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Rates of Return on Educational Investment from Micro Studies: The Effects of Human Capital on Economic Development
The conventional wisdom is that there is a high rate of return on primary schooling. This view is based largely on surveys of rate of return studies by Psacharopoulos.

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Your Style Can Predict If Franchise Ownership is Right For You
One way to become a business owner is through franchising and the franchise industry is at an all-time high. There are more franchised businesses than you can possibly imagine. A recent survey found almost 500 concepts in fast food alone, a category that represents only 20% of U.S. franchises. The IFA Educational Foundation’s Economic Impact of Franchised Businesses study indicates there were three quarters of a million franchised businesses in 2001.* To see if franchising could be right for you, compare your previous business experience, your motivations and your current situation to the following examples. * IFA Educational Foundation-FRANdata study released August 2006
Position your brand as category leader
Mick Danskin tells you how to gain category leadership by naming your own category based on your product or service's unique features and benefits.
Factors to Consider Before Choosing a Franchise
Choosing the right franchising category is of utmost importance. You have to make sure that there’s enough demand for the service/product. Also, try to learn about the level of competition in that category.
The Law of Leadership
The key issue in marketing is not convincing prospects that you have a better product or service, explains Mike Farrell with aspenIbiz. The key issue is to create a category you can be first in ... hence the interest in "MyStory" marketing and that you are the category and you must be first in your category. Read this insightful article to learn that it is better to be first than it is to be better. Marketing is a battle of perceptions, not products.
Your Hardware Selection Depends on
You would think as our technology becomes more advanced it would also become more simplified but that just isn't happening. We keep introducing new products (sometimes boldly called category killers) and then somehow people figure out how to add more features, more capabilities, more everything all to show you don't need the other guy's thing. Doesn't happen instead we have more -- of everything! We have more notebooks, more netbooks, more tablets, more smartphones, more plain old phones, just more!! So we get a bigger backpack and add the new category killer with the earlier category killers. All we have to do is figure out who's environment we're working in from time to time
Building Your Unique Brand Identity
For small businesses and entrepreneurs to get clients today, your brand must stand out and be unique. How many times have you heard that message? Probably too many times. Yet, it is true. But most people don’t know how to be unique. Here are a few tips on how to brand yourself properly. Legendary speaker Joe Calloway wrote a book called "Becoming a Category of One." I like that positioning! What he is saying is that when people think of a solution provider, only one name comes to mind. You want that name to be you. Adopt the “category of one” mindset that you and only you can accomplish this task.
iPhone Top Rated Application
Apple has released iPhone apps rating. In free category Facebook is at top, Angry Birds rules in paid category and MLB.com At Bat 2010 is the most growing iPhone app. Most of the top ranked iPhone applications are related to the fun and entertainment.
How to Put Consulting into Consultative Selling
To describe a sales approach as "consultative" doesn't really explain it. It's a broad identifier, like saying someone is religious, which doesn't say what kind of religion. Saying you are a consultative salesperson is like saying you're in the category of "solution-oriented selling" vs. the category of "fast-talking carnival hawker." But that doesn't mean you know HOW TO DO it.
How Does Someone Actually Do Consultative Selling?
To describe a sales approach as "consultative" doesn't really explain it. It's a broad identifier. Saying someone is a consultative salesperson is like saying he's in the category of "solution-oriented selling" vs. the category of "fast-talking carnival hawker." But it doesn't tell you HOW TO DO it.

Shout Out to the Disabled - Overcoming Ableism
What can one say about a category of people labled disabled. This category includes everyone from an elderly man experiencing chronic depression since the death of his wife, to a young blind woman, to a severely mentally retarded child, to a teenager with a mild learning disability, to a mother in a wheelchair, to a businessman with a disease that is progressively decreasing the physical functioning of his body? How can those of us who are currently able-bodied know how to treat people with disabilities?

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