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Retiring Overseas – a Better Lifestyle Close to Home

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

More people than ever are retiring overseas, as they cannot maintain the same lifestyle at home as medical costs soar, inflation depletes their savings and state support declines.

For most people they want a quality lifestyle at a cheaper cost, but they don’t want a culture shock. They still want to be close to home with all the comforts and there is one country that offers this:

Costa Rica

Record numbers of Americans are moving here, as it’s an affordable quality lifestyle and the culture shock is minimal for the following reasons:

Wealth

Costa Rica is one of the richest countries in Central America and infrastructure such as roads, airports internet access, property, shops and entertainment are all of a high quality.

Large Community of retirees

Retiring overseas to Costa Rica has been the choice destination of Americans for the last decade and the large community that has built up here, has bought with it a culture to make new arrivals feel that they have the comforts of home around them.

Another important point to keep in mind is Costa Rica is just a 3 hour direct flight from the southern US states, so it really no different to moving states in the US.

The main reason people are retiring overseas though is to get a better quality of life at an affordable cost.

Costa Rica is popular and will continue to be so, due to the following reasons:

Price

Beachfront property at up to 70% less than in the US and a country where you can live on $2,000 a month comfortably, means that those social security checks simply go much further.

Quality of life

Low crime, friendly locals and people who have time for each other (just like they did years ago), in one of the most beautiful countries on earth, add up to a stunning lifestyle.

When you’re in your “golden years” you want to enjoy them!

Costa Rica allows you to do just that, in one of the most beautiful countries on earth.

Pristine beaches, volcanoes, rainforest and an abundance of wildlife, make this a country of diversity and beauty.

You can relax and enjoy a wide variety of leisure including:

World class fishing, treks in the rainforest, sailing or maybe just a round of golf – The list is endless and you will nver be bored.

Baby boomers will continue to retire overseas and Costa Rica will remain a destination that attracts more and more people.

Retirees get an affordable lifestyle and a quality of life that is simply not available in the US and Costa Rica is just 3 hours from the US.

If retiring overseas has not been something you have considered before because you don’t want to be in a totally different culture, Costa Rica offers you the best of both worlds:

An affordable slice of paradise and all the comforts of home.

If you have never considered retiring overseas, then consider Costa Rica and you may be glad you did.

For a guide to retiring overseas featuring living and investing in Costa Rica – Find out all the advantages here

How 5 Simple Steps Will Grow Your Events & Functions Bigger And Better Each Time.

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

The key to successfully growing bigger and better events is to set up what’s called the Marketing Cycle. The first part of the cycle is to promote your event in whatever way you can, such as traditional advertising. The next step is critical. You must collect names and addresses & email addresses when people book. At this point you should confirm their booking, but importantly from your point of view, use it to ask them to tell others.

As the event draws closer, in order to create anticipation of the event you contact people prior to the event who have already booked to remind them of the event and again ask them to tell others. This next step is again critical. After the event you actively seek feedback. This must seek constructive feedback to help improve your events. You need to know what people are thinking, and pick on the issues you can improve on. The feedback must also seek to collect positive comments.

You now have completed one cycle. Marketing the next event (marketing cycle) gets easier. You use the database of contacts you already built up to direct market to these “qualified” people. Most importantly, in your promotional communication you tell them (from your feedback) what has changed (to make it a better event), and you include the positive comments (testimonials) from people. You then continue through the remainder of the cycle.

As you can appreciate, for each subsequent event (marketing cycle) the information you generate gets more fine tuned to what people want so you can deliver events they will be more motivated to attend.

An online booking (& payment) service provides an excellent way to manage the Marketing Cycle as it will collect email and postal addresses (and payments), automatically provide confirmation emails and send reminder emails (plus use it to ask them to tell others). The most critical part is it will collect feedback after the event. This is the marketing gold of your Marketing Cycle!

For the next event you simply use your database to direct mail. Plus you also now have another valuable weapon as part of the Marketing Cycle. Most people will only respond to a promotional after several communications. You can now very easily use your on line booking system to send subsequent follow up promotions to only those on your database who have not yet registered.

The marketing cycle is how www.mybookingmanager.com, an on line booking & payment system operates. The big benefit apart from creating a valuable Marketing Cycle is all the bookings, payments, confirmations, reminders and feedback functions ar all automated leaving you time to promote bigger and better events and shows.

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