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Are You Asking Your Parents the Tough Estate Questions?

Are You Asking Your Parents the Tough Estate Questions?

Eli and Hilda didn’t want to leave a mess for their children, but they just could not bring themselves to get their legal documents completed. They went to the estate planning attorney and got all their questions answered and documents drafted. Then they brought the...

What’s Your Life’s True Purpose? HINT: It’s NOT Money!

What’s Your Life’s True Purpose? HINT: It’s NOT Money!

Do you know what effect you want to have on the world? Do you know the true purpose for your life? Before you start investing, you need to know your values and beliefs in order to establish your goals. Then, your life decisions will be easier to make: Each...

Is It Ever Really OK to Talk About Your Salary?

Is It Ever Really OK to Talk About Your Salary?

Do you know how much your co-workers make? How about your friends? Money isn’t always the easiest thing to discuss, and when you add in workplace dynamics, it only gets trickier. Assuming that your office doesn’t expressly forbid discussing pay, who exactly are you...

Work Place Bullying How to Detect & Protect Against Workplace

Work Place Bullying How to Detect & Protect Against Workplace

Stories of workplace bullying are commonplace throughout the United States. Some real-life examples: Mavis: “When I started there, I was told that someone had been acting in the position and had expected to get the job. This person continually undermined me and turned...

7 Tips to Help Make Social Networking More Effective

7 Tips to Help Make Social Networking More Effective

Navigating the world of social media is overwhelming, in and of itself. But looking at it for what it is really helps. Social media is simply the development of a community. Taking the right measures to maximize results in each channel is key to every business.Produce...

How Do You Create Your Personal Brand?

How Do You Create Your Personal Brand?

Big brands and little brands work really hard clarify their message, and what makes them different or better than the others. They spend hours identifying how they want to be perceived in the market; who they want to emulate or personify as a brand. What brands stand...

Stop Procrastinating and Get Results

Stop Procrastinating and Get Results

For a few months I spoke about buying a new car. When the idea first struck I experienced excitement; yet, I spent zero time actually shopping. I justified and rationalized keeping my current car and even repairing the exhaust system. Until, suddenly, it died. The...

Jobs, the Market, and the Election

Jobs, the Market, and the Election

Stocks have soared this year, but job growth has been slow, hamstrung by modest economic growth. The election is close, and there is a lot of uncertainty about future economic policies. The long-term trends remain positive despite many short-term concerns that could...

7 Things Customers Want Most from You

7 Things Customers Want Most from You

We can collect buying habits of our customer, create customer profiles, and understand our target demographic to know WHO our customer is… but do we really know WHAT our customers want? It’s more than just the product or service we offer. No matter what industry,...

When Bosses Should, and Shouldn’t, Speak

What gets said is certainly important, but who says it can make a bigger difference to the people who matter most–your employees. So, who should do the talking? Here's how to decide:When there's good news, it's never you. OK, maybe you really did do all the...