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Bailout Marketing?

Published in October 7th, 2008
Posted by Michael in Uncategorized
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Wow, it seems the news is bad every day. Yesterday I read about all the problems with Europe’s financial system. It shouldn’t be a surprise to me but the degree to which the world economies are linked is amazing. The word bailout has become quite an emotional one for people on both sides of the [...]

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eZineArticles.com — a Good Idea?

Published in November 9th, 2007
Posted by Michael in Communications, Uncategorized
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I just read an interesting blog about eZineArticles.com by Maria Langer. Maria is the co-author of WordPress 2 which I like a lot although it is becoming slightly out of date now. Here is the link on Amazon — it doesn’t get great reviews but I think they are a little harsh. It helped me [...]

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The Fraud Department?

Published in July 24th, 2007
Posted by Michael in Uncategorized
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I received a call today on the answering machine saying that I had some suspicious activity on my credit card. It left a 1-800 number for me to call the credit card company’s fraud department. I had just experienced a rejected transaction earlier in the day so I naturally assumed the worst and called straight away.
The number was answered by [...]

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