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Top Three Recession Proof Businesses

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If you are experiencing financial difficulties, you really should not feel so down. Just think that everyone else is undergoing the same problem. What is more important is not to focus on how bad the situation is but instead, devote your energy to finding a solution to your problems.

What businesses can possibly withstand this difficult time during the time of recession? Here are the top three businesses that can still survive the difficult financial crisis brought about by recession.

First is the food and beverage business. Even if people are having difficulty on their finances, it is just impossible to skip on the primary needs which are food and beverages. The most likely scenario is that families and individuals who are tight on budget would spend less for other things like, clothes, travels, jewelries and accessories, so they can still have enough money for food. So, food and beverage business is something that will not be badly hit by recession.

Second is health care. Whether the economy is in progress or not, healthcare is something that is inevitable for most people. It is imperative to put our health among the priorities. When people get sick, they would always resort to consulting the experts and people who are most knowledgeable in the field. This is also not just limited to the doctors and physicians because the health care service includes the other sectors of the industry like health assistants, nurses and others.

Third is the repair service. There is just no end to the things that have to be repaired whether inside the house, offices or other venues. Regardless of economic or financial struggle, clogged sinks, car break down, electronics repair and even carpentry is just unstoppable. Oftentimes, people just delay having to call Mr. Repairman but there will come a point when they just do not have a choice but call and have things repaired. Others would even attempt to fix it themselves but will just end up calling the expert.

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How to Make Money Online in 2010 - Beat the Recession by Generating an Income Online

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Now more than ever people are looking for ways and means to generate a supplemental income. The recession is on everyone and it is sometimes hard to make ends meet. The internet is the way out for most people. But how do you make money online in 2010? Read on to find out more!

There are a number of ways to make money online. We are so fortunate to be in an era where you can make money in so many ways. The problem is often having too many choices than far too many. What this has caused is far too many distractions to make us less productive.

To make money online in 2010, you should first decide on your business model. Make sure that the business model is to your strength. Are you good at writing? Is video marketing your passion? Do you rock in creating website design? Then it is just a matter of finding the clients who are in need of these services and scaling it up.

Form a team of professionals or hire folks who are good at what you do and act as a project manager. Once you have a team of good professionals it is just a matter of scaling it up.

Create information products: Creating information products is not as difficult as people make it out to be. Don't restrict your imagination to writing ebooks, you can create audio products, video products, home study courses, teleseminars, workshops etc.

Offline marketing: You can take your Internet Marketing skills and take it offline to attract local businesses. Every business needs prospects and customers. You can offer services like website design, auto responder series, writing etc to local businesses.

Alternatively you can also look into Pay per click marketing just in case you have the capital to try out different campaigns and offers. Please note that pay per click marketing can involve a steep learning curve and expenditure but when mastered properly can be a great online business model.

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Debt Relief in 2010 - How the Recession Has Made it Easier For Consumers to Settle Debts

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Some people are still unaware about debt relief in 2010. They are still requesting their credit card companies for extra time. You don't need to talk your unsecured liability firm and ask for an extra time span. It is not required. Debt relief in 2010 has made life very easy for loan takers. Do you need to fulfill any kinds of requirements to use this option? The main requirement is related to your liability amount. Your credit card bill should be equal to ten thousand dollars or more than that. If you fulfill this condition then you qualify for all the settlement options. You can go online and look for suitable legitimate companies to handle your liability issues.

Can you handle the situation yourself?

This is a question which most loan takers have in their minds. Negotiating with the bank on your own is termed as self-negotiation. In my opinion, this is not a very good option. We do not have the required technical information to communicate with the credit card firm. Apart from that, this option cannot be used in a lot of conditions. Some banks do not encourage it. Hence, try to spend some money and get a qualified consultant. You need expert help to get debt relief in 2010.

Recession is advantageous for credit card holders

If you have a look at the effects, recession has produced a positive impact for plastic money holders in the United States? How is that possible? Recession has weakened the position of money giving firms. As a result of that, loan takers have carved a stronger grip on them. To get out of the economic issues, they need to coordinate with their customers.

These companies have suffered big losses because several loan takers have not been paying their bills from months. Hence, financial companies have been running their operations without monetary sums. They cannot recover their dues without debt relief in 2010. In other words, they need to compromise with the customers.

If you are a loan taker who is worried about his dues, this is the end of your worry. Now, you can write off your dues permanently. Do you know that there are some drawbacks of debt settlement? It is applicable until the economic conditions are bad. You should know that the when the economic conditions improve, the financial industry will be in a strong position again.

Getting out of debt through a debt settlement process is currently very popular but you need to know where to locate the best performing programs in order to get the best deals. To compare debt settlement companies it would be wise to visit a free debt relief network which will locate the best performing companies in your area for free.

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Top 10 Tips To Recession Proof Your Business

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Things for some people are bad right now. Some cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel. The worst part of this, is that the government suspect the economy is about to enter a double dip recession. If that happens, there will be a dramatic effect on not only banks and large corporations, but small business and profits as well.

No matter what happens, panicking about this is simply counter productive. It is best off to be prepared in case another economic storms rolls in. That way, if catastrophe strikes you will be prepared. If nothing happens you have also lost nothing.

Here are the top 10 ways to insure you business is protected against a double dip recession:-

1) Increase the advertising of your business. Normally ad agencies become highly competitive. They have to lower their costs for clients. Take advantage of this to increase your customers and profits. Sometimes you can double your advertising and the costs remain the same. So your profits are the same, and having double exposure will increase the chances of you name getting out there.

2) Increase your cash flow by using your client base. Use 2 for 1 deals, 50% off deals, limited offers, bundled packages. Too many businesses do not realize the money is in the list of clients they already have. Go to your top 20 clients on your database and offer them something they cannot refuse.

3) Make sure you are in constant communication with your accountant. This will ensure you are not going in above your head. Know and manage your budgets and talk to them about your limits, your risks, your advantages and disadvantage.

4) Cut back on unnecessary items in your office. Do you really need that water cooler, fancy photocopier, furniture collecting dust, laptops, stationary. Always buy what you need, and stick to your budget. Many companies that buy things they don't need are just wasting money. You would be surprised at just how much these things add up to each year. If you don't need it, don't buy it. Cost saving is the goal here.

5) Create a better marketing plan. Simple things can save your money and also make you lots more. Sit down once a week and work out strategies on what you do well, what you don't do so well, and how you can perform better. Make these meeting fun, and energetic, and include all your direct employees. You will be surprised at some of the ideas you will get from these brainstorming sessions.

6) Study trends during past recessions and find out what areas of your business did well. Then focus more on pushing these areas when you advertise. When the economic dwindles, people have less money. Most smart businesses add value and keep their prices the same. That way they get more of the market share, more clients and their profits increase, whilst their competitors suffer.

7) If you do feel that customers are not committing to your products, lower your prices. This can hurt a little, but remember you still have profit targets, bills to pay, and employees to look after.

8) Network with others. Sometimes leverage is the most powerful vehicle in the business world. Lots of business is done by word of mouth now days. Find local meetings and network conventions to meet and greet others. Some of the biggest and most powerful business alliances have been formed from these events. Networking with others in your area, and business is a great way to take your business to the next level.

9) Test and measure your results. When things slow down, your results and business will change. What yo need to do is test and measure results. Test to see what is working and what is not working. Then it is simply a matter of doing more of what is working and doing less of what is not.

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Recession Proof Business Opportunity - How To Find A Recession Proof Business Opportunity

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Hi.

This is my story of why I decided to find a recession proof business opportunity. I woke up one day and read the paper. Nothing but doom and gloom about violence, the recession and more job losses. I put it down and made a decision. I was totally fed up being dictated to by other people.

I was tired of the 9 to grind ground hog day and fighting my way to work on poor inadequate transport. I had had enough of 2 days off a week and constantly being tired. I looked round at my colleagues, family and friends and realised they all looked the same as me. There and then I decided I would change my life and started looking for a recession proof business opportunity. Not only that but when I had cracked the code I was going to help others to find their recession proof business opportunity as well. Not knowing where to start I entered some words in to the search engines and started to realise how many recession proof business opportunities were available on the Internet. I didn't really want to work for anyone else and started doing surveys whereby I got paid a few dollars a time. Not difficult but for me I wanted more I wanted my time and effort to provide me with an income whereby I could eventually be my own boss and work the hours I wanted. I also wanted something I could start whilst still at work. Yes I am a bit of a coward and wanted some sort of security whilst trying out my new way of life. I found out some info and started to absorb the new things I was learning about the Internet.

I decided to start affiliate marketing as my recession proof business opportunity. I read everything I could and set up a website. As time went on I tried different things and started to take control of my life. I found my start-up costs were reasonable but there was just so much information. So I restructured my time and have carried on with my dream and being my own boss. So here is a list of the things you need to do to start: Enter the keywords "recession proof business opportunity" into Google, Yahoo, Bing or any other search engine. Here you will see lots of different ideas. I would look at the ones you can do online. This is because working on the Internet allows you freedom of working from home and also it will keep your costs down.

Next decide what you want to do, lets say for example you decide to take surveys online and get paid for them. Enter a search term like "completing surveys" into the search engine. You will find a whole list of companies who will pay you to take surveys for them. Just sign up with the ones you want to and they will email you surveys to take. Next try something like affiliate marketing. This is basically selling other peoples products and getting paid a percentage of the sale.

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Effects of Recession in the US Real Estate Market 2010

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The credit crunch and the great depression of 2007 has played a negative role in the US real estate market. The housing market is still on its way to recovery from the recession.

Effect of recession in real estate market

From the very past the US real estate market has played a very important role in giving a shape to the usage of urban land. According to the principles adopted, it gave the owners the opportunity to earn maximum value for his land.

But the recession of 2007 has led to unemployment, and as a result, the demand for house has lessened and new constructions have also become very few in number. Though many first time home buyers are there in the market, but, the fewer number of sellers could not meet the buyer's demand. As a result, the profit decreased, price of inventories increased, sales went down and the US real estate market has faced an incredible number of foreclosures. According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the number of homes that received foreclosure notices in 2009 is 3 million.

Recent situation in the real estate market

To make up for the loss, the government has introduced option ARM, by which the home buyers can choose how much they want to pay each month during the 'start period' of the loan. They have the choice of paying from the following options:

•a 30-ear fully amortizing rate
•a 15-year self amortizing rate
•interest-only payment
•a base rate ( which does not cover the monthly interest costs)

This offer, along with unemployment rate of 10.5% in 2010, will make more and more homeowners unable to repay their mortgage.

The loan modification program of the government has can also cause home prices to fall by 5% to 10%, prior to the stabilization of the real estate market. It is predicted that the market will have a noticeable rebound by 2013.

The government's offer to extend $8,000 for first time home buyer tax credit till the middle of 2010 and expansion of the program to include $6,500 credit for non-first time home buyers will attract more home shoppers into the market.

Already the US real estate market is showing signs of stabilization in demand and price. For the last 6 consecutive months, the home prices are on a rise. The market has already started to recover from the effects of recession, but, it will need some more time for full recovery. According to a recent survey, 77% of the richest people in the US feel that now is the right time to buy real estate properties, as the price of home is low. Though the market has suffered a great loss, but the initiative taken by the US government to reduce the loss is to be appreciated.

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Post Recession Planning - Leadership Strategy For 2010

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So you survived it all..... you emerged with your business intact, but your balance sheet has been savaged, and your workforce traumatized?? You battled through this "perfect storm", and consider yourself amongst the fortunate ones. Did your executives pat themselves on the back "if we can survive that, we can survive anything"?

Q4 - TIME TO RE-THINK

In this brief article we argue however; that this is not a time for navel gazing and vivisection of our how we survived and what we learned. We argue instead that; if any time in the economic cycle is perfect for aggressive planning, and even more aggressive action, it is now.

Q4 2009 - strategic planning time... and time to get really creative! Consider these suggestions - they may be painful, and they may not be for you.... BUT.....

GET BLUE OCEAN

In 2009, did Revenue growth take a back seat.....why? Were you in 'survival mode"? Were there no opportunities for acquisitions, or new product lines, no openings in emerging markets?

Survival strategies are not success strategies.

Now is the perfect time to get BLUE OCEAN in your thinking:

· seek out the un-served market segments,

· search for pioneering technologies,

· challenge your supply line model and break the value - cost trade-off;

· challenge existing market boundaries, and create uncontested market space.

Example

Tata built the NANO, focusing on an un-served market segment in India of potential car owners who can only afford $2500 - building modest unit level profits, but enormous market presence. Tata applied Blue Ocean thinking to its supply line.; building partnerships with a limited number of suppliers and putting everyone in the same room to work through problems and innovate- thereby delivering a unique value proposition, which makes the NANO viable.

RE-ALIGN

Did the recession require you to combine business units, realign teams, and divest layers of management? Or did you simply tighten your belt?

How do you ensure that you remain competitive? How do you structure your organization so it is most effective and manage resources so the company' most profitable? Winning companies will take this planning opportunity to realign their structures by consolidating, merging, acquiring and investing now in capabilities that will best differentiate them from their competitors.

Successful companies in every industry need to make portfolio decisions that:

a. Build on the distinctive competencies they already have;

b. Acquire businesses that complement or extend those competencies, and

c. Divest businesses that require inconsistent competencies, driving down costs in the process.

DIVEST

What's has been clear from our experiences in 2009, is that there is the potential for discontinuous change in the structure of most industries. Rapid growth experienced up to mid 2008 provides no assurance of future survival. Your, success hinges on your ability to adapt immediately and continually to structural changes, and seize strategic opportunities. These opportunities are likely to be present in front of you now.

Senior Executives need to ask:

· Is this business core to your company's future value?

· Can you envision it as the basis for a sustaining stream of growth opportunities?

· Does it offer a path to building financial performance that is greater than what investors can earn elsewhere in their equity portfolios?

Instinctively, we react cautiously to any surgery in the portfolio fearing the loss of a revenue stream now, which cannot ever be recovered. More likely however, the disappearance of poorly performing assets, will mean an opportunity to focus on growing more promising lines of business, or facilities at a faster rate.

GET NEW BLOOD

Did you have contingencies ready in 2008? Did you respond quickly enough to market decline? Did you divest uncompetitive activities? Did you right size effectively? or did you opt for the 15% across the board slash and burn strategy?

If you answer to most of these in 'no', then who was responsible? Who was in charge? Who had failed to recession proof the portfolio (are we dreaming here?), Who failed to dump the underperforming lines of business? Who failed to cut the high costing underperforming managers, while cutting the hard working front-line staff (sound familiar?)?

· Anyone willing to put their hands up? "Global melt down' is a humdinger of an excuse for failure!

· So... time for new blood... the talent pool is rich, the time is now.

TWEAK YOUR CULTURE

Fear permeated all workforces in 2009. Fear crushes motivation and energy. Creativity and innovation are inextricably linked to energy, and motivation. The creative spirit is essential to drive your organization out of the current economic and emotional malaise.

The conventional focus of organizational behavior therapists argue we need to extract more value from de-motivated and detached workers through the latest fashionable techniques of "motivation", "engagement", engendering "discretionary effort" etc.

Reality however is often painful: you will need to rebuild goodwill in your workforce, particularly if engaging in any aggressive re-alignment, and asset divestment (human or other).

First - understand your culture....is it cohesive, is it participative? Does you workforce feel aligned with your values and your vision? (Affiliation). Or is it overtly performance focused? Failure to deliver bites hard in times of downturn. Performance - focused cultures feel this pain the most.

We suggest you SURVEY your CULTURE to learn what you have, and know what you need. Then align organizational development initiatives with your strategic growth priorities.
Invest in your Leadership

Your talented high performers will probably be very skeptical of simplistic approaches to "cultural engineering". Indeed, it is our contention that high performers are often turned off by bureaucratic process, by internal politics, by smoothing over the 'crack's with statements of "shared cultural values", and - above all -, they will be disenchanted by inadequate leadership.

Ineffective leadership is immensely costly - we only have to look around the global business landscape today to see the remnants of companies which were once dominant. Much of the blame for their demise lies squarely in complacent, short-termist and poorly educated and trained leadership.

The conventional wisdom has it, that in uncertain times the role of the leader is to provide certainty. But smart people know that certainly in business is illusory - it is in the ability to adapt, and to cope with constant change that true leadership emerges.

Adaptability, managing change, thinking strategically are learned competencies - they are not simple attributes. Invest in DEVELOPING your LEADERS as a matter of priority.

EMBRACE WEB 2 - REALLY!

Web2 - not just having a web site. or an intranet. How much is your ERP costing you? How much is your CRM system costing?... what is the real ROI? what is the true cost of ownership - did it cost 5 times the original price of the software (the normal projected Total Cost of Ownership)?

Today, SaaS (Software as a Service) offers vastly lower Total cost of ownership, and delivers much, if not all the functionally of conventional locally hosted software - at a fraction of the price. (Salesforce.com etc).

How web 2 are your communications systems? Do you still fly managers from field operations, or offshore locations in for QPRs - why... how much does it cost? Does your organization embrace interconnectivity? Do your employees collaborate virtually? Are there forums for them to do so? How much value can be generated through enhanced collaboration?

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Will the Trend of the Economy Be Growth Or Recession in 2010?

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What will 2010 bring? Following is a list of some ideas and some possibilities that I think could happen in 2010. But rather than guess at where the S&P 500 will end up or how much analysts will trim their earnings estimates; this is a list of things that could make 2010 better or worse than I envision now. But I also wanted possibilities that would make people think about key elements of the economy and the markets so they could plan and adjust their own personal and business strategies as we move through the year.

1. Unemployment will not get much better and could get worse in 2010 because consumers are now into saving and debt reduction rather than spending; and companies key their production off of current inventories and expansion off consumer demand.

2. Dollar could increase in value early in the year due to global uncertainties (risks) and what looks like an improving U.S. economy and then fade later in the year.

3. The number of "Tea Party" people will continue to grow and will shape the look of the Republican candidates in the 2010 primaries.

4. More burdensome and anti-competitive regulations will come out of Congress that will prove to be roadblocks to recovery.

5. Concerns about when the Fed and Bernanke will raise interest rates will become mute because the market will raise rates months before the Fed and Bernanke decide it is time to raise rates.

6. The central Bank will continue to hold interest rates low and continue to print money causing the next bubble because of malinvestments.

7. Residential housing will get worse in 2010 due to millions of more foreclosures and more "toxic assets" put on bank balance sheets. Commercial real estate will continue to decline into 2011 because of the need to refinance "underwater" properties. However, new investors with assets will begin to buy up these cheap properties.

8. Banks will have to build assets to cover the toxic assets they currently have on the books and to cover the new toxic assets to come in 2010 and 2011. Therefore, bank lending will remain tight (and credit worthy borrowers scarce.)

9. Corporate winners and losers (consumers and tax payers have already lost) in the health "care" legislation will begin to become apparent in 2010 and the health care CEO's and Unions who made deals with the administration will be surprised when they find that their negotiated "deals" will not be honored by the government.

10. Congress will pass another stimulus package to again help create jobs. It will be large, but it will be passed in smaller packages so they can get the spending bills through Congress without attracting too much attention or outrage.

11. Climate change hysteria will begin to abate during 2010 and Congress will begin to work on a realistic energy plan that we have been waiting and paying for since 1975.

12. Corporate revenues will continue to be elusive so companies that can raise money (with low interest bonds) will buy revenues and earnings with more mergers and acquisitions.

13. Government debt levels, already very high, will get much higher and the Federal Reserve is funding this long-term debt with short-term bonds. Therefore, the Fed will be reluctant to raise interest rates. Imagine what a 50% increase in rates (from just 0.25% to 0.5%) would due to your "costs" when you are paying interest on hundreds of billions of dollars on current debt.

14. This is certainly a minority opinion, but corporate earnings for 2010 are too optimistic and will be revised downward beginning with the second quarter numbers.

15. New investment areas and opportunities will emerge because where you have buyers you have sellers and vice-versa.

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Recession of 2010 - Recession Spending Secrets That Will Help You Thrive

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The recession spending rules of 2009 will change in 2010. The radical consumers who are determined to not only survive but thrive have found a new set of rules for the recession of 2010. They've quickly found the old spending rules of the past are not as effective now as they were in previous years or even months.

So, like any effective plan of action they've learned to adapt to more effective solutions. In the last year retailers have adapted to the new consumer attitude of waiting for sales, shopping around and holding out for end of season sales, liquidations and inventory clearance sales.

Now retailers are simply ordering less inventory and waiting out the consumer if possible. This puts less pressure on many retailers to negotiate, give major price breaks or even offer price reductions. So, a new set of rules have to apply in 2010, especially now that the holidays are over. The retailers that are still left standing will be tougher to deal with than they were in 2009.

Here's 3 recession money saving secrets for 2010


1. Negotiate Smarter Not Harder.

Before you could come in like a linebacker and negotiate with many merchants and retailers. This was especially true for those with cold inventories, slow sales and nervous creditors ringing their phones off the hook.

But now that many retailers have adjusted their operations to lean and mean status and reduced their inventories back to manageable sizes, many are more cautious concerning negotiating. But as the saying goes everything is still negotiable, especially in a recession.

So, if you find a retailer not willing to negotiate, simply find another retailer selling the same product or service who will. Now you'll have to negotiate smarter, meaning know whose selling the product you want for what price. Do your' comparison price research, know who the major competitors are and take advantage of competitor pricing many stores have when you can.

2. Shop More From Your House With Your Mouse.

While most retailers will be forced to still offer bargains, markdowns and specials, this attitude is quickly expanding to online retailers as well. The pressure is on internet retailers to offer bargains to at least match or beat brick and mortar stores.

Although it's much harder to negotiate with online retailers than it is with physical stores, it can still be done, most people overlook this simple secret. When you want to negotiate with an online retailer make sure you're emailing or talking to someone who is authorized to negotiate, like a manager or owner. Avoid negotiating with a phone order operator, secretary or clerk.

3. Beware of the 30 day rule.

With so many bargains, specials and deals still available in 2010 it may be tempting to overspend. That's why I would suggest you acquaint yourself with my 30 day rule. This simple rule have helped me avoid buying stuff I don't need, won't use and in time will force me to sell at a discount to others or give it away.

If you are familiar with the various home shopping channels you no doubt could benefit from this money saving and junk avoiding rule. The rule simple states "Am I going to use this product at least once a month or every 30 days? If you can't answer with a resounding yes, don't buy it, no matter how cheap it is. You'll be surprised how much money (and garage or other storage space) it saves you.

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Recession Proof Businesses - Wondering How to Get Started?

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Where to Find Recession Proof Businesses:

Whether you are initiating a business on the side while still employed with your current employer, a student seeking additional income, or unemployed, trying to figure it all out, and what to do next, there are a great deal of opportunities out there for you. It's not likely that any of these will make you a living within the first couple of months, but some have great potential to grow and prosper into full-time businesses.

As we all know the Internet is the best place to go for all our resources. You can virtually find anything on line. The single and most important thing to remember is to use our common since and evaluate everything we stubble upon. Be careful not to believe everything you read. There is a lot of good information on the Internet, but you must use caution.

How to Find these Businesses:

Finding these recession proof businesses is not as hard as it may seem. Sometimes we have to tendency to complicate things that are really quite simple. Like everything else we find on line it's all done by research. We research the Internet by using words that fit what were looking for. These words are known as keywords or keyword phases. We simple enter our keywords or keyword phrases in the search box.

The choice of keywords that you use are important. Its a good idea to change them up a bit to weight out your results. Here a few examples. "recession proof businesses", "recession proof jobs", "recession proof products". You may want to add a few words before or after your keywords. This would make it a long tail keyword which could give you a better selection of information

You Could also place these symbols before and after you keywords are keyword phrases that you have chosen.

keywords or keyword phrases / with no symbols is a Broad Match
keywords or keyword phrases / with " " symbols is a Phrase Match
keywords or keyword phrases / with [ ] symbols is a Exact Match
These symbols are used for Google search only, they are different for Yahoo.

What to be Cautious of:

Remember when searching for recession proof businesses we need to use caution in what we read and believe. Stay away from business opportunities that only cost you pennies. Beware of the opportunities that promise you can make thousands are even million in a few short weeks.

There are a lot of great and legitimate businesses that have great products, support and even training that will help you become very successful. When you find something that interest you, take your research a few steps further.

Contact the company and ask if it's possible to speak with the CEO personally. Ask if you could view are listen to some testimonies of someone that has achieved the level of success that you want, and speak with them on a person to person basis.

It's important that you feel comfortable with the people you speak with and they are real, and the opportunity is real. Check with the Better Business Bureau to see weather are not there are any complaints that has been placed on them. Be business start, take you time on your research.

Keep in mind that recession proof businesses have to offer a product, service or information that is recession proof. This could be anything from gas cards to health insurance. As long as there is a great demand for it, it's recession proof.

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Marketing, Online Techniques For Recession Proof Business

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Recession Proof Business, how is it possible?

Adding an online presence will not in and of itself help your business. Many companies have invested thousands of dollars and have failed to see any return. Many business owners have seen the fall off in response from phone book and newspaper advertising but the websites they built have not delivered either. These owners don't believe the internet can help them. Sometime these owners have bought websites from the phone company. These sites are from the very people who are being killed by the internet. Don't trust your marketing to people who really don't understand web traffic.

80% of consumers do some sort of search on Google before making local purchases. Do you think the phone number and address of local businesses who offer the product shows up? Phone companies are beginning to stop printing white pages (also because of so many mobile phones) and more and more consumers are simply not looking at the business pages. Where is your phonebook?

Traditional Advertising Is Failing All Over The Country

There is a similar story for newspaper advertising. More and more people are getting their news online and forgoing getting newspaper delivery. There is a major shift that is already well underway.

These statistics are the same in Louisville, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and other large cities. Your marketing must work around these changes that are going on. The problem with the websites made by phone companies and others is they don't understand how a website attracts traffic. Just putting up a website does you no good at all.

People type the words for the things they are looking for into the search box. This has typically been on Google but more and more it is becoming Facebook as well. But wherever they do it, the matching pages that your business wants them to find has to match up. Not only that they have to be indexed and have other sites pointing to them. Google assigns trust to pages that have links from other pages (lots of links). These links are best if they contain the same keywords.

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The Recession of 2010

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Sustained economic progress and advances in civilization result, fundamentally, from the interest, effort, freedom and opportunity of individuals to legally acquire private property (land and capital) and accumulate wealth. Private property rights-the precondition of all economic progress-gives the individual security and self-worth. Hence, the individual's rational inclination or incentive to combine labor, capital, land and entrepreneurship to produce wealth and accumulate the physical, human, and intellectual capital necessary to make continuing economic progress possible. In other words, given the opportunities to lawfully acquire property and the freedom to accumulate wealth, the individual is motivated to create, to innovate, to produce the goods and services demanded by society, to trade them and earn a profit. That is how we have come to understand the connection between economic freedom and economic growth, and to value the crucial importance of private property rights.

Within a positive environment of institutional stability and technological advances, the degree of individual willingness and abilities is what ultimately facilitates the more productive use of economic resources and the accumulation of capital necessary for future economic growth. A problem arises, however, when morality of behavior, social concerns, and the basic elements of justice are increasingly ignored by the individual in the market place. In other words, it is not the selfish interest, greed or the individual desire for pleasure what creates progress. A society that grants absolute individual freedom on the sole basis of selfish motives would only promote an unsustainable system of capital concentration, exploitation, corruption and social polarization. Progress is not, either, the result of man's natural desire to work hard or of man's concern for his fellow countryman or for mankind. A society that plans solely on those premises is doom to economic disaster or ends up coercing their population to increase the level of production.

It is, then, the degree to which society succeeds in establishing its rules and values what promotes and molds individual actions toward the fulfillments of the desire to own private property and accumulate capital. The more equitable the individual opportunities, the greater are the chances of an individual to compete in the market place. This competition tends to foster innovation, to generate higher levels of productivity, higher profits, more investment, more employment and greater national wealth. Societies that only grant individual freedom and opportunities to a particular sector of the population and invest little or inefficiently in human capital, become dual societies. On one side, a sector develops and progresses until the other sector, which operates at a subsistence level becomes fatigued, unproductive and powerless to sustain the necessary levels of production, income and development. These conditions drag the entire society into the cycle of social unrest that we often see in poor countries.

The most prosperous nations, therefore, are those that can strike a better balance between individual betterment and the social good, prosperity and justice, freedom and order.

Some believe that the natural laws alone explain that the balance of social forces is achieved based on natural conditions such as respect of property rights, good faith, fair transactions and equitable rewards for individual efforts. But the fact is that the economic system cannot be left entirely to self-correcting natural laws, simply because the respect for ownership, sincerity of intention, fairness and the correspondence between individual efforts and rewards are not necessarily natural conditions; at least no more than selfishness, greed, exploitation and corruption.

It is true that individuals are the essential elements of society and that self-interest (motivated by financial compensation, realization, reputation or power) is the driving force of the economy, but the limitations in human capital investment as well as other factors play a significant role on the pattern of income distribution. Since aggregate demand depends on the pattern of income distribution, and production is governed by the pattern of consumer demand, then abnormally unequal income distribution would constrain the level of production and with it the wealth of the nation.

Furthermore, when the private ownership of land and capital is overly concentrated, the economic incentives necessary for economic progress are drastically reduced. This extreme concentration of wealth in the hands of individuals and institutional investors tends to drift away from the production of goods and services as they search for speculative gains. Therefore, to a point, the less polarized the distribution of income, the greater the likelihood of individuals, not only to increase consumption, but also to develop entrepreneurial abilities and increase the competitiveness of the markets

Economic policies, to be sufficient, should comprehensively support the private sector in the implementation of health, education and training programs, aimed at increasing workers productivity and business profits. The resulting increase in income, savings, and capital accumulation would tend to increase consumption, production and employment. This would allow the economy to fully utilize its human and capital resources.

Government revenues would also increase, creating more favorable financial conditions, as interest rates would tend to ease. This would allow for higher levels of investment in capital and would help sustain productivity and profits. The high levels of productivity would tend to keep inflation in check.

The most relevant implication here is that governments should promote a more comprehensive and proactive approach to maintain economic freedom, equality of opportunities (not equality of outcomes), growth, and stability, while causing the economic fluctuations (business cycles) to be benign and making fine-tuning government efforts of relatively lesser need.

Virtually, the government primary function is that of stabilizing the economy through monetary and fiscal policies. The idea of success, however, is rather narrow as it concentrates, almost entirely, in the "two unhappy possibilities" of unemployment and inflation.

Monetary and fiscal policies, if viewed in isolation and as short run instruments of stabilization could at times produce the most unintended results. For instance, disproportionate massive tax cuts could produce extreme high concentration of capital. Extreme fine-tuning efforts through monetary policy could be deceptive and at times both policies could be contradictory.

Government policies, in general, could be conflicting. One example of the contradictory forces in the USA could be seen in the housing market. As we entered the XXI century the USA government began to expand his social commitment to increase the home ownership of minority groups, while relaxing the accountability of financial institutions. Soon, the real estate industry took advantage of the "easy-credit", laissez-faire environment and set itself to put any kind of deals together. Unscrupulous lenders provided the funds so anybody could buy homes, regardless of their credit qualification; they just passed the risk along, selling loans at a profit to third party investors. Borrowers took out loans at low teaser rates, which they could not afford once these low rates expired and their mortgage payments were in many cases doubled. Scores of lending institutions failed, including the giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; leading to a grim credit crunch.

Another important factor, which contributed to the crash of the real estate market, is the role of the speculator. The speculator, attracted by the real estate boom made immense amount of money in their early investments, then dumping in the market their properties at losses they could afford due to their earlier successes but leaving homeowner with houses worth less than their mortgage.

This leads us back to the issue of high concentration of capital. The ideological principle of income polarization has diverted investment from the production of goods and services into speculative investments, which eventually and inevitably lead to markets failure. For a while, the USA economic policies have tended to favor the highest income earners. This produced a high concentration of capital that was increasingly channeled into the financial markets in search of capital gains. This speculative investment, which elevated stock prices to unsustainable levels, bears the responsibility for the 2008 stock market crash.

That situation led to lower capacity to consume due to lower real income and layoffs. That spiral continued to sink the system rapidly, deepening the recession that started in 2007. The USA central bank, with the hope of stabilizing the economy, kept lowering the interest rate until it almost reached a near zero level. But, as they say: "you can take a horse to water, but you can't make him drink". Banks kept hoarding cash and not taking the risk of lending it.

The U.S. government treated that economic condition like if it was a short-term imbalance. The reality is that, systematically, middle class families were descending into poverty; many continued to add to the lines of the unemployed or underemployed. Numerous factories closed. The government capacity to continue borrowing money grew impaired. The long-term instability became critical. The trend was signaling that the system could loose its capacity for future prominence.

It is imperative, then, that long-term instability be measured and monitored. For that purpose I devised a LONG-TERM INSTABILITY INDEX, which could be called The Lacayo Index. This index combines the measurements of inflation (I), unemployment (U), interest rate (IR), import to export ratio (MXR), public debt growth rate (PDGR), the Gini coefficient for families (GC) as a measure of income inequality, and a measure of the real GDP drop rate (GDPDR). The Long-term Instability Index depicted in EXHIBIT I is the sum of these components:

LONG-TERM INSTABILITY INDEX= I+U+IR+MXR+PDGR+GC+GDPDR

The use of these variables finds its logic in the rationale that they are, ultimately, the consequences of fiscal and monetary policies, as well as the effects of other aspects of public governing. And in turn, the causes of such public administration efforts are often reflected in the political leaders adherence to ideological principles, in their attitude toward accountability and their disposition to submit to morality of behavior, to social concerns and to the basic elements of justice.

EXHIBIT I shows The Long-term Instability Index of the last 62 years for the United States of America.

For the government to achieve long-term stability it would have to implement economic policies that would avoid extreme capital concentration and income disparity (lower Gini Coefficient) and with that reduce speculative investment and increase productive capital investment. The government would have to concentrate on fiscal responsibility and establish reasonable budget-balancing objectives to avoid negative pressures in the financial markets that could result in higher long-term interest rates. It would have to strive to increase exports to avoid unhealthy trade deficits (lower Import to Expot Ratio) with certain countries and regions; leading to comparative advantages, higher GDP, higher tax revenues, lower Public Debt, and lower unemployment. The Lacayo Index would allow us to measure and monitor government performance in those areas needed to sustain long-term economic growth and stability. The table in exhibit I clearly shows how the policies of each administration affects the seven components of the index. It helps judge the president on how he manages what he receives, how he exacerbates or reverses the economic trends and what his long-term economic legacy is. As the index value of a president increases it indicates that the administration performance in terms of long-term economic instability is worsening.

The 10th column of exhibit I denotes the values of the index corresponding to the last year of each of the last 15 United States administrations. On the last column, these values are tagged with a (+) or a (-) to indicate whether the last year of each presidential term has improved or deteriorated, in term of the Long-term Instability Index, when compared to the last year of the previous term.

What is also clear in The Long-term Instability Index is the accelerated, almost unstoppable decline of the long-term economic trends in the United States: a contracting middle class, the amassing of a colossal public debt, a disproportionate trade imbalance, a falling production and a very unstable approach to fiscal and monetary policy with its consequent long-term instability in the rates of inflation and unemployment. Perhaps political ideology is getting in the way of economic performance. Perhaps economic goals are narrowly established due to political pressures. Perhaps politicians fall in love with a tree and ignore the forest. Whatever the reason, it needs to be realized that a piecemeal approach to economic problems is often damaging. The economic reality of a country requires a comprehensive approach and the simultaneous monitoring of The Long-term Instability Index and the tendency of its components.

Regrettably, we tend to focus on short-term misery indices and other measures of short-term economic performance that do not go beyond the measurements of GDP shortfall, unemployment and inflation, and somehow neglect the long-term implications of economic policies adopted by politicians.

The index takes into account what is left undone in terms of accumulation of the public debt, in terms of income disparity trends, in terms of trade deficits and in term of long-term interest rates which affect mortgages rates. To restore the long-term instability depicted by The Lacayo Index, future U.S. presidents must perform systematically better (lower index values) than their predecessors.

In EXHIBIT II we chart the Long-term Instability Index for a 60-year period (1948-2008). We depict the periods of U.S. recessions (dark bars), which are consistent with the index peaks. On this chart we also mark three economic expansions; the three longest economic expansions in U.S. history, which coincide with periods of decreasing values of the Long-term Instability Index.

From this, however, we cannot conclude that maintaining a decreasing index value would increase long-term economic stability and sustain longer periods of economic expansions. A government could slash taxes, irresponsibly deregulate Wall Street, and the Fed could cut interest rates to stimulate economic growth and reduce unemployment. These could perfectly well reduce the value of the Long-term Instability Index while leaving unattended the long-term implications of severe income disparity, increasing public debt and increasing trade deficits. So, the goal of the government should not only aim at obtaining relative declines of the index value, but to maintain the Long-term Instability Index as close to zero as possible.

The problem with economic instability is that the deeper causes of recessions are ignored. We know that at times government itself has been the cause of recessions by applying contractionary fiscal or monetary policies, as they fear inflation. A prevailing traditional assumption, as we enter a recession, is that consumer confidence is down and that a small tax rebate will do the trick and get the flow of money restarted. At times the government has fought recessions characterized by stagflation by first fighting the inflationary problem with contractionary policies and then reducing taxes regressively to lower businesses costs with the hope of the benefits trickling down to the labor force. But the deeper, more ingrained causes of long-term instability, like capital concentration, monopoly power, and the disruptive capacity of speculation are hardly ever addressed.

The complexity of the financial crisis and economic recession that begun in 2007--the worst since the great depression--is such that it has politicians and economists alike, puzzled. This crisis will probably occupy intelligent minds for many years in the effort of deciphering what went wrong. We know, however, that institutions have failed and that society has compromised its rules and values. The SEC allowed the proliferation of investors' traps. The FED has, to a large degree, lost its capacity to stabilize the economy through monetary policy. The permissive monopolistic power granted to certain industries has virtually taxed the consumers in detriment of their purchasing power. The play of ideological forces in the branches of government essentially shifted productive capital investment to speculative investment. So bad, that our system has virtually shifted from capitalism to what I elected to call wagerism.

Since the 1980s, in the U.S., money has been gushing to the wealthiest and to institutional investors. The impressive accumulation of wealth has not led to an equally unprecedented economic growth. Instead, it has produced a decline in real lower and middle incomes because of the degree of wealth concentration. Under these circumstances, consumer demand is often depressed; investment is increasingly drifting away form the production of goods and services and channeled into the speculative search of capital gains. There is little incentive for the wealthy investor to go through the complexities of planning, organizing, directing and controlling a business that produces goods and services when they could profitably bet in the rising prices of stocks, bonds, commodities, etc. and only pay a fraction of the taxes they otherwise would. Why invest in capital goods if we could simply bet? Why capitalism if we have wagerism?

High stock prices or the high prices in any speculative market are almost always pushed further upward by astutely fabricated high expectations. In this sense, economic reality and speculative markets are unrelated. Wagerism is characterized by the culture of speculation and is an unstable system that inevitably crashes after every period of artificially inflated expectations and gains. Another characteristic of wagerism is the increasing economic polarization that it imprints in a society. The ever-increasing decline in consumer spending and capital investment, the rising underemployment and income polarization, and the trade imbalances push the system into deeper and more somber tides of speculation.

The great recession that started in December 2007 is clearly marked by the effects of wagerism. The apparent recovery that started in 2009 was plagued with escalating unemployment and underemployment, bankruptcies, foreclosures and the risk of inflation. The Fed has just been throwing money at the problem, since early 2009. Trillions of new dollars has been catapulted into the economy to rescue the failing speculating companies which the Fed deemed "too large to fail." Domestic and foreign banks, hedge funds, mutual funds, large manufacturers, automakers, insurance companies received the bulk of the money distributed as part of the improvised bailout efforts of the Fed.

By looking closely at exhibit II, we observe that, since 1950, on the average, there is a span of approximately 17 months from a low point of the long-term instability curve to the start a of a new recession. Considering the upward extension of the index beyond December 2008, it is possible for a new recession to begin in 2010 in the same fashion as the 1981 slump that began 6 month after the end of the 1980 economic downturn.

Amidst these uncertainties, one thing is patent: The importance of recognizing the need for a comprehensive long-term economic instability indicator that could help establish a stable long-term path. To avoid further failures and human anguish, the U.S. economy should start producing vigorous increases in real GDP with the minimum possible impact on the public debt instead of rewarding ingrate, bonus-hungry Wall Street bankers and other speculators with billions of bailout dollars. Efforts should be aimed at restoring the size of the middle class instead of allowing monopolies to set arbitrary prices, charge fraudulent fees and outrageous interests while confiscating the purchasing power of consumers. Public policies should be adjusted and laws should be reformed to reduce the substitution of capital investment for speculative investment, reducing unemployment, promoting export-boosting enterprises while keeping inflationary pressures and the long-term interest rate in check. This is the time to be concerned about the future of capitalism. Threatened by the possibility of a new recession this year, in our minds linger the thoughts about our capacity to deal with a catastrophic depression and the capacity of capitalism to endure.

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Recession Proof Businesses to Start at Home

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The economy has made competition tough for many who are looking for jobs. Many career options seem to be dwindling and folks are looking for a brand new trade or profession. Because of the economy home based businesses are filling a new niche for people who need less hassle and more income.

Most home businesses are automatically recession proof because the long commute is removed from the equation. A home office is simple to set up and anyone can start quickly. People can produce and sell their own products, provide a personal service, or sell someone else's products.

"Home based businesses" usually mean the type of partnership with a company that already has unique products to sell directly to the customer. Current customers become the sales people by talking about the products' benefits.



Products that people need everyday will always sell. Virtually anyone is a potential customer so these business opportunities are very reasonable with very little risk. Everyday products may sound boring and uninspiring but today's interest in health and "green" manufacturing are hot topics that influences buying choices.

Nutritional foods and healthy cleaning products are now very unique and sophisticated making direct marketing to the consumer very lucrative. Companies that offer computer and technology services like to partner with folks who would like to work on their own schedules, as well.

Companies that want to advertise their products without spending enormous amounts of money have discovered that teaming up with their customers is beneficial for everyone. Commissions are paid to the entrepreneurial spirits who are good product experts.

Home based businesses are recession proof because they capitalize on the fact that the territory is open for all and there is no need to have expensive offices for meetings and trainings. The products and services are easily accessed through home delivery and the internet so any individual with an interest can become self employed through this innovative process.

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