Author Archives: Empower

Blake Robbins

Email Blake Robbins

Average Credit Rating Per State

By Empower | Published: April 25, 2012

Banks have recently just passed a stress test answering the question, which states have a populace with a healthy credit score (who are able to use that to their advantage to get better financing deals) and which states have people who still need a little help along the way? To help present a clearer picture, [...]

Posted in Credit, Home Loans, National News, Personal Credit | Tagged credit, fix my credit, pre approval, pre qualified, repair, report, restoration | Leave a comment

Time To Buy Single Family Homes

By Empower | Published: March 6, 2012

Warren Buffet, consistently ranked as one of the world’s wealthiest people and one of the most successful investors in the world, shared insight this week addressing the economic forecast, and unveiling his personal strategy: Single Family Homes. His advice? Buy em. Buy a lot of them, and finance or refinance them with 30 year mortgages. [...]

Posted in Financial Market Place, Financial Planning, Housing Market, Investor, Rates, Real Estate | Tagged 15 year fixed, 30 year fixed, Empower, HARP 2.0, mortgage rates, Real Estate, single family homes, wall street journal, Warren Buffett, zillow.com | Leave a comment

Real Estate Rebound Ahead.

By Empower | Published: February 7, 2012

Although the recession ended in 2009, the aftermath, or ripple effect, reverberates for a time until stabilization, and until the media is finished with the drama. Luckily, in many sectors, the recovery rate is experiencing an increase. With real estate being one of the top performing sectors in 2011 (the S&P/TSX Capped REIT index [...]

Posted in Housing Market, Rates, Unemployment | Tagged 2012, case study, forecast, market, prediction, Real Estate, rebound | Leave a comment

What Gives Americans More Confidence In the Housing Market

By Empower | Published: January 20, 2012

Posted in Financial Market Place, Housing Market, Real Estate, Uncategorized | Tagged consumer confidence, financial marketplace, home buyers, home sellers, Housing Market, investors, Real Estate | Leave a comment

Holidays Are Here! Here’s to Tech Savvy Shopping Tips!

By Empower | Published: November 21, 2011

Happy Holidays! It’s time to carve the turkey, bring out the decorations, bundle up for the cold weather, and prepare for the family members you haven’t seen in a while. Did we mention over-eating? Now that is a tradition we all seem to keep! With the holidays come the holiday shopping; bustling malls filled with [...]

Posted in Saving Money | Tagged apple, holidays, saving money, Technology | Leave a comment

12 Ways to Use a Pumpkin.

By Empower | Published: October 27, 2011

…there are many ways to utilize a pumpkin than just pies, and carving. As one of the most popular crops in the United States–there are a whopping 1.5 billion pounds of pumpkins produced every year – it’s no wonder we have found so many ways to use this orange wonder of the fruit kingdom. Here are twelve ways to put these orange beauties to work…

Posted in Fun, Healthy Living | Tagged biscuits, body butter, bundt, cake, candles, Carving, chocolate, Empower, face mask, fall, financial, floating, fun, halloween, parties, Pecan, Pie, pot pourri, Pumpkin, pumpkin exfoliating mask, roasting, season, seasonal, seeds, smashing, smashing pumpkins, soup, stuffed pumpkin, www.empower.ws | Leave a comment

Steve Jobs. A true iCon.

By Empower | Published: October 6, 2011

…reactions to the death of Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs has been remarkable. His inspiration and wake of success has been the motivation for many. We will all miss you Steve Jobs…

Posted in Financial Market Place, National News, Technology | Tagged 1955 - 2011, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Dick Costolo, Empower, financial, Jayson Burton, Mark Zuckerberg, News, Sergey Brin, Stanford Commencement 2005, Stanford University, Steve Jobs, Technology, www.apple.com, www.empower.ws, www.facebook.com, www.twitter.com | Leave a comment

Four Steps to Create Highly Effective Teams

By Empower | Published: September 28, 2011

…How much do you know about your team? The best managers, and the best teams, are those that function with high levels of Emotional Intelligence (EI). Whether your group is focusing on executing a simple procedure, or designing an innovative service, all teams go through four specific phases to function at their highest potential. These phases are: Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing. Teams that reach the performing stage are like dancers from the Royal Ballet- seamlessly integrating their diverse strengths into one cohesive power-performance…

Posted in Business, Business Consulting | Tagged Business, consulting, Empower, financial, forming, healthy business, healthy teams, Inertia, norming, performing, storming, team building, teamwork, working together, www.empower.ws | Leave a comment

Facebook to offer tools, resources and $10 million in Facebook Ads to boost U.S Small Businesses

By Empower | Published: September 26, 2011

…Today the world’s largest social network has announced it wil partner with National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to provide tools, resources and up to $10 million in Facebook Ads to help small businesses in the U.S thrive…