Easy Fundraisers

Written by Cassie Kale


You are probably here searching for information on fundraisers and fundraiser ideas. We want to make your fundraiser easy for you, it doesn’t have to be a difficult task setting up your fundraiser, and in factrepparttar easier it is,repparttar 142573 higher your success rate!

You know that you would like to host a fundraiser for your company, school or organization to raise funds but how can you set your fundraiser in motion? This fundraising article will help you to plan your fundraising event so that it’s easy and successful!

What are your fundraising goals? This is most important question,repparttar 142574 more specific your fundraising goals,repparttar 142575 more successful your event will be. How much money do you need to raise from your fundraising event? How many people will be involved? When will it start and how long will your fundraiser last? If you are on a deadline forrepparttar 142576 funds you need to fundraise, be sure to allot yourself enough time forrepparttar 142577 fundraiser to end.

Volunteers and several of them will assure that your fundraiser will run more smoothly. If this is your first fundraising event you should allot yourself some extra time should any unexpected problems arise. Pickingrepparttar 142578 right product for fundraising is vitally important to your fundraising event. While there are so many neat fundraising options make sure to pick a product that you think your target audience will like, something that creates an impulse buy! Depending on how much money you need to earn, will also be a factor in your deciding.

Buy and Hold Investment Strategy

Written by Gary J


"Buy and hold" is one ofrepparttar most heralded investment strategies promoted today. "Buy and hold" is also one ofrepparttar 142572 few investment methods where you are guaranteed to lose money 2 out of every 5 years...so why do it?

Before expanding onrepparttar 142573 questionable value of "buy and hold", it's probably best to take a deeper look into who's spending their millions of dollars of marketing money convincing you that "buy and hold" isrepparttar 142574 best idea and why.

"Buy and Hold" Promoters

"Buy and hold" promoters vary but I'm going to single outrepparttar 142575 mutual fund( http://www.stockrhythms.com/investing-in-mutual-funds.htm ) companies at this point since they seem to haverepparttar 142576 deepest advertising pockets and are highly visible in their promotion of "buy and hold".

Mutual funds have a strong vested interest in having you buy intorepparttar 142577 "buy and hold" mentality since their entire business model depends uponrepparttar 142578 average investor keeping their money parked...through good times and bad.

Remember,repparttar 142579 mutual fund companies are earning a profit from your investment even while you are accepting losses!

So "buy and hold" is reallyrepparttar 142580 greatest investment strategy available, it's just a matter of perspective. If you like that your mutual fund company profits whilerepparttar 142581 Bear Market ravages your account value, then "buy and hold" is for you!

So let's look at some data to see how this really works.

"Buy and Hold" Facts

Between 1929 and 2002, there have been 14 Bear Markets with an average of 39% slashed offrepparttar 142582 value of stocks. During this 74 year period, it took an average of 3.5 years to return to breakeven!

Every time a "buy and hold" investor loses money in a down market, they lose invaluable time to reaching their financial goal. After eliminating overlapping Bear Markets, 41 years were spent suffering through a Bear Market or returning to break even.

In other words, "buy and hold" investors spend 2/3 of their time just to break even!

"Buy and Hold" Myths

My favorite myth or scare tactic used by investment gurus is; "buy and hold" investing is critical since you cannot afford to missrepparttar 142583 bull run when it hits. And they go on to cite what happens to those that missrepparttar 142584 "big days".

Ah...good point, what does happen? If you would have invested $100 in 1926 and just left it there until 1993, your investment would have climbed to $80,000. Conversely, if you had tried to timerepparttar 142585 market and missedrepparttar 142586 30 best months, your investment would have only been worth $1,200.

"Buy and Hold" Does Work Better?

So I've just convinced you that "buy and hold" does work better right? But what would have happened if you used market timing and missedrepparttar 142587 30 best months and missedrepparttar 142588 30 worst months? Your investment would now be worth $120,000 or 50% more than simple "buy and hold".

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