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Pinterest is the up-and-coming social media networking site that, throughout 2011, confounded expectations and steadily grew into a minor sensation. And it is still growing. It has already done enough to concern Facebook’s upper echelons – they have deemed it necessary for their site to enforce a scrolling “Timeline” to each user’s wall. It is [...]

Buying an investment property in 2012 requires significant knowledge to obtain the best deal. The financial commitment related to maintaining an investment property is slightly different from a primary property. Building insurance, taxes and other details must be considered when planning to purchase an investment property. Mortgage brokers are recommended to teach investors the process. [...]

Despite the growing popularity of higher education in our country, there are still many people who are not financially literate. It has become very common to see a new payday loan store on the corner or an ad online promoting the ease of these types of loans. Without the proper financial education and planning, many [...]

At this time of recession, it’s ironic that three of the fastest growing money-makers are people starting up their own online businesses, writing e-books, and online blogging. People always say everyone has got a book in them – and this may be the case. Nowadays it seems that everyone has got a business in them [...]

College kids know that almost 90 percent of their daily diets come from vending machines. Campus cafeterias usually close at insanely early hours and late night cram/party sessions can only be fueled by stuffing dollars and coins into robotic looking boxes that dispense everything from Red Bull to herbal teas. The over-reliance on student vending [...]

As the year ends, you might be reflecting on the success of your small business over the course of 2011. Looking back at numbers, growth, inventory management, and profits will allow you to determine what went right, what went wrong, and how you can compensate in the following year. Here are a couple of tips [...]

Have you ever gotten an annoying stream of re-tweets on your Twitter page from friends following a political issue? Or have you gotten fed up by all the “pokes” from another friend on your Facebook page? These are examples of bad social-media etiquette, and they can be annoyances that will make you consider blocking or [...]

The other day I received a nice little package of custom business cards from TinyPrints.com so I wanted to run through my experiences in working with their site and share the different products that they offer. When you think of an online printing company, you immediately think of stationary, business cards, signs, labels, etc. While [...]

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Contest Factory for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. Is your office or cubicle a dump? Old technology, crappy chairs, old desks? Then you want to check out this contest called Pimp My Cube…much like the show Pimp My Ride. If you have the [...]

Computer viruses and internet security are two things that everyone should be worrying about when they are putting their personal information out there – especially small businesses. With so many options out there to try to protect yourself from harmful viruses, attacks, and snooping, what do you use? Norton Small Business is a great solution if your answer was “nothing” or anything but Norton.