While doing some online research about taking Canada tours and other vacation options in the frozen land to the north, I discovered something pretty amazing. Canada actually has more than just a winter season!
In fact, I discovered information about the Sulphur Mountain hot springs and immediately became enamored with the concept of heading up that [...]

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If you are self-employed or the owner of your own business, you may need to think a little harder about your retirement than the average person.  Instead of having a pension or a company-sponsored (and sometimes matched) retirement plan, you are left to handle your retirement savings entirely on your own.
Unfortunately, retirement isn’t cheap, particularly [...]

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Dreams can really change in a hurry, can’t they?  I remember sitting on my father’s knee, watching him go over his cases for the next day, and thinking he was the very best criminal defense attorney Clearwater had ever seen.  I thought he might have even been the best the world had ever seen.  All [...]

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When I was younger I always had cars that were low-end.  Then when I got older I had kids and the cars I had were not only low-end but used.  I always swore that when my kids were grown and I was financially capable I would buy the car I always wanted.  I did the [...]

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As a local business owner, I’ve been contacted by a couple of call center consultants to do some inbound consulting for my sales team. I’ve learned quite a bit from these consultants, and I’ve found how to maximize my returns by reducing my over all overhead. One big topic of discussion has been to outsource [...]

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Our babysitter is afraid of our house. We have windows along the entire back side of the home which opens up into the backyard and at night, with no lights behind the house, it can feel very isolating. She had babysat for us several times during the day but on her first evening of work, [...]

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Security is the name of the game, and SFTP file transfer is the only type of FTP service I’ll ever use. As a Linux and Unix nut, I am very concerned about the security of my data. I often have huge amounts of local videos and pictures that need to be backed up routinely. I [...]

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I own several franchises in a large and very profitable chain of pawn shops.  Unlike many businesses, we’ve been doing very well in recent years, especially this past year.  It’s really amazing how many people all over the country rely on pawn shops for cash to get them through bad times and recessions.  While pawn [...]

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Tattoos have become the staple of pop culture these days. They are an age-old way of expressing ourselves. I’ve seen everything from cross tattoos to dragon tattoos, and on people from every ethnic group. Honestly, I think it is funny that this type of self-expression has been around for thousands of years. Indigenous people of [...]

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There are a a wealth of business opportunities out there that target other businesses.  Everyone from tax advisors and cost seg engineering specialists, to software consultants and various types of vendors, are there to provide your business with their services.
Of course, for B2B companies, marketing is somewhat different.  The customers you are trying to attract [...]

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