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Insurance Blog Week in Review – Week of April 15-21, 2012

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Every week, the Insurance Blog Week in Review gives you a quick and easy way to “ketchup” on everything that hit the blog in the past seven days. There can be anywhere between 12 and 14 blogs that will appear. What did you miss this week? My Quest to Find Affordable Health Insurance is Finished Finally! I have found a health insurance policy that I can actually afford! I review the steps from uninsured, (when I lost my job and my health insurance in 2009), to insured in 2012. The Insurance Podcast Roundup went up on April 16, 2012. This … Continue reading →

iTunes Open University Introducing Environment Series

I am a fan of iTunes on Facebook and yesterday, I saw an interested post. iTunes now offers an Open University series about the environment. If you have ever wondered how your food gets to the supermarket, what damage disposable bags is doing, or what unseen impacts your shopping may have, this is the series for you! The iTunes Open University Introducing Environment series offers an introduction then 16 movies, ranging in time from 1:38 to 17:52, on such subjects as: Unseen impacts (understand the consequences your shopping habits can cause) Shopping by car (learn how short journeys of less … Continue reading →

Hosting an Open House to Promote Your Home Business

I wrote yesterday about how boosting your social life can help boost your business and I wanted to share that I believe entertaining can often help expand a home business as well. You might consider hosting an open house to introduce people to you home business and give yourself the opportunity to chat with many people in a short time span. Open houses are used for all sorts of purposes—real estate agents use them to open the doors of a listed property and let people wander through; others use the open house as a means of entertaining or introducing themselves … Continue reading →

The Housing Market and Home Equity

Home sellers are spooked by the lowering prices of their homes. While homes on the market may still get some interest, it is not good. If an offer does come in, it is usually a low ball one. This is due to at least three reasons. One, the busted housing market is all over the news, so home buyers know that they have a lot of power; two, there is a lot of inventory out there, so buyers feel confident that if they walk away there will be many other homes to buy; three, buyers are concerned with the rising … Continue reading →

Consider Using Scents

We have talked about so many different ways to get your business to stand out in the market place, and various ways to use marketing and promotions to spread the word about your products and services, but recently someone told me about a tactic that I haven’t really written about–scent. Seems this person uses her version of “aromatherapy” to make her marketing materials stand out in the crowd. As it was told to me, she spritzes her postcards, invoices and other card stock and mailing materials with a little diluted essential oil. She said she uses a citrus-scent since she … Continue reading →

Using Cookies for Marketing

A few days ago, in my local newspaper, there was a feature story on a couple of Realtors who use fresh-baked cookies as part of their marketing efforts. They offer their own homemade cookies at open houses, workshops, and other job-related activities. Obviously, they are becoming as well known (if not more so) for their baking than their home selling capabilities. I couldn’t help but think this was a great way to set them apart in an otherwise competitive business! Years ago, when my son was in the second grade, he had his own brief home-based business baking and delivering … Continue reading →

Using Found Money to Achieve Your Financial Goals

Lots of times money comes into our hands, wallets, or bank accounts, and finds its way out again just as quickly. I’m talking about that birthday gift from Grandma or the rebate check that arrived in the mail. What was it used for? A drive-thru meal at McDonald’s? Snacks at the movies? Maybe you have no idea? All of us have that kind of “found money” that makes its way into our lives. Often times it was unexpected or forgotten about until it arrived. Therefore we have no real plan for it. Here are some common examples of found money: … Continue reading →

Are You Shopping at the Right Grocery Store? Four Steps to Save 20 Percent or More

Choosing the right grocery store can save you 20 percent or more on groceries before using coupons. If you were buying a big ticket item, such as a television or a new washer and dryer, you would do some research and shop around, right? Since food tends to be the biggest general family expense after housing, it just makes sense to do your research before you step foot in your grocery store. Just spending $225 a week on your groceries, adds up to almost $12,000 a year!Imagine shaving close to $2,400 off of that total food bill, doing nothing other … Continue reading →

Low Cost Home Business Ideas

Sometimes, people who really want to work from home stop short of investigating home – based business options because they think that starting a home – based business requires more money than they have. While it is important to be realistic about what it will cost to open up a home – based business, you may not know that there are options out there that are within reach for people with all kinds of budgets. For example, my freelance writing business cost me next to nothing to start because I used a computer that I already had, internet service that … Continue reading →

Do Your Pets Factor into Your Holiday Plans?

Do you make your holiday plans around your pets? That’s an assertion that the Associated Press recently made in an article: pet owners revolve their late-December events around their pets. Examples given by the AP include taking holiday-themed photos of pets, using these or other pictures with the animal for seasonal cards, buying pets gifts (the article maintains that just over half of pet owners do this), and even creating special menus for the pet so it can have a holiday meal alongside its human family. There are two sides to this: one, in which a little holiday cheer is … Continue reading →