As I wrote in my last personal project Growth Update, I want to actively start investing in stocks and options, in order build my net value and to generate a passive income and incremental retirement plan on the long run. But then, as I was ready to buy some call options ING Bank, my online banking account returned an error:
You do not have permission to conduct this type of transaction.
I was a bit confused, and decided to dig into the complete setup of products at my bank. And I was …

It is not that I don’t like marketing; on the contrary, I studied marketing myself, and I believe it is a great tool for presenting new and innovative products to the crowd.  But the principles of marketing go much further than simply informing the crowd of a product. One of the goals of marketing campaigns is to motivate people to buy the product, to compete with the competition, and basically to get the consumer wanting the product badly.
But we have to be honest to ourselves: how can a marketeer, or …

I have to admit: on several occasions I have really thought about starting my own business. And in fact, most people I know have had the same thoughts. The thought alone made me do some investigations about what to do in the initial stages, and how to approach setting up a company. And one topic I have consistently encountered is the business plan; a good business plan is absolutely mandatory prior to setting up a successfull business.