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Boyds Bears Dolls-and-Bears -> Bears -> Boyds Boyds Bears are the creation of Gary Lowenthal and his wife, Justina Unger. Before they were married, they owned an antique shop together in 1979, and found that they couldn’t afford the types of antiques they wanted to carry. So in 1982 they started making...- BUD - An American Company No More! What would 1 Share Purchased 24 Years ago of Anheuser-Busch be Worth When it Was Finally Sold Yesterday While it has been in the news recently, it became official yesterday, Anheuser-Busch is no longer an American Company. That's right, your favorite domestic beer company is now owned by beer GIANT InBev - you can find some full articles HERE, HERE and HERE. Never heard of InBev?  Guess Again - from...
- Cigar Bands Collectibles -> Tobacciana -> Cigar Cigar bands have a rich history, or more accurately, several histories. They've been attributed to the Russian queen Catherine the Great, and 19th century England, among other places. One story says that Catherine the Great ordered that her cigars be wrapped in silk to protect...
How to Probe for Signs of a Market Bottom We had a bounce yesterday. Â Was it one of proverbial "dead cat bounces" that are all too common in bear markets? The buzz from stock market analysts about finding or predicting a market bottom seems to be increasing. Â Everyone wants to be told that this is it, things are as...
Organic Farms Labeling Factory Farm Milk As 'USDA Organic' Oh. My. Somehow we all knew this day was coming, but COME ON...this is a huge company to be falsely labeling non-organic milk as organic and expecting no one to notice. It turns out that along with Horizon and Aurora brand dairy products, there are a bunch more private label...- Should You Do Business With Unethical Companies? Maybe I've had some sort of "Come to Jesus" moment, but this recession thing has really opened my eyes to companies with poor business ethics. Whether it be carelessness, blissful ignorance or a seemingly infinite supply of tolerance, we consumers seem to take our hard knocks from shady companies in...
- Down to a Sunless Sea / Mathias B. Freese Genre: Short storiesMain characters: many :)Summary: The book consists of fifteen stories written in over a span of over thirty years. The majority of them have a child as a man character, relating us a bit of the world as seen through his eyes. There is little or no actual...
- I get emails Who said working in publishing would be unrewarding? ------------------------------------- Subject: Immediate Release: Girls Gone Wild Heads Overseas Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:35:39 -0400 From: Barry Roesler To: oliver@alliancemagazine.org Hello Oliver, I thought you may find this interesting. If you would like to follow-up with Joe Francis or Scott Barbour,...
- Lessons to learn- How did Harley-Davidson turnaround? A Recovery Plan Harley-Davidson's remarkable turnaround – from a firm flirting with bankruptcy to one of America's premier automotive success stories – is what business legends are made of. How did they do it? President and COO Jim McCaslin explains their recovery plan. Operating close to bankruptcy in 1981,...
Lladro Collectibles Collectibles -> Decorative Collectibles -> Lladro-> Figurines When you look at the beauty and grace that is customary with Lladro collectibles, it’s hard to believe that the company originally specialized in jugs and basic kitchenware. It wasn’t until the mid 1950’s that the three original founders of the company, who...
- How I learned about gap insurance You may not have heard about gap insurance before, but it can be a useful thing to have if the value of your car is significantly less than what you owe on it. (For example, if you've leased a car, or if you've bought a brand-new car and driven...
Generate more traffic and build your bottom line through Radio P.R. Guest Post by Michelle Taney Editor's Note: Michelle is my radio PR specialist. Just in the first week of working with her I have been booked on two major radio stations in Florida. To me this means Michelle is someone in the radio PR business to listen to! I will...- Beyond SEO: Guest Article Editor's Note: Here is yet another refeshing article talking about reigning in those SEO urges and making your marketing campaign whole again. Regarding the article quality itself, people are really starting to get this whole "writing valuable content" thing.
- Incredible Presentation by Dean Hunt... I have a new all-time favorite webinar. I've hosted some incredible people over the years on teleconferences and webinars. I can't begin to calculate the value of them all together for the information and tactics shared by some of the best in the business. But yesterday I recorded a webinar...
- Saving money just by asking Most people have a very difficult time asking for a discount. For some reason here in the US we feel like we have to pay full price for everything. In a lot of foreign countries asking for a discount, or haggling, is not only welcomed, it is often expected, and...
- Social Media Today Here are the top social media related stories and resources found around the 'Sphere today: This one is excellent. I love these kinds of videos! I hear the jingle jangle of the Social Media Ice Cream truck ... Commoncraft does it again. Thanks Lee Lefever and crew. Social Media in...
STYLES The use of styles in Word will allow you to quickly format a document with a consistent and professional look. Paragraph and character styles can be saved for use in many documents. Applying a Style - Place the cursor in the paragraph where the style will be applied. - Click...- Our online business startup A recent reader comment (from Matt at To One Million and Beyond) stated: I’d love to hear some of your experiences with your online businesses as I’m about to start one (possibly two) in the next little while. What kind of successes, failures, and difficulties did you encounter? While only...
- Traffic Secrets 2.0: Here Comes the Reese Effect! It's been a long time since John Reese had his million dollar day with Traffic Secrets 1.0. Now he's ramping up for Traffic Secrets 2.0 and he's doing it by giving out spectacular free content. Be sure to check out his brand new video here to see the beginning of...
- Find Advice About Search Engine Optimization You may be asking what are the benefits of Website optimization Techniques?, do I need to make use of Search engine optimization to advertise my website? how do I know it works? is it worth the effort? In the next article we are going to try and answer some of...
- Beware Of Obamanomics Obama economic plan can be summarized as a failed plan before he even unleashes it.  His plan has been done before and has failed before and will always fail.   History teaches us that using Keynesian Policies will fail every time they are used. Just look at FDR, Carter and the...
- The World's Worst Dictators - Great Friends Of The United States? Parade Magazine has come out with their list of the Top Ten Worst Dictators again (how does a year go by so fast?), and it looks like the same old faces made the list again. When are these guys going to disappear? And what could be the most eye-opening fact...
Antique Dishes Dealers -> Glass -> Plates Collecting antique dishes can be a fun and rewarding hobby, but it’s probably not going to be an easy one! Because of the wide variety of dishes available from so many sources, you’ll probably have to brush up on your knowledge of dishes and dinnerware....
We Used To Recycle Everything; What Happened? Throughout history, since the dawn of man, we have been a recycling people. We reused anything and everything multiple times before discarding of it - if there was anything left at all. When we were lucky enough to get our hands on something useful, we were careful with it so...
EarthTalk: On Socially-Responsible 401K Investing. EarthTalk is a weekly installment from E/The Environmental Magazine. Dear EarthTalk: I want to offer my employees a 401(k) plan that is socially and environmentally responsible. Are there such plans and, if so, where do I look? Even though socially responsible investing (SRI) has been around for decades, only recently...- Day 10) Knowing Where My Money is Going is More Important Than Ever This guest post by Mike of Richer by the Day is part of Where's My Money Going? Month. Mike is shares the story of why he and his wife started tracking their income. He also writes for the Lending Club Blog. I remember asking myself "Where is my money going" a few year back. My wife and I were considering the question not because we didn't seem to have enough to cover expenses, but rather didn't seem to be saving as much as we thought we should. We were both making great money, but our net worth was rising more slowly than expected. The final straw came when, despite a feeling of having too little take home pay to begin with, we still owed a huge amount with our tax return.
Don't Be Crazy: Diversify Your Portfolio We all know the upside of diversification, right? You don't put all your eggs in one basket, you spread yourself across various industries and companies, yada yada yada. That's great and all, but did you know that you can also keep yourself sane by diversifying? My patented "Diversification Sanity"...- Microsoft Buys Yahoo? How to get ranked in 24 hours for competitive terms.
- A debt mentality I heard a commercial this morning advertising the services of a local credit union. There were little testimonials from members; several of whom were exclaiming about the great service they got when taking out their second mortgage. Another person talked about the great rates on a car loan. Not one...
- Cheapskates, 2005 I'm sure a lot of readers will remember Amy Dacyczyn and her Tightwad Gazette. If you've read her newsletters or the book, you can see why she calls herself the Frugal Zealot. Some of her money-saving tactics are generally applicable. Others you might get used to after a while. But...
