficient and prompt staff members that are ready to repair a cracked windscreen on site. With over a decades experience in auto glass repairs, employees can only offer the most professional service available. Even if the damaged screen is so great that it needs replacing entirely, a free trip to a person’s home or office is added to this service.
If cracks are measured to be over the twelve inch mark then a replacement windscreen is inevitable. Anything under that is open for repairs. Small chips take only a few minutes each to fill with an invisible resin that combines with the original auto glass to make the restoration complete.
The procedure takes under an hour to carry out and clients can depend upon the workmanship for optical clarity. That is, if the crack or chips are repaired in time. If left for too long the resin will not adhere to the surface of the glass and a costly replacement will have to be done. The size of the damage is also an aspect to consider when making an examination. Chips the size of a 50 cent coin or less are acceptable as are cracks under twelve inches in length.
A vehicle might not pass it’s registration or road-worthiness if a crack has been left unattended. This may mean a replacement is needed for the vehicle. Installing a new part will be more involved, costly and may have a recall to fix any gaps in the new seal. This can be discovered when the job is totally completed by taking a test drive. Use of a good quality urethane glue, the same as car manufacturers use in the factories, results in less wind whistles and leaks.
Service vehicles that are totally outfitted with all the parts needed for the job will arrive at your most convenient address, home or work. The job will provide the correct sized windscreen of the clients choice using the best urethane and ensure it is fitted well. Technicians stay with the job until it is completely set.
The process of a repair involves placing a mirror beneath the problem to give an accurate visual description to the technician. The damaged part is cleaned of excess debris, including small chips of glass and dried in preparation fro the resin. A tool especially designed for the repair job, called a piston, sucks out the air in the chip or crack. This ensures clarity in the repair. The resin is applied and a film covers it to keep it in position until it dries.
As a finishing touch, ultra violet light is manipulated over the set resin to make it 100% hard. The Phoenix Auto Glass staff working on the vehicle will give the windshield a wash over and polish so it looks as good as new. Discounts are available on all auto glass.
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Sat 27th Feb, 2010
Posted in Insurance at 8:26 am by James Scott
If your company is about to start taking steps for a public offering you will most likely want to bring in employees that will help season your business plan and private placement memorandum for your initial rounds of capital. The human resources section of your PPM is crucial and on your business plan your ‘key executives’ portion is critical.
You must be able to justify, many times over, the reason for the existence of this executive in your business. Let’s start with pedigree: This employee must have a traceable track record of success working with similar corporations at the same stage your company is in now, they must be able to prove that they played a key role in their previous employers growth. Next their education; if we lived in a perfect world, college education wouldn’t matter but in the mind of the investor, a university level education is a period of maturing and intellectually achieving the capacity to translate ideas into empirical strategies.
Your employees must have a 4 year degree if they are acting as anything other than administrative support. Community colleges and associates degrees don’t count and it’s better not to include these individuals as key players in your business model as it could bring into question your qualifications to run the company. The employee must also have a portfolio of ongoing education certifications and/or certificates of program completion. A university education is one thing but continuous professional growth is another element that is crucial to demonstrating an individual’s desire to stay on top of growing trends and contribute to their employers overall strategy.
Now, for the most important part; your executive must have a strong portfolio of industry specific contacts that will contribute to setting up and maintaining strategic alliances and partnerships on behalf of your company.
At corporate meetings, after you go over the plan for the day or the week you need to be able to assign each of your executives goals for setting up quality and qualified partnerships that enhance distribution, intellectual capital, publicity exposure etc. Without a powerful contact base one goes from being a excellent executive with VP level horizons to a general employee that needs to be micromanaged by a management team member.
Look at each executive in your company as a light bulb on a Christmas tree. When you roll out your small or medium size business to raise capital you want your tree blazing with blinding lights making you stand out in your industry.
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Posted in Insurance at 8:14 am by James Scott
Most companies who are on the venture capital trail are not set up properly to attract investors. When an investor looks at your business plan and private placement memorandum they are looking for certain things. Of course funding sources look for the obvious, a solid business model, positive cash flow, industry genre with solid future growth, recession proof business (if there even is such a thing) and minimal debt.
Countless companies are turned down for funding because they lack the basics such as: an advisory board, board of directors, solid executive staff with a well groomed pedigree, reasonable share price, business plan and PPM that spell out the risks for the investor and an original marketing strategy that covers all the angles. These are just a few of the most common mistakes that companies make out of naivety and by not taking the time to hire an expert to properly structure them to make the entity appeal to investors.
Seasoned expansion and turn-around consultants can step into a company and immediately zone in on the issues that will hinder a client’s investment magnetism. Often times it only takes 2 to 3 weeks to completely reorganize a company to make it stand out like a beacon in the turbulent finance industry. If you are seriously considering the idea of raising capital with a private placement memorandum, traditional institutional loans, venture capital or a public offering don’t be penny wise and dollar foolish.
Spend some money and hire a consultant who is completely submerged in the finance industry to take control of the elements of your corporation that are seen as ‘black eyes’ to investors so that you can achieve the capital you’re seeking.
The reality is, raising capital for your company is easy and straight forward if you’ve taken the time to examine your business objectively and sought out the expert analysis of an industry expert consultant who will run your company through a formula and make the necessary changes to increase your ability to raise capital.
Investor Finder Services, call Princeton Corporate Solutions at 267-233-0183Take Your Company Public the easy way!
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Fri 26th Feb, 2010
Posted in Insurance at 8:36 am by James Scott
Your company is growing. Now you are ready to start raising serious capital and you here the public fund raising markets. Here are the basics of your S-1 filing. Know the lingo before you hire a consultant. Because companies must adhere strictly to SEC regulations, initial prospectuses are similar in their organization. Each S-1 generally consists of the following sections:
Front Section — An S-1 contains a small amount of information not available in a prospectus. In this first section, you can quickly find the issuing company’s phone number and get a vague sense of the future offering price.
Cover/Inside Cover — The prospectus cover outlines the general terms of the offering, including names of the underwriters, number of shares offered, and pricing information. The actual share price is absent from a prospectus until the day of the offering.
Prospectus Summary — Here you will find a brief synopsis of the company’s business and history, a modest discussion of the change in capitalization to occur as a result of the offering, and a useful summary of financial information covering the last five years, if available. If you are screening prospectuses for investment ideas, start here.
Risk Factors — After you have read a few prospectuses, you will become familiar with the “usual suspects” in this section, including “Possible Volatility of Stock,” “Limited History of operations,” “Dilution,” and “Dependence on Key Personnel.” Nevertheless, this section is a worthwhile read to be sure that you understand the challenges facing the company’s management. The discussion of competition can be sobering, but it can also provide a means to compare the value of the issuer against the financial performance and market valuation of its competitors.
Taking your company public should be an exciting and revitalizing time. Don’t take unnecessary risks, hire a consulting firm who can streamline this process and deliver the results you’ll need for success!
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Posted in Insurance at 8:34 am by James Scott
So many companies dream of going public both as a growth and exit strategy but unfortunately few succeed with this process. The third party audit, sponsoring of the S1 and 211 by a market maker and SEC comments stage is just one of the obstacles involved with taking a company public. The attempt at going public and actually achieving a symbol are two entirely different things and if you are lucky enough to achieve a symbol there’s a completely separate area of expertise needed to keep your stock trading and to preserve a company’s longevity in the marketplace.
Here are some things you need to keep in mind when gearing up to take your company public. Forget everything that you’ve read and heard and pay attention to what you’re about to read because this is the straight forward, objective reality of the process. First, do not hire an attorney to take you public as they will take you on a long drawn out process to get as many billable hours as possible, instead, hire a consulting firm whose sole business model is to take companies public and take advantage of the relationships that they have with attorneys. This is the first rule: hire a consulting firm that offers a complete A to Z turn-key solution for taking a company through the process of going public, achieving a symbol and preserving the trade with a solid, ongoing post public investor relations strategy.
Next, when you’ve decided on a consulting firm evaluate their team, don’t ask for references to call to research their track record, better yet, ask for symbols of previous clients and links to the Edgar database to check out current deals in the comments stage. The proof is in the empirical track record, not potentially fraudulent phone references that are easily engineered and BS.
Now look at their team. Make sure that the consulting group has a solid legal team, market makers, investor relations team, auditing group and someone well versed in the comments stage response as this can be one of the major hang-ups in achieving your symbol in a timely manner. Also, most important, they absolutely MUST have a solid group of investors to fund the process for equity and to sell their shares into the marketplace post public to create a market for your stock as well as a network of market makers familiar with your deal to piggyback off of the sponsoring market maker’s 211.
About one month away from symbol achievement you’ll want to meet with your consultants to get a solid IR strategy together for a big offering dbut. You will want to set up a strategy for 30 day IR intensives every other month with general corporate publicity strategies in between. I suggest changing your IR firm each quarter to keep it fresh and open up your trade to a new network of investors.
One special note to consider is that when you are raising your initial round of capital from seed investors, the fastest way to do this is to have a fist full of contracts and purchase orders in hand to strengthen your position and publicize this reality with an arsenal of press releases. Its 100 times easier to raise capital if you are showing seed investors a handful of ’soon to be’ cash than to solicit them empty handed.
Obviously there are a multitude of other issues that you need to take into consideration when going public so find a consulting firm that can help you make it happen. Don’t try to venture out into these waters on your own as you’ll be diving into shark infested waters and you’ll almost certainly fail.
For Corporate Consulting or Invest Seed Capital In Pre-IPO Companies, call Princeton Corporate Solutions at 267-233-0183Take Your Company Public the easy way!
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