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The Great Recession has turned into the best of times for young investor Daniel Lee. Early this year, the 30-year-old salesman in Scottsdale, Ariz., shelved expensive meals and vacation plans and threw "every spare dollar" into the stock market. The value of his portfolio has more than tripled as the market has rallied since March. "This is like buying a swim ...

Writing college term papers take the time of most students. These college paper requirements are common in students' stay in a university. Thus, it becomes inevitable for anyone seeking a major degree to write his or her own academic paper.   With the growing pressure to deliver, students are sometimes tempted to hire the services of freelance college paper writers ...

Important tips to remember ... and don't forget the ever important one: smile before speaking.  You can hear that smile in your voice.

PRIZES for the most remarkable promotional offer of recent times go to a US tractor dealer who is offering a free AK-47 assault rifle with every tractor purchase. Henry Jordan, a partner in Carolina Tractor and Marine, in South Carolina, said the offer was a 'win-win' to boost vehicle sales and give farmers 'vital protection'. "We thought: 'You know what? Every ...

It's a Thursday morning, a traditionally slow day in the car buying business. But today, negotiations are going throughout the showroom of Toyota of South Florida. The government's Cash for Clunkers program had jump-started a buying binge that had customers streaming in, for a change. Gretel Santana is alternating between scrutinizing contracts and explaining to me how taken aback customers are ...

During her eight-month jobless stint, Amy Tinsley of Houston may well have been the happiest unemployed woman in America. Tinsley, a former marketing director for a local law firm, was laid off in December. It was the first time since age 16 that she'd been without a job. Unlike most of America's unemployed, however, Tinsley wasn't fretting about her down time. ...

CHICAGO, Aug. 12 - In the midst of a stressful employment environment, hiring managers took some time to bring a little levity to the workplace. More than 2,600 hiring managers participated in a nationwide survey from CareerBuilder, citing examples of the oddest complaints they received from employees. Highlights include: -- Employee is too sun-tanned. -- Employee has big hair. -- Employee ...

Philippine remittance services have evolved significantly in the last 25 years. Arising from a need to send money home in a safe and reliable manner but held back by the high cost of transacting through banks, OFWs sought more economical means of sending money home.     The earliest and most common channel was the “padala” where money is sent ...

What does the content of your resume say about you? Is it an autobiography, or a solution to your readers' problems? IF your resume gets seen by human eyes (remember, 97% get pre-screened by a database search), you have an average 15 seconds to capture the reader's attention. That's the average time spent reviewing a resume. In 15 seconds an interview/no ...

Even though Ron Giesler, 42, lost his job wiring oil rigs three weeks ago, the Seabrook, Texas, resident is still working as an electrician. He's just getting paid in trade: laptops, computer parts and other used goods. When Christine Rietsch, 41, of Fridley, Minn., had her hours cut, she got creative so her two children could have a merry Christmas. She ...

Are you looking for a job, but think you can't find one because there just aren't any opportunities out there? Think again. There are a few companies that are still growing and thriving despite, or maybe because of, the economic downturn. SalesHQ did the research for you and compiled a list of 15 workplaces that aren't laying people off and that ...

Why do professional athletes work out in the off season and go to training camp every year? Don’t they already know everything? They are professionals right? They are the best of the best… there can’t be anything else they can learn and certainly, no way they can get any better - right?  Wrong!   Any top professional that you meet ...

A manager at an Oregon car dealership said he was fired because he insisted on being an honest salesman. The state supreme court disagreed Thursday. Kevin Lamson argued he was wrongfully discharged from Crater Lake Motors in Medford after he told his bosses he wanted no part of a sales campaign that he believed included deceptive ads and sales practices. Lamson ...

Time flies when you're wasting it These days, no one can afford to waste time at work. Thanks to widespread downsizing, workloads are piling up. Unfortunately, extra hours in the day are not. Maximizing your time at work can mean the difference between leaving at a reasonable hour (i.e. holding onto your sanity) and staying late unnecessarily. You’ve got a ...

OK, so you've written your resume, you've done 3 versions for specific job criteria, and you're drinking the Koolaid of sending fewer, but more targeted resumes. You're on the right path to searching for a new job. Today's post talks about the first tool a job seeker should consider: Linkedin. Many readers may already be on Linkedin, but I'm consistently amazed ...

Keeping a small business afloat is a tough task during the best of times, but espe cially so in a sluggish economy. Few folks know that better than Diane Heath, the owner and president of Custom Made Inc., a Gibsonville company that makes signs, banners, decals, displays and other items for businesses. "What has been ... the most challenging thing for ...

 illuminating ideas for success. Our story: Embracing the spirit of giving, four local business consultants have banded together to offer a gift to the local small business community: a free seminar highlighting less expensive and more effective ways to market their businesses, just in time for the holiday season. Combine one accountant, one desktop publisher, one organizational consultant and one extreme ...

Maybe you're around the corner from 30 and aren't even half way through student loans. Or you bit off more than you can chew with the nice house everyone said you could afford. If you've cut back to absolute frugal basics and still find it hard to get by, you need to generate more revenue. This might mean getting a better ...

SAN FRANCISCO - There are plenty of reasons to hate spammers. Add this to the list: They're environmentally unfriendly. A report being released Wednesday by security company McAfee Inc. finds that spammers are a scourge to your inbox and the environment, generating an astounding 62 trillion junk e-mails in 2008 that wasted enough electricity to power 2.4 million U.S. homes for ...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is promising to deliver more than 600,000 jobs through his $787 billion stimulus plan this summer, repackaging a pledge the administration made weeks earlier as the economy continues to lose hundreds of thousands of jobs each month. Obama spotlighted billions in federal agency spending planned this summer in an announcement Monday designed to draw attention to ...