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Business

Being Used As A Statistical Number To Make Others Look Good

I was thinking of a scenario recently where a company was desperately looking to fill in some positions for another business as they are contracted to find the right people for the job. Usually a business would want to see a ton of people to show that they are actually doing their job in finding

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Financial Management

Turning Off Your Phone Data Roaming On Trips

While I don’t have any intentions of using data roaming features on my cell phone while away, my brother was telling me how I better remember to turn that off completely. He was mentioning how he had to learn the hard way when he was on a trip not too long ago and was checking

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Business

Affair Cheating Site Ashley Madison Getting Hacked

I was wondering why “Ashley Madison” was trending on Twitter today as I logged in. It turns out that the site was hacked by a group of people and they were threatening to release the name and details of 37 million people if the company didn’t close its doors. Aside from the concept of the

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Making Money

Funny How Your Opinion Can Be Worth More Than Skills

The other day I was asked if I wanted to participate in this consumer research survey where the company was essentially hired by another business to try and get public feedback about its products. At the same time, collecting data about consumer behavior. While that isn’t too surprising, the fact that they were willing to

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Business

Public Neighborhood Data For Business Marketing Purposes

I was testing out this online tool called Prizm5 today located at http://www.environicsanalytics.ca/prizm5. Basically, by typing in a postal code it will give you general information about the neighborhoods such as income and lifestyle. With this information, apparently businesses can better understand how to target each community. I tried a few postal codes that I

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Using Add On Services More Than The Main

I was looking over some of my cell phone usage statistics recently and one thing I noticed was how it appeared that I used the data services more than the phone service. For example, communicating with people through text or e-mail. It kind of made me wonder if I should have it the other way

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