Business EXPO of Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce (SMCC), 02-18-2009

*

Every participant of the EXPO was excited after the main annual event of SMCC. The 2009 EXPO has had more exhibitors than in 2008 and last year it had a record number of tables, see Santa Monica Mirror article on it. EXPO 2009 was a sophisticated, spirited and memorable one.

*

At WishTheBest.com EXPO table we had so many inquiries about our photo cards and business model, that we were pleased to experience such focused and positive attention during down economic times. With a stock markets diving down at full speed, more personal businesses are coming forward and the Santa Monica EXPO witnessed the splendid new trend. Future looks bright.

*

To everyone who came to our table, we offered a gift account at WishTheBest.com. If you'd like to experience the comfort of placing your own photos into greeting card (<$1), choosing creative greeting cards from rich online catalog (14,000+), we decided to extend our EXPO privilege and offer gift account to everyone who reads this post. You are welcome to visit our WishTheBest.com, create a gift account by pressing red button Send a Free Card. You will love it as many professionals did at the EXPO. Santa Monica Business and Consumer EXPO was organized by our own Chamber of Commerce under excellent leadership by SMCC President Laurel Rosen (http://www.smchamber.com/chamber/staff.html).

*

Wish the best,

*

ArtuM
WishTheBest.com

Reasoning Behind My Portfolio of Digital Photography and Video

When I shared my new portfolio at kaChing.com, my darling asked me why did I buy shares of each stock in multiples of 100 in it? I had in mind future hedge possibilities with options: as you know 1 option = 100 shares. Otherwise, I would buy 1 share of each to form an index for digital photography and video. For indexing purposes I only need to follow % movements and 1 share of each stock would be enough. With a time I also experinced that kaChing.com charting would not reflect my Index based on 1 share of each stock, so I went ahead and bought 10,000 shares of each stock to get properly reflected in Performance Chart, which compares visually my formed index with a chosen benchmark (S&P 500, Russell 3000).

____________

____________

____________

*

My interest in indexes started when I began to play with country-based ETFs, placed them on one chart as you may see here. I am collecting myself to finish the Contribution for 2009 Olympic Congress: http://www.2009congress.olympic.org/en/Pages/default.aspx, where I am offering Hoopathlon consisting of three sports: hoop shooting, 2x2 playing, running country-based ETFs for 3 hours ... you just saw the chart.

As you may see I get some countries here and some may not. Even UK‘s FTSE 100 I cannot place on the same chart because it run during London trading hours, not US. One way out of it is to create my own ETF... I started to look for California ETF and could not find one. Time arrived to get serious :(
I contacted Mike Havrilla and he guided me out with basics of forming own ETF. I did it with CartuM25.

When the whole thing came down to historic back-testing, Excel provided good opportunity to produce relative chart after downloading historical quotes, but it is time consuming and ... kaChing!.. Mike invited to check his portfolio on kaChing.com :)

When I saw that kaChing.com has Performance comparative chart, I became instantly hooked and joined the site with my newly gathered Portfolio for digital photography and video. Hope it will bring some fun.

*

Here is the link: Index of Digital Photography and Video.

*

Also, link to: Index of selected Californian Companies CArtuM.

Cheers,

____________

____________

____________

Art

WishTheBest.com

Portfolio Manager with SEC Registered

Investment Adviser kaChing.com

Personalize Your Photo... with SOC

1st we will start with our SOC mantra:

The company is currently sending out millions of dollars per year in commissions to it’s independent representatives.

HERE ARE RECENT ANNUAL REVENUES:

2004 REVENUE: $200,000

2005 REVENUE: $2.4 MILLION
2006 REVENUE: $10 MILLION
2007 REVENUE: $24 MILLION
2008 REVENUE: $41 MILLION

2009 REVENUE: $50 MILLION

* * *

Now we may focus on our current subject:
here we have me standing next to Pacific in Santa Monica ...

... and it seems that the time came to crack a joke.

The best way to do it, of course, is word bubble.
I like the simplicity of SOC online tool to do that, so I get into the http://www.wishthebest.com/,
press Picture Plus link, upload the photo, form Voice or Thought Bubble, then another and here we are:

There are, certainly, many tools to do similar deed, but having more things in one place is always a luxury :)

One more? Here we go:
Ok, it is enough for today. I wanted to show that applying just one tool, we may personalize our communication in visual more pleasing and fun way.

Enjoy,
Art
http://www.wishthebest.com/ - take a Tour or...
... press Red button "Click To Send a FREE card!" and you will get into your own Gift account. Here CEO will walk you through a simple way to select and send your own real card. It takes ~10 minutes. PicturePlus Demonstration explains how to place your own photos into the card. Just try it and you will have fun for a lifetime!