21st Centry Forum

One of the most satisfying things about owning a wood burning stove is watching the family pet sprawl out in front of the flickering firelight to enjoy the heat. This iconic image may as well come straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting, yet still occurs in the living rooms and common spaces of [...]

It is no mystery that selling insurance products is a great way to make money. After all, premiums constitute a long-term cash flow that almost always conforms to an insurance company’s actuarial assumptions, allowing them to pass on a good chunk of the premium they charge back to you, the sales person. Now more than [...]

As financial markets change, investment aptitudes that worked great a few years ago during the housing expansion are now a blubbery whale beached in the recession of economic downturn. Stay the course, and you will lose everything in this changing sea. What’s the alternate for failing investment strategies? A different approach. It’s time to specialize in [...]

Inventory tracking was once a feat business owners only attempted quarterly. How would you like to tediously dissect a room stacked from floor to ceiling with palettes having to go through them like a kid at Christmas. Now with EDI tracking software and barcode UPC interfaces read by handheld scanners to skim bar code labels, the [...]