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The Trend of Not Actually Owning Your Software

Yesterday I was comparing various accounting software again and one thing that I looked into was all these Cloud based software where you are essentially subscribing to use the service on a monthly basis. Some of the prices were well over $20/month too which means in a year it would be $240. That made me

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Business

Getting People To Beta Test For You

I was reading recently on how they were going to introduce these digital cards of sort for the public transportation here where instead of having to pay in coins you can imply load up this card and scan it on the spot to pay for a fare. It sounded kind of neat to me and

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Business

Charging More But Still Surviving

I was a little dumbfounded today as I visited this market inside a small mall where there was about three different groceries. Two of them were literally beside each other where the product offerings and prices were virtually identical. On the other hand, there was another grocery store that was about two stores away and

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Business

Assuming What The Other Person Will Pay or Settle For

I heard some pleasant news today as I was helping a person before in tying to find a place to live that made sense value wise for their budget. So initially there was this place that was asking for almost $215,000. Funny thing was I was doing my research ahead of time such as how

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Company Merges From A Consumer Stance

Recently it was announced that a large grocery chain called Loblaws here was merging with another large company called Shoppers Drug Mart and it was kind of interesting to hear some of the reactions. For example, some people didn’t think it was a big deal from a consumer point of view whereas others immediately thought

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Business

Too Common Sales Techniques

There was kind of a funny situation today as I was hearing a conversation where a buyer of a property was negotiating a price and both parties were represented by real estate agents. As expected there was a lot of back and fourth. The thing that stood out the most was how the seller was

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