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Entrepreneurs, business professionals, or industry leaders are all geared for the Queens Business Expo 2025, an event that promotes networking, knowledge-sharing, and business growth. This year's expo offers an action-packed schedule that includes expert speakers and...

Real Estate and Financial Advice for Professionals

by Souad Hasbini

With all of the uncertainty in the economy, it can be challenging to know what financial decisions you should be focusing on. To help with this, we will be hosting a webinar entitled – How to Grow and Preserve Wealth – Financial Strategies for Pharmacists, on...

Fire-Up Live 2024 Photo Galleries

Speakers Glenn Morshower Certificates of Recognition International Wealth Builders Association Empowered Women's Network...

Marie Waite Interview on the “Is Franchising Right For You?” Show

In this episode of Is Franchising Right For You? Rick Morgin speaks with Marie Antonette Waite, a branding strategist, radio and TV producer, Founder and CEO of Finest Women in Real Estate and Fire-Up Connect, and Author of "Who Do You Think You Are?". She is also...

Marie Waite Interview on the High Profit Event Show

This podcast episode of The High Profit Event Show hosted by Rudy Rodriguez features guestMarie Waite, the founder of Fire-Up Connect. During the episode, they dive into Marie'sbackground in event hosting and branding, focusing on her successful ventures in San...

2023 Fire Up Live Videos

All the videos from our 2023 Fire-Up Connect Live Event are available for viewing in this playlist! Thanks to all those who attended, it was great seeing and connecting with you all! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBBr7wpSbGeJ0iooNlRPA9Cewjrg6n1ed

Primer on Captive Insurance Essentials

A very wide range of companies employ Captive Insurance Company (CIC) as a means of preparing for risks and remaining solvent in the event of disasters and unforeseen events that traditional insurance won’t cover. Imagine a cancer diagnosis for a company owner or the...

Enterprise Risk Management Utilizing Small Captive Insurance Companies

Conducting an exercise in Enterprise Risk Management can help small and mid-market businesses, at risk of enormous losses in disasters and other impacts, ensure a continued access to credit and capital when they need it most. Forty percent of small businesses affected...

Unlock Illiquid Assets With Wealth Replacement Trusts

Among the generous and philanthropic, the wish that they could “do more” is common. Perhaps, what they need isn’t more money rather it’s some expert assistance. Their personal needs for healthcare and retirement, and their goals for leaving a legacy for their heirs,...

Why Should You Consider Planned Giving?

Whether you work in fund development for a charity, or you are investing your own wealth, Planned Giving is something you are likely not paying enough attention to. It can be an important component of your or your donors' legacy plan without impacting lifestyle and...

Fire-Up Live 2022 Event Videos

All the videos from our 2022 Fire-Up Connect Live Event have been posted to our streaming channels and are available for viewing! Find them on Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Android! Thanks to all those who attended, it was great seeing and connecting with you all.

Fire-Up Connect Holds a Discussion About Financial Planning and Non-Profit Organizations

In this week’s Fire-Up session, the primary argument moves around Financial Planning and Non-Profit Organization on which host Marie Waite, the Founder of Fire-Up Connect, Dr. Mansi, Dr. Rob Garcia, and Brian George has a very intriguing discussion. The meeting is...

Fire-Up Connect Talks About Stem Cells and Gut Health

In this week’s Fire-Up Connect session, the conversion mainly circles around Stem Cells and Gut Health of which host Marie Waite, the Founder of Fire-Up Connect, Monica D. Stone, Dr. Rob Garcia, Martha Razo, Dr. Mansi, and Rick Morgan are the participants. The...

Fire-Up Connect Talks About Imposter Syndrome, Challenges, and Opportunities

In this week's meetings, the talk of the day is Imposter Syndrome, Challenges & Opportunities of which the host Marie Waite, the founder of Fire-Up Connect, Dr. Rob Garcia, Gabby Bachher, Michelle Estelle, and Martha Razo are part. The session sounds to be...

Fire-Up Connect Discusses Wealth, Success, and Opportunity

In this Fire-Up Connect session, the topics were Wealth, Success & Opportunity for which Marie Waite, founder of Fire-up Connect, Diana Bonasca, Stephen Powers, Brian George, and Dr. Mansi had an insightful and thought-provoking discussion in an enjoyable and...

CPA Life Insurance Audit & Review

Your clients’ life insurance policies may no longer serve their interests and be in need of a review and audit. If the policy owner or trustee of the policy doesn’t have the knowledge needed, an In Force Illustration helps to ensure their needs are met now and into...

Use Data to Prepare your Business for Economic Instability

by Martha Razo

Is your business ready for an economic crisis? Are you a small or midsize business owner trying to make decisions, stay afloat, or grow your business? You hold the key to many uncertainties within your business. Yes, every business has this superpower or ACE in their...

Youtube Thumbnails Via PHP

Embedding videos from Youtube into a website is a rather painless procedure. Each video is provided with sharing options that include a bit of html code that will get the job done, and with Wordpress it's even easier. All you need is the video URL and the oEmbed...

The Great Realization: Attracting & Retaining Talent

by James Watson

lease join us for a webinar focused on strategies for attracting, retaining, and motivating your talent... Register in advance for this Zoom webinar:https://lnkd.in/gyrAuWcQ When: Mar 16, 2022 01:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Topic: The Great Realization

Cowgirl Teaches Individual Investors Like You To Become The Bank

by Jasmine Willois

The California Cowgirl Teaching Individual Investors Like You To Become The Bank Unmistakable in her iconic pink cowgirl hat, Jasmine Willois has quickly become recognized as one of the leading women entrepreneurs of this century, who is helping others rethink their...

5 Data Driven Solutions That Grow Your Business

by Martha Razo

Data is the future and the future is now. If you want to be competitive and grow you have to make data-driven business solutions. SOLIX has created five tips for business owners to follow to lead their companies to success this 2022. (1) Have a Monthly Profit and loss...

LTS Startup Accelerator Appoints James Watson Mentor/Partner

by James Watson

October 27, 2021 Leo TechnoSoftIn Press Release Comments: “Leo Technosoft’s LTS Accelerator Program inspires and engages entrepreneurs across all industries, geographies, and backgrounds with the time and experience of industry experts. Based on the BOMT model, LTS...

Startup Sales Acceleration Tips: James Watson, Fractional VP of Sales

by James Watson

According to recent reports, top tech companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft spend anywhere between 6-22 percent of their revenue on sales and marketing. However, while this might be adequate for some of the top names in tech, sales acceleration expert James...

Investors Needed To Help Build A Modern City; Rio Rancho, NM USA

by Paul Matamoros

Paul Matamoros - Impact Investor Manager | CEO | Professional Realtor | Commercial Real Estate Broker I conduct business in the City of San Francisco (proper) CA & the City of Rio Rancho, NM. In Rio Rancho: I am promoting Economic Development with the cooperation...

Don’t Choose a Franchise Company Before Asking These Questions

by Rick Morgin

Choosing a franchise company is a huge decision. After all, choosing the wrong company can lead to a lot of financial heartache—and that's putting it lightly! As a franchise consultant, I know how important it is to help my clients make the right decision. That's why...

I Am Facing Foreclosure, What Should I Do?

by Tina Casen

Today, hardworking people are forced to make tough decisions. The direction you take as a homeowner today will affect you financially for years to come. If you or someone you know is forced to make these decisions, call us today! We can help you weigh all...

The Same Old Real Estate Investments Won’t Get You There

by Steve Matley

In the newest episode of Building Solid Foundations TV show, I was joined by Patrick Kappel of Reef Point Realty who has been building his portfolio of investment properties for about ten years. Kaaren Hall of Udirect IRA also joind me. As a long time real estate...

Tick Tock – How Much Time Do You Cost?

by Laura Roeder

Time. It’s the only true equalizer we have as humans. We spend the same amount of it getting to the age of one, then 12, 18,21 40, and lastly, 65; retirement age (we hope). We “lose track of time”, “gain” an hour, then lose it again. We...

Responsive Aspect Ratios With Pure CSS

One of the hurdles I faced when beginning to work with responsive designs was the lack of an obvious way to assign an aspect ratio to a container in CSS. This kind of thing can be handled with an image placeholder or Javascript, but neither is an elegant solution....

What does it mean to GET FIRED UP in Real Estate?

What does it mean to be really get fired up in Real Estate? Do you spend more time doing cold calling? Do you go out and knock on more doors to introduce yourself? Do you sit in more open houses hoping to meet home buyers? All of these methods can be effective, but...

Six Essential Principles of the Finest Women in Real Estate

Finest Women in Real Estate: Six Essential Principles of the Finest Women in Real Estate. The secrets to building your reputation and your business, establishing yourself as an expert, cultivating clients and referrals, balancing home and work life and more!...

CSS: Equally Spaced Horizontal Elements

Sometimes there are things you want to do in your layouts with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) that you assume would be easy, but as you dive into the coding, it turns out what you thought should work just isn't cutting it. Equally spacing elements across a horizontal...

Odd & Even: Alternating Post Classes For Styling

Often a design calls for styling that makes an article archive (or any list of custom post types) easier to visually navigate. This can be as simple as altering the background color of every other post or something more involved depending on the situation at hand, but...

What is a 1031 Exchange?

Section 1.1031, of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, offers real estate investors one of the last great investment opportunities to build wealth and save taxes. By completing an exchange, the investor (Exchanger) can dispose of their investment property,...

FHA Back to Work Program – Extenuating Circumstances Program

by Steve Tempel

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently published Mortgagee Letter 2013-26 under the subject “Back to Work–Extenuating Circumstances” for all FHA-Approved Mortgages. This new ML explains that FHA is continuing its commitment to “fully” evaluate...

WordPress: Take Control of Private Post Titles

Wordpress gives us an easy built in way to hide certain posts or pages from non logged-in users, by simply marking the post status as private or password protected. When we do this, the title of the post or page will automatically be prefixed with "Private:" or...

WordPress: Take Control of HTML Tag Filtering

One of the important ways in which we protect websites from hackers, spammers, and other such baddies is by preventing them from injecting malicious code into our databases. Wordpress provides us with some built in security functions that stop this type of thing by...

PHP: Random Data Retrieval

Sometimes we may want to present our data in an unordered fashion, avoiding alphabetical or date based sorting. For example, creating a "Featured" list of articles that changes upon each page load by choosing a handful at random from our database. Another instance may...

MySQL: Avoiding Access Denied Errors When Importing DB