Soul Band for a Party
Was the request six months ago, a sixtieth birthday party, the client said. It got me thinking. There is a whole untapped market out there for people who lived as teenagers and twenty somethings through the sixties and seventies. They are all coming up to this big sixtieth birthday date and they ...
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Over Fifty and Overloaded With Debt?
In a recent article for AARP, Lucretia Marmon says older
Americans are going deeper in debt!Did you know that 450,000 of them filed for bankruptcy in
2003? This makes older Americans the fastest growing age group
in bankruptcy. It seems that a down-turn in economic times
and todays easy credit ...
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Unintended Consequences
Direct Answers - Column for the week of May 26, 2003My sister is celebrating her tenth anniversary this summer, and I'm concerned she is letting her relationship go. Her husband refuses to acknowledge any problems and doesn't believe in counseling.At the time my sister married, she was a ...
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How To Stop Junk Faxes From Wasting Your Paper and Toner
Junk faxes waste the resources of every business. It is estimated that they cost businesses tens of millions of dollars a year in wasted paper, toner and fax machine maintenance. There is nothing more aggravating then coming into the office each morning to find a pile of junk faxes promotion ...
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Having a Bad e MALE Day? Email, Spam, Spam and More Spam
You just sat at your desk, opened your email account and what do you get? First there is some anonymous donkey from an anonymous and anything but respectable mortgage lender telling you that they can arrange your finance at 3% and all you need to do now that your application is approved is to sign ...
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Stop Annoying Email NOW
Do you get odd emails and wonder how they got your email address? Never been to a porn site and yet get porn emails? Do you get viagara emails? Or any medication emails at all? Home mortgage emails?It seems like I get more junk and useless email from people I know than I do from spammers. Your ...
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Dont Wait to Enjoy Life Do It Now!
Sound Familiar?:- The average credit card debt is over $8,000 and is expected to grow at least 10% each year.- The average car debt is $12,750.- The average mortgage is $184,000 at an interest rate of 6.75% and a monthly payment of $1,193.Such conditions lead many people in search of business ...
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My Own Online Business After A Divorce And Almost Bankruptcy
When I got divorced, I didn't know how I was going to be able to cope with my financial responsibilities which included mortgage, car, my kids's private school plus all the other expenses related to having a family without a husband's salary.I had recently lost my full-time job, had managed to find ...
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Turning On The Lights
Fun From The StartFor those with the will to start a new business the rewards, both financial and emotional, can be excellent, but the risks can also be significant to both sanity and mortgage. Of course, the chance of success increases if a company has a good, well thought through strategy before ...
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All About Spam
Spam is annoying. Period. Why people would want to send all of us stupid messages about buying prescription drugs or getting some outrageously good mortgage rate is beyond me. Well, not really.You might ignore those emails. But not everyone does. And that's why they're sent. Emails cost so little ...
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Email Spam and Phishing
It seems like the volume of email spam has doubled in the last month. Increasingly, we receive daily emails for better mortgage rates, pharmaceutical discounts, and offers to enlarge body parts we dont even have.The next generation of sophisticated tools is available to email spammers. Hidden code ...
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Understand a Real Estate Appraisal
Happy New Year. Make a difference this year. "Pay it forward" as in the movie. If you haven't seen it, WOW, do.If you buy a house or refinance one, through a lender, you will have to have an appraisal. The reason it is required is FHA insures the loan, VA quarantees the loan and conventional loans ...
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