Best Shapewear for Your Body Type
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Published:04/01/2011 03:20pm
Shapewear is designed to boost your confidence and make you feel slim and sexy. But, where do you begin? Depending on your body type, you may be looking to shapewear to enhance your figure or conceal it. Do you have a small chest that could use some enhancing? A saggy bottom that could use some uplifting? A tummy that could use some flattening? With so many options available, its best to shop for shapewear based upon your body type. A study of more than 6,000 women conducted at North Carolina State University in 2005 revealed that womens body types fell into...
Breaking-Up: Should You Leave Or Can you get the Change You Want?
Published:03/30/2011 12:25pm
Is your relationship or marriage just, well, so-so? Maybe youre not sure if you still love or ever loved your partner? Maybe he or she has many good traits is kind, or generous, funny, or the sex is great. Shes gorgeous, or he showers you with kindness but something is missing. Maybe your parents or friends think that he or she is great that others would give their eye teeth for such a relationship. Theres more at stake if you have children together, but if not, how do you decide whats the right thing to do?You tell your...
3 Secrets to Business Success I Learned From My Grandpa
Published:03/29/2011 01:31am
My 96-year-old Grandpa recently passed away, and as a tribute to his memory I wanted to share some of the gems he passed on to me.Grandpa was a successful entrepreneur -- he started his business, a machine shop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, over 50 years ago.Even though he never was able to get his head around the idea of Internet marketing, one thing he DID understand is business. Below are 3 tips he shared with me in order to help you build a solid, successful business:1. Being lucky is contagious. Grandpa would often tell us stories about how his successful friends and...
Paying Debt Off: How Neapolitan Ice Cream Can Help You Control Spending
Published:03/25/2011 05:01pm
I've recommended people track their expenses in hundreds of seminars and coaching sessions and I can tell you that I have NEVER met a person who overestimated what they were spending. But I have met plenty of people who overestimate or never really know what they are making, a dangerous oversight since this will give you the attitude, "Of course I can afford that" or "I want that so I should have it."You know, there are only three concrete ways I know of to have more money: 1) make more; 2) save more; and 3) spend less.Not very glamorous is it?...
Smart Spending: How to Stop Drowning in Credit Card Debt
Published:03/25/2011 04:56pm
Want to hear something shocking? According to Indexcreditcards.com, the average American is carrying 4,013 in revolving (mostly credit card) debt and the average household is carrying 7,861 of such debt. Now keep in mind that about 25% of American households have no credit cards, which means the amount of average debt for credit card holding households is at least 10,000.This, my friend, is a fiasco! There is no way I can be delicate about this. If you are one of the 75% of American households who use credit cards and you want to get out of debt, you must, must, must...
Life Achievement and Success: What Your Washing Machine Knows About it That You Don't
Published:03/25/2011 04:51pm
If you're an entrepreneur and a woman, read onYou'll identify with what I'm about to say!As a thriving business owner and mother of a high-energy toddler, laundry is something I do frequently between coaching sessions. Into my sixth load the other day, I realized as I adjusted that dial yet again that this was a teaching moment. Yes, my washing machine knows a great deal about success-and we would do well to pay attention. In fact, as women and business owners, some of our most powerful lessons about success and prosperity are right under our noses, maybe even as close as...
Tips On Starting Your Own Business And Finding Your Passion
Published:03/25/2011 04:42pm
You spend a third of your life sleeping-unless you have young children like me-and you spend a third of your life at work. That's a lot of time. But you know what? You really can create the livelihood you desire, make the money you desire, and serve the people you enjoy in the time that you spend kicking yourself for staying at your current job.Creating a successful business starts out with long hours and lots of sweat, but you won't feel like you're working most of the time. That is, if you choose to create a passionate business based on where...
FDA seizes control of three J&J factories
Published:03/25/2011 02:49pm
FDA seizes control of three JJ factoriesBy Tabish TalibAfter a recall of multiple drugs in recent past, like Childrens Tylenol, the federal government takes over three Johnson Johnson plants.In response to the long list of Johnson Johnson recalls this past year, which includes Tylenol, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took control of three JJ production plants.The JJ plants, located in Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, Lancaster, Pa., and Fort Washington, Pa., were connected to the recall of multiple drugs in 2010 and to the Children's Tylenol three months ago, according to a McNeil Consumer Healthcare press release.The FDA took...
Why is China’s Money Dirty?
Published:03/24/2011 03:50pm
Why is Chinas Money Dirty?by Michael A. Santoro, Professor of Management and Global Business, Rutgers Business SchoolThe Wall Street Journal recently reported that private-sector Chinese businesses and investors poured nearly 5 billion into US firms, both large and small, in 2010. Small businesses in particular have welcomed the Asian in-flow with open arms. However, such investments have spawned concerns that this is a move by Beijing to relocate companies to China, taking with them technology, resources and much needed US jobs.Why the big fuss over such a relatively small amount of capital? 5 billion is a small fraction of...
Capital Sources: Venture capitalist conference focuses on the Americas
Published:03/23/2011 11:00am
Copyright 2010. ALM Media Properties, LLC. All rights reserved. Daily Business ReviewPage printed from: Daily Business ReviewBack to ArticleCapital Sources: Venture capitalist conference focuses on the AmericasWayne Tompkins11-10-2010 Baby Abuelita Productions is a Miami company with both an unusual name and an unusual line of products."We create, manufacture and distribute a line of plush singing dolls, musical books and animated DVDs, and we target Hispanic families children, parents, grandparents," said Carol Fenster, who co-founded the business in 2004 with Hilda Argilagos-Jimenez. They sold their first dolls in Miami a year later."Our signature dolls actually are two grandparent dolls, Abuelita Rosa...
Use Teleseminars and Webinars to Boost Your Profits
Published:03/19/2011 11:51pm
Hosting virtual events such as teleseminars (essentially a conference call) and webinars (which is basically a PowerPoint presentation delivered via the Internet) are a great way to boost your business. They are both easy and highly effective tools to create more visibility and new profit streams for your business. Using these tools to promote your services and educate your market can be a regular piece of your marketing strategy.With teleseminars and webinars you can give your audience an opportunity to sample what its like to work with you live and see how quickly they can benefit from your expertise. You offer...
The FBI's Most Wanted Fugitive's List Turns 60 While One of Its Success Stories Celebrates Birthdays Behind Bars.
Published:03/19/2011 11:08am
Just a few days after Leslie Rogge spent his 70th birthday in prison, the FBI was having its own birthday party of sorts. They were celebrating the 60th anniversary of the birth of the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Created in 1950, the list has led to the capture of over 460 people. Rogge is one of over 491 people who have made the list. In his new book Wanted: Gentleman Bank Robber, author Dane Batty goes inside the FBI's extensive chase of Rogge, who robbed nearly 30 banks and got away with over 2 million...
A Bad Job And Boring Work Got You Down? Six Steps To Love Work Again
Published:03/18/2011 03:11pm
Recently I wrote an article, "Love Work: How To Fall In Love With Your Job And Feel The Ultimate Work Satisfaction." It's about how you can fall in love with what you do for a living even if you have a bad job and boring work to do. I gave you a couple of ideas for specific actions you can take to rekindle the spark you used to feel for your work when it was new and exciting.It appears that boring work is a pretty huge issue for our work-obsessed culture. Kind of ironic, isn't it? We love to work; we...
Past winners ride out recession, grow business
Published:03/18/2011 12:01pm
Posted on Wednesday, 02.16.11 Past winners ride out recession, grow businesses BY NANCY DAHLBERGSpecial to The Miami HeraldSometimes winning the Business Plan Challenge is just the first step in an entrepreneurial journey.Take Baby Abuelita, for example. The team behind the singing Hispanic dolls won second place in 2005. Since then, the product family that started with grandparent dolls that croon lullabies in Spanish now has four babies. Baby Javier, the first boy toddler doll, came out last year after numerous customer requests and was one of the best sellers during the holiday season, said co-founder and CEO Carol Fenster....
Speak Your Product...and You Will Be Heard
Published:03/17/2011 06:01pm
People talk about their product or service. They focus on facts. It's all talk, talk, and more talk. However, they need to SPEAK about their product or service! Engage your market in forums where you can address them personally. Illustrate your product or service through stories. Answer their questions. Demonstrate your passion! I am the author of the book "The Business of Successful Speaking: Proven Secrets to Becoming a Million Dollar Speaker." I believe in my product, I speak on my product, and share stories that HELP people. Speak, and speak from your...
