Black Friday was a huge hit for online retailers – sales rose 26% over last year. Brick-and-mortar stores, meanwhile, lost badly. How do we know that? Because Black Friday sales, overall, were up only 6% from last year. Somebody whiffed and dragged the average down. It wasn’t the online guys…READ MORE. My Take: A very good article in conveying a point that is often lost in discussion…When we hear a statistic through out about X
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The following piece originally appeared in The Market Capitalist Newsletter. How will I become wealthy? (In terms of dollars.) For most of us achieving a certain level of wealth is a highly held goal. All too often though the goal is not thought of in terms of what I can control today, but instead in terms of what I will earn tomorrow. The thought process can be described as follows, “A future when I make
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With tighter inventories and fewer late-season sales expected this year, many shoppers aren’t waiting for new deals to come around, say experts. Indeed, more people started their shopping earlier this year to snap up sales: By late October, the National Retail Federation estimates that nearly 40% of shoppers will have already started their shopping. That’s 2 percentage points more than last year’s rate, a figure the industry group says has barely budged in years…READ MORE.
What you will find inside… Perspective & an investment play on the worlds growing need for food. An updated model investment portfolio. Discussion about American Tower Corps recent appreciation in the wake of a weak market. A perspective and guide regarding what you need to start doing today if you are serious about becoming wealthy. November 8, 2011 Newsletter
The rule of thumb for TV is that you get about $1 per hour per viewer in revenue. A hot show like “NCIS” may have a minimum of 10 million viewers, which gives it an overall budget of $10 million or so per episode. At some point, the networks are going to have to bite the bullet and get that $1 per viewer directly from audiences. Would I pay $1 a week to watch “NCIS”?
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