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The New Power Girls: Is Oversharing Good For Business?

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Meghan Cleary, Social Media, Patricia Handschiegel, Women Entrepreneurship, The New Power Girls, Business, Entrepreneurship, Business News

The tools available today give companies of all sizes the ability to market themselves, build a following and reach audiences at little or no cost.

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Change The Gears In Your Fears

Jen Groover | Posted 07.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Business News, Women Entrepreneurs, Leadership, Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Business, Living News

Too many have been programmed to immediately identify why we shouldn't follow our passions instead of first considering all the happiness and vitality that doing so would bring.

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5 Things You Should Never Wear to Work

Nicole Williams | Posted 07.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Jobs, Style, Business, Work, Style Advice, Living News

Your choice of clothing speaks volumes about your personality and your level of professionalism. A black figure-flattering suit with a punch of color says "I am savvy and stylish."

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A Conspiracy So Vast

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 07.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Politics, Goldman Sachs, Conspiracy Theories, Rolling Stone, Banking, Media, Business, Felix Salmon, Media News

Among conspiracy theories, the one about Goldman Sachs controlling the world, is as hackneyed as they come. But it was only a matter of time before somebody didn't think it was silly at all.

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Manufacturing and the Limits of Comparative Advantage

Ralph Gomory | Posted 07.08.2009 | Business

Vague talk about future innovations, a post-industrial society, or an explosion of services exports is not the stuff on which to bet the prosperity of a nation.

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The Death of Mass Marketing

Brian Whetten | Posted 07.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Mass Marketing, Social Enterprise, Small Business, Brian Whetten, Permission Marketing, Concsious Business, Seth Godin, Selling by Giving, Triple Bottom Line, Business, Service Business, Business News

Interruption based marketing is being replaced by permission based marketing. Indiscriminate advertising is being replaced by web of trust marketing.

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The World of Free and The Huffington Post

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media

While the Times is stubbornly manning the gates of the fancy Midtown office building it can't afford, The Huffington Post is churning out content and swimming in advertising dollars in its small workspace downtown.

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Sustainable Food Ripe for Entrepreneurs to Drive Forward

Rob Smart | Posted 07.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Healthy Eating, Farms, Innovation, Investments, Entrepeneurship, Retail Sales, Cooking, Food, Agriculture, Trends, Sustainability, Business, Consumers, Green News

While perhaps it's not "broken," America's industrial food system has developed side effects that are accelerating in severity; diet-related health and environmental issues can no longer be ignored.

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5 Rules to Flirting at Work

Nicole Williams | Posted 07.02.2009 | Style

Read More: Business, Office Politics, Style News

Avoid becoming just another undignified watercooler casualty. Here are five rules to keep in mind.

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The New Power Girls: Award-winning Writer/Director/Author Andrea Buchanan on Switching Platforms

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 07.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Meghan Cleary, Andrea Buchanan, Women Entrepreneurs, Note to Self, Women in Business, Entrepreneurs, Business, The New Power Girls, Entertainment News

This week, fellow entrepreneur and New Power Girls co-creator, Meghan Cleary and I sat down with this transmedia talent to get her three top tips for moving and expanding to different platforms.

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New York State Pension Fund To Pull $86M From Companies Tied to Iran, Sudan

WNYC | Posted 07.02.2009 | New York

Read More: Thomas DiNapoli, World, Sudan, Nys Pension Fund, Iran, New York State Pension Fund, Business, New York, New York News

The New York State pension fund says it's divesting $86 million from companies conducting business in Iran and Sudan....

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The Arrival or the Journey

Jen Grisanti | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Success, Spiritual Journey, Inner Life, Achievement, Failure, Resistance, Journey, Business, Spirituality, Self-Doubt, Self-Help, Living News

Facing one's fear and moving past the resistance is integral in the act of creating something from nothing. But what are we afraid of? Why do we resist?

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Emails and Texting are Killing Your Business

Grant Cardone | Posted 07.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Internet, Sales Training, Internet Selling, Twitter, Sales, Social Networking, Sales on the Internet, Email, Business, Facebook, Grant Cardone, Texting, Business News

People are becoming overly reliant and falsely dependent upon emails, texting and the internet as a primary means of communicating.

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The New Power Girls: Video Series Episode 5 - Smarty People's Amy Swift Shares How to Network in Business

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 06.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Meghan Cleary, Patricia Handschiegel, Smarty People, Amy Swift, Women Entrepreneurs, Candance Nelsons, Women in Business, Business, Sprinkles Cupcakes, Arianna Huffington, The New Power Girls, Business News

It's often said that it's "not what you know but who you know." Within ten minutes of being around Smarty People's Amy Swift you completely why people...

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Mrs. Madoff, I've Been There

Karen Weinreb | Posted 06.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Ruth Madoff, Bernard Madoff, Mrs-Madoff, Madoff Scandal, White Collar Crime, Business, Business News

My life had been turned upside down just a few months before, when my financier husband told me that he was pleading guilty to a charge of wire fraud. Before that, I had been leading a life of affluence that many people would have envied.

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Why the Oracle Acquisition of Sun Gives Me a Java Headache

Heidi Sinclair | Posted 06.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Sun, Business, Java, Oracle, Mergers, Business News

Oracle has gone unchecked in amassing its dominant position to date through 73 acquisitions. But with Sun -- and the concerns it raises about the future of Java, and general market dominance-- it may finally be time to take a hard look at Oracle.

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Mastermind Your Success

Jen Groover | Posted 06.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Business News, Women Entrepreneurs, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur, Business, Business Advice, Business News

Ideas need collective input from different perspectives to develop. When a group is able to brainstorm and meditate together on one idea, that idea has no choice but to grow.

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Don't Write Off New York Too Fast

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 06.26.2009 | New York

Read More: David Levinson, Michael Katz, Peter Malkin, Ny Mets, Richard LeFrak, Real Estate, Business, New York City, Howard Rubenstein, Cmbs, New York News

At the New York Real Estate Economic Survival Kit Conference in Manhattan, some of the city's biggest names gave some well needed perspective about what we're really going through and where we could end up.

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Housing Crisis Solution: Bring in the Entrepreneurs

Jim Randel | Posted 06.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Investing, Foreclosure, Entrepreneurship, Business, Economy, Housing Crisis, Business News

The people handling the government's approach to the housing crisis are bright, well-intentioned and committed. They are also academic, theoretical and insulated.

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A Model for Universal Health Care Coverage

Gavin Newsom | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

Our experience in San Francisco is proving what most Americans already know -- it is much less expensive to keep people well than it is to treat their sickness.

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Why You Don't Close

Grant Cardone | Posted 06.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Sales Training, Sales Books, Economy, Business Sales Training, Selling, Business, Grant Cardone, Coaching, Business News

While most sales people agree that the average customer has to be asked five times before they will finally close, the very same sales person only has four closes.

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