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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

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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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Webiste Critique Special Report: Kidorable

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Back to the left sidebar, the social media section looks small and pale, so we suggest larger buttons that stand out a bit more – you have a lot of followers, so make that area stand out and get more potential customers listening to what you have to offer! “Kidorable on Sale&# , maybe, or perhaps, “Our Discount Section&#.

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Are Your Friends Sabotaging Your Business?

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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. By the time I expensed medical, insurance, retirement etc, I barely broke even. This is a given.

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

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Ulrich ( @maryeulrich ) December 14, 2009 at 7:29 am Last week I listened to Dan Zarrella talk about the science of social media. My Social Media Experiment Reply Jodi Kaplan December 14, 2009 at 9:59 am The degree is partly to put your knowledge to work, and partly to teach you how to think and to apply knowledge.

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Free Blog Posts | Men With Pens

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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. Limited time offer discounts, periodical sales, and fliers four times a year. I am retired now, a blogger, paid by Adsense and affiliate revenue. I apologize.)

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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.