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These Are Nicole Lapin’s 6 Money Tips for Living Your Richest Life

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Purchase that daily latte, advises financial expert Nicole Lapin. Negotiate your bills and purchases, and find extra money by making your social network work for you. Lapin likes to negotiate and once bought a floor-model couch for about 70 percent off. Lapin makes it a habit to negotiate with cable and phone companies.

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

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When a client comes to me and asks for a service outside my area of focus, I refer them to one of my partners, with whom I have a pre-negotiated referral fee. We agreed to sell C4’s product for the manufacturer’s suggested retail price and cross-promote the two companies’ products by discounting our goods. Win-win-win.

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Tarek El Moussa Will Teach You How to Flip a House Without Breaking the Bank

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The business model revolves around making the right purchase financially, putting in enough money to fix the property, and selling it for a return that makes it worth your time and money. A frugal flipper is someone that spends a lot of time shopping and negotiating deals, and getting discounts.

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6 Ways to Add Value to Your Organization & Advance Your Career

Eat Your Career

Take for example an administrative professional whose role it is to purchase office supplies. Sure, this person could simply follow the standard procedure, place orders for items requested from approved vendors, and ensure the purchased products are received. Aggressively negotiating with existing vendors for better pricing.

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Answering Reader Mail: Can an EA salary support a family?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Also look thru your employee handbook to save as much money as possible with your company matching 401k program and pre-tax contributions, employee discounts and perks, paid on going education, flexible spending accounts, etc. Rainy day funds are for your vacations and major purchases. Save, save, and save. Do a great job.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Diapers.com uses customer service.

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It started with purchasing massive quantities (huge diaper loads) from all major manufacturers like Proctor & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, etc. The company has developed software explicitly designed that allows it to ship orders the same day until 6:00 PM and has negotiated discounted rates with the major shipping carriers.

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How To Make This Recession Work For Your Small Home Business.

The Small Business Blog

Get better payment terms by negotiation. I would also add that a business owner needs to bootstrap as much as possible right now, and to avoid any large purchases that are not bringing money in the door. They’d do exactly the same to you if they could – so no false sentiments here. Get better payment terms by non-payment.

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