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Good morning I hope that everyone is ready to make money today.. I got to thinking a lot about how global trade effects America versus our foreign competition. I know you think this means I am going to rant on some tangent about our competition. Truth is our foreign competition mostly is beating us at our own game in all the markets worldwide. Trade is a hot button issue which is important to every business no matter how big or small you are in the pond. The problem is that our competition is beating us by production of cheaper products that they are flooding the market with all them worldwide. OK. You say well it's alright that China combined with Europe have a sizeable lead but we make good products that the world wants to buy. This is the problem we have not figured out how to market our products that will compete with these powerful trade pacts and countries like China and Germany. My thought is we need to rethink how we market our products with a clear message to our customers worldwide showing them the advantages of buying American. If you do make quality products which we definately do that here in America then your buyers shouldn't be buying from your competition. When we can as American business fix this problem so that cheaper products made in China,Malaysia and Germany don't beat our products on the world markets. I think then we will begin to end the massive trade deficit and imbalance that currently exits which is hurting our economy.

Market Predictions

Good morning to all my faithful readers of this blog. Well I hooked another anonymous scoop this day which I want to share with you. You see I am a research fanatic when it involves both business and investment. This time I pulled off a really interesting find when looking over the chart data this morning.. Most of the best financial gurus missed this one by a long shot but I found it. So here it is while the market is on a rocket ship ride past 14 thousand and could go much higher this year. The little known thing I found shows a very steep drop coming before mid year of June. So while it is great to ride the wave of green in your portfolio you better have a bottle of tums soon because the market is going do a reverse course correction. Many investors are going to get hurt by this crash when it hits a bottom of about 500 points.. This is not a flash crash but instead a permanent correction in the market due to poor home sales,weakness in the economy and climbing interest rates. So just invest in a broad range of both stocks and bonds that will weather this kind of market correction. By doing this you will limit your market risk which you need to do so you bullet proof your portfolio and your current investments..

Work Break

This is the most emotional for your employees the three mandatory half hour break times every day. The thing that really as a employer you can do to improvement of this time useage is to offer more options. You see any smart business man knows that in order to keep employees happy you have to add more benefits.These benefits can be a video game system,free lunch and other things that will increase employee loyalty. Giving never hurts when your trying to build a business and your employees are a important part of your business just as much as your customers. So the next time your management teams comes to you to say you need to make changes think about addition of some of these corporate important improvements.

News Channel ..

Yup, it is your financial guru and resident critical tactical business analyst. I just want to rave this morning over my newest ventures with my news channel. You see I have done it again a empire builder.. Oh No!! I can hear the criticism already from other business people and Wall Street investment analysts. You see I have quietly been creating a global news service which is growing in popularity. The facts speaks for themselves according to social media and Google demographic data which I track regularly. Norton News Corporation is on track to become a mainstream media outlet ..Yes, you heard me right this is a global news and information service that will eventually compete with the regular giants like CNN,Fox,ABC etc. Sounds really great to achieve this but I have been building corporate America for most of my life. This is a challenge for me to do with so many good sources of news out there but this is something I want to be offering on a global scale.. So, this year I started this news service to provide just that to a global educated audience..

Stock Market Upswing ..

Good morning to all you early birds it is the fearless critic here.  Has anyone seen the run the stock market made this week? Well it sure is impressive to run up 200 to 300 points gain and maintain that momentum all week. Normally you might get this kind of run following a sharp decline which would be a flash run up or down course corresponding to the way the market correction. This is different this week with a boat load of good economic data. You combine this with the news from the Federal Reserve bank that they are going to cut the discount rate a half a percentage point. The third part that has added more good to the economy is the news from the chairman that they are going to print and pump more money into the economic system. This has fueled Wall Street investors to buy heavy into the market this week. Normally investment gurus like myself are sceptical about the market based on long term experience. This time I have to say I am pleased with the upswing which gives plenty of opportunity to make money if you are investing in blue chips and staying away from bonds. Buying into solutions in stocks that are considered solid proformers like Boeing and Verizon is a wise choice. So, I recommend that everyone jump into the market and go make yourself some quick easy profits this week while the upswing rally continues..
Have a great profitable day.

Support People

I frequently harp on important issues here that are something that most business people don't pay attention to while being a corporate guru. You see in business good people make you money and bad people cost you lots of money when you employ them. So the backbone of any good business is your support people who do marketing,sales,tech and customer service. Yes, every good owner or manager knows that if you want to grow a successful business you need a highly skilled and trained support workforce. This unfortunately is where most companies fail to recognize that you need these types of people. You should as a management promote these types of people since the best possible future chief of operations or another type position would best be filled with a lower level with higher technical expertise. By using skilled workers you increase your productivity but reduce your overall costs of doing business. So does it work?? Yes, you need to tap your labor pool to find out who can do what within your company. A good start to finding out your companies strength is by using a internal survey distribution to all your employees. If you can't do that ask them on social media to respond to a employees survey online. You need to know these items so that you can make a proper management decision with every employee you have working for you. Simply put the support people will grow your business meanwhile costing you less than if you have to train some new outstander. Then the decision becomes easy to make with regarding who is a right fit for your company and what employees are just excess bags.. Think of these things next time you walk past the employees in your business doing your employees review process..

Milestone ..

Well I could be happy with a lot of things but I really have to rave about this blog has achieved another milestone. Yup your hearing me right I just looked at the profile report this morning and I must say thanks to all growing world wide readership. This blog averaged readership is 43 counties and growing give or take some depending on the needs of the massive amount of people that come to read this blog.page. Not to shabby considering that I started this blog because one of my former women business assistants in my company suggested that I should share some knowledge online. In my usual fashion I said well that sounds interesting but I don't think I have the time nor the patience to sit down to write anything. Well,here it is now that she proved me wrong with this blog by the interest that everyone has shown over it's  life cycle. I want to publicly thank Cassady Hurd and Karen Brownelle both my former business assistants for their valuable input with our company. Their contribution to the ideas of creative blogging have definitely shown a need by our company to include blogging as a essential part of our brand management. So congratulations to both of them and good luck on all your new ventures.

The President and CEO

Business Phyco graphics

This morning I starting my day with the usually busy things to get done including sipping my morning coffee. Then it hit me I thought not many things in business really deal with the phyco graphics issue which really has a big important impact on customers purchasing a products or services. Well, what is phyco graphics? Good Question ... It is the collection of different emotional thoughts and responses to a various amount of data collection pertaining to a product or service. In other words if you buddy tells you that when your going to buy a car for instance he has a good deal and no problems with his Chevrolet Malibu. Chances are your going to go out to a Chevrolet Dealer to look at all the different models available for sale on the show room floor.. Then your going to remember the comments of your buddy and go ask the sales person to sit in a Chevrolet Malibu. After looking around at all the other manufacturers and models of cars your most likely to go back and buy the Chevrolet Malibu because it has a reputation for being a good car and higher brand value than say a Toyota Camry. This is a example of brand based customer phyco graphics in which the feeling of a person,family and friends influences every purchase they make in their lifetime. Every business must include this in any marketing program to create a brand that well known for value,quality and being  affordable to the customer. This is essential to building a brand that will sell itself by having a long term product or service life cycle. Simply put if your brand is well known for to the prospective customer for being worth the money chances are the customer will buy your product over and over again meanwhile recommending it to others to purchase it. This reduces your advertising and marketing budget in your business by having a brand that is known for as good investment.. Consider this to be essential to growth in any business for your company to beat your competition by knowledge of your customers demographics and phyco graphics.

Have a great day..

Business politics

I my usual fashion of trying to bring the truth to both business and investment worlds I sometimes have to add a new ideas to everything. Today is one of those days where I am going to tackle the other side of what business and investment van do to help.the community. So here is all the bananas in a one boat load for you to think of at the same time. LOL .. OK .. To do business and investment means that you make money which makes everyone happy and successful. However the downside of what most business and investment people do is be greedy so they never turn to helping the community that made them wealthy. I know your thinking here dude that is not true most business and investors give back through charity contributions to their community. The unfamiliar truth to most people is that greed runs high in the growing amount of people with financial wealth. In fact the people surprisingly who give the least to help the community is one top ten percent of the worlds most financially successful people. So giving to the community and charity organizations is good as a investment and great public relations for your business. In fact by giving to the community you reduce your marketing and communications by giving your business a good name for the giving it does to support the community. Consider this the next best marketing tool when your sales and marketing department tryouts new ideas to lure in new customers to your business
Have a great day..

Market Gain

I often like to poke fun at the pundits most of them are very critical of my market analysis. Today I think I will just point out something that is beginning to be a narrow but important trend in investimg. You see while a lot of the big guys who are institutional investors are ingnoring the facts while some smaller guys are making big gains by buying alternative energy stocks and bonds. Yup, that's right while most of the herd guzzles down expensive technology stocks some smart guys are putting their money into green energy. I will be the first one to say that while it is not attractive looking part of the market compared to say big technology stocks like IBM and Cisco but it sure does make a lot of money. You see that even some big names like Warren Buffet have started to really realize that you have to look for new investments. This is the right place to invest your money so that you make a consistent profit even if it becomes a bear market. That is the beautiful part of this that no matter which way the market goes up or down your still a winner. Why?? Well Green energy is the present and is here to stay including more users and technology that is being put into use every day. So with that thought in mind it is a solid investment that will continue to grow with more products,producers and higher demand for total consumption with this industry.

Happy investimg and have a great day.

Stock Futures

Good morning my fair weather robbins I hope your day is a gourmet breakfast feast with plans to.make money. As you know I am the fearless investment guru who pulls the punches on high volume investments on the market daily. Today I thought I would share something with all my readership about making money on stock futures.Yup it sounds silly to think that you as a investor can bet and hedge on future things on the market but hold your britches up because you really can do it. I know your already muttering to yourself saying I am nuts that for certain this time I have lost my mind. Just a minute there party of readers while I pause to sip my morning Java boy does that taste good today. OK .. Here's the thing guys and gals you can make money on futures with a not so well known instrument called ETF (Exchange Trading Funds) which has just as much value as the physical stock or bond but without the bear risk involved. I am not saying that it is bullet proof from market swinging but as a short term investment vehicle it beats the market by about a five to one margin reliablility. Not to shabby for just owning a piece of paper that can be bought and sold many times in almost assured your going to make double or triple your original investment back in a short time. What I am saying is if you want to make money on the market you need to reduce your hyper inflation risk so you increase your portfolio instead of losing your shirt. To the small investor this is really important since capital investment is usually small so it is easy to lose it all in a bear market or with market flash crashes which sometimes happens even to the wisest investors. It is important to know when to invest but you need to know what is good investments in the market with a large volume of choices to pick from stocks,bonds,ETF,mutual funds and the lists continues. So be a contrarian by buying into solutions that group your portfolio into a winning combination of a broad spectrum of investments so you keep your risk low. If you do this your going to.make money on your portfolio by consistantly beating the market no matter how much bear or bull swing your faced with daily..  Have a great day now..Smile ....

Unintentional Absence..

I just want to post to here to apologize for.my absence from regular posting to.this blog but due to management of lots of new projects at the same time I have not posted to this blog recently. Sometimes other things get in the way of keeping up with this blog so I am just a very busy person. However I am going to change the posting schedule so that it does post important things using the auto post option on this blog. Many readers over the years have comment statements suggesting that I should consider additional media output through useable networks. I have to some degree done that with this blog but not done all of it to current date. In between my busy schedule I will began to add these new networks to increase the function of this blog. Hopefully everyone will have a positive response to the new changes that I am making which reflects the comments as you the readers of this blog. I tip my glass in toast to you as my readership of this blog with a big smile to have a really great day.

Business and Life Lessons..

Well, I thought I would share some valuable lessons about being a business man including some valuable life lessons that I have learned from when I lost everything in later part of 2010 going bankrupt. I have to say that looking back about two years ago I made some bad company decisions including investments in the stock market that all lead me to fail and have to reorganize my business ventures and how I invest money. That is how you learn is from your mistakes which is very painful to do and by using a different plan for rebuilding your businesses and portfolios by never making the same mistakes again. I look at some examples of corporate failures turned into a larger success like Donald Trump who went 440 million dollars in the red and lost everything only to have the clothes on his back after all the creditors got finished with him. While my mistakes as a Executive have not been as bad as Donald Trump and many others who have hit bottom their is one thing you learn from Donal Trump and my own mistakes is to get back up and go start something new with a new larger plan to gain back all you lost. I know it sounds absurd but really if you think about it you can really turn everything around if you already have the knowledge and the skills to do it plus having the contacts in a network to accomplish it. If your a good manager you know how to turn failure into success and success into a conglomerate company because you have already learned from your prior mistakes and made the changes to fix the problems. So this is what I have done with our businesses is to make the changes that are needed and go after a aggressive corporate strategy to grow our businesses into the global conglomerate which is what we are becoming as of now from our reorganization of two years ago. The future has changed for our business in the fact we have put in place many new people and technology that will continue our vision of growing a global conglomerate business that will compete in the 21 century with other multi national and international brand names. So looking forward to the future of our brand we hope to make it a well known name that is based on quality and diversity of products including services that will make us the preferred choice of all consumers world wide. So sharing with everyone some of our global vision to hopefully to become a greater partner in business development including the global community with lots of new ideas,products and services that will put us as the recognized leader in the world. So this is what we are all about in our businesses and our plan on continuing to expand our broader base of business in the world today with all the future of our businesses.. One day in the future we hope to be a trusted brand that is like Wal Mart,McDonalds, Starbucks,Shell Oil like so many others that no matter were you go everyone will knows us and use our product and services, this is what we hope to achieve.

Have a Great Day!!

Blog Changes Today..

Hello everyone I just added many new options to this blog and updated the blog to fix outdated stuff that no longer works..

John Norton

My News Business

Norton News Corporation

I would like to introduce all my business readers to my new Global News Channel as I finally decided to do this after many close business associates and friends convinced me that I should create a company that will compete with the mainstream sources like CNN,ABC,NBC,CBS,FOX NEWS etc. ... This will become a branded company offers a effective alternative to the current media outlets and will eventually serve in the future the entire planet earth including America. This company that I just started 30 days ago is providing current news and opinion stories that effect and shape the world we all live in today. So it is my pleasure to announce this news channel and it's growing important status to become what I hope will eventually serve as a global brand for accurate and reliable journalism delivered in a timely manner worldwide. You can read now the blog and be connected to it on most social media such as FACEBOOK,TWITTER, BLOGGER,TUMBLR,OAKURT,PINTEREST,GOOGLE,YOUTUBE and soon it will be a dot.com web site that will serve the entire planet including America. This is just the beginning of this new company with a ambitious plan to make this a mainstream news source that will beat the competition with a better brand and more interesting diverse items of interest..

BLOG- http://nortonnewsco.blogspot.com
(Nortonnewsco) on social media listed above...

EMAIL- nortonnews63@gmail.com

Blog Hits Milestone..

Hello to all my readership well this is really awesome to report that this blog has hit a new milestone now with over 10,000 readers total in just a short amount of time. I never thought that this would ever happen in my wildest dreams but I just looked at the new stats and sure enough it is really showing that is how much this blog has accomplished in such a short time. So with my profound thanks to all my readership worldwide I wish to thanks everyone for their participation and continued support in this business blog..

John Norton

Global Sales

Well it is a touchy subject that not every company wants to tackle how do you sell on a global scale. Most people in business think that your gain your customers through aggressive local based sales tactics that is all good but that misses the great profit potential that is available to grab out there in the world today. A global sales and marketimg program will achieve more for your business than a tunnel vision local programs. Simply stated if your going to be marketing your products or services you had better be proactive in using your resources to achieve a greater customer base by targeted marketing and sales to a various wider customer base in which you spread your brand in a global market. If your a good executive or marketer then you already hopefully know the potential your going to gain by doing a strategy such as what I am talking about here. Now a days business has to be more flexible in order to compete in a global networked world that is more depending on technology and human infrastructure that at any time in previous history. You know that as a mid size or large scale business your company has to control the competition by one updated strategy which is do everything bigger and better than your competitors do. Be really good at pointing this out to your marketing and sales departments so your company keeps it edge with a global view allways.

Thanksgiving..

I just want to wish everyone a very happy Thanksgiving and hopefully everyone is spending it with your family and friends today..

Business Attorney

Well any good business can not do with a good attorney to sift through all the mountains of red government tape and papers that have to be filed every year. In this every changing world of the mode of business you need a person who can take the load off key personnel. So having a full time attorney that works on behalf of your business is very valuable since it makes your business run smoothly. If you want to be a successful business you have to pay the price for good help to accomplish your business goals.

Hurricane Profits

Good morning,
I know that everyone is focused on the election today so I am just going against the tide here. Has anyone stopped to think of the financial benefits to a large natural disaster such as hurricane Sandy? I know that I have with all my businesses that I own how much money is going begging. Quite simply stated anyone with long term business experience can and should see the potential profits that are for needed products and services. You don't have to be a five star Harvard economic guru to tap into the money tree that is the end results of this hurricane. Yes, sure I feel really bad for all the victims of this hurricane but I am also a business man by trade. So in my zest to smell out the next big money making idea or place to investment our company resources I allways am going against the gurus and the herd. I have built my conglomerate businesses on never following what others do which is why I have succeeded while others flopped. So on to the ideas here about making money with this new pot of gold called hurricane Sandy. First thing is to realize that all these products and services are in high demand. Then developing a ambitious detailed plan to filling the customers needs which are multitudes of needs that they have. The next thing is to get out there and start filling those needs before everyone else jumps in on the band wagon. You got to be the one business conglomerate that steps forward to do everything while others just sit on there comfortable executive chair debating what to do. Lets face it folks if your lazy the others who are your competition will profit over your mistakes. So being number one in business takes a lot of guts and zeal to keep your competition from eating you for breakfast. The best thing with this pot of gold opportunity is to just make your plan and go after it. Some piece of important business wisdom in another day of a large scale national disaster called hurricane Sandy.

Have a great day...