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[6 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
LinkedIn Answers Can Help You Find New Clients

[Image]Business owner, Maria Marsala, shares her tips on using LinkedIn Answers to find new customers and clients in the shortest amount of time.
If your ideal clients are on LinkedIn, then you want to be there, too. So create a keyword driven profile on LinkedIn for yourself. Complete every area possible, take a look at the apps (applications/programs) you might want to add, and you’re done… right?
Wrong.
One of the best ways to dip your feet into a community of new business owners and executives, like LinkedIn, is to ask or answer …

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[26 Sep 2009 | No Comment | ]
Not 2 in 2,000 Businesses Ever Take Advantage of This Incredibly Easy Profit-Builder

[Image] Q&A with America’s most expensive business consultant, Jay Abraham. Part I
Would you like to magically know what would be the highest price you could charge for your product or service and have people lined up to do business with you?
Would you like to know what headlines on your ads would attract the most readers? What sales pitches you make over the phone would have the most impact?

Or what messages in your literature would persuade the most people that you are the company to turn to? Would …

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[24 Aug 2009 | No Comment | ]
How To Protect Your Email Address Book From a Virus or Worm Attack

[Image]Your email address book is like a vault of gold. Your contacts, made up of customers, vendors, associates and friends, are one of your most precious assets and are considered invaluable.
Here’s a simple, yet ingenious way to protect your email address book from a virus or worm attack
As you may know, when a worm virus gets into your computer, it heads straight for your email address book and sends itself to everyone in there, thus infecting all your customers, friends, associates and other important contacts.
Now, this trick won’t …

Commercial Real Estate and Financing »

[3 Jan 2009 | One Comment | ]

U.S. households took on an additional $8 trillion in debt over the past decade as the housing boom drove home owners to get cash out of their equity through refinancing or equity home loans, according to a recent article in Reuters.  This, in turn, made consumers less interested in saving their money as the chart below shows.

Now overwhelmed with debt, these poor choices made by consumers has resulted in a steep rise of credit card payment defaults as the next shoe is about to drop with a thud on …

Real Estate Investing »

[15 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]

Last night 60 Minutes aired an episode entitled, The Mortgage Meltdown, Where’s The Bottom?, that revealed the mortgage mess that touched off the financial meltdown is far from over, with a second wave of expected defaults on the way that could deepen the bottom of this recession.

Alt-A and Option ARMs Next To Implode
As correspondent Scott Pelley reports, it turns out the abyss is deeper than most people think because there is a second mortgage shock heading for the economy. In the executive suites of Wall Street and Washington, you're beginning …