“Chance favors the prepared mind.“ – Louis Pasteur A storefront just next to yours has just come up for lease… Personal obligations have left you without the ability to fulfill client needs for a week or more… A competitor is expanding their services or products, and customers are drifting away from your business… Small Business […]
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For Father’s Day How valuable is your Dad? On mother’s day back in March, we asked you how valuable is your mum and shared a neat infographic showing just what our mums do for us. With father’s day just around the corner, we wanted to reverse the roles and ask how valuable your dad is.
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One of the hot-button political issues of the day is health insurance. Personal responsibility is a big issue in the current debate on Healthcare Reform. One side believes that the cost of healthcare should be spread evenly among everyone. It sounds fair and reasonable if everyone took care of themselves but the other side says
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Although almost four years have passed since the economy turned south, for many Americans the financial picture is still very difficult. Making the mortgage payment, bills, paying for car repair, insurance, and gasoline, and trying to have a little fun in the meantime can put you under a lot of financial pressure. To make it
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Owning a business can be cash-flow intensive and unfortunately many small business owners need to use credit in order to provide the cash flow they need to succeed. There are many benefits to using business credit cards for your cash flow needs. Not only are business credit cards more appropriate for companies to use, they
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Blogs and bookshops alike are often inundated with financial guides to help students get ready for the monetary challenges that the college years may bring. However for parents, knowing the necessary financial provisions can be more difficult especially for those who have not had the college experience themselves. Of course your teenager is going to
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Teenagers are statistically more likely to be involved in a car accident than any other group of drivers. Because of their increased risks, teens are more expensive to insure. Unfortunately, that usually means that their parents are stuck with high premiums for several years until the teen leaves home and begins paying for insurance on
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As interest rates soar and debt concerns grow, credit cards are not necessarily the most desirable items right now. Talk of a failing economy, mounting economic debt, and high unemployment rates don’t instill much confidence in consumers to take out credit in their name. However, for many of us, credit cards are a necessity of
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Is Life Insurance For Everyone? In today’s economy and society, life insurance can be a necessity. Unfortunately, about 40% of American families don’t have individual life insurance. But for families living on the edge financially, life insurance is especially important because if the family was struggling financially with the primary money earner how much more
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Whether you’ve just purchased your first house or you’ve built up some equity in your home, there’s no doubt about it: home ownership is expensive. Because of this, it’s tough to want to add the additional expense of mortgage insurance to your monthly bills. However, you shouldn’t rule it out without doing some research. 2
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Not Your Average Investor On May 31st 2012, thanks to twitter, worlds literally collided. Well at least metaphorically speaking.  Well known Canadian rap artist Drake shared this tweet with his 7.2 million followers: The first million is the hardest. — Drizzy (@Drake) May 30, 2012 This sparked the following twitter response from T. Boone Pickens:
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Shopping can brighten even the worst of days for many people. Simply head to the store, choose your items and pull out the plastic. For many, that instant high is followed by a devastating crash when they realize that that credit card bill will have to be paid sooner rather than later. Impulsive credit card
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