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How to Lose Fat Over the Weekend

By Craig Ballantyne | 04/25/2009

Another weekend, another two or three pounds of fat? No way! Doesn’t have to work like that. Here are two “real life” fitness techniques that can help you just say “NO” to gaining weight.

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How to Evaluate a Rental Property in 60 Seconds

By Julie Broad | 04/25/2009

When you start looking for a rental property to buy, you might find yourself overwhelmed by all of the places that are on the market. Your realtor may be sending you a bunch of listings, and you may have a list of properties you’ve found on websites like Realtor.com. How do you know which ones are worth looking at further?

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Confusables Galore

By Don Hauptman | 04/25/2009

Here’s another roundup of doppelganger words that are often confused. I encountered all of these misuses in my routine reading:

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What’s Your Best Offer?

By John Forde | 04/24/2009

“Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry,” Donald Trump once said. “I like making deals. Preferably big ones.” And, indeed, coming up with appealing deals and powerful offers can be an art form unto itself.

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Make Margin Trends Your Friends

By Andrew Gordon | 04/24/2009

When investigating companies to invest in, I look at several margins – gross, operating, pre-tax, and net profit margin. But I focus on operating margin. Operating margin is the difference between how much you make and how much you spend to operate the business. If the “making” is at least 15 percent higher than the “spending,” I’m interested.

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What to Do When Your Doctor Tells You Your Triglycerides Are Too High

By Ellison, M.Sc. | 04/22/2009

Like most of us these days, Stan has been focusing on work, work, and more work. Doing so has kept him out of the gym and eating for convenience rather than health. He’s been taking in more calories than he uses, and now his doctor tells him his triglyceride level is too high.

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Are You Guilty of Vocabulary Abuse?

By Suzanne Richardson | 04/22/2009

In my brief stint teaching college writing classes, one of the biggest problems I saw among my students was vocabulary abuse.

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Boring Is Better

By Edwin Huertas | 04/22/2009

Some of the more “exciting” features of our e-mails were preventing them from reaching our subscribers. (Maybe even you!) So we’ve made a few changes to ETR – to make sure you get it in your inbox every morning. And by making your own e-mails more “boring,” you could see more subscribers receiving and opening them. Which, in the end, should result in more sales.

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The Wheels Aren’t Falling Off This Car

By Christian Hill | 04/22/2009

In an industry full of missteps and forced resignations, Hyundai is one company actually headed in the right direction. First off, the economy is playing right into Hyundai’s hands. Long known as a maker of low-priced vehicles, Hyundai in an enviable position. The Sonata is priced roughly $2,000 less than a Toyota Camry, and the Santa Fe SUV is almost $10,000 less than a Toyota RAV4.

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Working Toward What You Believe In

By Brian Tracy | 04/20/2009

When you are working progressively, step-by-step, toward something that is important to you, you generate within yourself a continuous feeling of success and achievement.

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Your 4 Toughest Competitors in Internet Information Marketing

By Bob Bly | 04/20/2009

There’s a lot of money being made in marketing information products online today. But there’s also a lot of competition – as I’m sure you’ve noticed.

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It’s Not Just About Price When Creating Great Real Estate Deals

By Julie Broad | 04/20/2009

Real estate can be an instant wealth creator… as long as you learn a critical lesson about deal making. When my husband and I purchased a duplex, we instantly added $20,000 to our net worth and $500/month positive cash flow to our pockets. And we did it simply by getting to the heart of the seller’s problem and offering a perfect solution.

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