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July 2010
Monthly Archives
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Google’s App Inventor: A Smart Market Share Move
Google released App Inventor today, a program that makes creating Android apps easy enough that a non-programmer can do it. InformationWeek, where I read about this, points out that Google is lowering the barrier to app dev entry at the same time that Apple is making its rules “increasingly restrictive.” It’s a good point. From […]
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Book Review: No Excuses! The Power of Self-Discipline
What’s the secret of success? Self-discipline, of course. At least that’s what self-help guru Brian Tracy claims in No Excuses! 21 Ways to Achieve Lasting Happiness and Success. Tracy’s latest book describes how you can use self-discipline to become a successful, “superior” person in 21 areas of your life. Yes, Tracy does occasionally use the […]
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IMF Bullish on Global Growth–On the Surface
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected that the global economy will grow 4.6% this year, 0.4% more than its initial projection. That’s the most growth since 2007, according to Bloomberg, which has the story: Canada and the U.S. are leading advanced economies out of the worst recession since World War II, trailed by euro-area […]
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50 Tips to Help You Sell More
Image: NomadicLass/Flickr A company won’t survive without selling anything. (Unless you’ve been bailed out, but that’s another story.) Sales truly are a company’s lifeblood. Whether you’re a salesperson or not, you need to keep your sales skills up to date. Here are 50 places to start. Sales Tips for Everybody These general sales tips will […]
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While US Real Estate Flounders, Australia’s A Seller’s Dream
US real estate prices are at record lows, but our cousin down under has quite the lucrative market, thanks to a housing shortage. Bloomberg has more: …a shortage of 200,000 dwellings…is helping fuel Australian home prices, which are 82 percent higher than in the U.S., and disproving investors such as Jeremy Grantham, who says they […]
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Scary (But True) Facts About Wal-Mart
Even though home owners are still struggling with fallen home prices, pesky home loans, and consumer spending isn’t where we’d like it to be, that hasn’t stopped Wal-Mart from reclaiming the top spot on the Fortune 500 list. Here’s a look at some startling facts about the unstoppable retailer. [Source: Home Loans] EMBED THE IMAGE […]
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Book Review: Wired for Work
Most Internet users find Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter pretty intuitive. Sign up, make connections, comment, respond. If you need extra tips, they’re readily available online. There are, however, some users who are unfamiliar with social networking websites, and prefer to learn about them by reading a book on how to use them. Author and publisher […]
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What Happened to Google Wave?
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