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Bad Career Advice: It's Not WHAT You Know, It's WHO You Know

Eat Your Career

Instead of attending classes while at college, we might as well focus all of our energy on the parties (clearly, some of us do that already…). The people in your network certainly want to help you grow professionally but not at their own expense. Even the most altruistic person will still want to protect his or her own interests.

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How to Increase Your Productivity, Starting in the Garage

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Productivity Bits. Whether it’s additional kids added to the mix, in-laws moving in to avoid expensive in-home care, the need to work less at the office and more at home (or even entirely at home) or extra cramped living space due to decreased housing budgeting, our housing space is quite frequently not meeting our needs.

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Sugar Not The Icing On The Small Business Cake.

The Small Business Blog

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Let me spell it out for anyone who really has not got the picture, businesses go bust because: The banks will not lend money to them; Even if they lend the money it is so expensive that it takes any profit out of the deal; They run out of savings.

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What to Do When You’re a Quiet Marketer

Men With Pens

It’s often an expensive waste of money that doesn’t bring you results. We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention our services – after all, some people don’t know that we’re famous for world-class web design and compelling web copy that generates bottom-line business results.

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 31 December, 2009 Office Confidential: Just for fun to start your New Year off with a laugh These are excerpts from a presentation I gave to my local International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP) Chapter dinner meeting. Lets enjoy our day together.© Good thing I checked.

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How To Make An Impression in 25 Different Ways

Brilliantly Better

Buy Expensive Things This is one of the most costly ways to impress others, and it is very temporary. This is a very expensive way to impress others though, and will also create some folks who are unimpressed by your attempt to impress them. The person who makes a class look the easiest is the one who studies alone the hardest.

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Why You Don't Need to Mimic Someone Else's Fame | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

As if getting them on the phone is too expensive, like it used to be. Because even today (sigh), it is too expensive for me to get hundreds of people on the phone every day. What I’ve always done is treat blog writing like writing a letter back in the old days. sigh) I picture one person, and “talk&# to them.

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