Are Banks Still Providing Loans for Cars, College Tuition or Mortgages?

Are Banks Still Providing Loans for Cars, College Tuition or Mortgages? As a result of the plunge in the stock market, most economists are specifically looking at the Credit Index.  This indicates whether or not there is an opening for banks to begin lending again. In a New York Times article dated October 20, 2008, Andrew Sorkin stated emphatically:  “The banks aren’t lending.  And despite what you have heard, they probably won’t start just yet.” Unfortunately, as Mr. Sorkin stated, the reason most ... Read More


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Web 2.0 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers

Web 2.0 Heroes:  Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers You’ve heard about Web 2.0, but you’re not quite sure how to crack the code? Is it technology or is it a philosophy? The author, Bradley L Jones, interviews 20 of the greatest influencers like: • Rodrigo Madanes of Skype • Tim Harris of Microsoft Corp. • Biz Stone of Twitter • Max Mancini of eBay • Alan Meckler of Internet.com • Gina Bianchini of Ning • Richard MacManus of Read/Write Web & Web 2.0 Workgroup • Michelle Turner of ... Read More


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Smart Women Finish Rich: 9 Steps to Achieving Financial Security and Funding Your Dreams

Smart Women Finish Rich:  9 Steps to Achieving Financial Security and Funding Your Dreams Are you a small business owner? Do you still believe you have to have money to make money? Smart Women Finish Rich author, David Bach understands that a business owner may not have the money to invest. Bach learned all he knows from his grandmother. His grandmother had great financial wisdom and he is moved to share this with women today that want to get their financial lives ... Read More


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How to Say It for Women: Communicating with Confidence and Power Using the Language of Success

How to Say It for Women:  Communicating with Confidence and Power Using the Language of Success Do you feel like you are putting your 110 percent effort into your work but it leaves you feeling unappreciated and respected? Are you finding yourself not able to get your point across to co-workers and employees? How to Say It for Women: Communicating with Confidence and Power Using the Language of Success will help you use the right words, phrases and gestures to get ... Read More


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Real You Incorporated: 8 Essentials for Women Entrepreneurs

Real You Incorporated: 8 Essentials for Women Entrepreneurs Even though it’s your own business, don’t you feel like you still have to play by the handbook of the so-called corporate “boys-club”? Author, Kaira Sturdivant Rouda, says, “It’s a fact; every sixty seconds a woman starts a business.” While we may be strong, confident business women ready to take on the world, we are still almost forced to follow the footsteps of the male driven corporate world. Real You Incorporated gives women ... Read More


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Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync?

Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? Bestselling author, Seth Godin, compares marketing to an ice cream sundae. Godin describes the comparison - "All these tactics (blogs, e-mail, YouTube videos, MySpace pages, Google AdWords) are like the toppings at an ice cream parlor. If you start with ice cream, adding cherries and hot fudge and whipped cream will make it taste great. But if you start with a bowl of meatballs . . . yuck!” Godin refers boring brands to “meatballs”. ... Read More


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The Marketing Toolkit for Growing Businesses: Tips, Techniques and Tools to Improve Your Marketing

The Marketing Toolkit for Growing Businesses:  Tips, Techniques and Tools to Improve Your Marketing Found the perfect product for the perfect business but you don’t know where to start when it comes to marketing? You say you want your small business to grow but don’t know how to make it happen? The Marketing Toolkit for Growing Business is here to help. This step-by-step guide is going to take you through the basics of a marketing plan. You’ll have all the tricks ... Read More


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Five Great Marketing Tools to Be On the Lookout For

Five Great Marketing Tools to Be On the Lookout For With the growing number of people who are getting into online marketing, it's getting more competitive each day.  Online marketers must work hard to stay ahead of the game.  New Internet trends emerge faster than you can blink, and by staying on top of them, your business will flourish. There are tons of tools that online marketers can use to get their messages across and keep their sites at the top of ... Read More


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How to Do Everything with Google Tools

How to Do Everything with Google Tools Want to know all that Google has to offer? Maybe you knew what all Google can do, but you have no idea where to start. How to Do Everything with Google Tools will give you all the information you need to be able to make the most of the Google tools that can make your work more resourceful and your business beneficial. It can even make your Internet know-how much more fun. (You will ... Read More


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YouTube as a Marketing Tool

YouTube as a Marketing Tool YouTube has only been online for a few short years, but it has quickly become one of the hottest destinations on the Internet.  Once a little-used medium due to slow Internet connections, the widespread use of broadband has made online video a popular attraction.  YouTube is one of the first sites to have been built around online video, and its ease of use and variety of videos has made it extremely popular. Marketers were quick to catch ... Read More


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