Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. Hundreds of thousands of people from across the world are headed to South Africa to watch the World Cup, descending on Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, and six other cities across the country for the biggest sporting event the continent has ever seen. Yet, not everyone […]
5 Tips to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
It’s that time of year again: gingerbread lattes at Starbucks and a bunch of self-proclaimed ‘experts’ bestowing hackneyed advice on how to make your New Years resolutions stick. I interviewed a few members of mySomeday, a goal achievement platform that combines social networking and planning tools, to find out what helped them succeed. Check out […]
Experts Offer Tips on Avoiding Home Foreclosure
by James Parks The mortgage foreclosure crisis, fueled by years of unchecked predatory lending practices and a speculative bubble in real estate prices, has resulted in a disaster for millions of America’s homeowners. Not since the Depression of the 1930s have so many U.S. homeowners owed more on their mortgages than their homes are worth. Defaulting […]
Tips For Writing Content That Will Make You Sales
Content is king. Without content your website is an empty shell, a skeleton with no flesh, an empty vessel. Content can redeem the worst designed website. The right content can make your phone ring off the hook and flood your inbox with people wanting your product or service. Content is the most important ingredient in […]
Case Study of an “Out of the box” media initiative
With hundreds of brands and companies competing to differentiate themselves, corporations have been branching out to new and unconventional ways to make themselves known. This was evident at the recent April Fool’s holiday where brands would ‘prank’ their target audience to garner attention. While certain brands would prefer to maintain their white shining armor, brands […]
Supercharge Your Health By Protecting Your Identity
Photo credit: Studying-In-Us When we hear the term “robber,” we normally picture someone inside a home ripping through drawers looking for valuables. Or imagine an individual standing face-to-face with a store clerk demanding money from the cash register. But, we never associate the word with someone trying to steal personal information such as social […]