• Radio Show Recap: Gadget God John Biggs From CrunchGear. MizFitOnline Carla Birnberg Answers Fitness Tweets. Plus Taste of Home Dietitian Peggy Woodward’s Healthy Eating Tips

    Updated: 2010-03-19 11:30:57
    The most entertaining weight loss and fitness podcast show on radio.” Please click PLAY to listen to the latest of the  Dr. Fitness and the Fat Guy radio show podcasts broadcasting live each week from the Business RadioX studio in Atlanta, GA, USA. We are now a Featured [...]

  • Money Mailbox – Should I Get a 0% Balance Transfer Credit Card?

    Updated: 2010-03-19 00:00:20
    Are you in debt but have never thought about paying it off faster by reducing your debt obligations? You should… I am still on the edge about whether or not to do balance transfers. I have three credit card that have a total balance of $2037.84. I am wanting to it off completely within 6-8 months. [...]

  • Video Journaling: Find Your Video Voice

    Updated: 2010-03-18 09:00:11
    Note: This is a guest post from Michael ‘Sean’ Kaminsky of Video Regeneration Got video? Not long ago, video cameras were mainly owned by pro videographers and home enthusiasts. Now with a camera stashed in nearly every phone, digital camera and laptop, you are more likely to struggle to find a working pen than a nearby [...]

  • Has Online Savings Accounts Become a Commodity?

    Updated: 2010-03-18 00:00:11
    While reviewing Sallie Mae Bank’s online savings account, I realized how little the actual company behind the web interface mattered to me. I know, I know, the importance of choosing the place to store the majority of my liquid savings is critical. But when every company’s offering is just done through “software”, which for the [...]

  • Hypnosis Therapy

    Updated: 2010-03-17 00:06:11
    Can anyone be hypnotized? Well, that’s quite a tricky question. Some people think that being hypnotized is a frightening experience and it is similar to what they have seen in dramatic Hollywood movies. The truth is that today hypnosis therapy is one of the most sought after remedies in helping patients deal with traumatic events [...]

  • 10 Ways to Eliminate Student Loans (Beyond Paying Them Off)

    Updated: 2010-03-17 00:00:19
    There’s a traditional approach to getting rid of student loans: you pay them off. Depending on the type of degree you got, that can mean a sizable chunk of your income going to student loans for years to come. Repayment isn’t the only way to eliminate student loans, however. There are other options that offer [...]

  • Money Isn’t Just for Hoarding — It’s For Spending, Too

    Updated: 2010-03-16 00:00:23
    Sometimes, as personal finance writers, we get carried away with the idea that everything needs to be saved, saved, saved. All the time. But personal finance isn’t just about building up emergency funds and maxing out retirement plan contributions. It should also be about learning to enjoy life a little bit right now. It’s nice [...]

  • Three Essential Things to Track in Your Life

    Updated: 2010-03-15 09:00:19
    A few months ago I wrote a post on personal analytics. There I discussed how more and more people make their life decisions based on numbers. They don’t make their decisions based on what they feel but based on facts. This way their decisions are well-informed and based on strong foundations. How can we apply personal [...]

  • What Baby Sara Taught Me About Personal Finance

    Updated: 2010-03-15 00:00:13
    I knew baby Sara was smart, but when she started teaching me personal finance concepts… Many of the kids and money articles discuss how we can teach our children money matters, but let’s turn the table this time. Since baby Sara’s birth a week ago, she already reminded me of many principles that you and I [...]

  • Baby Sara Pics!

    Updated: 2010-03-14 17:38:32
    Sorry for such a quick note the other day, but it’s been pretty busy times lately. Many wondered, and many more asked about them, so here are baby Sara’s pictures! Say Cheese! Baby Sara can’t wait to write to you. (Hmm, maybe a little early, but it never hurts to plan ahead you know…) ---Related Articles at [...]

  • Budgeting to Save Money on Bills

    Updated: 2010-03-13 13:00:38
    They turn up in the mailbox every month, demanding your attention and your money.  If you want to save money on bills you need to approach the problem in two ways.  The first thing is to cut services you don’t need and the second is to find ways to get the things you need, cheaply. How [...]

  • What is the Ideal Investment Mix? – Money Mailbox

    Updated: 2010-03-12 13:00:23
    A few weeks ago, I started asking readers to submit their money questions in case they wanted a second opinion on their dilemma. If you have a question you would like answered, you can just contact me. My name is Ken and I am turning 23, single. This year, I felt that I had to diversify [...]

  • Change Your Vacation Style to Save Money

    Updated: 2010-03-11 13:00:16
    Vacations provide an escape from reality. They give us the opportunity to step outside our daily routine and relax in a new environment. One week a year we book the fanciest hotel, go to the big name restaurants, and splurge on the ultimate activities. Then, in 2009, came the staycation. With everyone watching their budgets, [...]

  • Antimimeticisomorphism: A Map Example

    Updated: 2010-03-10 21:50:33
    As reader or subscriber to this blog, you’ve come to expect to see things that are different, or the same things you’ve always seen, but from a different perspective. Today’s post is about maps. How different can maps be? After all they represent what’s there… Or do they? If you think you know how maps [...]

  • 50 Little Things You Can Do to Empower Other People

    Updated: 2010-03-10 15:50:49
    Note: This is a guest post from Mark Foo of 77 Success Traits “The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process,” said Barbara Coloroso. This is an idea that has held true throughout much of my experience. In fact, empowering other people puts out the positive vibes into [...]

  • How to Use a 529 Plan to Improve College Savings

    Updated: 2010-03-10 13:00:20
    It used to be that saving for college was a relatively simple process: if you wanted to save for your child’s college education, you put money away wherever it was convenient. Now, though, there are several types of specific savings plans that offer you benefits that your old coffee can’t compare with. They may not [...]

  • 7 Killer Learning Hacks to Ace Your Next Exam

    Updated: 2010-03-04 15:29:02
    Note: This is a guest post from Scott Young of Learning on Steroids We’ve been taught how to study, but not how to learn. That’s the only conclusion I can draw when I watch otherwise intelligent people spend hours cramming for exams, while failing to understand the material being taught. Studying tends to focus on repetition. If you [...]

  • A Simple Way to Recharge Your Life

    Updated: 2010-03-01 09:00:53
    There’s an interesting talk at TED by Stefan Sagmeister titled The Power of Time Off. In the talk, Sagmeister shared his experience of how he takes one full year off every seven years to recharge his creative life. During the sabbatical year, he closes his design company and doesn’t accept any design request. It might [...]

  • Onward and upward!

    Updated: 2010-02-27 21:59:25
    I came up with my onward and upward! sign off more than 20 years ago… The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver had fabulous graphics and what can I say, a great tagline… If you want to take advantage of the one-time-only Olympic Bundle Offer, act now by clicking on the hyperlink.

  • Negative Thinking – Your Worst Enemy

    Updated: 2010-02-23 10:00:10
    Note: This is a guest post from Mark Harrison of Effortless Abundance First – a sweeping statement. Everyone wants success and happiness. We might not agree about what this means – each of us defines ‘success’ and ‘happiness’ in a different way – but everyone aspires to these things. Yet for so many people, happiness and [...]

  • A Life Lesson from Poor Countries

    Updated: 2010-02-17 00:21:59
    I always like to extract life lessons from seemingly unrelated ideas. This time I want to discuss an interesting article titled Why Poor Countries Are Poor. The article, which talks about the reasons some countries are poor, takes Cameroon as an example: The average Cameroonian is eight times poorer than the average citizen of the world [...]

  • Why it’s important submit your site to directories

    Updated: 2010-02-12 20:36:19
    Are you looking for an easy way to get more website traffic? But, getting noticed by search engines takes a lot of time and effort.  That’s why submitting your website to directories is important. As you know, getting ‘Links’ plays a major role in determining your ranking position on the various search engines. Submitting your website [...]

  • When Work at Home Moms Divorce - Divorce Mediation

    Updated: 2010-02-12 20:12:44
    It’s a sad fact that many of us who work from home will face divorce.  I have seen many of my dearest friends online go thru divorce in just the past year or two.  What many people don’t know is how much divorce can cost you and how stressful it can be on your kids. One [...]

  • Building Relationships: 9 Actions to Bond with Others

    Updated: 2010-02-11 16:21:14
    Note: This is a guest post from Thanh Lu of www.thanhdlu.com You always hear that relationship is the basis for long term personal and business success. “Care” is the only strategy you need to connect and establish a great relationship that is based on trust and friendship. In Dale Carnegie’s How To Win Friends and Influence [...]

  • And the winners of the Bathrobe Contest are…

    Updated: 2010-02-10 01:16:35
    Announcing the Winners of The Business in the Bathrobe Day Contest. Special thanks to all of you who celebrated Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day! And now the exciting part - here are the winners of our Bathrobe Day contest! Prize Winners of Doing Business in Bathrobes 2010 Sue Seward won a robe from ComfyRobes.com donated by Veronika Doud Raelee Peirce won [...]

  • Today’s the big day! Celebrate Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day!

    Updated: 2010-02-08 17:33:38
    YEAH! It’s finally here! Today is Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day! It’s a special holiday to celebrate the freedom of work at home entrepreneurs around the globe! Are you working at home in YOUR bathrobe today? Don’t forget to enter our drawing for lots of cool prizes including a plush bathrobe from ComfyRobes.com, our official [...]

  • The Silent Danger of Greed

    Updated: 2010-02-08 10:00:05
    I’m currently reading Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0 by Thomas Friedman. The book mainly discusses the ecological crisis we are facing, but the first three chapters also discusses the 2008 financial crisis. Ecological crisis and financial crisis may seem unrelated to each other, but Friedman argues that they actually have the same cause: The way we [...]

  • Antimimeticisomorphism: Invisible Man

    Updated: 2010-02-05 02:40:51
    Just when you think you’ve seen it all, someone comes up with a new twist, a new way to get you to do a double-take and ask “What the #$$#%#^@*&???” This is one of those videos that you KNOW what’s being done, but how the heck does he actually do it?!? Only a very creative and [...]

  • Ten Steps to Making Your College Career a Valuable Experience

    Updated: 2010-02-04 15:30:12
    Note: This is a guest post from Bob Hartzell of Get Degrees When I went to college, I was right out of high school, overwhelmed by the freedom and very quickly baffled by the academic expectations. Today’s college students are often much more mature, more experienced – and in many cases, returning to school to improve [...]

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