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From the category archives:

Your Business

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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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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