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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With books, blogs and YouTube (or as Akpan calls it, “YouTube University”), she began educating herself on financial literacy and how to budget. A few months later, they were on the road living in it.

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With books, blogs and YouTube (or as Akpan calls it, “YouTube University”), she began educating herself on financial literacy and how to budget. A few months later, they were on the road living in it.

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7 Types of Competitive Advantages and How to Develop Yours

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If your budget is too limited to offer competitive salaries, what other perks do you offer ? As a personal example, I had a client who offered two night classes with equal marketing budgets. The client reaction was to pour nearly all of the marketing budget into the failed offering rather than grow the successful one.

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How to Name Your Business

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When brainstorming for original, web-hip names, consider repurposed real words (Amazon), misspelled words (Flickr, Digg), compounds (Facebook), blends (Pinterest), short phrases (MySpace), suffixes or prefixes (Mashable) or made-up words (Meebo). An explicit, familiar term worked best for us, because we were on a budget.

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Chance the Rapper on Achieving Goals as an Independent Artist & Paying It Forward

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If you like it, send me a message on Facebook or Twitter, and if you don’t like it, send me a message on Facebook or Twitter. One potential downside of being an independent artist, although it’s not one Chance ever criticizes, is that with self-releasing music comes self-promotion. But let me know what you think about it.’

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It’s Time to Get Competitive! Facebook Contests May Lead to More Customers

Small Business CEO

As a business owner, you may be updating your Facebook, Twitter, and even LinkedIn pages on a daily basis. According to a study by AllFacebook , 30% of people have participated in contests or promotion via Facebook. A Facebook post was created on February 27, 2013. Steps to Create Your OWN Facebook Contest.

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Embracing Social Media for Business

The Small Business Blog

Social networking websites like Twitter and Facebook see a huge number of loyal visitors each day. Facebook alone has over 500,000,000 active users, which is a huge pool of potential prospects and customers for your business. There are also some excellent sites that focus on community video or images.