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7 Money Mistakes You’re Making in Your 20s

Success

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. It can be uncomfortable negotiating. Some things you can negotiate are credit card interest rates, mortgage rates, car loans and any type of insurance. Do you have the cash and feel like it’s still worth it?

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A Manual for Dealing with Rejection

Success

He told me that he was a retired colonel in the armed forces, and he did terribly in sales at first because he was still trying to command his customers to buy what they needed,” Hopkins says. “He Each sales call is a new chapter in negotiation. Being the Boss. As with most things, Dr. Seuss explains it best.

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New Small Business Startup Idea: Virtual Import/Export Assistant.

The Small Business Blog

One of the obstacles I came up against was that I had to order wine in serious ‘bulk’ I naively thought I could order a couple of cases from a few hand picked wine farms and start my ’small business’ by selling these cases to restaurants, gaining trust and loyalty and slowly building up a customer base.

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Answering Reader Mail: How Long is it Fair to be a Temp for a Job?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

It is known that age only plays a factor because the more years you have worked for a company the more expensive an employee is because of their salary, overtime, and other perks/benefits that are considered in the overall compensation package (401k matching, retirement, etc).

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