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7 Money Mistakes You’re Making in Your 20s

Success

Not considering how many hours (not dollars) something costs. That means the coat will cost you 20 hours (or half of a workweek) to buy. You’re out at a restaurant or a bar with some friends and you want to split the bill, but you don’t have cash. The $40 shirt is a better investment because it costs $.80

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Ready or Not: My Experience Launching a Side Hustle in 121 Days

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To set the price , we make assumptions about costs. Pro tip: It’s not a great idea to set a price for your product before you know how much it costs to make it. I went to an Indian restaurant a few years ago and I ordered, apparently, a plate of molten lava. I teach her not to negotiate against herself and shell out $20 to her.

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Serviced Apartments – pros and cons

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At first the consultants picked their own hotels and put the cost through their expenses and as you can imagine their choice of hotels varied wildly and so did the price. Once the recession really hit home my Director’s budget was cut quite drastically and she asked all of us to think of ways to cut back on costs.

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10 Questions To Find The Perfect Venue

Office Dynamics

This limits your negotiating power to compare pricing and use your own vendors. Some might give you access to the venue the evening before if they are not booked so you can load in and start set up at no additional cost – if you know to ask. Are there in house vendors we are required to use?

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Planning the Perfect Holiday Party: Guest Blog

Laughing all the Way to Work

You will have to do some revision after obtaining the quotes, but make sure the total cost is under your given budget. If you're throwing your office party at a restaurant, bar, or other facility that provides alcohol, you can normally work out a set open-bar price.

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Karen Condi – Founder of Workspace Strategies | How Property Owners Can Tap into the Coworking Boom.

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Myth 3: The upfront costs of setting up a co-working space are too high. Karen Condi [ 00:15:46 ]: Gosh, we look at restaurants, lunch spots. So I would imagine the access to a facility would have a huge impact on your own customer lifecycle within a center, right, along with the restaurants and everything else. I would think.

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Service with a snarl: What to look for and how to avoid it

Service Untitled

Customer service agents are not FBI hostage negotiators and should not be expected to tolerate screaming profanities, unrealistic goals, and vulgar behaviors. Low levels of service are inexpensive, but the high costs of customer dissatisfaction, the lost business, and the money spent to process and repair the damage, takes its toll.