Don't Get Too Worked Up Over M/I Homes's Earnings + MORE

Re: 39 y.o. and 18 years of Vanguarding – bogleheads.org Helloeeze wrote:Consider yourself blessed that you make enough money to save for retirement and only have to forego appetizers when you go out to dinner to reach your goal. Most of the citizens of this country do not have that opportunity, under those circumstances. They have no matching 401 (k), no surplus income, no "banking" the wife’s salary… Continue Reading On bogleheads.org » The Dow Broke a Record: Here's What History Says Comes Next – dailyfinance.com Filed under: Market News, Stock Markets, Historical Stock Prices, InvestingBy CHRISTINA REXRODE NEW YORK...

Today’s Deals: Barbie, Tax Prep, and Kindle Fire + MORE

Negotiating for perks when raises are off the table – getrichslowly.org/blog This guest post is from David Lye. David is an expert on novated leasing, which is a “company car” type perk that many Australian companies offer their employees. In today’s uncertain economy, many employers are reluctant to offer raises to their employees. You may be lucky enough to keep your job, but chances are that you may not get a raise, or if you do, it could be a very small raise… Continue Reading On getrichslowly.org/blog » Overview of CPP Disability Benefits – canadianfinanceblog.com One of the scariest situations...

This week’s headlines from across Inside Network + MORE

Accounting software startup Xero ditches HTML5 in favor of native iOS and Android apps – thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ Supporters of HTML5 for mobile were dealt a significant blow when Facebook u-turned and began developing native apps last year. Now another company is hedging its bets after accounting software maker Xero gave up on Web apps for mobile claiming that the development was resource intensive and difficult… Continue Reading On thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ » This week’s headlines from across Inside Network – insidefacebook.com A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between March 11 and March. 15. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence...

INFOGRAPHIC: Mean, Green Drink Recipes for St. Patrick’s Day + MORE

INFOGRAPHIC: Mean, Green Drink Recipes for St. Patrick’s Day – blogherald.com St Patrick’s Day is here! If you are looking for something different from pints of Guinness then try some of these drink suggestions below. If you’re a beer lover don’t forget to use these apps. [Via: Halloween Express] Continue Reading On blogherald.com » Financial Planning for Bloggers – problogger.net We all strive to have our personal finances in order.   Managing our financial resources wisely brings peace, security, and allows us to utilize our financial resources on in ways that are important to us. Proper financial planning requires work and...

Weekend Reading Links – March 17, 2013 + MORE

Weekend Reading Links – March 17, 2013 – thediv-net.com For your weekend reading pleasure, the articles listed below contain some of the best dividend and value investing insights found on the web. They were written by various members of the Dividend Investing and Value Network over the past week: Articles From DIV-Net Members Dividends4Life presented 9 Dividend Stocks Trading at a Double-Digit Discount Dividend Growth Investor presented Three stages of dividend growth The Dividend Guy presented How Spending Cuts Will Hit Your Portfolio Disciplined Approach to Investing presented Bonds Continue To Deliver Painful Results For Investors 40percent 20years presented FCF...

Happy St. Patrick’s Day: Google’s Irish Dancers

Happy St. Patrick’s Day: Google’s Irish Dancers – searchengineland.com Today is St. Patrick’s Day and to celebrate, Google has a fun Google Logo, aka Google Doodle, with Irish Dancers doing their Irish dance. Of course, the logo spells out Google’s name, GOOGLE on the dancer’s shirts. Here is a video of them dancing: For more St. Patrick’s Day….. Continue Reading On searchengineland.com »  

Pinterest Introduces Web Analytics, and Other Marketing Stories of the Week + MORE

Pinterest Introduces Web Analytics, and Other Marketing Stories of the Week – blog.hubspot.com Email. Search engines. All those social networks. These channels and platforms are what make inbound marketing possible. Think about it. Without search engines, how would prospects find the content they’re looking for? If there were no such thing as social media, how could businesses still have scalable interactions with thousands of customers and prospects? Sometimes it blows my mind to think how far marketing has come just in the last few years — and how those changes just keep on coming… Continue Reading On blog.hubspot.com » Google...

Step 5 – “Put The “Hubba Hubba in Hub & Spoke”: 12 Steps Crucial to an RE Professional’s Internet Presence + MORE

Why Do You Invest in Real Estate…No, Really…WHY?? – biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/ When we start to do anything in life there is always a reason WHY. Now stay with me here…we have many simple “WHY’s”. Take breathing for example, our “WHY” for breathing is to live! Our “WHY” for going to school is to get smart (or because we are forced to!)… Continue Reading On biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/ » Step 5 – “Put The “Hubba Hubba in Hub & Spoke”: 12 Steps Crucial to an RE Professional’s Internet Presence – geekestateblog.com/blog/ To Create an Internet Presence that can not only “Cast a Wide Net”...

How to Live a Meaningful Life + MORE

This Week’s Top Downloads – lifehacker.com Every week, we share a number of downloads for all platforms to help you get things done. Here were the top downloads from this week. More » Continue Reading On lifehacker.com » How to Live a Meaningful Life – thechangeblog.com Photo by Moyan_Brenn By Izzy My life had turned into a series of checklists.Nice car – check. Masters degree – check. Impressive Resume – check. But there was a problem. As the tears fell from my cheeks, I noticed I was missing a few. Purpose – Meaning – Fulfillment – …Does my life even matter?...

Boeing Lands $106.2 Million in New Pentagon Contracts + MORE

  Re: Effective Tax Rate [How to Calculate?] – bogleheads.org Should we distinguish on the wiki about marginal effective rate? Because the marginal rate is based on your tax bracket, but what is described is,consider how much additional tax you would owe if you added $1 to your income.However, to me, using that definition verbatim would really be a “marginal effective rate” because it considers deductions, and everything else taken into account when thinking about the “tax you would owe”? Continue Reading On bogleheads.org »   Boeing Lands $106.2 Million in New Pentagon Contracts – dailyfinance.com Filed under: InvestingOn Friday,...

Tips to Go Above and Beyond With Customer Service + MORE

10 Must-Read Inspiring Biographies of Business Leaders – youngentrepreneur.com Take a page from the book of the lives of these famous entrepreneurs. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » Tips to Go Above and Beyond With Customer Service – entrepreneur.com Customer loyalty is hard to win and easy to lose. Here’s how to make the extra effort required to stand out from the competition.  Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com » How to Get Email Newsletter Subscribers – businessknowhow.com Wondering how to get subscribers for your email list? Here are 17 email list building strategies that work to build an opt-in email list. Get...

Biggest Challenges to Retirement, Part 2 + MORE

Debt Scholarship Sponsor: David Ning, MoneyNing – debtmovement.com/blog/ Name David Ning Website or Company MoneyNing.com What is your background with debt and how did you conquer the financial obstacles in your life? David Ning here, a proud father or two trying to create an enjoyable and nurturing environment for my family. I started a personal finance website in 2007, MoneyNing… Continue Reading On debtmovement.com/blog/ » Battling Perceptions – thesimepledollar.com Let’s say you have three choices for your work commute. Option A will cost you about $2. It will get you outside your office in forty minutes, but you won’t have...

Social Media News: Timeline, Pinterest Analytics, Google Reader + MORE

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 20 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/ » Flickr updates its iOS app enabling hashtags to be added to any photo’s title, description, or search – thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ Flickr released an update on Saturday to its iOS application with hashtag support. Now, users are able to add a hashtag not only to a photo’s title or description, but they...

The Top 5 Reasons People Aren’t Reading Your Blog! + MORE

5 Content Marketing Links Worth Reading – copyblogger.com/blog/ This week on The Lede … The One Tool that Will Make You Better at Everything Is Audio The Next Big Thing In Digital Marketing? 4 Reasons Content is the Startup of the Future A “Revolutionary” Marketing Strategy Thomas Edison, Power-Napper Want to grab even more useful links (beyond those that make The Lede)? Follow @copyblogger on Twitter… Continue Reading On copyblogger.com/blog/ » The Top 5 Reasons People Aren’t Reading Your Blog! – spiceupyourblog.com Guest Post – Our host is Amy Harris, Amy is trying to get to the core problem of...

Best Dividend Machinery Stocks + MORE

Best Dividend Machinery Stocks – dividends4life.com Investors must be careful because industrial goods stocks have no end-consumers as clients. They are more volatile, depending on the raw economy, and they can lose in recessions 50 percent of their profits or more. Not all industrials are highly cyclic. It mainly depends on the degree of diversification… Continue Reading On dividends4life.com » Weekend Reading – March 16, 2013 – dividendmantra.com Ahh, the weekend. A joyous time in my life. I worked about 55 hours this past week. Usually the department I am in has two people running it – myself and one...

SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 15, 2013

SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 15, 2013 – searchengineland.com Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Google Panda Update 25 Seems To Have Hit There are many webmasters and SEOs believing right now that Google has released an update to their Panda algorithm late… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article… Continue Reading On searchengineland.com »  

Microsoft Study: Multi-Screen Behavior And What It Means For Marketers + MORE

How to Center Align Your Embedded Tweets [Quick Tip] – blog.hubspot.com We love us some embedded tweets. They’re a great way to give your content a little pizzazz, and they help to enhance engagement with it, too — among other use cases. But a couple of months ago when we went to embed a tweet into one of our blog articles, we noticed that Twitter no longer included an out-of-the-box option to specify the alignment of embedded tweets like it used to… Continue Reading On blog.hubspot.com » Microsoft Study: Multi-Screen Behavior And What It Means For Marketers – marketingland.com We all...

5 Ways to Save Money on Big Home Improvement Projects

Part of the joy of owning a home is having the opportunity to reshape it as your heart desires. Over the past few decades the DIY home renovation movement has truly blown up, with massive chains like Home Depot and Lowe’s now providing the weekend contractor with all of the tools and materials necessary to tackle basically any home improvement job. And thanks to the internet, you can also find step-by-step guides to walk you through any situation, many featuring videos that show you those tips in action. So while you may have access to the resources and the information,...

House #39: Final Analysis + MORE

What Is an REO? – realestate.aol.com Filed under: News, BuyingBy Diana Olick REO is one of those terms that you hear a lot lately but can’t quite place. And for people of a certain age, it calls to mind a certain 1970s and ’80s rock band. Alas, that’s not the REO of which we speak. So what is an REO? CNBC explains. What is an REO? REO stands for Real Estate Owned… Continue Reading On realestate.aol.com » House #39: Final Analysis – 123flip.com/blog We closed on the sale of The Rent-Back House today… Nothing more to add about the project...

How to be Outrageous and Change your Life For Ever! + MORE

Does Changing Your Thoughts REALLY Work? – stevenaitchison.co.uk/blog/ The first book that opened my mind to the idea that changing your thoughts could change your life was Joseph Murphy’s, The Power of your Subconscious Mind. I was 21 at the time and to say that I was a little confused about life was an understatement – I was disillusioned with everything. Although I was at a well-respected university studying a well-respected course, I’d lost all faith in the life I’d been conditioned to live… Continue Reading On stevenaitchison.co.uk/blog/ » 10 Steps to Reaching Your Goals – selfhelpzone.com Having goals in...

These Companies are Sitting on Billions of Idle Cash + MORE

Re: Switching Funds to Vanguard – bogleheads.org kitteh wrote:Default User BR wrote:One thing to be aware of, Vanguard won’t allow you to open accounts with an address outside of the US. So don’t try to open any that way. If that’s your situation, say so and people can suggest other options.BrianCurious as to why that is? Anyone know?My understanding is Vanguard does not want the burden of complying with the multitude of laws/rules/regulations in foreign countries… Continue Reading On bogleheads.org » Your Best Way to Buy Bonds: Small-Cap MarketAxess – http://slant.investorplace.com/ There’s plenty of talk about the risk of a...

Shaquille O’Neal on Geeks, Partnering and Winning in Business + MORE

How to Make Sure Your Business Gets Paid – entrepreneur.com The elements of prompt and accurate invoices. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com » 4 Places to Find Big Ideas – inc.com Need to stop fighting fires and find time to think deeply? Here are four activities that can help even the busiest people make space in their schedule for big ideas.Business owners face a conundrum: The day-to-day functioning of your company keeps you super busy, so busy in fact that you generally have little time for the type of deep, strategic thinking on which the long-term success of your business depends…...

How to Encourage Imagination in Children – Importance, Definition & Quotes + MORE

How Rich People Think – budgetsaresexy.com/ Happy Friday, y’all! Rescued this gem out of my spam emails this morning and thought it would make for some good thought over the weekend… Ended up being a pitch about a new book out there called “How Rich People Think,” and whether it’s good or not (I have no idea), the funny part is that it was published back in 2010!! 🙂 Why it’s getting promoted NOW I have no idea, haha, but it does look interesting nonetheless… Continue Reading On budgetsaresexy.com/ » 6 Questions Before Dropping Out of College to Be an...