Many of the most successful businesses we know started in colleges; Facebook, Dell, Insomnia Cookies, and dozens of world-class brands were once just random ideas written down into a textbook on a campus.
Starting your business as a student may be ...
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5 Things Everyone Should Do Before Applying for a Mortgage
Have you checked your credit score? Do you have all of the correct paperwork in order? Are you aware of the market in which you are planning to buy?
Applying for a mortgage is never an easy job. You can't change your income or credit history ...
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5 Ways to Enjoy Free Family Travel with Credit Cards
Using your credit cards to earn reward points for travel is a legitimate and easy way to see the world with your family. In addition to flying, the reward points can help families cut costs with their hotel, rental car and meals.
Here are several ...
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4 Ways to Save Money on Social Media Promotion Campaigns
A good promotion campaign is essential for the growth of any business. But a good campaign doesn't always mean an expensive one. The modern Internet has dozens of ways to create a great promotion without spending your last money and hoping for ...
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Are You Among the 20% Who Can’t Pay Their Mortgage?
How confident are you that you'll be able to pay your mortgage this month? If the answer is "not very," then you're not alone. In fact, according to a US Census Bureau survey, 20% of Americans said that they had "slight or no confidence" that they'd ...
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My 12th Annual Cost Survey of 10 Popular Brown Bag Sandwiches
If our local high school decides to open its doors this year, the completely unappetizing daily lunch will be $3.75. For a family with two kids, that amounts to $1350 during the course of a 180-day school year.
Oh, sure; $3.75 for lunch may sound ...
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Black Coffee: The Road to Perdition
It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe ...
Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what's been going on in the world of money and personal finance.
Summer is here, but for most people on ...
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The Top 10 Ways to Save Money in College
Many parents with kids in college cover their dormitory fees, living, tuition costs, and sometimes, even their 'write my essay' requests for essay services. But at this age, students want more freedom, and for many of them, it consists of a ...
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How to Manage Your Personal Finances When In the Military
Life in the military brings a huge host of benefits. Chief among them is a stable income -- even in a bad economy. There are a lot of financial perks that you can take advantage of while in the military, but it also requires some discipline on your ...
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Should You Wait to Start a Small Business?
We live in a fast-paced society based around the ideal of instant gratification. Unsurprisingly, patience is a pretty rare virtue in both consumers and business leaders. People are often most concerned with making progress as quickly as possible. ...
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The World’s Greatest Grilled Chicken Marinade Recipe
A couple years ago a friend of mine invited me and my family over for a backyard pool party and barbecue. Of course, everybody had a great time.
What made that day at Andy's house particularly memorable was the grilled chicken he served. It was ...
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How to Negotiate a Higher Salary with Potential Employers
Whether you're being considered for a new position at a new company or you're trying to climb the ladder within your current company, the name of the game is a higher salary. Yes, the work is supposed to satisfy us, but for most people it's all about ...
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9 Guilt-Free Ways to Rip Off Your Credit Card Company
Sitting on the edge of the Sonoran desert, along the main highway between Los Angeles and Palm Springs, lies Hadley's, a popular fruit stand and tourist stop that sells, among other things, banana date shakes.
I love 'em; they're an incredibly ...
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Black Coffee: All That Glitters
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4 Positive Financial Habits to Develop Right Now
Whether you're managing your own money or your business's resources, good financial habits take time to build. Indeed, developing and then carrying out a sound financial plan is often the product of months or even years of hard work and dedication. ...
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Where to Gather Information for Informed Investment Decisions
Today's investors have so many investment tools and resources they need to achieve financial gain. But in the age of information, knowing where to look is a critical step. Reliable information can prevent investors from making costly mistakes, like ...
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A Few Thoughts from Aunt Doris: A Cat’s a Cat and That’s That
This is another post in an occasional series from my dear Aunt Doris, who passed away in 2015 at the age of 94.
A dog will always greet you with eyes glazed with love, and a tail that nearly wags itself off.
A cat merely tolerates ...
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True Story: My Spouse Skipped Town and Left Me Penniless!
I'd always considered myself pretty street smart. You know, the kind of girl that didn't have an easy life and had learned many lessons via the School of Hard Knocks.
Then I married my Prince Charming. He didn't make much money, but we shared the ...
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Black Coffee: Rock Covers Paper
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After a long wait, silver has finally ...
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Frugal or Cheap: What’s the Difference?
For most people money is a sensitive subject. While some do their very best not to come across as being tight as a tick, others always settle for the cheapest option without regard to value for money. Of course, those who are frugal lie somewhere in ...
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