6 Easy Steps for a Smoother CD/DVD OrderWritten by Adam Platzer
It’s all about turn times in eMedia industry! The speed with which your vendor can get your CD or DVD project completed is vital to many customers. However, responsibility for these projects meeting their completion dates starts with customer and ends with vendor. It’s a partnership that shares responsibility. Just follow 6 easy steps below:1) Complete Credit Reference - When submitting a credit application, be sure to fill out all sections. - Contact your references and advise them to complete required form that will be faxed to them by your CD/DVD vendor. Also, remind them to return paperwork to your vendor as soon as possible. 2) Communicate All Details of Project to Your Sales or Customer Service Representative - Provide all shipping details to your sales or customer service representatives (changes in shipping information must be communicated as soon as possible). - Provide information that you would like on mirror band of CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs. 3) Protect Yourself - Fill out, sign and return Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) form to make sure content ownership is properly handled. A completed and signed IPR form usually must be provided with every order prior to your job being scheduled for production. 4) Submit a High Quality Master Disc - Always use high quality media. - Avoid burning from a network source. - Avoid burning on a laptop computer running on battery power. - ALWAYS “finalize” your disc. - Don’t use packet-writing method to burn master disc. - Avoid impact or movement of drive during burn. - Use “burn-proof” feature if available. - Avoid having multiple applications open when burning, especially those that access internet or network. - If possible submit two copies of master disc.
| | "Buy TERM and Invest the Difference"Written by YS Koh
The phrase “BUY TERM AND INVEST THE DIFFERENCE” evolves around concept of term life policy which is a basic protection policy and endowment/ whole life policy which has protection and investment/saving features. To put it simply, phrase means that instead of taking up endowment/whole life policy, an individual should buy a term policy for protection and difference between premiums of two policies is to be invested by individual himself to earn some dividend on investment.To agree with phrase "Buy Term and Invest Difference", one need to have conviction and will-power to invest difference in premium in an investment vehicle that can pay a return higher than that declared by an insurance company. Unfortunately, most of us do not have capability to achieve desired return over time. At times, one is lucky to reap a good return from equity market but this is all short-lived when downturn occurs, all gains will be wiped out and may even heavy losses. However, investment-linked life insurance have been pioneered and offered for sale by insurance companies around world as one way where it is possible to have both protection and investment at same time. In United States of America, investment-linked life insurance is known as "variable life insurance". It was pioneered by Equitable Life Assurance Society and was offered for sale in 1976. This type of product is recommended if one agrees with phrase "Buy Term and Invest Difference". Investment-linked life insurance policies offer more flexibility to policy owners and they can choose when to top up or how much, or on what portion of their policy that is linked directly to investment performance. Considering wide range of investment tools available, investment-linked insurance products may be linked to stocks and shares, property or real estate, cash deposits, fixed income securities, government bonds, corporate bonds, unit trusts, investment trusts, other life insurance and annuities. Investment-linked funds have been created to suit client's various investment objectives, risk-reward profiles and investment preferences.
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