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Google is the best search engine on the market period!.

Google is the best search engine in the world period!.

Many of our clients have asked us how important it is to use google ad words and to rank high on the search engine.

We can tell you that it is very important to rank high on the google search engine.

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It is important that you also rank high on search engines like yahoo and Bing, but google has a 95% market share when i comes to search engines.

So making sure that your company shows up high in the rankings on google is very important when it comes to customers finding your company.

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Is very important to your business that you understand how customers are looking for a product or a service online.

It is said that you need to rank high on google as a business to be successful, and many companies try and sell you the first page ranking access.

And this is true, but you can also make sure that your business ranks high locally or in the country you want to offer your products or services.

And getting your business to the first page of a google search is goanna cost more money than most small and medium companies can afford.

When you are basing your marketing on so called keywords make sure that you then use the right keywords for your business.

If you have a set marketing budget, then you should use 80% of that on google if you are looking to sell products or services.

There are benefits to marketing on Facebook if you want exposure for your business brand and to communicate with potential customers.

Because Facebook ads are not that expensive to begin with.

But when you use google ad words you have customers online who is looking specially for a service or a product.

Because on Facebook people are more often that not just browsing around and liking things.

Which can come very handy for smaller companies.

google rocks.

But as always when you make a marketing budget you need to know how much you can afford to spend over the year.

Because understanding how much money you have for marketing will be a decider if you can run a short blitz Campaign or if you should grind it over the whole year.

For some companies the blitz strategy Works better because you have only a limited budget to spend so you want a lot bang for your buck so to speak.

If you count that you have 1000 dollars to spend on marketing for the whole year for your business, you have two choices you can make.

So you can spend 3 dollars a day for the full year, or spend 200 dollars per week , five times a year.

So you have to figure out what works for your business, because when you market your company it will be one of the most important things you can ever do to reach success in your field.

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The value of Bitcoin in 2021.

So many of our readers and clients have commented on the bitcoin value in the end of 2020 and what is our opinion on bitcoin going forward into 2021?.

This one is really hard for us to answer when it comes to should you invest in bitcoins or not.

We always say when it comes to crypto currencies or investing in high tech high risk companies that they should not make up more than 10-15% of your total investment portfolio.

So here in lies the answer for you, if you feel that you want to invest in bitcoin then use 10-15% of your portfolio but not more than that to make sure that if it comes crashing down you do not lose to much of your portfolio.

Bitcoin

So we have personally missed the bitcoin train many times starting way back in 2014.

Hindsight is always 20/20 in these cases but it is a highly volatile investment.

For the once that was lucky enough to take the chance on the bitcoin back in 2014 and have held on to it are today multi millionaires, no doubt about that.

We also know a lot of young people who put everything they owned into bitcoin and other crypto currencies and they are richer than they ever dreamed of in their wildest dreams.

So our hat off to them.

But there are also people we know that bought the bitcoin and then it dropped 50% and they got nervous and sold it at a 50% loss.

We have told our clients who bought at the last top, and when it started to go down to stay calm and wait for the turn.

And from October 2020 that turn has now arrived with a value at over 30.000 dollars per bitcoin.

So many have now the opportunity to sell and make 50% in profit on their initial investment, evern if they where down 50% at one time not to long ago.

This here above that we have mentioned is the reason a seasoned investor would never put more than maximum 15% of their Net Worth into the bitcoin or any other crypto currencies for that matter.

There are rumors that the bitcoin might go up to over 150.000 dollars so 5x in the next 2 years time compared to todays value in January 2021.

The value of bitcoin in 2021.

But we would not be surprised if it would fall back down to 15.000 dollars again by the end of 2021.

So this type of investments are very risky compared to Warren Buffet type of long-terms investing in blue chip stocks.

SO BE VERY CAREFUL WITH THESE TYPE OF INVESTMENTS.

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Build up a good credit score by using credit cards.

So a lot of people wonder how you go about building up a good credit score?.

The reality is that it is a combination of hard work, and being laser focused on not being late with you payments.

Credit card.

So one of the best ways to build up your credit score when you are young and you have a lower paying job, is to use credit cards.

Some financial adviser refuse to accept that this is a really good way of building up your credit score.

But the risk here is that you should not treat the credit card as free money, you should only use it to pay for your normal monthly costs that you would normally pay otherwise cash or with a debit card.

So the way you use credit cards is to apply for 5 different once when you turn 18.

And always do your own research on the different cash back offers from different credit cards companies.

So usually take the cashback offer rather than loyalty points, these points have a tendency to get worth less for each year that goes by.

We usually recommend that you take out between 1000 to 2000 dollars in credit per card.

So a total sum of 5.000- 10.000 dollars, divided up on five different cards.

The important thing is that you have at least two jobs prior to you taking out the credit cards.

Debt.

Taking on debt is always a risk and you should be very careful when entering into debt.

So our recommendation is that you always pay your credit card bill in full each month.

And If you have five different cards use them like one card per month.

So let us say that you normally buy gasoline and grocery’s and other items for 1000 dollars a month, then use one card per month and pay your bills in full every time.

Using credit cards as an emergency fund?.

And When you are young, you have not been able to gather a lot of money into your emergency fund.

So sometimes these credit cards can come in handy if your pet get sick or you have to visit an emergency care clinic for instance.

But be very disciplined when you take out credit cards.

This is not free money, this is money that you need to pay BACK from your own BANK account each month.

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How to help each other out during 2021!

So how can we help each other out during a very difficult upcoming year of 2021?.

So one thing that is crystal clear to all of us who are not politicians around the world is that we are on our own.

After a brutal 2020 where we have seen more small business since the great depression of the 1930s go under, we know we are in trouble financially around the world right now.

Many have lost their jobs and are now goanna get evicted starting in the first week of January.

Single mother.

So there are over 15 million Americans risking homelessness when they get their eviction notice the first week of January.

The sheriffs office will have a lot to do, and for some familes they can remain until March in their current homes.

Due to the massive overload in evictions being carried out starting in early January.

One of the things you can do as a fellow American is to try and help the homeless single mothers and fathers who have nowhere to go, when they get evicted come January.

So sharing is carrying, and what we mean by that is very simple, do you have a spare room in your house or apartment?.

Do you have one room you are not using for more than storage?.

Do you still have your job?, can you do something for your fellow man or women.

We know the politicians are not goanna help anybody out in this crisis.

So we have to solve these issue on our own as proud hard working Americans.

American flag.

So it is a personal sacrifice to offer a room to a single parent with kids in your home for a 6-12 month period until they can get back on their feet.

But we have also forgotten the sacrifices former generations have made for us in the past.

And we really need to wake up during 2021 and look each other in the eyes and say you are a human i am a human how can we help each other out going forward.

If you are ready willing and able to make that sacrifice for your fellow man or woman or child, you are then doing a great service to your country.

America is a disgrace when it comes to universal health care, Europe is 40 years ahead of America this is a fact!.

Affordable healthcare.

So we need to start changing our country to the better, and that starts with everyone who still has a job and a home to ask themselves the difficult question, what can i do to help the less fortunate ones in my community?.

So we have to start and see the real problems in our commnity and start acting and not wait for the governement to fix these issues.

Because the only thing that the government is good at is taxing you and wasting your tax dollars.

Politicians.

So take care out there and take care of each other.

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Merry Christmas and a happy new year!.

So 2020 has been a rough year for almost everybody, and we want to wish all of our clients and readers a happy Christmas and a happy new year!.

And for our clients who does not celebrate Christmas we want to wish you happy holidays.

Christmas lights.

So let us now try and get true 2021 together we need to lean on each other during the upcoming year.

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What to expect from the world economy in 2021?.

So what can we expect from the world economy in 2021?

We have talked about this a bit in our previous posts and of course things are constantly changing in front our eyes month for month.

There are some real issues with our economies that we need to talk about and we need to come up with solutions that will help everybody not just the people that where well off when the Covid-19 pandemic started back in March 2020.

We have in America roughly 30 million small businesses and and 1/3 over 10 million of them is on the brink of closing for good!.

Small business.

We do not think that governor Gavin Newsome out in California or governor Andrew Cuomo out in New York really understand what small business owners are going true on a daily basis.

More than 40% of the small business owners in the US where not able to pay their commercial rent in November and it is estimated that over 50% of the small business owners will not be able to pay rent in December.

As small business consultants we here and see this everyday in our line of work.

And for us it is more difficult than it has ever been to advise our clients on what step to take to save their small or even sometimes medium sized businesses.

Many around the world is hoping that this past year 2020 was a nightmare that we will wake up from in 2021.

The bad news is that even with different vaccines available on the open market in 2021, it will take at least 8-9 months to vaccinate more than 70% of the population who is willing to take the risk with a new vaccine type.

So we can forget travel for leisure and many business travelers will remain in front of their computers with ZOOM and similar virtual meeting options.

The only ones that will travel for business will be the companies that have to add a new supplier, or having to go and meet a new potential client, that has to be meet in person.

If we look at the numbers from the IRS, we can see that the numbers for withheld federal income tax is down by almost 20% and that is a lot.

This really tells us where the US economy is today, and where it is heading during next year 2021.

Sadness.

The sadness our clients feel this year is right out scary to us, even if we are very experienced business consultants who remember the 70s oil crisis and the 90s unemployment, not to mention the financial meltdown in 2008-2011.

What do you do when you can not make rent as a small business owner?.

You will have to look towards government support which is very hard to come by these days.

The reality is that many companies have kept their doors open by maxing out both corporate and private credit cards and also taken on very expensive business credits and loans.

So what will then happen in 2021 when all these business and private credits will come due?.

The very brutal reality is that we will see a tsunami of bankruptcies both on the commercial and on the private side.

Figuring out the solution to these financial problems is quite easy.

The solution is that governments around the world will have to go in and financially support small business owners with both PPE and PPP loan forgiveness but also setting up loan possibilities for the small business owners at a good rate for the borrower at maximum 5% interest per year.

Because the consequences of governments doing nothing is a nuclear financial meltdown never ever seen around the world before, starting in 2021.

So let us hope that we can together unite as one unit working towards a common goal, and get true 2021 together.

Take care out there.

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2020 the worst year in human history?.

So is 2020 the worst year in human history due to the Covid-19 corona pandemic?.

Maybe it is the worst year in human history, we can not really argue against that claim, since there is not a single country that has not been badly affected by this global pandemic.

Everything has gone wrong in 2020.

So we can see from the amounts of emails we get on a daily basis from our smaller and medium sized clients, that this year has been the worst in almost all of our clients lifes from a financial standpoint.

The 2008-2011 financial crisis does not even come close to the level of pain people and small business owners are feeling today.

We have calculated that 50% of our clients that own restaurants, hotels and brick and mortar stores will not re-open again in 2021.

And these numbers are close to the once that are coming out of New york.

So we have a real tsnuami of bankruptcys coming for small business owners in 2021.

We know that many creditors have held off for the past 9 months time and waited to see if we can wait our this pandemic, but now we have information that court cases opened by creditors will start to go true courts in January after the holidays.

What a lot of people do not know is that almost all small business owners are liable to some extend for their business credits or business loans.

Big banks and big credit firm does not care about the little people what so ever.

Big banks.

The big question will be in 2021 where is the jobs goanna come from when 50% of restaurants, hotels and brick and mortar stores will not re-open again.

And what is really frustrating is that many of the jobs that have been lost for a long time are jobs that people between 20-35 years of age are working in.

For many it is the first real job that they have had, so this is very sad.

There is also another problem with these lock-down messures and that is that we are printing money like never before and we are kicking the can down the road, and our children and grandchildren will have to pay the financial price for our lock downs now in 2020.

So what is the solution to all of this?, we have said from day one that from June the first eveything should have been re-opened and everybody would then we responsible for their own saftey going forward.

Since the COVID-19 was a new virus so to speak, even if the Corona virus has been around for a long time, we can understand some safety messures for 45-60 days back in March , but that should have been it!.

Working from home is a luxuary that 30% of the workforce have had the oppertunity to explore.

Home office.

Many are starting to get feed up with working from home and not having the opportunity to meet co-workers, to go to lunch and even go out with colleges to happy hour now and then.

Our heart breaks for all the small business owners that will not only lose their business/livelihood but also loose their home to their bank/creditors next year 2021 when the courts re-open for cases again.

So when we hear clients say that 2020 has been the worst year ever in their life, it is very difficult to disagree.

It takes years some times decades to build a functioning business, but you can tear it down and lose it all within a years time, this is something we have truly seen during this year 2020.

So buckle down, for a very ruff 2021 , we are almost scared to advise our clients for next year, since we know that there are no easy fixes out there and everything that needs to be done will be very painfull.

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Solving the homeless crisis in America in 2021!.

So the homeless crisis is out of hand in America in 2020.

And for us to wait for politicians to come up with proper solutions to this problem, is waiting for something that will never happen.

We have to solve this crisis on our own, we can expect to help from the government or state government.

Almost every idea they come up with , ends up in a disaster.

There is a lot of really good people out there on the streets that should not be out there.

Homeless angels taking care of street pets.

Many people that are living on the streets are kind and good hearted people, some have developed a drug or an alcohol addiction problem while being out on the streets.

So we need to start classifying the homeless population in America by looking at the people that do not have mental issues and can be re-housed quickly again.

And then the people that needs to get treatment against addiction and then can be re-housed.

And then we have the difficult situation with people with serious mental illnesses who needs institutional care.

Having worked with many homeless people over the years we can say with certantity that many people end up homeless way to easy.

You lose your job, you lose your home because you can not pay the rent, it is difficult to get new housing and find a long-term job when you are out on the streets trying to survive.

Homeless guy taking care of his dogs on the street!.

So there is a way to fix the homeless problem, and we just need politicians to wake up and support private initiatives from private citizens and private businesses.

So in every city and town across America people have spare rooms, or an unused garage or room out back to put up a tiny home on the lot.

Let the government pay every home owner who rents out a room with board to a homeless person and their pets a sum of around 1500-1900 dollars a month in compensation, depending on the location in the country.

Rooms empty in many US households.

The win-win-win here is enormous for everybody involved.

The government will save huge amounts of money on lowering crime rates and lowering emergency care costs and what ever-else you can think off that the homelessness actually costs the government and states.

The person that is homeless can get a room and board to get their life back on track, and having a place to stay and food, gives the person a possibility to get back into the workforce and maybe inside 1-3 years have their own place again.

The renter gets help with the mortgage by renting out a room to a person and their pets, and can keep their house in the process.

Of course the only people who will rent out a room or a garage, lot space will be people who needs the money, and that is fine!.

Of course the landlord has the right to ask that the tenent in this case stays way from drugs and alchol while living there.

So many homeless tenants will need 60 days of addiction treatment before going into a room and board situation.

So this is as good solution as anythig-else that we have ever heard of.

Trying to build apartments for every homeless person or family will never work.

We have seen Los Angeles trying to build apartments over the past years, and that has ended up costing over 700.000 dollars per apartment for the homeless, which is just insane in itself.

But we have empty rooms in many homes around America that could be used to get people back up on their feet.

There is no perfect solution to this problem , but we will never have the perfect solution to offer the homeless, but we need to start fixing this problem now, and not kick the can further down the road.

2021 is the year when we need to start addressing the homeless problem for real in America.

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The real truth behind the unemployment numbers in America!.

So as many of you have seen that the politicians loves to talk about the unemployment numbers and wall street keeps an keen eye on the numbers every time they are being published.

But there is a sad truth behind these unemployment numbers that often tend to move up and down between 4-11%.

Unemployed.

And what you are not being told is that in a good economy where the unemployment numbers are anywhere from 4-6% there is still almost 27% of the workforce that is being counted into the numbers that still can not make a living wage from their job.

And then you have a lot of people that are not even being counted into the stats, due to them having stopped looking for work, or being employed a few hours each week or even a few hours each month.

So a homeless person living on the streets will not be counted into these stats, since most of them are not actively looking for work.

Unemployed and homeless.

So what does a living wage mean?, it means that you can live on your salary(paying your rent or mortgage, paying for your car and utilities and everything that counts into normal living).

So if your one job pays 10 dollars and hour and you work 160 hours a month, that is not even 20.000 dollars a year after some taxes have been adducted.

That means that this is not a living wage in America in 2020.

So then you need to pick up another job for 10 dollars an hour, with another workload of 160h a month.

Store.

So now you are working 16h days 5 days a week to make 40.000 dollars a year.

And maybe you even need to pick up a weekend job with another 70-80 hours a month to get up to 55.000 dollars pre tax.

So what people are not understanding to read between the lines of these numbers that many Americas are working themselves into early retirement by burning themselves out by working way to much.

And missing so much time with their families when both parents are trying to keep a roof over the children’s head and put food on the table.

You can work 16 hours days for 15-20 years when you are younger, but it will take a Toll on you when you get older, no doubt about that.

So we have a huge underlying problem with millions of Americans who have to work anywhere from 2-4 jobs to get themselves a living wage.

We are seeing that the labor market has exploded since the 2008 financial crisis, that these minimum wage jobs and jobs with no benefits what so ever have become the new norm in a lot of trades.

So what happen after the financial crisis back in 2008 that actually was lingering for another 6 years after up to around 2014, we saw that companies that had laid of people making 80.000 dollars a year in 2008, was re-hiring at a level of close to half the pay for the same job a few years later.

And basically the workers got stripped of almost all benefits when they got re-hired again back to into their old job, doing the exact same thing for less than half of their old pay.

So this is one way that a big part of the middle class in the US became working class, just inside a few years between 2008-2014.

So why do people accept to work in 2020 for half the pay they had in 2008 and prior to the financial crisis of 2008-2014?.

This one is quit simple actually, they have no choice they are stuck in the rat trap.

They have a mortgage to pay that was often taken out in the good years before 2008 and if they where able to hang on to the property they have done everything in their power to keep their home and life going.

Home.

So people are sacrificing and working 2.5 times more to keep getting the same pay they had prior to 2008.

And this is why the American dream have died in many ways.

There are in many places in the US today 25% high to medium paying jobs, and then you have 75% of the jobs paying very little.

So you have a crushed middle class, that has become working class in less than 10 years.

This is why also so many families are leaving California, and going to Texas where if you make 70.000 dollars a year you can live on it.

Sanfran.

You can not live on 70.000 dollars in Los Angeles of San-Fran these days.

And now in Covid-19 times there is most likely 55%+ of the workforce that can not make a living wage in America.

So when you hear politicians say we have record low unemployment today, rather ask them how many of the employed people can actually make a living wage from their ONE job!.

The politicians do not like getting that question.

Now some people will say this is the capitalistic world, deal with it, we believe that if you work a full time position in the US regardless of the job you are doing, you should be able to make a basic living on that ONE JOB.

And if you can not, then the system is broken!.

Take care out there.

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Investing in a College degree in 2021?.

So this is one of those million dollar questions many of our clients that are parents, are thinking of daily when they have teenagers who soon will go off to college, either state schools or private institutions.

The big question is this!, is it worth the money to send my child to a state school for 25.000 dollars a year, or a private for profit school that costs 40.000+ a year for up to 4 years.

So we see that text books have gone up 800% in 40 years time and the medium wage when taking inflation into consideration has gone up 200%.

So the cost of going off to college in the US in 2021 is just insane.

College.

We can see from stats in the past that it has paid off to go to college up to around the 2010, but after the financial crisis in 2008-2011, we can see that the majority of the college graduates from the year 2008-2012 are making less than 40.000 USD a year.

So in the past we saw that a college degree gave you on an average 30.000 USD more per working year from the age of 32 until your retired compared if you only had GED or a high-school diploma.

This has not been the case since 2010, so 2004 was the last year it actually was worth the money taking a business or a law degree, because a lot of jobs got lost in the financial crisis and they never came back!.

So here we have to figure out what the future holds for coming college student.

The scary thing right now is that for profit colleges have switched their teaching into the online format, but are not offering any discounts towards the student.

So it is scary that for profit schools like IVY league schools like Stanford, Columbia, Harvard, Yale and many others that have anywhere from 10 to 49 billion dollars in assets will not even lower the tuition cost by half for online learning in a the worst pandemic since 1918 so over 100 years.

So the greed that the for profit schools are showing in this crisis, is just borderline ridiculous to us normal business people.

I debt student.

So from a business standpoint, as business advisers we would not send kids to college in the next 5 years time.

Rather get them into the workforce by different apprentice programs.

If you can have your kid living for free at home for a few years and let them learn a trade profession that would be the best option for families that does not have a lot of money put aside for higher education, and where the student needs to take on high interest loans with a long-term payment plan.

The one exception would be going to MED SCHOOL to become a doctor of some kind.

Hospital.

But a business or a law degree, not to speak about any kind of art degree will not help you land a proper job these days.

Digging yourself into a 100.000 USD debt at the age of 24 knowing that the average salary is 40.000 or less per year as a college graduate is scary regardless of what financial parameters we would be looking at to justify that debt ratio to income.

So the best advice would be to hold off on higher learing, speciallt if you do not have a full college fund that will give you a full debt free ride for 4 years.

Or if you can get scholarships and grants to cover 75% or more of these four years of higher learning.

If you are one of the lucky ones that you have a full college fund waiting for you, do not waist that opportunity on studying something that you have no chance of making a living on in the future.

So if we are goanna recommend a few programs to read that would be nursing ,dentist, doctor and something to do with mental health since we are goanna need a lot of mental help in the world, once the worst of this COVID-19 crisis is somewhat over in the end of next year 2021 or early 2022.

So sorry to burst some bubbles , but right now unless you are picking the right program or you are one of the lucky ones with a college fund, put off college for a few years.

Many plumbers are looking for apprentices since the average age of a plumber is high in the US.

And you can make 120.000 USD a year, as a plumber if you are willing to go out on emergency calls in the evenings, on weekends and even night time.

Where you can easily charge 100-200 dollars an hour.

If you start to work as a plumber, try and find work in an affluent area where the plumbing prices are higher than in low income neighborhoods.

Plumbing.

So if you do not want to go into debt and you are willing to learn a trade and work a full days of hard work with your body, you can avoid going into debt and you can also live a good life.

There is always that option that you go to college when you are 30 years of age and you have worked for a good 10 years time and saved up money so you do not have to go into debt.

There are a few upsides to going to college at the age of 30 and that is that you are (hopefully) more mature and you do not waist your time on parties and young adult bullshit , when the cost is 25-45.000 dollars a year to attend.

It is very difficult to have that conversation with a 18-20 Year olds, due to that the brain is not fully developed until around 27 years of age.

So you parents that keep emailing on this topic for next year or for the next few years, here is our answer to that question.

Debt kills happiness!.

It very much comes down to the dollar, can you do it without student loans and other debts.

So take care out there.

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