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August 2018

The Great American EMV Experiment: Success or Failure?

Decades ago, Europe and other developed nations around the world largely abandoned magnetic strips on payment cards in favor of EMV chips, which are more difficult for criminals to dupe and thus safer for both consumers and businesses to use. In these countries, all plastic payment cards rely on chip-and-pin, which guarantee higher levels of security and less Yet, it wasn’t until 2015 that America followed suit, and even then,

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Don’t Get Burned by Travel Scams: Here are Tips to Stay Safe

If you’re like many people around the country, when you plan a vacation, whether domestically or internationally, you take steps to save your pennies and enjoy a trip on a budget. You no doubt carefully research accommodation options, find the cheapest airfares possible, and source affordable tours and restaurant options. However, do you stop to think about how much money you could blow if you get burned by a travel

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A Real Dream: Selling With A Literal Vision

Forget for a moment that buying a home is perhaps the largest of all the financial things the normal person will ever do, besides pay for their wedding. Forget for a moment even, that it’s one of the most complicated financial things they’ll ever do as well. Ask yourself what drives us to even move from our homes? Why would we literally pick up our entire lives like nomadic travelers,

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Do You Need to Save Money on Your Car Repair? Here’s How

If you know that you need to get your car repaired or if you have been in an accident and you know that you have a dent or ding that you need to get sorted out then there are a couple of ways to save money on this. If you want to find out more about that then you can take a look below. Always Read the Manual The first

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How to Create Business Videos on a Tight Budget

Odds are you may have heard all about how business videos can cost a bomb to produce – and that is certainly true, in some cases. However the fact of the matter is that if you’re on a tight budget you do have options available to you as well, and it is possible to still come up with excellent videos. If you want to create business videos on a shoestring

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Building A Construction Budget

One of the most common traits of those who are leaders in construction is the ability to be detail oriented about pretty much everything in their business. The projects that you put together may well be thought over carefully and built, but if you’re not being as careful about your finances, you’re going to run into a wall. You need to know what your business income should look like, and

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Costly Home Issues Made Cheap

So, you’ve got what you think might be a small and inexpensive issue with your home, only to find out that it is the complete opposite, and it might just ruin your life. Ok, so that might have been a bit of an overreaction, but there are some home issues that are going to be a lot more costly than others. These are the ones that you need to focus

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The Skills That Will Make You Amazingly Employable Now and in the Future

Technology is not only changing the world we live it, it is also changing the skills needed to cope with it. As the digital world grows so does the need for good communicators, problem solvers, and collaborators. Of course, if you are tech savvy the world is your oyster, but you will still need the back up of people with other skills as well. Problem Solving Employees are faced with

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My top blogging tips for starting your own blog

As a blogger, I have a lot of people getting in touch and asking about what they should do to start their own blog. In this post, I’d like to give you guys some top blogging tips to help you get started and get more eyes on your posts. As a new blogger, you’ve got lots to think about. From learning how to write for an online audience, to mastering

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Here’s why I plan to keep learning

Knowledge is power. But these days, many people assume that learning involves years at college and a massive student loan. For me, this never seemed right. Not only did I not plan to stay in one place for that long, but I couldn’t justify completely taking myself out of the workforce for that long. At almost 30 years old, I still don’t regret this. I did some community college classes

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