Depending on the specific model, your car loses 1-2% fuel efficiency for every 100 pounds of extra weight in the car. That’s a surprising amount that can really add up.
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Managing Employees: 5 Scary Small-Business Mistakes | AllBusiness.com
Yes, your employees can make or break your business, but battling zombies can be easier than managing people.
When ‘Giving Your All’ Gets You Nowhere
Case in point: I received an email recently from an employee who wanted to know how to turn down a “promotion” that meant doing two jobs without a pay, title, or bonus increase. She wrote:
New Business Ideas | CoolBusinessIdeas.com
SmallScaleBusiness.com is pleased to announce that they currently have over 660 small business ideas with plans to expand this to 1000 by the end of 2012. More and more people are making the decision to start their own small business due to layoffs and other financial problems. Most of these are looking for ideas for businesses they can start with little up front investment.
10 Sci-Fi Predictions That Came True | Innovationnewsdaily.com
It has become somewhat common place for the futuristic devices from sci-fi movies to appear as actual products on store shelves. Far more impressive is the fact that writers from the 19th and early 20th century predicted moon landings, radar, and the Internet decades, if not centuries before they became a reality. Read on to learn more about these amazing predictions.
How to Prevent iPad Shoulder Pain | livescience.com
If your shoulder h
urts after using your tablet, you may be able to ease the discomfort by changing how you hold the device, a new study shows.
Compared with users of desktop computers, tablet users are more likey to sit in a flexed posture –
How “HateSurfing” Can Help Your Small Business | SmallBusinessNewz
“HateSurfing” is a term that describes the act of going online specifically to read as many negative comments, blog posts, tweets and messages as possible to generate insights that can help you run your business better.
What Are You Retiring From? | Boaz Rauchwerger
There’s a lot of talk, especially in light of the developments of recent years, about retirement. Unfortunately, many people have lost much of their retirement nest eggs due to problems in real estate or in the stock market.
I received an interesting note the other day from a long-time friend, Dana Borowka, of Lighthouse Consulting, in Santa Monica, California. He offered a different view of retirement. Here is what he wrote:
“Last week I was thinking about retirement and what it means. The thought came – what am I going to retire from? Then the idea came – Today I’m retiring from fear and stress! I’ve shared that with a few people and the look on everyone’s face is – of course. They loved it.”
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Banking on mom and dad? | USFST.com
With traditional credit channels squeezed so much that even the bank of mom and dad is tightening its belt, social lending services have moved beyond typical peer-to-peer to target the inter-family space, as Ian Clover discovered.
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Tired of burning your tongue on coffee only to have it get cold a few minutes later? With the Coffee Joulies Gift Pack your coffee will be ready to drink in minutes and will stay that way for hours. Each polished stainless steel shell is filled with a special phase change material that melts at 140°F. Put them inside the custom-printed thermos and they absorb heat from your coffee when it is too hot and release it back into your coffee to keep it at the perfect temperature.
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Dwolla, The New E-Commerce Solution | CoolBusinessIdeas.com
The recent outbreak of alternative financial transaction services hasn’t yet caused giants like PayPal and Ebay to need reputation protection, but they may be looking to revamp their business models soon. The new kid on the block, Dwolla, threatens to shake things up in an industry that seems to change by the year.
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