07.27.09
Latest CWG Magazine Album Review…
Ponytail…out of Baltimore, MD. Name of the album is “Ice Cream Spiritual.”
http://cwgalbumreviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/ponytail-ice-cream-spiritual.html
07.25.09
Another Finance Article…
http://moneysmartlife.com/no-load-mutual-fund-vs-load-mutual-fund/
What is the difference between load and no-load funds? What is a load anyway? Click on the link and read the article.
07.22.09
New Articles Published…
Here are links to two different articles recently published:
http://moneysmartlife.com/index-fund-investing-overview/
The easiest, least “hands-on” portfolio is built around index funds or ETFs. This article discusses the idea and even offers a sample portfolio.
http://cwgalbumreviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/portugal-man-satanic-satanist.html
Portugal. The Man is a band most people have never heard of, but that will most likely change.
07.09.09
Album Review - CWG Magazine (link)
Don’t let the name of the magazine scare you. I’ll let you go find it. :-)
If it were not for this opportunity, I would have never heard of this band, Movers & Shakers. I was impressed. Take a look at the review:
http://cwgalbumreviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/movers-shakers-larrabee.html
07.07.09
MoneySmartLife Articles…
The following is a list of articles published at MoneySmartLife.com. For these types of articles and other personal finance articles go say hello to Ben and check out his site.
Day Trading Overview - published 6/22/09
http://moneysmartlife.com/day-trading-overview/
Stock Investing Strategies for the Long Term - published 6/19/09
http://moneysmartlife.com/stock-investing-strategies-for-the-long-term/
Technical Analysis & Stock Charts - published 6/12/09
http://moneysmartlife.com/technical-analysis-stock-charts/
Morningstar Analysis for Mutual Fund Research - published 6/6/09
http://moneysmartlife.com/morningstar-for-mutual-fund-research/
The Best Mutual Funds for Your Money - published 6/5/09
http://moneysmartlife.com/best-mutual-funds-for-your-money/
Stock Dividends 101 - published 6/4/09
http://moneysmartlife.com/stock-dividends-101/
Penny Stocks: Cheap, But Sometimes You Get What You Pay For - published 6/1/09
http://moneysmartlife.com/penny-stocks-cheap-but-sometimes-you-get-what-you-pay-for/
Stock Market Index Cheat Sheet - published 5/26/09
http://moneysmartlife.com/stock-market-index-cheat-sheet/
Stock Prices - Why They Go Up & Down - published 5/18/09
http://moneysmartlife.com/stocks-prices-go-up-down/
Investing Mistakes That Will Lose You Money or Make You Cry - published 5/11/09
http://moneysmartlife.com/investing-mistakes-that-will-lose-you-money-or-make-you-cry/
07.04.09
A Round Peg & a Square Hole
Over the course of time in the entertainment world, we have all heard of entertainers trying to “cross over.” Comedians trying to be actors, TV actors going to the big screen, even musicians just creating music in a different style than they are known for. The general consensus is that the response to these types of things are usually scoffed at, or at the very least resisted.
The list of actors who wanted to be singers is endless. Can anybody forget Eddie Murphy or even Don Johnson’s attempts (for you youngsters, Google “Miami Vice” and NOT the movie)? Murphy has done better singing on the Shrek soundtracks than he ever did with that early singing career. Johnson’s career disappeared almost as quickly as the trends he started on that show.
There are two current “Kings of the Crossover” however. Whatever they touch seems to turn to gold. Those two men are Will Smith and Jamie Foxx. Smith was a rapper who became a sitcom TV star and evolved into possibly the biggest name in entertainment today. Foxx was a comedian who went from TV to movie stardom and then created a music career.
Why do I bring this up? Throughout my time as both a member and employee of Professional Network Connections (www.pnconnections.org), I have watched professionals, sales people and entrepreneurs get pigeon holed in much the same way celebrities do when trying to crossover. It happens most when exploring other career opportunities.
I’ve seen bankers have trouble finding employment because their “experience” does not “translate” in another field. How can that kind of experience in sales, service, relationship management, etc. not be useful elsewhere?
These sames issues may present themsleves in a business like mine. I have been able to use my ecperience and background to get work writing financial articles, market recaps, investing how-tos, etc. Does that mean I can not write in any other style or on any other topic? In the last few days, I have written an article on the use of mutual funds, a short bio for a local business person for their sales brochure and a CD review for an independent band out of Boston and have another financial article on my to-do list.
We can all use our life experiences, knowledge and passions to do different things in our lives. Embrace your roundness (figuratively) and enjoy the fact that you don’t fit in a square hole. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.
07.02.09
Hello Cruel World!!!
Welcome to my little corner. WordKraPHt is being launched today. I’m extremely excited about this. The website (www.wordkrapht.com), the Twitter site (http://twitter.com/wordkrapht) and this blog will be going through some changes. Themes, colors, content, etc. all need to be tweaked until I get it the way I like it. So please bare with me as I play around with it.
I plan on using this blog for several different things. First, if I write an article for another site, I plan on putting the link here. This way you can find it and that site also gets some promotion. If they were nice enough to hire me, than I can give them a plug.
The second use of this blog is to comment on the growth of WordKraPHt and have an archive of the changes this company will undoubtedly go through in the future.
Finally, I hope to use this blog in some creative way. It may be a short story or fragment of one, a poem, maybe a rant about my New York Jets, an anecdote about parenting…who knows???
I hope I can entertain and educate you in some way or fashion. I hope you keep coming back and please do not hesitate to comment on something if you have an idea, question, argument, whatever. Writers lock themselves up in holes and pull little pieces of their brain out one creative morsel at a time. Feedback helps guide us and sustain us.
So Happy Birthday to WordKraPHt!!! Tequila anyone???
