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How to Build a Career in Events Management
“Conference” (CC BY 2.0) by Tõnu Mauring Getting started in the events industry demands many things – hard work, confidence and an attention to detail that sets you apart from the crowd. These skills develop with time and experience in the white heat of an unfolding event – but there are simpler and smarter ways to raise your game, grow [...]
Data Scientist Career Tips for Entrepreneurs
The hottest career of the year may have some technology and data gurus second guessing their career choice. The demand for data scientists currently outweighs the supply. You’re an entrepreneur and interested in big data. You think you have the skill set to become a data scientist, but you don’t have a STEM [...]
Help on the Home Front: Meet Debra Cohen
The Blueprints After the purchase of their first home, Cohen and her husband soon discovered how difficult it was to find reliable home improvement contractors. Working a 40-hour week left little time to search for names of trustworthy painters, plumbers and carpenters. It occurred to Cohen that if she was having difficulty, other new [...]
Handling a Divorce While Managing Your Home Business
There are so many issues that can transpire in a marriage. But what is the solution for this? Should every problem conclude in ugly divorce? If you check out the website divorce debbie you will realize that so many celebrity couples may opt for divorce for petty reasons. If you are working from home and earning [...]
American Businesses Brace Themselves for Higher Shipping Costs
Copyright: tomas1111 / 123RF Stock Photo If you’ve been watching shipping costs lately, or are a professional in a business which regularly ships goods, you might have noticed that major carriers FedEx, USPS, and UPS all raised their shipping rates across the board in January of this year. And the USPS wasn’t slow to do the same, [...]
Getting into Catering: What You Need to Know
Copyright: limonzest / 123RF Stock Photo A career in catering is a fast paced, exciting path to take. But, it’s important you seek out the experience and necessary training before applying for catering jobs (bookmark this post, because once you’re ready to apply for roles they can be found here). So what do you need to know before [...]
Wholesaling Real Estate: The Key to Financial Freedom
For many persons, a major goal they hope to attain is to become financially successful. However, with a tough economy, this continues to prove difficult, and individuals are now scrambling to find different ways to make ends meet, by venturing into businesses that require minimal capital and are low-risk. Eric Barnes, owner at [...]
Elizabeth Vargas: Revolutionizing the Digital Music Experience
For well over a decade, music has been an easy commodity to download, copy and pass along to friends for free—and artists as well as record labels have paid a high price. Yet despite attempts—or rather promises—to level the playing field for all stakeholders, no sharing platform has changed that backward momentum, until now. Edge Music [...]
5 Things to Remember as You Launch Your Home-Based Speaking/Coaching Business
Launching a speaking and/or coaching career is an excellent way to create a viable home-based business that can generate generous profit margins. Oftentimes, business owners only think of speaking as it relates to live appearances on big stages, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. Speaking spans across many platforms, including [...]
Franchise Owner Offers Solutions for Changing the Cycle of Poverty in America
Franchising is uniquely situated to address the problem of poverty in America and affect serious change by encouraging employment for those who need it most, according to Azim Saju, Vice President and General Counsel for HDG Hotels. Saju submitted a statement for the record today on behalf of the International Franchise Association to [...]