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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. They made all the improvements for the home, but by the time everything was said and done—between closing costs and renovation payments—they made less than $20,000. “I We’re done. That’s 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. They made all the improvements for the home, but by the time everything was said and done—between closing costs and renovation payments—they made less than $20,000. “I We’re done. That’s it.”.

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Why Aren't Newspapers Doing Social Shopping?

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  The deals are generally discounted.    For example, a recent San Francisco Groupon offer was $50 for a child photography session normally costing $295. In the case of social shopping, I have no idea why they aren't aggressively pursuing it. .  Groupon is an online collective buying service. 

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Are Your Friends Sabotaging Your Business?

Men With Pens

As much as I love my friends and don’t blame them in any way for requesting discounted (or pro bono) services, I realised my principle to be a “good friend&# led me into making some bad business decisions. If 2 out of those 6 hours are given away, it just cost me 33% of my potential income. Eeek, that’s higher than tax!

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Free Blog Posts | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Time to think about the retirement fund.&# “We get to retire? No one ever told me that…&# We both know there’s no retirement fund in what we do. Businesspeople understand investment, as opposed to cost. Prices always tend towards marginal costs. We’re bloggers. Most bloggers are cheap-asses.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Book Review: The Retail Doctor's.

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The author also emphasized the importance of marketing to help create a successful business and touches upon social media including Facebook, Twitter, blogging, and of course, the company website. The woman was retired, on a fixed income and now had a new puppy. Jane replied by asking me, ‘How much would it cost me?’

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How to Become a Certified Coach

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For clients of Jo Davis , the work is “[finding] meaning, a career change, retirement or planning for it.”. That certification will cost you $1,000 to $10,000 and three to 24 months of your life—just for some made-up title after your name.” To become a “professional certified coach” will cost $7,700 and take a year or two.

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