How Jay-Z Went From Music Mogul to Sports Agent – youngentrepreneur.com A timeline of the life and career of Shawn ‘Jay-Z’ Carter, who transformed himself into a $450-million brand. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » 'The Office' Actor Rainn Wilson Builds a Site for Life's Biggest Questions (Video) – entrepreneur.com Growing social networking site SoulPancake aims to be a ‘question collective’ where users discuss and debate their deepest philosophical quandaries. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com » Do You Like Your Paper White or Green? – noobpreneur.com The ‘green’ aspects of going paperless: how it can benefit your business and the world around...
Facebook redesigns mobile business pages – insidefacebook.com Facebook today released a new mobile layout for business and fan pages, which gives users more actionable information up top but pushes unpinned page posts further down the screen. The redesign better optimizes pages for the mobile use case, for instance, looking up a store’s location or hours, viewing a restaurant’s photos or seeing reviews and friend recommendations… Continue Reading On insidefacebook.com » Ex-Googlers launch venture-backed SRCH2 to speed up enterprise search – thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ SRCH2, an enterprise search startup created by Google veterans, has officially launched, while also announcing an “insider round” of...
The Importance of Using Credit Cards to Run a Blogging Business – bloggingtips.com I’ve been running my online business for over 15 years now and when I first started out I was just a kid. I didn’t have any credit, so I couldn’t get a credit card. For the longest time I was using a credit card in my parents’ names and with all of the spending online they had some killer credit history! Soon enough I was finally able to get a credit card of my own and then the fun began! Having a credit card for your...
IBERIABANK Breaks Above 200-Day Moving Average – Bullish for IBKC – forbes.com/sites/dividendchannel In trading on Tuesday, shares of IBERIABANK Corp (NASD: IBKC) crossed above their 200 day moving average of $48.91, changing hands as high as $48.97 per share. IBERIABANK Corp shares are currently trading up about 1% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of IBKC shares, versus its 200 day moving average: Continue Reading On forbes.com/sites/dividendchannel » T Rowe Price Group, Inc. (TROW) Declares $0.38 Quarterly Dividend; 2% Yield – streetinsider.com Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Dividends/T+Rowe+Price+Group%2C+Inc.+%28TROW%29+Declares+%240.38+Quarterly+Dividend%3B+2%25+Yield/8271557.html for the full story. Continue Reading On streetinsider.com »...
800 Best SEO Posts of the Last 4 Years – searchenginewatch.com/seo Have you ever thought which of SEO and marketing websites statistically provides the best content? Or if what people on these sites write about ever really changes? The sunsetting of Google Reader forced me to find out whose content really is king. Continue Reading On searchenginewatch.com/seo » Transmedia Storytelling: Building Worlds For and With Fans – seomoz.org/blog Posted by gfiorelli1 John loves Batman. He's collected comics since he was nine years old, is proud of owning the first edition of Gotham by Gaslight, and still remembers the afternoons spent watching the...
8 Tools I Use Every Day for Social Engagement – ducttapemarketing.com/blog/ I get asked what tools I use for some of my daily social routines on a somewhat frequent basis. The other day I got that question and it dawned on me that many of the tools I’ve written about for the basic stuff have changed or evolved over the past six months. So, I thought it might be useful to write a post outlining my current tool set for consuming, sharing and interacting online… Continue Reading On ducttapemarketing.com/blog/ » The Future According to Larry Page: Outlook Lazy – wordstream.com/blog...
Worth it – motivationblog.org The post Worth it appeared first on Motivational quotes and posters. Continue Reading On motivationblog.org » Self-Awareness – Recognizing the Seeds of Growth – theselfimprovementblog.com/ By Debbie Pokornik – Imagine you are driving on a dark and relatively isolated highway. You have a two hour drive to reach your destination and you feel relaxed, perhaps even singing a favorite song. With a random glance at the dashboard you suddenly notice your engine is running hotter than it normally does and the needle seems to be moving up as you watch… Continue Reading On theselfimprovementblog.com/ » Tips...
Are These High-Yield Stocks About To Cut Their Dividend? – streetauthority.com In the past six years, profits have been steadily dropping at dieting firm Nutrisystem (Nasdaq: NTRI). Per-share profits of $3 back in 2007 are in the distant past, and the company is now earning a tenth as much. Still, Nutrisystem stands by its annual dividend, which is on track to be 70 cents a share for the fifth straight year… Continue Reading On streetauthority.com » Marketfield's Michael Shaoul Favors General Electric (Audio) – bloomberg.com April 22 (Bloomberg) — Michael Shaoul, chairman and chief executive officer at Marketfield Asset Management...
I Work as a Car Cleaner, How to use the Money I Earn for my Future? – onecentatatime.com On a lazy Sunday afternoon, while SMB was away to her friend’s house, I was looking at the Google Analytics report to research recent search rankings of my articles. Google Analytics reports the exact search terms used to visit the blog. One search term caught my attention while browsing through the list… Continue Reading On onecentatatime.com » Talk about money: The key to financial literacy? – getrichslowly.org/blog This post is from staff writer Sarah Gilbert. April’s post about financial literacy struck something in...
Richard Branson on Building a Strong Reputation – youngentrepreneur.com Virgin Group’s founder on why earning the trust of investors, future partners and suppliers rests on building a strong personal reputation. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » Barefoot Wine's 'Get Rich Slow' Scheme – foxsmallbusinesscenter.com Barefoot Wine founders Bonnie Harvey and Michael Houlihan share their business experience and growth story, and dish on their new book “The Barefoot Spirit.” Continue Reading On foxsmallbusinesscenter.com » Small Business Index Finds SMBs are Motivated to Go Green to Save Money (infographic) – .businessownersideacafe.com/ According to a recent survey conducted by Office Depot, Inc., a leading...
YouTube is testing a new auto-generated playlist feature called YouTube Mix to aid in video discovery – thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ YouTube is experimenting with a new feature designed to help users better discover videos and channels on its site. Called “YouTube Mix”, it’s an auto-generated playlist that will display suggested videos based on what you’re reading. While the video service already has suggested videos displayed in the right-hand sidebar of each page, YouTube Mix offers users the ability to watch 50 videos continuously that it thinks they’ll be interested in… Continue Reading On thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ » Terrorists on Twitter: Al Qaeda tweets to...
Although college is an absolute necessity for the majority of careers these days, financial aid and tuition costs don’t exactly make things easy. It’s hard enough to send one kid to college, let alone several. But there doesn’t seem to be much help on the horizon. The federal government continues to cut educational funding, thanks to a rising federal deficit and a number of other concerns that have been given priority. That means there are fewer grants and scholarships than in previous years, while private and public institutions continue to raise tuition prices in order to make up the funding...
Stop. Don’t post that post! 7 questions to ask before you hit publish – problogger.net This is a guest contribution by Kate Toon, an award-winning SEO and advertising copywriter. You have a blog post. Who cares whether you wrote it yourself or paid someone to create it? It’s the right length. You’ve shoe-horned your chosen keyword phrase ‘Pink llama-wool pyjamas’ into it five times… Continue Reading On problogger.net » 7 Reasons Why Acting Goofy On Your Blog Helps Business – spiceupyourblog.com Guest Post – Our host is Brianne Walter, here Brianne explains why you don't have to be serious on your blog...
Northwest Bancshares, Inc. (NWBI) Declares $0.12 Special Dividend; 1% Yield – streetinsider.com Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Dividends/Northwest+Bancshares%2C+Inc.+%28NWBI%29+Declares+%240.12+Special+Dividend%3B+1%25+Yield/8267591.html for the full story. Continue Reading On streetinsider.com » Success Outliers: Dividend Growth Stocks – dividends4life.com In his bestseller Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell explained the idea that success in many fields comes from factors that may be unusual in the population at large, but that are quite common among the outliers themselves. Dividend growth stocks are usually considered to be boring, “defensive” investments… Continue Reading On dividends4life.com » Ex-Div Reminder for Core Laboratories – forbes.com/sites/dividendchannel Looking at the universe of stocks...
Google Places For Business Gets Its Own iPhone App For Managing Listings – searchengineland.com Local business owners have a new tool for managing their Google Places For Business listing: a dedicated app that works on the iPhone and iPod Touch. There’s no official announcement that I can find about the app, and as best I can tell, the iClarified blog was first to report on it. The… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article… Continue Reading On searchengineland.com » Google Reconsideration Request Guidelines & Example – searchenginewatch.com/seo Writing an awesome reconsideration request is critical when you’re attempting to...
Playlist: Favorite Bands & Artists on Twitter – benchmarkemail.com/blogs Favorite bands and artists to follow on Twitter, in honor of Social Success Stories.Related Articles Introducing Social Success Stories & iPad Mini GiveawayAdding Social Sharing Links to Your Email CampaignsHow Email Marketing Will Evolve In 2010 Continue Reading On benchmarkemail.com/blogs » Don’t Let Your Content Marketing Hit A Wall – unbounce.com/blog Don’t let your content marketing hit a wall (Image source) Don’t look now, but content marketing has hit a wall. In the past month alone, experts at Marketing Profs, Interacter, and Forrester have questioned the legitimacy of what was once...
If we’re talking about a common sense approach to finance – as is the motto of This That & the MBA – the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposed solution to the stay-at-home mom credit crisis certainly doesn’t qualify. In fact, it might even create a rack of far more serious issues, such as a trend toward mediocre credit card terms and overall banking instability. Do I have your attention yet? Hopefully I do, even if you are a bit confused at this point. A bit of background is obviously in order if you’re to fully understand the issue at hand,...
Wear Socks to Fall Asleep Easily – lifehacker.com If you’re having trouble getting to sleep, the problem might not be in your head. In fact, it might be in your feet.Read more… Continue Reading On lifehacker.com » How To Easily Get Unstuck From Your Rut And Make Positive Change – liveboldandbloom.com If I had a penny for all the times I’ve promised myself to make positive change but never followed through, I’d be a wealthy woman. Over the years, I’ve wanted to start running daily, learn French, paint, meditate regularly, and many other endeavors I can’t remember. I’d start them...
Although most people are now aware of looming environmental threats such as global warming, pollution, waste, deforestation, habitat loss, and so on, and many are keen to find ways to reduce their carbon footprint and adopt a greener lifestyle, the truth is that many balk at the prospect of paying more for eco-friendly goods and services, especially in a recession. And while the prices on many products have come down thanks to increased demand and subsequent supply, it cannot be denied that going green can cost a pretty penny. On the other hand, there are plenty of ways that green...
Desperate times often call for desperate measures. And while that may sound a bit dramatic, the recession that’s gripped the global economy over the past several years has left millions of families in that exact sort of situation. Unemployment has hovered around double digits for quite some time now, while most of a family’s regular monthly expenses continue to rise. Even highly qualified and motivated individuals often found themselves asked to cut hours or hunt for work for months and even years, forcing many people to empty their savings account and dig into emergency funds. You can only lean on...
Weekly Recap – April 21st, 2013 – commoncentswealth.com I hope our landscape starts looking like this very soon. We still have 6 inches of snow on the ground right now. This week I’ve decided to expand the list a bit because I’ve found so many other great personal finance blogs and I want you to check them out if you have time. Common Cents Wealth: Dave Ramsey’s Baby Step 4: Invest 15% of your Income to Retirement Young Adult Money: How to Start a WordPress Blog in 5 Easy Steps Escaping My Debt: No Tax Refund, Now What? 1500...
Memphis Invest Shares 3 Small Business Groups Helping Entrepreneurs – blog.memphisinvest.com/blog#sthash.4aMW99W1.dpbs Starting a small business — or growing the one you already own — can be a daunting task. The small business owner must wear many different hats, and he or she must do so with resources that are often in short supply. Memphis Invest has been blessed to come through the last few years of massive growth as an extremely strong company and we wanted to write an article showing other Memphis business owners a few organizations where they can get help and guidance… Continue Reading On blog.memphisinvest.com/blog#sthash.4aMW99W1.dpbs »...
