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Brands Built on the Tailgate Economy

Success

Wearing a Homefield Apparel shirt shows your fellow fans that you know your team inside and out—after all, only true Texas Tech fans would understand the meaning of the Tortilla Toss T-shirt , for example. Started by John and Jim Jacobsen in 2014, RTIC’s biggest differentiator in the market is affordability.

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Is America "The World's First Poor Rich Country"?

Small Business Labs

  He argues that despite relatively high incomes, growing numbers of Americans can't afford a middle class lifestyle. Key quote: The meritocratic class has mastered the old trick of consolidating wealth and passing privilege along at the expense of other people’s children.   The book got a lot of play in policy circles.

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Discover the Formula for Happy Employees

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Happy Employees Aren’t Just for Big Businesses. As a result, JA Counter’s expenses decreased 23% and net income increased 94%, she says. There is mounting evidence that keeping employees happy leads to increased productivity and profitability. But Nelson says mainstream acceptance of those facts is occurring at a glacial pace. “We

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The On-Demand Economy and the "Plight of the Sometimes Poor"

Small Business Labs

They are very expensive and very hard to do.    After reading the Financial Diaries study results in 2014, we started working on trying to understand what role, if any, work in the on-demand economy played to help ease income volatility and illiquidity.  It's on our required reading list.

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Swiss Luxury Apartments, Geneva

Practically Perfect PA

The kitchen was fully stocked with everything you might need if you can’t quite face the expensive local restaurants and the fridge was thoughtfully stocked with fruit juices, water and fizzy drinks. Advertised minimum rate per night is 550 CHF (October 2014). Our opinions are entirely our own.

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Green Decluttering

Clutter Coach

by A common concern I hear from people when they’re decluttering is that they don’t want their stuff just to go to the landfill. They don’t want to be responsible for creating more trash, or they feel that their stuff could be useful to someone. For this reason, I don’t recommend garage sales.

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The Nadler Soho, London

Practically Perfect PA

Around these parts hotels are pretty expensive (sometimes unreasonably so) but The Nadler is what you would call a hidden gem. The hotel is positioned right at the end of Carlisle Street, so you can’t really miss it. The hotel is positioned right at the end of Carlisle Street, so you can’t really miss it. The Nadler.