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Five Ways Credit Cards Can Save Your Marriage
Here’s another highlight from our CardRatings.com blog that I’ve been getting some great feedback about: A slumping economy, a soft job market, and rising credit card debt can strain relationships. If you didn’t manage to stun your spouse on Valentine’s Day, you may have to call for reinforcements to save your marriage. Fortunately, credit cards…
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Know Your Credit Card Foreign Transaction Fee BEFORE You Travel
Posted last week on CardRatings.com, here are some of my favorite tips for folks planning to travel outside the U.S. with a little cash and a lot of plastic: With new credit card rules squeezing profit margins at major banks, foreign travelers have become an even easier target for special fees and surcharges. Credit card…
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I’m a Ghost Blogger and I’m Proud of It
Sometimes, when I’m not griping about still having to pay down my student loan, I think about what I really got for my money when I attended Ithaca College. I may not be working in either of the two media mentioned in my major concentration (“radio” or “television”), but I sure do a heck of…
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Snow’s Melting
Almost two weeks later, and the snow still reminds me more of Ithaca than of anything I grew up with around here.
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Five Decades of American News Radio History
It's been about ten years since I wrote for AOL's content team, and I'm excited to be back on their roster. Here's the first piece I did for the AOL Radio Blog: Although news reporting had been a regular component of American broadcast radio since its invention, the "news radio" format didn't emerge until the…
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The Secret History of Used Cars
When we lived in Athens, Lori and I had fun times with a couple of used cars: a Honda Civic that my mechanic declared "an impossible perversion of Japanese engineering," and a Pontiac Sunfire that ran great and was almost absolutely a salvage vehicle. I liked the Sunfire, but had to give it up when…
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spinme.com Updates: Social Media, Mailbag
Things are picking back up at the music business blog, now that I’m shifting back from book-writing mode and into blogging mode. Recent headlines: Social Media Tools that Grow Your Audience I hear echoes of what I wrote five years ago in Zach Pentel’s dismissive comments about MySpace Music in this Mashable writeup of music…
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Small Business CRM Updates
December highlights from the Small Business CRM Software Blog: Don’t Sabotage Your CRM Software Project in 2010 Eating CRM Software Leftovers in the New Year Open Source CRM Software: “Tricky,” Impossible, or Troublesome? Is Your CRM System a Hoax?
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PPC Management Offers New Practice-Building Strategy for Attorneys
Advertising has always been a tricky business for legal professionals. While the most storied law firms rely on long-time clients and on personal referrals, new practices often make hard decisions between keeping up appearances or bowing to the pressure of the marketplace. Loud ads on television, in the yellow pages, and on bus stop benches…
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Christmas Eve in Athens, GA: Five Years Later
Five years ago tonight, I posted the original version of this image to my Flickr stream. This is what you see when you drive through the center of town at midnight on Christmas Eve: festive decorations, welcoming shop windows, and no people. I found myself at this intersection on the way home from the hospital,…
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How to Use Wawa: Four Rules for Philadelphia Visitors
A client confirmed for me what anyone who has spent time in Philadelphia knows by heart: Wawa is more than just a convenience store, it’s the nexus for peculiar Philly culture. Philly natives know the drill at Wawa. It’s full of contradictory cultural norms. The Wawa Door Hold. You must hold the door open for…