If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed right now, before you forget, to get the latest posts. Thanks for visiting! Jeanette sent me a question online for me to answer. So can you. I am a Virtual Assistant in Australia and was considering the ‘pay me what you think ...[Read More]

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For those of us financial, debt and credit experts it is just so easy to drift to one side and see things with alarm. Every bit of new news seems like yet another bit of bad news that spells doom and gloom for consumers. The press, media, and yes, maybe even this blog, have run negative economy ...[Read More]

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Years ago I came up with this strange approach to providing compassionate help and assistance to people that were having money troubles and needed some good advice. My approach in the U.S., no set fee for my services. Instead I left it completely up to the person wanting help to determine how ...[Read More]

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My attachment and love for the aviation industry goes way back. I’m also a private pilot and the owner of RareAviation. So I tend to wake up and take notice when another airlines parks the craft for the last time, locks the doors and walks away. The commercial airline industry seems like ...[Read More]

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You know, I remember the good old days when PayPal used to actually provide great customer service. Sure there were some rough edges now and again but compared to the service they deliver now, they were brilliant. It absolutely astounds me how a company like PayPal with Google Checkout wanting ...[Read More]

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Blogging, like many corners of our lives, does not have to be about profit over fun or fun over profit. It can be about balance. Don’t hate me because I make money blogging. What purist bloggers for fun fail to realize is that those of us that blog professionally have financial duties to ...[Read More]

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I just read a great guest post by Mark Hayward titled “Chasing Coconuts: From the Cubicle to the Caribbean“. Mark’s background on his blog MyTropicalEscape makes for a good starting point on his blog and it is worth reading if you have ever been interested in breaking the bonds ...[Read More]

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What started as just a lark as a search engine marketing web blog to play with new keyword and SEO techniques will now grow into my sharing my experience and advice with readers regarding paying for pay per click advertising and search engine marketing. I’ve easily spent more than ...[Read More]

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You would not believe how many times in my professional life people have either asked me for or said they were looking for a high paying job with low responsibility. I always laughed.

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Back in my medical days we always had drug reps come through. Some were far better than others and those tended to be the companies that we relied on. That was imply based on excellent customer service. But today, more and more is coming to light about medical doctors (MDs) that are under ...[Read More]

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By Martin Stephens It is simple if you have copy writing talent and know a few tricks. Talented copywriters have that certain instinct and can grasp of the psychology of the audience that most folks take for granted. If you have never written an attention-getting headline or if you have tried ...[Read More]

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Over the course of my life so far I’ve had many businesses. Some were winners and some were losers. I suppose that sums up in a small way what having your own business can mean. Having your own business means that you are comfortable knowing that on any given day your world can change ...[Read More]

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Years ago I learned a difficult business lesson, the hard way, about how not to get stiffed when getting paid. I’d been stiffed on payment exactly three times until I learned my lesson and then once I learned my lesson, I’ve never had that problem ever again. I suppose the logic ...[Read More]

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We see crazy names online for a web business all the time. But this one made me do a double and triple take. Honest to God, a website named Lake Trash. Only in America can we have a site devoted to the drunken party, take your top off, weekend. Probably a good business to be in, in a recession. ...[Read More]

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Back in my days of working at IBM there was this crotchety mainframe programmer, smarter and wiser than anyone, Don Touso. His bark was definitely worse than his bite and once you learned to ignore the bark, he was a pleasure to hang around. I was the supervisor of the mainframe tech support ...[Read More]

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