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Using Sector Funds to Construct Diversified Mutual Fund Portfolios

Sector funds have become popular among investors who want to construct diversified mutual fund portfolios. Sector funds are mutual funds that concentrate their investments in one particular industry or sector of the economy, such as healthcare, techn...

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Dealing With Clients Not Paying Your Invoice

Dealing With Clients Not Paying Your Invoice by: Inka-Maria Kunz Providing a translation is providing a service. Imagine you having provided the appropriate service, delivered it on time, invoiced the client accordingly (indicating a payment dat...

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A Real Estate Investing Primer

A Real Estate Investing Primer by: Adem Hamidovic There are a great many books and web sites devoted to real estate investing out there, but most of them concentrate on one specific area of investing. It's often hard to find a general descr...

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Mystery Shopping - An excellent part time job or additional income source

Mystery Shopping - An excellent part time job or additional income source by: Steve Pearce Though the name itself may seem a bit mysterious, the concept of mystery shopping is actually straightforward. Also referred to as secret shopping, perfor...

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Office Organization: How to Use the Tool Professional Organizers Love

Office Organization: How to Use the Tool Professional Organizers Love  by: Karen Fritscher-Porter Many professional organizers don't leave either home or office without one tool. What is it? Drum roll please… …The answer is a labelmaker...

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How to Patent Your Invention

How to Patent Your Invention by: Neil Armand A patent is a government granted right that allows the inventor to exclude anyone else from making, using or selling the invention in the country that issued the patent. The government grants this rig...

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Corruption and Transparency - Part II

II. What to Do? What is Being Done?Two years ago, I proposed a taxonomy of corruption, venality, and graft. I suggested this cumulative definition:The withholding of a service, information, or goods that, by law, and by right, should have been provid...

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Should You Make A Career Decision Based Upon A Career Quiz

Q. I'm about to graduate High School and I don't know what I want to be "when I grow up". Do you think that a career quiz might help me decide?A. Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! But maybe not for the reasons that you think. You see, as the ...

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Following Successful Leadership Strategies

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What To Do When You've Blown It

It’s bound to happen sooner or later – yes, even to you and your business. Sometime or other, you will make a blunder that upsets a customer. It may be an employee mistake (honest or intentional), it could be a defective product, it could even b...

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