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Selling Digital Shorts

Looks like there is now a new method for authors to sell their short stories and literatures online as Amazon.com has introduced a system where people can purchase an author’s work for 49 cents and then view it by simply downloading a pdf file, viewing it online or receiving it through e-mail. I’m always a

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Laptop Sales Stampede

Today while browsing the Internet I read about a sales event located in Henrico County near Richmond, Virginia where there were about 1000 used laptops selling for about $50 each. This was one of those first-come first-serve sales and not surprisingly there was a large crowd waiting to get their hands on one. The laptops

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Financial Management

Self-Responsible Gambling Debt

Just recently I encountered a situation where a person who was in desperate need of money due to a large gambling debt was constantly pestering her friends into lending her money. Unfortunately, this was not an isolated incident as it has happened before and to make things worse she never fulfilled her promise in paying

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Financial Management

Getting The Most Out of Your Possessions

With the busy shopping season quickly approaching, I am reminded on just how many things that people buy as they feel that they need a particular item when really they already have something that is perfectly usable for their needs. My best personal example that often causes a lot of people to become extremely baffled

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Network Marketing and Direct Sales

I was recently asked what I thought about network marketing as an alternative way to generate income or if they were all just a scam like a pyramid or ponzi scheme. Just about everyone that I have met in my life has in one way or another has had some form of experience with network

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Financial Management

Expensive Hopes

I was watching one of those investigative report shows today and one of the topic was about certain matchmaking services and how people pay a lot of money in hopes to find that special someone. While I’m personally not an expert in the matchmaking and dating service industry, it is pretty apparent that it generates

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