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Current Market Conditions Shouldn’t Stop You

By Julie Broad | 12/22/2008

Seven years ago, the real estate market where I live – the west coast of Canada – was in a serious slump. Crushed by the Asian crisis of the late 1990s, the Greater Vancouver area just couldn’t seem to rally back. Houses languished on the market, and often slipped into foreclosure. Price reductions were the norm. It was a tough time.

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5 Reasons to Become a Writer in 2009

By Suzanne Richardson | 12/22/2008

A brand-new year is just around the corner. And though, here at ETR, we firmly believe that you can make major changes in your life at ANY time, January always feels like the perfect time to set some new goals for yourself. We want to help you kick off the…

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Anyone Can Become a Writer

By Suzanne Richardson | 12/22/2008

A brand-new year is just around the corner. And though, here at ETR, we firmly believe that you can make major changes in your life at ANY time, January always feels like the perfect time to set some new goals for yourself.

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Dear ETR: “How come there’s fluoride in tea?”

By Kelley Herring | 12/22/2008

“Kelley Herring’s article ‘Brewing Up a Pot of Fluoride‘ came as a nasty surprise. I’m aware that there’s fluoride in tap water, but it never occurred to me that this toxin exists in tea as well. How come?”

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Skyrocket Your Traffic With Satellite Sites

By Edwin Huertas | 12/20/2008

The more traffic your website gets, the greater your chances of making sales. It’s a simple precept of Internet marketing. Today, I’m going to show you how setting up “satellite sites” can skyrocket your traffic… and boost your sales in the process.

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Christmas Eve, Italian Style

By Wendy Montes de Oca | 12/20/2008

I grew up in an Italian/Irish household. That meant Christmas Eve dinner was usually a mouth-watering feast of seafood delights and culinary delicacies. Antipasto (a wonderful assortment of meats, cheeses, and vegetables), shrimp fra diavolo, fried calamari, breaded flounder, baked scallops, homemade rice balls, and, of course, pasta. Lots and lots of pasta. Dessert was even better with 7-layer rainbow cookies, cannolis, and cappuccino.

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What does Michael do when he’s studying a book?

By Mark Morgan Ford | 12/19/2008

When applied to reading books, the Power of One says that you should search the book for one good idea that you can put to work in your life immediately. Take that one good idea and turn it into a specific goal. Make that goal a yearly one, and then break it down into monthly, weekly, and daily tasks. (We explain exactly how to do that in ETR’s goal-setting programs.)

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The Decoy Effect – and How It Can Help You Make More Sales

By Alex Mandossian | 12/19/2008

It happens all the time – where the introduction of a third option suddenly makes one of your earlier options look better. It sounds irrational. And it is. But it’s such a common phenomenon, it even has a name. It’s called the “decoy effect.”

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10 Little Things I Love About the Holidays

By Early To Rise | 12/19/2008

1. Giving gifts and cards. (Of course, receiving gifts/cards is a great feeling too!) 2. Decorating the Christmas tree. It’s always so much fun. 3. Baking. This is when I can take my time to massively produce baked goodies, like gingerbread man cookies, cranberry scones, and pumpkin pies. Yum. 4.…

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Thump Your Way to a Stronger Immune System

By Kelley Herring | 12/18/2008

With cold and flu season here, your immune system needs extra TLC. Along with exercise and a low-glycemic, nutrient-rich diet, there’s something else you can do. Stimulate your thymus.

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How to Kill a Great Company in One Easy Lesson

By Clayton Makepeace | 12/18/2008

Back in the 1980s, I agreed to help the owner of a small company grow his business. Within three years, it was the largest company in its industry.

By combining five key marketing strategies with kick-butt sales copy, we were attracting between 5,000 and 10,000 new customers every month. By 1988, we had more than 120,000 paying customers. Sales revenues and profits quadrupled.

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No Need for Lozenges

By Suzanne Richardson | 12/17/2008

If you get a cold this winter, forget sugar-filled lozenges. Instead, try a licorice root brew to ease your symptoms. The tea that worked so quickly for me is called “Organic Throat Coat” by Traditional Medicinals. But if you type “licorice root tea” into Google, you’ll get plenty of other options.

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