Mortgage

Mias Calls On Mortgage Lenders To Fix Their Exit Fees

MIAS, the Mortgage and Insurance Advisory Services (http://www.mias-ltd.co.uk ), is concerned that, despite the recent publicity and various campaigns in the press, borrowers are still being stung by punitive exit fees. Lenders charge exit fees when customers redeem their mortgage in full, for example, by switching their mortgage to a rival lender. Exit fees can also be termed administration charges,…

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Copywriting

What Does It Take To Succeed As An Independent Copywriter

In looking back on the nearly four dozen aspiring copywriters I’ve trained and mentored over the years and asking which personal qualities posed challenges and roadblocks and which enable beginners to carve out a lasting niche for themselves, I have zeroed in on four key skill areas. To build and sustain a copywriting or marketing consulting business, you need to…

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Web Hosting

The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Growing Their Business

On Yom Kippur, Jews pray their way through several different catalogs of sins, asking for forgiveness for long lists of human failings. The mistakes I’m talking about here don’t necessarily have any spiritual significance, they simply have the capacity to stall or even shut down a business. The following are ones I have personally seen in action; perhaps knowing about…

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Medicine

Family Systems Therapy

At its basic foundation, family systems theory holds that clients with any mental health diagnosis, addiction or substance abuse disorder, can be more effectively treated if we take their relationships with their families into consideration. The client’s family system, be it functional or dysfunctional, is an important component to address when treating someone in recovery. Without information on the family…

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Coaching

Transformational Counseling

Transformational Counseling is a process of assisting others to transform their lives. Transformational Counseling is a process of assisting others in their reinventing themselves, of creating a life that they love and living it powerfully. Transformational Counseling is a process of creating a space for others to get present to or become aware of their self limiting belief, to create…

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Web Design

The Webdesign Business 5 Surefire Ways To Fail

Several years ago, I launched a small web design company in a rural area of California. Market conditions couldn’t have been better, my skill level was above average, and I had a large pool of aquaintences to which I could market. Within 12 months I went broke. My business failed because I made some very fundamental mistakes, and made them…

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Web Hosting

What Is An Executive Coach Anyway

We at The Center for Executive Coaching like to define Executive Coaching broadly as follows: Executive Coaching is an efficient, high-impact process that helps high-performing people in leadership roles improve results in ways that are sustained over time. It is efficient because, unlike traditional consulting ssignments, it does not require invasive processes, large outside teams, and lengthy reports and analyses…

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