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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 an expensive California mortgage, car payments and student loans, the emergency fund she and her husband, Sylvester, had dutifully built quickly depleted. Then, in 2019, she lost her job.

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

Success

Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With an expensive California mortgage, car payments and student loans, the emergency fund she and her husband, Sylvester, had dutifully built quickly depleted. Then, in 2019, she lost her job.

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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

Allwork

They achieve productivity more quickly; they cost less in total, and they’re a more flexible cost; they require less emotional investment from their employers; and they take less time and effort to replace. Source: “The Real Cost of Freelance vs. Full-Time Employees” What is a freelancer? They’re a flexible expense.

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Millennials Driving Pet Humanization Trend

Small Business Labs

It costs $4,000, so we won't be diving deep on this report because we aren't buying it. They’re less expensive.   “The clothing is, for them, an opportunity for performance — they put it on their dog or cat, take them for a walk, post a picture on Facebook,” Richter said. “It’s

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Smart technology needs to start with people if it wants to get smarter

Workplace Insight

Second was Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s 2010 announcement (long before the Cambridge Analytica scandal that would flow from it) that its users no longer had an expectation of privacy: “We decided that these would be the social norms now, and we just went for it”, he said. It’s their job. How should we respond?

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How Can Recruiters Hire Effectively For Clinical Trials?

Recruit CRM

This unavailability of spare time can lead to the fundamental research being called off or cost thousands of dollars. Delays can result in costing sponsors between $600,000 and $8 million each day that a trial withholds from developing. The estimated expense of patient recruitment is 40% of the total budget! Did you know?

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How to Manage Yourself When Making the Move to Self-Employment

Productivityist

You ideally need to make sure you have enough running costs of the business to run for 6 months as well as making sure you have enough to pay for living expenses. Think about any expenses that you may need to pay out including social security, health insurance, self-employment taxes, include these in your plan.