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It Has Drama,Good Gals and Villainesses- So Where Are All The Personal Finance BlogHers?

This may come as a surprise from someone who is a Contributing Editor for Business, Personal Finance and Career, but I don't like to talk about money. Truth be told, I avoid the topic at all costs. I hate money. Yes, I like to use money. But I hate what it does to people. It divides. It judges.It makes people who have great personal success feel like failures.

No One's In The Kitchen With Dinah. Meal Assembly Business Looking Like Burnt Toast

On paper it sounded financially delicious. When asked, moms said having a family dinner was important. They said they really, truly wanted to feed their families healthy, delicious affordable meals but they couldn’t because they just didn't have the time, what with work, soccer,and traffic jams. Enter the meal assembly business – a concept to relieve moms of their meal guilt and at the same time provide families with delicious, healthy affordable meals. Brilliant! How could it be anything but a profitable business venture?

Is Desk Rage An Actual Trend or Just a Contrived Story During The Dog Days Of Summer?

Earlier this week, Ellen Wulfhorst, writing for Reuters reported on a supposed new trend  threatening the workplace. It's called Desk Rage.

Are Business Blogs Really As Boring As Watching Paint Dry?

So says the analysis of The Wall Street Journal based on a report from Forrester Research-- total cost of the actual report is $379 so I won't be commenting on the complete report.  Shout out to Toby Bloomberg who wrote about this on Diva Marketing The conclusion was that " ... most B2B blogs are “dull, drab, and don’t stimulate discussion.” A few stats from the WSJ article: 74% rarely get comments

Couponing Making a Comeback; Creating New Entrepreneurs

When I picked up the Sunday Star Tribune at my corner grocery store this morning, I was expecting a bigger, heavier newspaper.The Sunday Times, it is not.