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Being Sent Gratitude Postcards

Today in the mail I got this postcard from my cell phone provider where they were thanking me for being a customer for over 6 years. It was a pretty generic postcard that was like a template, so it wasn’t anything special. They often say that in business sending out things like postcards to customers

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Inheriting Debt Which Technically Means A Profit

So here was a scenario that is kind of interesting based on a real life situation. Let’s say there is a building that costs one million dollars. The two owners decided to part ways. The situation, one person was very attached to the building and wanted to buy the other half of it from his

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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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When It Is Free Everyone Shows Up

Today there was a big event here as our expanded rapid transit system that connected the airport to the downtown core was open to the public. This is supposed to help a lot with the Vancouver Olympics 2010 traffic as well. To celebrate this everyone was allowed to ride the train for free for about

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People You Know Very Well In A Business Setting

I was reading various literatures today about some different perspectives on what it takes to become successful financially when it comes to a business life. One theme that was a common one was where to be successful you need the support of friends and family. Then, there is the other view where if you want

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Odd Blunt Way of Scaring Off Shoplifters

I was at a local grocery store today and it appeared that they were renovated a portion of the store to introduce something new. Wasn’t this a very surprising signage that I saw: As you can see, the sign says “Coming Soon, Shoplifters’ holding room”. I had to look at it a couple of times

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