Weekend Link Love: “The Blogging” Edition – myfijourney.com This weekend link love is brought to you by my favorite grammatically horrid line from the many spam comments that I get: “The blogging is spreading its wings quickly.” For some reason that makes me chuckle every time I think about it. Links! This week I recommend that you check out the following links… Continue Reading On myfijourney.com » Book Review – The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting a Home-Based Business – theamateurfinancier.com/blog/ If you are a regular reader, you’re probably aware that some of my favorite books are the...
The Steps to Complying With Safety Standards – entrepreneur.com How to make sure you are keeping your employees safe on the job. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com » ‘Impact Entrepreneurship’ Places Importance on Social Consciousness – youngentrepreneur.com As a social-impact entrepreneur, you need more than a passion for doing good. Here’s how some ‘treps are putting their chops to work to run successful enterprises and make the world a better place. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » Small Business Growth with a New Idea – businessknowhow.com Launching a new product or a new marketing initiative can raise the awareness of your company....
LastDollar February 2013 Net Worth – consumerismcommentary.com/ Naked With Cash is the year-long series on Consumerism Commentary where seven readers’ households share their financial progress on a monthly basis, and February is “insurance month.” I’ve partnered with financial planners who will offer some guidance along the way. Read this introduction to learn more about the series… Continue Reading On consumerismcommentary.com/ » Living for Today Doesn’t Require You to Drain Tomorrow – thesimepledollar.com “Why would I want to live in misery just so I have a few more dollars when I’m old?” This is an exact quote from a recent reader...
Twitter Careers: New Jobs Posted This Week – mediabistro.com/alltwitter/ This continues our series highlighting new positions posted at Twitter each week. Check out past listings here. This week, Twitter added 190 new jobs to its career page. And here they are: continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. Continue Reading On mediabistro.com/alltwitter/ » Your cross-platform brand and the Epic Battle between Mad Men & Math Men – venturebeat.com/category/social/ Muhammad Yasin is the Marketing Director at HCC Medical Insurance Services When you look at the stakeholders of a website, the folks doing the heavy lifting of strategy and execution, you will find two types...
Viral Videos – Hit or Miss? – blogherald.com Viral videos are pretty hit or miss, and not many brands can match the virality of independent series like My Drunk Kitchen or Awkward Black Girl. Still, the brands who try can end up winning big: Old Spice and Progressive are just two brands who’ve used humor, silliness and social media to achieve virtually instant name recognition… Continue Reading On blogherald.com » Grab 7 Years of Copyblogger Teaching in 20 Emails (No Charge) – copyblogger.com/blog/ Want to discover the smartest ways to mix social media, content marketing, and SEO for lead generation?...
Buffett’s Best Yielding Dividend Stocks – dividends4life.com Buying dividend growth stocks is a popular and proven way to make money. A great investor who followed this approach in a very public way is Warren Buffett. I published recently a full portfolio overview with his latest moves on my blog. Sometimes I get inspired by his investments when I don’t have enough ideas what to buy… Continue Reading On dividends4life.com » My debt situation on date of March 23, 2013 – myfirst50000.com $7 875.45 at a low interest rate of 4.75% (RRSP credit line rates) = $374.08 in annual interest PAID...
There are few things quite as distressing as finding out a friend or loved one is seriously struggling with money. But in the midst of the recent recession this is a regrettably frequent occurrence. The cost of living continues to rise, while jobs are still scarce and many professionals have been forced into pay cuts or reduced hours just to keep their jobs. If you’ve weathered this storm and are still financially whole you’re not exactly in the majority. And you most likely want to help the people you care about to navigate their way through this trouble as well....
Share Your Google Analytics Data As An Infographic – marketingland.com Wouldn’t it be great to get weekly website performance updates as a simple, easy-to-read graphic? Now you can go beyond the Google Analytics dashboard with a new creative – and free – tool by Visual.ly. The New Google Analytics Report automatically delivers an infographic… Please visit Marketing Land for the full article… Continue Reading On marketingland.com » SpeakPipe: Put Voicemail on your Website – marketingtechblog.com If your business doesn’t have the resources to man the phones and respond to every request that comes through your site, you may want to...
Analyze More Real Estate Deals with the Help of this Easy Technique – biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/ I’m going to make a not-so-bold assumption. Ready?! Here it goes: You’re a very busy person. I make this assumption because the nature of our business requires us to constantly be on our toes, continuously change direction, and know the intimate details of our projects and deals. Don’t worry, I’m not lamenting over this… Continue Reading On biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/ » Petition: Want Marriage Equality? Paint Capitol Building Rainbow – realestate.aol.com Filed under: News, Lifestyle Pictured above is what the dome of the U.S. Capitol might look like...
How To Stay Optimistic During a Downward Spiral – pickthebrain.com “Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain” – Robert Gary Lee It happened suddenly. I remembered feeling hopeless, having walked 23 miles from my office to my home in the bitter London weather. I couldn’t understand why I felt so hopeless having been asked to leave at my job for reasons I couldn’t comprehend… Continue Reading On pickthebrain.com » Life Answers Back – garygreenfield.com/blog.html I keep going back to this site for more! What follows is an example why. “A mother wished to encourage her small girl’s interest...
Re: Whart smartphone should I get? – bogleheads.org 1. Nokia 920 (Windows 8) phone. Hands down the best phone I ever had.I like the Galaxy too, but the Windows 8 phone seems faster (ATT).As an iPhone user I think they are SO overrated. If you want to pay for a name then get the iphone. Continue Reading On bogleheads.org » Does the Sequester Have Any Impact on Your Portfolio? – http://www.investmentu.com/ It’s amazing how many debacles our government can create. There’s nothing about the phenomenon known as a “sequester” in any of our political history books because it’s not supposed...
The 'Etsy Economy' and Changing the Way We Shop – entrepreneur.com The online handmade marketplace is seeking to reimagine retail. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com » What the Rolling Stones Can Teach You About Business – inc.com The force that drives sexagenarian Mick Jagger just might be the reason you’re an entrepreneur.In December, my wife, Elaine, and I attended a 50th-anniversary concert of the Rolling Stones at Brooklyn, New York’s new Barclays Center. They’re often referred to as the Strolling Bones these days, and with good reason… Continue Reading On inc.com » The Incubator Bringing Washington D.C.’s Entrepreneurs Together – youngentrepreneur.com...
Shout Out Saturday #10 – frugalrules.com Happy Saturday everyone! Today is the first weekend of spring! One would think with it being spring that warmer temperatures would be awaiting us and that we could get started on working outdoors and get the ball rolling on gardening for the year. Sadly, this does not seem to be the case. As I am writing this on Thursday morning, the weather forecasts are calling for the potential of six to ten inches of snow! You read that right, six to ten inches… Continue Reading On frugalrules.com » Eyes on the Dollar 20/20 Roundup...
4 Steps to Take When Unemployed – free money wisdom Unemployment is not a beloved term in our language, and it is one of the last situations an adult wants to find themselves in. But sadly, for those who entered the workforce right before or during the Great Recession, unemployment has become a fact of life. The most recent numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics put the unemployment rate at 7… Continue Reading On free money wisdom » The Smart Way to Inherit an IRA – moneyning.com/ Even though the majority of Americans are worried about the possibility of...
Optimize Your YouTube Videos Using Google Trends – sproutsocial.com/insights Although social media marketing continues to dominate, a good marketer knows not to focus your marketing strategy on just one tactic. Ideally, social media should work alongside search engine optimization. Your customers are using both, so an interplay between the two is something you have to be prepared for… Continue Reading On sproutsocial.com/insights » Facebook adds ‘listen later’ button to music stories in the feed – insidefacebook.com Facebook has added a “Listen Later” button to Open Graph music stories in the feed, allowing users to fill out a new section of...
5 Easy Ways to Make People Take Your Offer – bloggingtips.com Do you know how to reap maximum profits from your online business? It’s simple. You just need to know how to make people take your offer. In this way, no matter what you’re selling or promoting, you’ll always get people to grab it. You’ll make more sales if you know the secret to make people take your offer… Continue Reading On bloggingtips.com » Why You Should Fire Yourself – copyblogger.com/blog/ What would you do if you discovered that the secret to your success online lay in firing yourself? Would...
Stocks with Unbelievably High Dividends and Low P/Es – dividends4life.com Some of my readers often ask themselves what are the highest yielding stocks at the market. When they read articles about the highest dividend paying shares they noticed Pitney Bowes, who is also a S&P 500 member, or Annaly Capital Management. Both have a double-digit yield at a higher market capitalization and investors of the early round have made their first money with these stocks… Continue Reading On dividends4life.com » Unilever (UL) Dividend Stock Analysis – dividendgrowthinvestor.com Unilever PLC (UL) operates as a fast-moving consumer goods company in Asia, Africa,...
6 steps for creating a scalable, repeatable blogger outreach process [Infographic] – searchenginepeople.com/blog The research is done, the content has been created, and a finished product is ready to live its life online. All outreach hopes to maximise effectiveness through engagement. No matter how visually stimulating the infographic, nor how many great witty quips you've included in the content- it will not attract traffic, links and shares if you don't prepare for scalable outreach to a targeted audience… Continue Reading On searchenginepeople.com/blog » Cheap Parlor Tricks for Competitive Analysis by SERP Weighting – seomoz.org/ugc Posted by ChaseSEO What can an...
Yahoo’s Firefox Toolbar Serving Up Questionable Affiliate Links As Coupons – marketingland.com Yahoo’s partnership with a toolbar provider has led to questionable affiliate links showing up in the latest version of Yahoo’s Firefox toolbar. How questionable? In one case, an affiliate was redirecting traffic from Ticketmaster.com to a competing online ticket seller. In other cases,…. Continue Reading On marketingland.com » The 3 Keys to Success – ducttapemarketing.com/blog/ Enjoy this guest post from Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Joe Costantino. photo credit: seeveeaar via photopin cc What separates the good from the great in any endeavor? What allows one athlete to compete...
'Fifty Shades of Grey' Penthouse in Seattle Sells For $6.2 Million – realestate.aol.com Filed under: News By Sean Keeley For those of us who haven’t read “Fifty Shades Of Grey,” you might be as surprised as us to learn that the major events of the steamy book series take place in the penthouse of the Escala tower at 1920 4th Avenue in Seattle. Even if you haven’t read the book, you’re probably not surprised to learn that the real-life penthouse has sold for the massive price tag of $6… Continue Reading On realestate.aol.com » What We Read Around the Office...
How Self-Improvement Can be Learned Through Pickup Artists – stevenaitchison.co.uk/blog/ You surely raised a brow upon reading the terms “pickup artists” and “self-improvement” in the same sentence. Don’t those sleazy jerks use routines to pickup easy, manipulable women? I’m sure there are people out there like that, but they are actually a community of guys who want to help others improve themselves to become more attractive to the opposite sex in a very classy, humble type of way… Continue Reading On stevenaitchison.co.uk/blog/ » The Glass is Completely full – motivationblog.org The post The Glass is Completely full appeared first on...
Cramer's Mad Money – When A CEO Leaves (3/21/13) – seekingalpha.com By SA Editor Miriam Metzinger: Stocks discussed on the in-depth session of Jim Cramer’s Mad Money TV Program, Thursday March 21. Mellanox (MLNX), Ulta Salon (ULTA), True Religion (TRLG), Groupon (GRPN), Avon (AVP), McDonald’s (MCD), Costco (COST), ARM Holdings (ARMH). Other stocks mentioned: Yahoo (YHOO), P&G (PG) When a CEO or CFO announces he or she is leaving suddenly, that is a red flag that something might be wrong with the business… Continue Reading On seekingalpha.com » Warren Buffett Believes in America — Here’s Why – http://slant.investorplace.com/ Warren Buffett...
'Entourage' Star Adrian Grenier Starts Music Incubator (Video) – entrepreneur.com While the young actor has already co-founded or invested in several startups, this time Grenier is changing his tune. Brian Solis spoke with him about his new venture. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com » A Tech-Savvy Way to Do SMB Accounting – foxsmallbusinesscenter.com We’re highlighting small businesses from around the country as nominated by you, our readers. If your favorite small business is using Twitter to communicate with customers, let us know about it @fbsmallbiz with the hashtag #mysbc, and it may be featured as an upcoming Small Business Spotlight. Continue...
Frugal Friday: Blog Posts That Ruled This Week, $175K Mattress Edition – frugalrules.com Happy Friday everyone! I often like to read the news online and sometimes I just find articles that I have to believe are too stupid to be true. This week was one of those times when I read an article on Yahoo Finance about the Savoir Bed company in London. They are in the process of developing a bed that will cost $175,000! This, of course, was just a bit asinine and had to make sure this company was for real… Continue Reading On frugalrules.com » How...
5 reasons to refinance your mortgage – getrichslowly.org/blog This post is from staff writer Holly Johnson. A few weeks ago, I wrote about how I refinanced my mortgage for the second time in a year. The second refinance wasn’t actually part of my master plan, but I ended up having to refinance in order to remove my private mortgage insurance. And although refinancing our home again proved to be a huge pain, we are now saving $135 per month by no longer paying private mortgage insurance premiums… 4 Things You Can Learn from Your Mortgage Statement – moneysmartlife.com Most of us, when...
