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Customers Have to Pay at Claire's

Make or Break Moments

Claire’s prefers customers who pay with credit cards Or perhaps Claire’s only wants you to spend LESS than $40 It is better to receive two bad $40 checks than one $75 bad check Gosh. One of the things I love about life is that it never ceases to provide lessons. So what do you think?

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Forecast Lessons from Past Small Business Trends Lists

Small Business Labs

  Either way the trend had been around quite a while in 2008 when we said it was "taking off" due to the iPhone's recent success and the expected 2008 release of Google's Android.    But if you'd asked us in 2003 when NFC would have its breakout year, we would have said 2007 or 2008

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Small Business World News Round-up - 2009/11/17

The Small Business Blog

WinWeb’s UK Customers Can Save With MasterCard Business Savings : The credit card organisation MasterCard and Winweb have joined forces and bring a 10% saving to all WinWeb customers. SMEs to vote Tory : Many small businesses say they will vote Conservative in the next election.In Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/12/01

The Small Business Blog

Business owners increasingly upset over credit card transaction fees : Card issuers contend their swipe charges don’t hurt and should remain the same. The Latest Entrepreneurial Fantasy Is Selling Cupcakes : Move over restaurants and bed-and-breakfasts. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Work-Life Balance 2.0 and Small Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Carnival of Money, Growth and Happiness #21 | Credit Card Lowdown Said on October 29th, 2007 at 8:17 pm [.] Oliver - Business Coach Said on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:34 pm Spending quality time with your family and taking part in activities you enjoy – and for many business owners this idea seems out of reach.

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Should Bloggers Charge for Posts? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

The Guardian explains their stategy very well: [link] O’Reilly TOC also provided in 2008 (this how long this discussion has been going) some insight… How Do Publishers and Authors Get Paid in a “Free&# World? Wordsmithing is an art form. to end free content on the paper’s Website. Workplace or soap opera?

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