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How to Break Up with Your Business Partner

Success

When your company and livelihood are at stake, how do you keep the process fair, with minimal drama, and preserve the friendship ? They will take sides, it will divide the company, and they will leave. In 2005, I wanted to start my own firm and asked if he’d like to partner. Breaking up is never easy. Put your guns down.

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Time Spent on Social Networks Exploding; Email and IM Fading

Small Business Labs

  From the article: "the uptick in social networks led to the 28% and 15% declines in email and instant messaging, respectively." " But despite the declines, the death of email is greatly exaggerated.  of our online time on email and it's the most popular mobile phone application. 

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Could You Write a Book in a Month?

Success

In 2005 I was confident. Just six months before, I had made a major career change , leaving my position as a marketing director at a publishing company to start my own business and begin a writing career. I email a writer friend who tells me, without a doubt, “Do not write in first-person narrative.

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The Power of Hope: How I Qualified for the Paralympic Games

Success

During 2005 spring break, when I was a 14-year-old freshman at Jserra Catholic High School in Orange County, California, my best friend Scott and I were riding his dirt bike from my house to his. I showed up at the clinic hosted by Challenged Athletes Foundation and Ossur Prosthetics Company. He emailed me back within just a few days.

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‘Maybe the Only Way to Have an Answer to the Unknown Is to Face It Every So Often’

Success

This was the spring of 2005. In the summer I can sit on my front porch and listen to the chirp of blackbirds and the song of sparrows, and in the winter, when the leaves have fallen, I can see the top of the 48-story Duke Energy Building, home of the nation’s largest electric holding company. MICHAEL GRAFF.

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Google+, Is it Worth the Effort?

Tips From T. Marie

In fact in 2005 the following was written on TechCrunch about the new social network Facebook: To become a college member of facebook you must have a.edu college/university email address. The same younger tech savvy users that companies like Kia are focusing on with their marketing. Most colleges issue these to students.

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E-mail Etiquette

Laughing all the Way to Work

Email is no longer just for personal use, with all our accepted short forms: LOL, U, GB and a co-worker's favourite, OMG! Your company may have a policy on how they want you to address people in external business email. 1 Be Courteous With Email Are you There? Jane Watson of J. This is a great tip from Jane Watson of J.

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