How to Promote Australian Tourism to a Worldwide Audience for £70,000!

You’ve probably heard about the “Best Job in the World” offer during the last couple of days ... at all! Hamilton Island, Australia Hamilton Island photo credit - kevingibbons.co.uk Television reports ... piece of creative marketing which has created a huge buzz both in the media and online. Although [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 14:33:14

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Five ways to publish commentable documents online

Imagine the scenario: They Who Must Be Obeyed want feedback on the new report they’re publishing next week ... Image credit: Matthew Oliphant The conventional approach would be to turn it into a PDF, upload ... -sharing When this challenge first arose for me a few months ago, I was inspired by the ORG example [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 23:58:08

FairSoftware: Instant Software Companies

... the details of sales, credit cards, tax reporting, and splitting the money can free you to focus [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 18:00:00

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Argh! This crud virus won’t go away ... registrations. I finished the online credit card authorizations late today. I still have to update the SDA ... . So that is all the excitement that I have to report. Tomorrow, I am going to the STASH meeting. We are going to plan [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 05:50:36

Metrics: In Q4 2008, Online Ads Down But Not Out

The desperate bid to rack up sales over the holiday season helped turn out a decent enough fourth quarter of 2008 for online advertising ... quarter of 2008, reports PubMatic, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup that sells ad-optimization ... brought on by a widening credit crunch? Some analysts think that this might be a blip and that most [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:51:40

When the Flashing Lights Start, Pull Over

ojchase.jpg (Photo: Even for O.J. Simpson, a better option might have been to stop. Credit: Larry Ho/Los Angeles Times.) ... other up online a few years ago to discover Gay O.J. to be the previous tenant in Chris’s apartment ... address years ago.  She was always a conservative zealot, so I’ll be happy to report on her new descent [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 10:04:01

CR Retirement Survey: Planning ahead may be just as risky as rewarding

The Press - January 12, 2009 In the wake of big investment losses, ... surveyed more than 19,000 Consumer Reports online subscribers between the ages of 55-75 and found ... on entertainment. About one-third have cut their credit card use and spent less on groceries [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 22:42:30

An update on Greg Oden's first regular season NBA game

... Lakers. Check out this online report from The Times' Brad Turner. -- Greg Johnson Photo: Greg ... the first quarter on Tuesday night at Staples Center. Credit: Harry How / Getty Images [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 03:44:47

Miracle On The Hudson

Within moments of the report of the crash of a US Airways flight on the Hudson River, News Talk Online on Paltalk ... deserves full credit for safely landing the plane, evacuating passengers and crew and twice checking [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 23:40:00

Online advertising - Ap » Hitech - Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier

The advertising market is gloomy, and radio is in a particular funk. But Doug Perlson still feels pretty good. Perlson heads TargetSpot Inc ... fourth quarter, they’re facing a fast-proliferating scam that seeks to trick them into supplying credit ... and is stocked with new content partners, reports Variety. Hulu, long unnamed before it launched [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 02:15:07

Questrade - My choice for online trading

Announcing Questrade too Early - thanks you BAD BAD readers! ... as they will be using information in your credit report to verify that you are you. They also have a method [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 14:09:48

Price comparison traffic up 37% thanks to economic downturn

With prices rising and the credit crunch biting, consumers are taking more time to find the best deals online. Last week we contributed to an Experian Footfall report which highlighted the downturn on the high street and in out of town shopping centres, compared with the increase in online retail traffic [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 10:54:15

NCSBN's Nursys.com Implements Paperless Verification of Nurse Licenses

The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) ... is completely online, is said to be more efficient, easier and quicker because the verification report ... days upon verification of payment which is processed through credit card.Nursys LicensureVerification [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 18:32:00

At Last - Looking at the Customer from Their Point of View

Stessa Cohen and Kristin Moyer here.  Wells Fargo announced that it is launching an online loan-consolidation repayment program in combination with ... “How to really pay off credit card debt” “How to get a small business loan in a credit crunch” ... consolidate debt through a person loan.  It includes “My Spending Report,” a tool that will let customers [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 14:46:25

The Found Poetry Project

Megan and I started a new online journal a few weeks ago ... the weighty 9/11 Commission Report into ingestible poetry. But it’s almost always been the domain of experimental poets and LANGUAGE schoolers, and all the credit has tended to go to the “finders” [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 21:12:11

The New Year Creates Fresh Opportunity for Resolving to Reduce Debt

Free Rapid Debt Reducer software and online advice at RapidDebtReducer.com provide big motivation for making a commitment today GROTON, Vt., Jan ... report and score, and put that information to use ... Jolley to the millions of Americans who are struggling with overdue credit card payments, defaults [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 10:50:23

Selling Problems On Ebay And Their Solutions

eBay provides internet users with an online flea market where buyers and sellers from around the world meet to conduct trade ... , they will receive a Final Value Fee credit and a relist credit. Filing an Unpaid Item dispute is the first step toward eBay reimbursing those fees. One can report an unpaid item up to 45 days after [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 20:10:41

eBay for Dummies Fourth Edition

eBay for Dummies Fourth Edition eBay is the world’s #1 online shopping destination and can be a bit intimidating for first-time users ... to avoid credit cards so I can prevent massive debt, so I tried using ebay and paying everything with personal checks. The sellers grew very impatient or didn’t report having received my payment and soon [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 14:07:00

Free Online FASFA Application

Free Online FASFA Application January 2nd, 2009 Federal financial aid backed college student loans have several advantages over private or alternative college student loans as well as credit cards. Borrowing money for your higher ... just a couple of days. They are very fast with the process and will send you your SAR report [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 23:30:31

Video Metadata Key Strategic Importance For Online Video Publishers - Part 1

Video metadata has become a strategically critical factor in the successful creation and distribution of video content on the Internet. [ ... credit: SSilver As major search engines can't yet make sense of what is being said inside a video ... . In the following two-part report entitled "The Currency of Internet Video", Gotuit, a company specializing [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 11:38:00

Quicken Beam: Your finances made cute

Beam's SMS report can be useful to keep on top of your accounts and to spot fraud ... , which is unusual for an Intuit app; even Quicken Online (which competes with the free Mint), costs ... phone: Quicken Beam. You tell it about your financial accounts, like your bank and your credit card [more...]

Date: 2008-08-20 07:52:29

Is the 6-month Stock Market Rally About to End?.

by Bob Chapman Global Research October 1, 2009 The G-20 Pittsburg Summit ended last Friday. Their official statements made for some novel and interesting reading. We were informed that the group could by working together could manage a transition to a more balanced pattern of global growth. Tending to domestic demand as private savings increase. It is obvious to us this cannot work. We are seeing increased savings and decreased consumption. The IMF as well agrees with these policies. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 17:54:55

Four Big Economic Indicators to Watch

There are many items that influence the day-to-day moves in a stock, bond, or commodity’s price — earnings news, corporate financials, simple supply and demand, and a whole lot more. Heck, I’ve even read an academic study that argued the weather has a huge influence on whether markets close up or down! But when it comes to figuring out the bigger-picture, longer-term moves for whole investment classes, there’s nothing better than watching a few key economic indicators. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 11:30:39

After Getting In Bed Together, Nielsen Can’t Stop Gushing About How Great Facebook Is

It’s all a little unseemly, if you ask me. Last week, Nielsen and Facebook declared that they were “In A Relationship” together with a new product Nielsen is rolling out called BrandLift, which is supposed to measure brand awareness of ads on the social network with opt-in polls. Almost immediately after the two companies announced their strategic love affair, Nielsen started putting out glowing reports about Facebook and how much time people are spending on social networks. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 17:10:43

After Getting In Bed Together, Nielsen Can’t Stop Gushing About How Great Facebook Is

It’s all a little unseemly, if you ask me. Last week, Nielsen and Facebook declared that they were “In A Relationship” together with a new product Nielsen is rolling out called BrandLift, which is supposed to measure brand awareness of ads on the social network with opt-in polls. Almost immediately after the two companies announced their strategic love affair, Nielsen started putting out glowing reports about Facebook and how much time people are spending on social networks. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 23:20:07

Entrepreneurship 101: Create Marketing Knowledge About Local Conditions And Opportunities

How did you learn how to create demand for the offerings your company provides? Most people either go to school or learn on the job. Sometimes, they do a little of each . . . as I did. When I was studying at Harvard Business School, two methods were used to teach marketing: cases involving specific decisions facing real marketing managers; and unpaid consulting assignments working for companies with unresolved marketing issues. In either course style the issues studied always related to U.S. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 20:21:59

Good Business Sense: Microsoft’s Free Accounting Solution

To be truly successful, you have to treat your business like a business, and good accounting practices are a big part of that. Yet only twenty percent of the twenty million small and home-based businesses in the U.S. use accounting software to track their business finances. Many home-based business owners’ “bookkeeping systems” still consist of pens, paper, and boxes stacked in closets. Worse, many more don’t keep records at all. They have no idea where, or if, they’re making or losing money. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 16:53:55

QuickBooks Pro 2009 3 User

Amazon. com Product Description Small business accounting software that makes accounting easy with tools to organize your finances all in one place. Track sales & expenses. Click to enlarge. Reduce data entry by downloading your bank & credit card transactions into QuickBooks. Click to enlarge. Create purchase orders. Click to enlarge. Generate reports with one click to see how your business is doing. Click to enlarge. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 23:40:46

These Are Important Real Estate Facts To Consider

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!by Paolo KosterYour first avenue for finding good deals is the local newspaper (the property newspaper). Just search for properties that are listed directly by the owners who want to avoid paying commission to the real estate brokers.Since the owner is saving on the commission that they would otherwise have to pay to the broker, they would probably be able to offer a lower price to you and be more open to negotiations. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 14:53:59

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 30th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Essentials --» Jose Hernandez tweeting from space bilingually – follow him – cool! :: from twitter.com Dispelling bias against Latinos – Complicating and confounding efforts to reform the country’s immigration laws are widespread portrayals of Mexican immigrants as a threat to national culture and unity :: from www.recordnet.com The foreclosure crisis has brought a particular set of issues to Latino immigrants in the Kansas City area. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 18:59:08

Opting For Bad Credit Refinance Is Like Walking On Thin Ice

by Angus Guy Ignorance and indiscipline are the two main detractors who are responsible for destroying our once green credit rating and bringing us to despair to suffer the ignominy of ending up with a Bad Credit rating. Along with this come a host of other problems related to a bad credit history. In the earlier days no bank or lending institution would consider it safe to lend to someone such a history. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 10:28:09

Consumer Focused Carnival of Real Estate

September 30th, 2009 The guidelines for this carnival . As always, I arranged the entries that met guidelines into three levels, based upon originality, usefulness to the consumer, and how much thought and effort and research went into an entry. STRONGLY RECOMMENDED We have an Editor's Choice! Four Pillars talks about Pocket Listings . A pocket listing is where the listing agent keeps the listing "in his pocket" rather than putting it on MLS. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 13:50:49

Some Real Estate Points I Want To Share With You

by Paolo Koster Your first avenue for finding good deals is the local newspaper (the property newspaper). Just search for properties that are listed directly by the owners who want to avoid paying commission to the real estate brokers. Since the owner is saving on the commission that they would otherwise have to pay to the broker, they would probably be able to offer a lower price to you and be more open to negotiations. You could also place your own wanted ad in the local newspapers. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 14:55:27

The Wheel of Time Re-read: Lord of Chaos, Part 24

Greetings, and welcome to another Wheel of Time Re-read! Today’s post covers Chapters 42-43 of Lord of Chaos , which address the important topics of men’s fashions in jewelry, (in)effective public speaking, and the intricacies of determining Just Who’s In Charge Around Here. Also, headdesking. Previous entries are here . This and all prior posts contain spoilers for the novel of the Wheel of Time series up to and including Knife of Dreams , so if you haven’t read, don’t read. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 19:23:39

Credit Repair! You May Have A Bad Credit Rating And Not Even Know It

When we talk about credit repair, most of us believe that repairing our credit rating is directly related to our mis management of our finance s, and in most cases that is true! However, many of us don’t realize that thousands of men and women every year find out they have bad credit due to credit fraud, and if you’re not 1% sure on how this happens, it’s a method by criminal organizations that are stealing your identity and using it for financial criminal activities. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 14:31:03

$40 CPMs At Dogster; Jefferies Analyst Bullish On Yahoo! And Display; UK Internet Ad Spend Beats TV; $4 Million For Casual Games Network NeoEdge

Email This PostHere's today's AdExchanger.com news round-up... Want it by email? Sign-up here.Dogster and $40 CPMsTechCrunch looks at a new partnership announced between dog lover social network, Dogster, and viral web publishing phenomenon, I Can Haz Cheeseburger. TC's Sara Lacy says that Dogster has been wise to build relationships directly with advertisers as opposed to going the ad network noting that Dogster can charge $10-$12 CPMs and $40 CPMs for its newsletter. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 10:24:58

7-Eleven serves up Big Gulp of Big Government to credit card consumers

  Tomorrow, 7-Eleven Inc. and other big retail chains will hit Capitol Hill to offer Congress members and their staffs a supersize serving of hypocrisy. Retailers, who rightly complain about costly government mandates in health care and other areas, are now calling for Congress slap price controls on the interchange fees they pay to banks and credit unions for services associated with the credit and debit cards of retail consumers. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 20:36:44

Beware! Downadup virus exposes millions of PCs to hijack

.fullpost{display:inline;}LONDON, England (CNN) -- A new sleeper virus that could allow hackers to steal financial and personal information has now ... mechanism to monitor an exponential infection rate, despite Microsoft's issuing of a patch to fix ... information or credit card details.Who is affected?We have large infections in Europe, the United States [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 20:00:00

Financial Startups Demo Their Dashboards At Finovate

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentThe following guest post is written by Larry Chiang, a co-founder of Duck9 who also regularly blogs for BusinessWeek. Today he is reporting from the Finovate startup conference.At the FinovateStartup conference in New York City today, it is clear that financial startups are pushing forward regardless of funding woes or a lackluster economyCompanies here at Finovate center around financial innovations. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 04:14:54

Outright: Small Business Bookkeeping Service Online

Outright is a free small business bookkeeping service for managing accounts online. It can be used to track business income, expenses, profit & loss and calculate the taxes. While it is designed for US customers, I think most of the features (except the tax calculations) could be used by people from other countries if they deal in dollars. It also creates rich graphs and reports for a comprehensive analysis of your books. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 03:20:28

How To Save Money On Your Mortgage

How To Save Money On Your Mortgage How To Save Money On Your Mortgage ?by: Tom Levine Obtaining a home loan is arguably the most expensive transaction you?ll experience in your lifetime. Therefore, getting the best home at the greatest value is an endeavor worth pursuing. Whether you?re trying to squeeze in to a higher priced home or just trying to shave a couple bucks off of the closing costs, this article will help you explore your options. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 23:22:24

Danni Minogue Claims Botox Addiction Triggered by Depression

Danni Minogue, sister of Kylie Minogue and one of the judges on the British show ‘X Factor’, recently revealed she has a Botox addiction . The star claims that her obsession with Botox was triggered by a series of events including her sister Kylie being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005, and one of he close friends passing away. Ms. Minogue says that taking steps to improve her looks was a way of coping with the stress and difficult times she was facing. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 15:15:40

AT&T Garmin nuvifone G60 arriving October 4th

It’s only taken them a couple of years, but Garmin have finally announced a release of the nuvifone G60 in the US.  As of October 4th the touchscreen GPS-centric handset will arrive on AT&T, priced at $299 following a $100 mail-in rebate and assuming you’re willing to sign two years of your cellular life away to the carrier. That gets you a 3-megapixel autofocus camera with GPS geotagging, the UI from Garmin’s standalone PND range and both 3G access together with AT&T’s WiFi hotspots. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 15:50:02

Track Your Finances On the Go: Mint.com Comes to the iPhone

Mint.com turned out to be a near perfect solution for my financial needs. To understand why, I’m going to give a little background ... ago, I decided I was tired of this slavish devotion to my computerized checkbook, the annual ... and is supported by the ability to recommend alternate financial services (low-interest credit cards, etc [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 22:00:23

GOODY TWO SHOES: Revenge Of The Nerds

Media layoffs are at their highest since the dot-com bubble burst in 2001, reports The Hollywood Reporter: “Layoffs in the media industry, ... graveyards like F’d Company (itself now deceased), scores of unemployed tech workers would congregate ... ) and the Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee). To its credit, Wonkette mentioned it straight away: "Here’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 08:21:08

Interviews with Church Designers

Browsing the various CSS galleries is one way to gauge which industries place value on good design. I was surprised these past couple years to see a big surge in lavishly designed church websites. As a non-churchgoer, I wasn’t sure I understood why so many churches suddenly wanted a cutting-edge image for themselves [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:32:50

Can I Wrap A Fish In The Internet?

The nation's 15th largest newspaper, The Star Tribune of Minneapolis, filed for bankruptcy protection this week, another ink-stained victim of a dying business model and a more sane approach to credit terms. Exactly how a city paper can rack up a $661.1 million debt before being wrestled like a suckling pig [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 03:29:11

How To Get Your Free Government Credit Report

How To Get Your Free Government Credit Report by Andy ZainBy law, you are entitled to one free government credit report each year, but you have to apply to get it. The consumer reporting companies are covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act to ensure privacy and accuracy.Contained in your credit report is personal information like how you pay your bills, any arrests, bankruptcies or legal actions, as well as your full name and address. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 08:17:23

Chinese Central Bank to Test Program to Settle Trade in Yuan Rather Than Dollars

While it would be easy to dismiss this move by the People's Bank of China to inch away from dollar based invoicing, ... be fading. A UBS Investment Research report says that while it would be wrong to write off the U.S. dollar ... - is likely to cause the dollar to lose reserve currency status entirely.” The UBS report maintains [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 07:03:40

Retailers to Wage Psychological Warfare

As the retail industry sifts through the rubble of its disastrous holiday shopping season, the next challenge begins: A struggle over the consumer psyche. Despite hopes for a massive economic stimulus plan under a new Obama administration in January, consumer confidence plunged to an all-time low in December [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 11:00:58

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