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From the category archives:

Money

8 Ways to Cut your Overhead Expenses from Minimal to Practically Non-existent

8 Ways to Cut your Overhead Expenses from Minimal to Practically Non-existent

May 19, 2009

Lauren Fairbanks is currently a writer and editor for LifeStyler, a NYC-centric guide to budget living. You can also find her on Twitter.
Being a home business owner is tough road to travel. Along with taking on the hefty tasks of branding and selling, you have to organize and manage the administrative aspects of [...]

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Thanks For Your Business: How Do You Say It?

Thanks For Your Business: How Do You Say It?

April 13, 2009

The thank-you note has gone away like the paper it was once written on. I don’t mind an email, or god forbid, a phone call – to thank me for using a service. The problem I have is that I don’t get any of those anymore.
I bought my first home last spring. [...]

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Blogging as a Business – a Blueprint

Blogging as a Business – a Blueprint

March 9, 2009

I’ll be honest with you, I’ve had so many blogs fail I wouldn’t even be able to list them by memory. I’ve tried niche blogs, broad-topic blogs, news blogs, and business blogs… but there was a reason they all failed.
I came across Yaro Starak, a crazy-haired Australian blogger who does very well for himself [...]

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HOW TO: Survive the Twitter Effect

HOW TO: Survive the Twitter Effect

February 12, 2009

“The Twitter Effect” – also known as The Mashable Effect or The Digg Effect – as become a topic of conversation lately due to a handful of blogs being taken offline from the amount of traffic instantaneously sent to them from Twitter.
The basics of the effect are this:  a link is posted by someone on [...]

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Dealing with Job Insecurity

Dealing with Job Insecurity

December 6, 2008

In a time of credit crisis, banks relying on the tax-payers to bail them out, and major auto makers begging the government to be saved, job security for the worker in America is obviously a thing of the past.
Forget job “security,” we’re now dealing with job INsecurity.
If you’re like me, you already know one or [...]

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Money: The problem and the solution

Money: The problem and the solution

May 26, 2008

et’s face it, money is the force that moves the world, moves people to do things they never thought were capable of doing, and it is the thing that would be the solution to so many problems!
For the people that don’t have that much money, which makes the immense majority of the world, having a [...]

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Preparing for a Job Interview

Preparing for a Job Interview

May 15, 2008

Getting ready for a job interview is a job in itself. Taking the time to get yourself prepared for the interview will make all the difference in the world and help to separate you from the rest.
A job interview is a sales pitch, and you are the product. Here is a list of [...]

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How to Make Money and Become Wealthy

How to Make Money and Become Wealthy

May 9, 2008

The stars on the movie screen have a life that is worth aiming for. But, those people are often not the richest people in the world. Everyone defines being rich in a different way, if your definition requires a lot of money.
In order to move from making money to wealthy, you will need to change [...]

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Living Your Reality

Living Your Reality

April 24, 2008

After a long day when you go to bed, right before sleeping, what is the last thing in your mind?
When you wake up in the morning, what is the first thing you think of? It totally depends on what you do and who you are. For most of us, those last and first [...]

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Why Coaching is the Way to Go

Why Coaching is the Way to Go

April 14, 2008

When you hear the word “coach”, what comes first into your mind? Do you picture a basketball team with a man/woman shouting out directions? Or perhaps a football team with a man/woman pacing to and fro and calling out the names of the players?
Coaching is no longer reserved to sports teams; it is now one [...]

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