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Financial Management

Is Food One of The Biggest Unnecessary Expense?

Bet that title resulted in some heads turning. Recently I was asked to look at a person’s financial statements for the month. Basically, at the end of the month he had about $500 of spending money left based on an approximate $2500/month in income. Here was the interesting thing with this I thought. All the

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Business

Growing Purely By Word of Mouth

Today I read an e-mail that had a note about how a person’s business grew entirely though word of mouth and that the operation started in a simple home. It continues to grow today and so he wanted to try and get more word of mouth advertising. This is definitely one of the more effective

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Financial Management

Renting To Pay For A House Risk

I was having an interesting conversation today about the notion of a person buying a house that you would need to get a mortgage on like most people. However, in this scenario paying off the mortgage would heavily rely on not so much your regular job but the income you would earn by renting a

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Trusting Rookies To Save Money On Services

I was hearing a story today about a person that needed some consultation about a legal issue and the unfortunate thing was that he couldn’t exactly afford to pay someone like $200/hr to get advice. The option was brought up though that there are usually a lot of law students that are usually willing to

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Financial Management

How Much Money To Warrant A Relocation

My brother was telling me today that he was thinking of moving to Ottawa as a result of a job opening that is more related to what he would like to do career wise. As well, he would get paid more compared to what he is doing. Guess the only real drawback is that his

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Business

Getting Down Promotion Offers In Writing

This must be a cable TV month here or something as another large company has recently launching an aggressive campaign to acquire digital TV customers from the current market leader. What was interesting about this company is that many people have mentioned that door to door salesmen have been going to their homes and saying

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