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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Giving Half of A Present Because of A Future Sale

This was kind of an interesting practice when it comes to giving gifts. Now I have mentioned before that what a lot of people do to save money on Christmas is that they actually buy everyone’s present after the holiday as all the prices for so many products drop like a rock. Especially here in

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Financial Management

A Sale At One Store Means Price Matching It At Another

As expected, during the Christmas time pretty much every retailer throws out discounts in an effort to draw in the holiday shoppers. What’s good for many people too is that a lot more businesses nowadays have a price matching policy where they not only match competitor prices but they also beat the difference by say

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Financial Management

Finding The Best Deals From Stores That Are Not Well Known

Of course today there was a ton of news as a result of Black Friday in the US. I saw one clip where a guy bought like over 6 microwaves which was kind of over the top I thought. There were actually many stores here who decided to run sales events too to try and

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Financial Management

Buying First And Deciding Who To Give It To After

I just recently saw that there is going to be some good sales at various places where I’m sure people would love the items as Christmas gifts. Example, I see places selling brand new laptops/netbooks from about $99 to $200 where the prices are normally about $300 to $500. The good thing is that I

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Business and Finance Books

Profits Aren’t Everything They Are The Only Thing – Chapter 14

Looks like book is coming to an end as this is the second last chapter titled “Teamwork Is Vastly Overrated.” It’s kind of similar to the other points I read in the other chapters where Cloutier emphasizes that employees and your business structure should be follow a military type of setup. Basically, you are like

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Business and Finance Books

Profits Aren’t Everything They Are The Only Thing – Chapter 13

The chapter title was “Give Up Golf, Retreats, Off-Sites, and Trade Shows.” Cloutier sure bashes golf a lot in this chapter where he feels for the most part it just costs business owners a lot of time and money. Example, factoring in how much you have to spend on memberships as well as looking at

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