Question by Mathe D: is this resume / cv ok? good? bad?
PROFILE

A dynamic highly-motivated, confident and ambitious SALES REPRESENTATIVE with excellent people-skills and genuine interest in the customers well-being.
Infects those around him with enthusiasm for work and challenges.
Articulate and energetic communicator with great listening skills and deep personal interest in the customer.
EDUCATION

European School of Economics, London, 2006-2007
Goethe Gymnasium, Vienna, 1998-2006
Volkschule Mondweg, Vienna, 1994-1998
WORK EXPERIENCE

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Article by James Klobasa

When you plan to short sale a mortgage, it means you want the bank to accept an amount less than what is owed as payment in full. However, performing a successful short sale is not as simple as it looks. You must put your best negotiation skills at work so that you could persuade the bank to accept your offer. Awkward attempts to short sell will mean losing the real estate investing deal and your proposal will get rejected. In fact, there are two main components that determine your success in the short sale – first, how prepared you are, and the second, how much control you have over the homeowner and the deal. You must work out an effective game plan while you are submitting your offers. You need to be equipped with the necessary tools so that you could turn the ‘NO’ of the bank into ‘Yes’. Consider the following factors in order to make your game plan strong and to ensure your success.

Judging The Profit Potentiality Of The DealYou must be efficient enough to analyze and judge the profit potentiality of the short sale deal. Only then, will you be able to succeed in your real estate investing game plan. You must understand that not all deals are good short sale opportunities. For example, homeowners facing foreclosure should not attempt at this deal. Before you decide to proceed, analyze the deal and review the property thoroughly. For example, how much will you need to spend for the repair of the short sale property; whether you will be able to find a potential customer for the same.

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Article by Roy Primm

How to negotiate under any circumstances can work to give you financial confidence. But learning this valuable skill in a recession can make the difference between success or failure. In fact, your skill at negotiating can affect every area of your business, career or personal life.

Contrary to most people’s belief, negotiation skills don’t always come naturally. The good news is you can develop them and improve them with practice and following the simple information in this article. The skill to negotiate becomes more important as the economy tightens or slows down.

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Article by Casey Trillbar

Good sales copy is essential for anyone who wants to turn their site into a money making machine that will provide the returns that you are looking for. You need to be able to not only explain your site, company, products and services in written form if you have a website, but you also need to do these things in ways that attract positive attention and interest. Just as television commercials use phrases and words that describe products they are selling, sales copy has the same effect over online marketing techniques.

The most difficult thing about creating good sales copy is the actual writing itself. The tone, content, sales highlights and nature of your business should all be included in every copy you write, and not that many web-based business owners have this particular knack. In fact, there are literally thousands upon thousands of writers online who specifically work on these types of projects, and they are services are not that expensive to retain and use on a regular basis.

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Article by Britney Smith

The first photographers would never have believed that taking photographs would one day be a popular past time. The camera the first photographers were bore little resemblance to the sleek digital camera’s we depend on today. The first known cameras were constructed out of large boxes that were about the same size and shape as a coffin. The techniques used to get a decent picture from these cumbersome cameras were radically different from the digital photography techniques we use today.

Know Your Camera

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Article by Terry Wygal

One of the most thriving industries in the world is the Real Estate industry. It opens new avenues of success as it caters more opportunities for would-be real estate investors. With the current economic conditions in the housing market there is a great deal of investors who are interested in the technique of purchasing investment property with Short Sales. So if you are aiming to invest and would want to make a name in the real estate market, it is necessary for you to know about the short sale strategy. But what is a short sale and what makes it not only a win-win but a win-win-win strategy in real estate investing?

In real estate and in simple terms, a short sale is when a bank or mortgage lender agrees to rebate a loan balance due to an economic or financial difficulties on the mortgager’s part. Banks will oftentimes allow a short sale if they think that it will result in a lower financial loss rather than foreclosing a property or having to resort to foreclosure. The home owner or the debtor passes out the mortgaged property for less than an owed balance of the loan, and gives the proceeds of the sale to the lender in full satisfaction of the debt. In such cases, the lender would have the right to approve or reject a proposed sale. In short, a short sale is nothing more than negotiating with lien holders a payoff for less than what they are owed, or rather a sale of a debt, generally on a piece of real estate, short of the full debt amount.

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Article by Jeff Beals

If you ask any historian to name the greatest leaders in western civilization, there’s a good chance the 16th president of the United States will make the list. He willed his country to victory in the gut-wrenching Civil War, issued the Emancipation Proclamation and facilitated the eventual ratification of the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery.

A number of traits contributed to Abraham Lincoln’s greatness. He possessed a brilliant intellect. He had an uncommon amount of common sense. He was a thinker, someone who philosophically examined the world and crafted a rationalized set of personal beliefs by which he steadfastly lived.

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