Archive for November, 2007

How to Eliminate Credit Card Debt

November 30th, 2007 • • 2 comments • Related • Filed Under

Credit cards can be excellent tools if used right.  First, you get the convenience and security of not having to carry large amounts of cash with you.  Second, credit cards provide many consumer benefits free of charge, such as extended product warranties, collision insurance for rental cars, purchase protection, and much more.  In fact, you [...]

How to Avoid Common Mistakes with Your 401(k) Investment

November 25th, 2007 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

For most people a 401(k) plan is the most important investment vehicle in their retirement plan.  There used to be a time when pension plans sponsored by employers were quite common.  In the old days, employees would stay with the same employer for most of their careers and were rewarded for their loyalty with a [...]

The Accidental CEO’s Success

November 21st, 2007 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

You may have never heard of David Novak or the company that he runs, Yum Brands.  But once we start mentioning the household names KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, you will certainly recognize the powerful brands controlled by Novak and his company.   Yum Brands was spun off from Pepsico where David Novak started his [...]

How to Turn a Credit Card into a Cash Machine

November 18th, 2007 • • 2 comments • Related • Filed Under

The convenience of credit cards cannot be denied.  Carrying checks or cash is becoming less and less common as we move towards becoming a paperless society.   Each day more merchants, from grocery stores to taxi drivers, are embracing the acceptance of credit cards which makes their use for day-to-day expenses even more compelling.  Obviously there [...]

Motivating Kids to Achieve Success

November 15th, 2007 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

In the book The Motivation Breakthrough: 6 Secrets to Turning On the Tuned-Out Child, author Richard Lavoie spells out six motivational strategies for getting kids motivated and excited about achieving success.  Lavoie has been a special-educator for more than 30 years, and through his experience in this field he has come to realize that kids [...]

How to Achieve Success in a Manic-Depressive Stock Market

November 12th, 2007 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

The stock market has been going through another rollercoaster ride.  In the last 3 months the Dow Jones Industrial Average has swung up and down in a range of about 10% of its value.  In early November the Dow experienced two drops of more than 300 points within five days, enough to get even the [...]

How to Protect Your Identity

November 9th, 2007 • • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in America.   According to the FTC ten million Americans have their identity stolen or misused every year, creating a loss of $5 billion to consumers and $48 billion to businesses.  What can you do to avoid becoming another victim of identity theft?  There are many steps [...]

Goodbye Yahoo Web Hosting, Hello Faster Blog

November 5th, 2007 • • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

Back in August we reported in the post Problems with Yahoo Web Hosting that the Worldwide Success site was experiencing significant technical difficulties resulting is extremely slow performance and unavailability.  At that time we started working on transferring the site to a different host, but ran into some technical challenges exporting the MySQL database which [...]