Shrimp, Shrimped, Shrimping

When sending well-rounded wine gifts to a loved one, it’s important to not stop at the bottle of wine. While the bottle is important (and probably the most important!), there are other wine gifts that should be included in an effective wine gift basket:

1)      The corkscrew. You can never be sure whether or not your loved one has a working corkscrew handy, especially if it’s someone you do not see often. Including the corkscrew guarantees that the bottle can be enjoyed immediately, if so desired.

2)      Drip ring. While wine professionals know how to pour without dripping, many of us amateurs will still have that solitary drip running down the side of the bottle. The drip ring will prevent that.

3)      Stopper. There are exceptions to this, but many times someone will open a bottle of wine, enjoy a glass, and then set it aside for later. Jamming the cork in can delay staleness, but a proper wine stopper will help that bottle last for days longer.

4)      Wine thermometer. As a general rule of thumb, white wines and champagnes are chilled, while red wines are served at room temperature. Including the wine thermometer will give your loved one the ability to tell when the wine is at a drinkable temperature.

An IRA LLC puts the power of how you retire in your hands. After all, as you’re the one who’s intimately aware of your hopes and dreams for the future, shouldn’t you be the one to determine how to invest the funds to get you there? With that in mind, following are two benefits of an IRA LLC.

Take Control of Your Finances – and Your Future

An IRA LLC is not simply a retirement account. It’s so much more. It’s the motor that powers the direction you want to head in for the future. For this journey, there’s no outside navigator needed. You get to decide the who, what, where when and how of investing.

After all, it was you who climbed out of bad day after day. In rain, snow, sleet and hail, you braved it. Sometimes for a job that didn’t bring the most satisfaction. Shouldn’t you be the one to decide how the fruits of your labor pay off over the long haul? AN IRA LLC allows you this opportunity.

Invest Your IRA in International Investments

The world is no longer just out our back door. It’s global economy, which means global investment opportunities Wall Street offerings offer but a sliver of the opportunities in this market. Take international real estate investing. There are many opportunities in emerging and established economies beyond U.S. borders like South America, Europe and Latin America. In fact, were you aware that there are 193 countries in the world that fall under the heading “international real estate?

Worldwide, real estate is a cyclical industry. And, while we may be in a slump here in the U.S., other countries may be experiencing an upturn. With an IRA LLC, you can take advantage of this. This is how real wealth is built. This is the advantage of an IRA LLC.

Once a job offer is made, a lot of people think they have no basis for negotiating but they would be surprised, with the right approach, that they can often secure compensation packages beyond what they thought was possible. A key point to remember is that negotiating more at the start of a job can turn into a substantial amount of increased earnings over the course of several years. Once people achieve an increased level of earnings, they tend to maintain that difference over where they were for several years.

The negotiation process we recommend at ITS is easy to use. Based on our thousands of negotiations, it was carefully developed to be easy to use. It is based on common sense and the art of soft selling, so that you get what you want without offending the employer in any way.

There are five key areas you want to consider:

(1)   The initial offer, can you get it increased by 10% to 30%;

(2)   The responsibilities, can you expand them to a larger job that would pay more;

(3)   A signing bonus, which can be 10% to 30% of the salary in some cases;

(4)   The benefits, is the company willing to extend;

(5)   Stock options, whether they are available, and under what terms.

ITS gives job hunter’s guidance in each of those areas. There is also a lot of information on salary surveys to give you current information on which to base negotiations, and a cost-of-living comparison of various areas for those who are relocating. Senior level job seekers will be especially interested in the discussion of the various types of stock options and grants, exit strategies and severance agreements, and a dozen or so other benefits that can be a significant part of the total compensation package.

ITS offers Personal Marketing Services that goes far beyond Outplacement Career counseling. ITS uses its own unique technology to give job seekers access to as much as 85% of the advertised openings, including those from newspapers, recruiter openings, job boards, employer sites, and trade magazines. It also provides access to the unadvertised job market among employers, recruiters and growth companies.

For additional information: pr@changingcareers.com or contact Tom Mortenson at 800-320-1277.

Article By: ITS