November 09, 2011
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Tip: Taking Your Business Global
According to a recent survey taken by the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corp., 40 percent of small businesses worldwide want to be trading internationally by 2013. Firms both large and small are daunted by the linguistic and logistical challenges involved in international trade, so the prospect of going global has remained a pipe dream for […]
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Technology: Protect Yourself From Cell Phone Hackers
Cell phone hacking caused the downfall of The News of the World, Britain’s largest and most famous tabloid. This scandal has alerted cell phone users to the mayhem that hackers can create. An ever-increasing problem for the telecommunications industry, cell phone hacking no longer happens only to people in the public eye. More and more […]
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Social Security Benefits Increase Along With Medicare Costs
About 55 million seniors receiving Social Security benefits and 8 million recipients of Supplemental Security Income will enjoy a 3.6 percent cost-of-living adjustment increase beginning with their January 2012 monthly checks. This is the first COLA increase since January 2009. With declining consumer prices in the aftermath of The Great Recession, there were no increases […]
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Stock Market: Sentiment and Reality
Shakespeare’s Hamlet observed that nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. He certainly wasn’t talking about the stock market, but his commentary fits the market’s dizzying ups and downs some 450 years later. How else can we explain a market that ended the third week of October showing an 11 percent bounceback […]
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Is Your Business Something to Blog About?
Blogging has permeated cyberspace. More than 160 million blogs worldwide host everything from personal ramblings and political musings to highly technical how-tos, financial planning and investment advice. Most blogs (short for weblogs) are about hobbies or other personal topics, but recent years have seen an explosion of business blogs developed by companies seeking customers and […]
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Some Unexpected ‘Gifts’ Come With a High Price
“Never look a gift horse in the mouth” is one of those old adages that many of us grew up with. Sometimes, though, even the wisest among us might want to stop and think before accepting a gift with blind trust. One such example is an unexpected check from a taxing authority. Before computers made […]
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Tip: Thriving in Today’s Economy
Studying the headlines every day for clues to the economy can be a frustrating process, and trying to figure out what works best in today’s economy can be exhausting. Relax. Surviving and thriving in today’s economy often doesn’t require abandoning your old systems in favor of something new. In an atmosphere of uncertainty, it is […]
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Technology: What You Need To Know About Complying With CAN-SPAM Act
The CAN-SPAM law has been around since 2003. Designed to be friendly to Internet business efforts, it was passed to stop marketers from using fraudulent or misleading representation to hook customers, and to discourage senders from appropriating email addresses from sources that are not their property – such as Internet Server Provider email directories. Business […]
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Boomerang Kids: How to Protect Your Retirement Plans When an Adult Child Moves Back Home
Adult children moving home after a job loss, divorce or other financial setback is an increasingly common trend. So-called boomerang kids are moving back in with parents at a record pace, up more than 5 percent between 2008 and 2010, according to a recent report by the U.S. Census Bureau. One obvious cause is the […]
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Stock Market: Looking for a Silver Lining
After a summer of ups and downs, the markets headed downward as September drew to a close. By Sept. 25, the decline had affected oil prices as well as the silver and gold markets – which were down 26 percent and 9.6 percent, respectively. The bond market yielded no joy either, with yields on 10-year […]
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