Career Change Newsletter
20-07-2007 - Google Recommended Products
Tips for successful Google product referrals:
Actively endorse the Google endorsed products you refer. I guess they want me to say that Google products are great. I will say that Google has captured the attention of the world. Hard to believe that a company that sounds like it was name by a baby is so profitable.
Unlike with AdSense for content ads, we encourage you to endorse referral products by calling attention to the button or text link. So if the Google products look appealing to you to try, click on the Google product buttons to see if they are useful to you.
If you believe in the quality of the product that you're referring, feel free to let your users know! It seems they want to latch onto my prestige and ride the coat tails of my success. It it will help them make a few more billion dollars, I give them permission to associate their products with me.
Of course, in line with our policies, you may not click your own ads nor encourage conversions for deceitful reasons. So I will not be deceifful in telling you that if you click on the Google products advertisements, I make money. But for you to click more than once is where I get in trouble.
Onward with purpose,
Chaplain Paul Slater
23-06-2007 - Loyalty To A Woodworking Tool Company
Say woodworking tools and immediately Rockler woodworking tools comes to mind for the devoted woodworking enthusiast. Read Change Career Articles
23-06-2007 - Rockler Woodworking Tools I Recognize, Loyalty Lab I Don't
Let me explain what I mean when I say "Rockler Woodworking Tools I Recognize, Loyalty Lab I Don't". Today I received an email that was labeled as spam because it came from an unrecognized source. Afterall, that is what good spam filter is for.
More Summer Clearance Sizzlers! was the subject title of an email I received. I could see that the email was from " class="entrylink" TARGET="_blank">Rockler Woodworking and Hardware.
But the problem was that the sender was identified as coming from an unknown source my email program flagged as potential spam.
At first I was tempted to identify the woodworking tool sale announcement as spam but got to wondering just who Loyalty Lab was. Afterall, the mailing looked like those I have received from Rockler but had all the signs of being spam.
For some reason, I decided to search out just who Loyalty Lab was and what their relationship was to one of my favorite woodworking supply companies, Rocker. Read more to see what I discovered. . .
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22-04-2007 - Chase Finance Mortgage Offers Or Let Them Find You
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With mortgage refinance offers like that, it is time to get serious about refinancing our present adjustable rate mortgage.
I will say that there is no need to chase home finance mortgage offers -- they come to us. Mortgage brokers call us. The other day I received a large envelope from Citi Financial, quite impressive I must say, compared to the many flimsy cards offering to refinance our mortgage.
These are challenging financial times for many in the mortgage industry in some parts of the country. Fortunately mortgage rates are low, for which we are thankful. The problem for many is not the mortgage rate but the appraised value of the home.
I wonder if that Citi Bank mortgage offer takes into account the fact that we bought our home at the height of the real estate surge in San Diego and there exists the possibility that we owe more than what the home will appraise for.
Many financially strapped home owners are facing foreclosure in San Diego, especially those who bought condos. One of my co-workers shared that her condo recently appraised for $90,000 less than she bought it for.
So, besides the 8 to 10 mortgage flyers we receive each week in the mail, there are now offers for what is called a short sale, whereby realtors work with lenders and financial advisors, offering to sell the home for less than what is owing on the home mortgage, with the mortgage lenders agreeing to take whatever the house sells for as full payment of the mortgaged amount owed.
Careers in the financial sector are also affected by all of these financial factors. Yet that is the nature of the real estate market over the years. In our Southern California real estate market, some mortgage brokers are doing well, while other lenders are suffering tough times with sinking real estate values.
As one of my real estate investor friends told me, "Some buy homes when prices are high and then sell when prices are low, but they try to make it up in volume." Of course, he was being facetious, trying to make me laugh in these tough financial times. Sure beats crying.
Onward with purpose,
Chaplain Paul Slater
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08-04-2007 - Resurrection Leads To Change of Career
Change of Career Is Living Illustration Of Resurrection Power
The central message of the Christian faith is resurrection, to bring back to life again. A change of career is an example of career resurrection, allowing God to bring back to life your career hopes and dreams.
Changing Career Means Experiencing A Breath Of New Life Into Your Employment Situation
For those thinking of changing career status, the Christian message of Resurrection Power gives you a new powerful perspective on your change of career.
The same power that raised Jesus from the dead is available for people of faith in more than the spiritual arena of life. Primary to the message of resurrection is that the Living Christ offers each one of us peace with God, bringing us into right relationship with God through faith in Christ as the resurrected Son of God.
Career Change With Purpose Reflects God's Resurrection Power In Your Vocation
The best career change advice I can give is to invite Christ to be your savior, fulfilling the purpose Christ came to our broken world. The second best career advice is to allow Christ to be Lord of your life -- your relationships, your ethics and values, and your career choice.
May your change of career be infused with the resurrection power of God.
Onward with purpose,
Chaplain Paul Slater
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27-03-2007 - The Refinance Merry-go-round
Refinancing is a challenge in that there are certain steps that need to be taken to get the refinancing ball rolling.
First of all, we need to get our income taxes done so that we have the proper paperwork to hand in with our loan application. TurboTax has been my product of choice for doing our taxes for over 10 years.
Of course, we want to look our best or at least have our house look its best when the appraisal is done. That means all kinds of unfinished projects to complete. Phew, refinancing takes a lot of work.
In the process, we are converting our garage to living space. Garage conversions may or may not add value to the appraisal according to a friend, who is a professional appraiser. Our garage conversion project is to simply make a space for our son to land until he gets on his feet financially.
The timeclock is clicking on our original mortgage, an ARM or adjustable rate mortgage due to be adjusted up in a few months. The prepayment penalty has us watching the timing closely.
So the refinancing merry-go-round keeps us spinning from one activity to the other. Yep, refinancing is hard work.
Onward with purpose,
Chaplain Paul Slater
22-03-2007 - The Business Of Life Coaching...
A recent article I wrote focuses on steps to becoming a life coach featuring the business of life coaching and career coaching. Those who offer life coach courses, write life coaching courses, or provide life coaching training as their professional career are actually in what is called the life coaching industry. I thought that was what parents did.
Pastors and teachers are certainly life coaches. But that there is actually a career field dedicated to mentoring people in life and career choices.
In the article I wrote about becoming a life coach, I mention a life coaching advertisement that I responded to as I was researching the life coaching career field:
Become a Life Coach: Offer life coach courses, life coaching courses, and life coaching training in your own lucrative coaching business:
- Career Coaching
- Business Coaching
- Health Coaching
- Spiritual Life Coaching
- and much more
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