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Zact: The best no-contract wireless plan yet?
Is owning a smarthpone smart if the monthly bills put you in the poorhouse? Not so much. Thankfully, a growing number of upstart carriers are trying to make smartphone pricing cheaper and more manageable. Republic Wireless, for example, offers service for just $19 per month, and as I mentioned a ...
Charlie Hamilton: Most Successful People Worked When They Were Young
Want to raise more responsible kids? Then put them to work, says the Texas businessman.Charlie Hamilton, a serial entrepreneur and champion of Lemonade Day in Lubbock, Texas, knows all about running a successful business. But when it comes to raising successful kids, he's realized sometimes you just have to say ...
Why Fashion Models are Twice as Likely to Get H-1B Visas as Computer Programmers
Want to hire someone on an H-1B visa? It'll be a lot easier if they're a model.Beauty beats brains, and it's better to be sexy than tech-savvy--at least if your goal is to work in the United States under an H-1B visa.The highly coveted visas, which allow U.S. employers to ...
Keep Up the Self-Scrutiny--or Try This
What happens if you don't focus on what you could have done better? An experiment in productivity.As a business owner, you're critical--by nature and by profession. You hold yourself to high standards, and are rarely satisfied with the status quo. You have a tendency to focus on what did not ...
Is it worth it: Master's degree
When the job market stinks, many college students take refuge in graduate school, figuring the time and money spent getting a master’s degree will boost their career prospects. But with the interest rate on student loans doubling to 6.8 percent on July 1 — adding to the $1.1 trillion in ...
3 Reasons I Lead From the Weeds
You can still keep your company moving forward while keeping your feet firmly planted in the day-to-day details. Here are three reasons to do so.You often hear the phrase "in the weeds" in restaurants referring to a server who has fallen behind, but in this post I'm going to use ...
Email Newsletter To Bestselling Book--How a Start-up Pulled It Off
How humility and honesty brought one start-up founder life-changing publicity.Long before bloggers were household names, John Lusk, along with his co-author and business partner Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company's newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles, a New York Times bestselling book. Along the way, they created a supportive community of ...
Will Planning Less Help You Do More?
A productivity junkie who's done it all decides to stop planning entirely. Will his experiment work?Have you tried about a dozen different productivity systems but failed to see long-term results?Computer scientist and professor Cal Newport empathizes. After noticing he had more research ideas than he could possibly turn into papers, ...
College grads are shocked by their own loan debt
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — Are U.S. college graduates “surprised” by the amount of student loan debt they’ve accumulated?You bet they are. But the real question is this: How did college grads not see this loan debt tsunami coming?READ: What will your kid's college really cost?More data are pouring in confirming ...
How to ID a car damaged by Hurricane Sandy
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Hurricane Sandy damaged more than 250,000 automobiles when it slammed into the Eastern United States six months ago, and experts fear dishonest sellers are still trying to soak used-car buyers with vehicles hit by the storm.READ: Here are some questions to ask when buying a car"The ...
7 Foods That Boost Your Brainpower
Making big decisions for your company? Add these foods to your regular diet to keep your mind sharp.Most entrepreneurs are accustomed to long days and hectic schedules. But if you want to make smart decisions for your company, what you put in your body matters almost as much as how ...
Divorcing parents must figure out kids' future expenses now
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — It's a frustrating truth that years after most divorcing parents have signed their separation or divorce agreements, the subject of child-related costs is a source of ongoing squabbles.And whereas the emotional pain fades and the custody issues become fewer, kids' expenses never do. They just seem ...
3 Super-Cheap Marketing Tactics
There's no longer any excuse for letting your marketing slide.As an entrepreneur running a bootstrapped company, marketing is not likely at the top of your to-do list. Bootstrapped companies are by definition lean, so founders don’t usually spend much on formal marketing. After all, great products sell themselves, so why ...
3 Ways To Get Better Results From Your Communications
Communicating from the proper perspective is essential to good business results. Here are 3 ways to make you're able to do that, every time.Recently, when I picked my eleven-year-old daughter up from school, she began to tell me about a writing competition at school. The winner would receive a $100 ...
No Office? 4 Secrets for Managing Virtual Workers
Concerned about getting your money's worth when your team is spread across the country--or the world? Relax. Here are the secrets from a virtual-company pro.Entrepreneurs and small-businesses sometimes need support, but don't want to take on the overhead of a physical office space. And for those who are bootstrapping a ...
10 Dumbest Salary Review Comments
Some bosses say the darnedest things during yearly performance reviews.Want to feel good about your management skills (or those of your boss)? No matter what happens, you probably won't say (or hear) anything as stupid as these real-life comments made during real-life salary reviews:10. "Yes, I know you are my ...
Tips for shopping at the commissary
Does shopping at the Commissary really save you money? My answer, it depends. From my experience as a 11 year military wife, it depends on the state you live in, the surrounding areas, and the time at which you shop. If the cost of living is higher where you are ...
Freebie Corner: 6 free Nescafe Tasters Choice coffee samples
If you're a coffee drinker, you'll love the 6 free samples you can have sent to your home. If coffee isn't your thing, remember to pick up your free key lime doughnut at Krispy Kreme on Wednesday. Kids can get a free meal on their birthday by joining California Pizza ...
How to get into business with your pet
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — When Dee Dee Murray, a Seattle artist, taught her dog to paint, she never dreamed putting a paintbrush in the Dachshund's mouth would also help her own business."When I would paint, she would always come up and lie beside me, and I just wondered if she ...
Divorcing parents must figure out kids' future expenses now
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — It's a frustrating truth that years after most divorcing parents have signed their separation or divorce agreements, the subject of child-related costs is a source of ongoing squabbles.And whereas the emotional pain fades and the custody issues become fewer, kids' expenses never do. They just seem ...
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