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Cheap Deals To Get Contact Information

I was reading this snippet today about how a certain company was using loss leaders as a way to attract shoppers. Nothing new about that of course. What was interesting was that it specifically mentioned that the purpose of this loss leader was to create a database where they could obtain people’s contact information like

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Reading The Manuals Instead

I found it a little interesting where because there will be a new tax system here soon a ton of accounting software companies are urging people to update their programs to adapt to this new change. Really, the changes are simply adding one new field to a person’s invoicing procedure to display the new tax

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Financial Management

Tax Free Shopping Incentives

I was recently reading this snipbit, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127581050, on how in July BC residents can shop at WA in a tax exempt fashion. Kind of an interesting way to draw out of country shoppers if that was the intent. Although, if you are thinking of crossing the border you still need to keep in mind that

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Limousine Instead of A Taxi

Well this caught me off guard. This guy was telling me today that his friends and himself needed a ride and so they decided to phone for a limousine company to pick them up. What immediately ran across my head was how that must cost a lot and seems to be such a waste of

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Business

Business Leveraging Early or Later

I had an interesting conversation with a person today where he was saying how he was thinking of the long term immediately when it came to his business and how his plan from day one is to try and leverage himself immediately where he doesn’t have to do everything himself. Example, instead of doing a

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Financial Management

Income Solely For Living

A person was telling me today where he used so little money that working four days a week can pretty much cover his monthly housing bill and working a full week will cover all of his grocery expenses. People then got really curious about his income as that sounded like a person who was say

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