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30 New Year’s Resolution Ideas to Make 2024 Healthier, Happier & More Secure

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Empower yourself to live debt-free by paying down high-interest debts such as credit cards. Improve your credit score. Doing small things like paying bills on time and making multiple credit card payments each month (if you’re able) can boost your credit score and improve future financial benefits.

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Backstage Capital Is Funding Startups by Underestimated Entrepreneurs

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Christie Pitts, Backstage Capital’s general partner, talks about the early days of the Los Angeles-based company and how she got involved: Working in the music industry, Hamilton learned about startups and networked with investors and entrepreneurs. A few years later, the need to develop hardware and software led her to Backstage Capital.

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How I Learned to Love Selling (and How You Can Too)

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I tried selling credit card machines door to door once. Those emails no longer get a reply and those customers have disappeared to be replaced with ones I can truly help. Back in the days when I bought into the hyperbole of The Hustle™, I went to a lot of networking meetups. It’s ruthless, but effective.

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Simple Cybersecurity Rules Everyone Should Follow

Jen Lawrence

One big no-no I see most often is small businesses collecting and saving credit card information. Hot tip: set up a separate email address just for your authentications and recoveries to create further disconnect between your systems and accounts. Don’t use open or public wifi networks. Keep softwares and apps up to date.

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Email/Domain names--make 'em easy!

Virtual Moxie

Stay away from email! D works as a network administrator at a hospital here in Baltimore. They’ve created an email naming convention that, for me, is beyond stupid. And when he was creating an address for her, what email address did he give her? Speed is the enemy of many good things. On Justin Bieber. Stop truncating.

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How to Launch (and Maintain) a Successful E-Commerce Business

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Email strangers to ask if you can set up a five-minute call. You can launch a survey to your personal network, start a Reddit discussion or pay for survey responses, but you do need to actually get out of your bubble and interact with other humans. Capture them on your email list. After word-of-mouth, email marketing is the No.

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Best Business Technology for Small Businesses & Their Owners (28 ideas from them to you!)

Stephanie LH Calahan

It allows us to easily email branded invoices to our clients, which they can then pay by mail or online. By recording payments as we receive them, we can just as easily monitor overdue payments and send email reminders. The initial thought was that we might need to design a server, network our computers together, etc.