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What Is a Credit Freeze, and Should I Do It?

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It’s also important to note that while a credit freeze can make it much harder for someone to open an unauthorized account in your name, it does not prevent identity theft on its own. For example, if someone steals your credit card number, a credit freeze won’t stop them from making unauthorized purchases.

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4 Simple Steps to Securely Send Credit Card Information

Office Organization Success

Many business owners find themselves in a situation where they are asked to send their credit card information in order to finalize a business transaction. Ask your VA/service provider if she has a Credit Card Authorization form that she can send to you, and you fax back to her. But first, a word of caution ….

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Master Your Memory with Ron White

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Programs, documents, videos, audio files—you put thousands of stored items randomly on top of each other. Now try to find the phone number of a friend. File 20: Credit card sharing with your friends—You must share the credit. The first step is simple: picture your mind as a computer.

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13 Ways You Should be Using Your Smartphone for Business

Tips From T. Marie

We all know about texting, calling and emailing from our phones, but are you collaborating from it as well? With a plethora of collaboration tools online, it’s as simple as finding one with an awesome phone app that works for your business. I know, not all of us can snap photos on our phones like the Insta-famous. My favorite?

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Employee Files: What to include, what to leave out, and what’s confidential

BMT Office Administration

While it’s clear that you need to keep a separate file for each employee, which documents should you include in it? After all, there are some documents that you’ll need to keep confidential , and there are some that you don’t even need to include in your personnel files.

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The 12 Privacy Tips of Christmas

Ian's Messy Desk

name, address, phone number) will be used. Minimize the number of identification and credit cards carried. Tear/shred receipts, copies of credit applications, other documentation containing personal information, don’t just throw it in the garbage. Obscure credit card numbers on customer receipts.

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10 Apps for the Entrepreneur 2011

Eco-Office Gals

The software allows you to speak into the phone and then it writes the words into a text file of some type. From there, you can text, tweet or write memos without needing to find a computer or laboriously typing it out on the tiny keyboard of a mobile phone. It is ideal for the entrepreneur whose phone might have client data as well.

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