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I re-read classic direct marketing book recently, E. Joseph Cossman’s “How I Made $1,000,000 in Mail Order (and You Can Too).” This is the man who made a fortune for himself and others marketing plastic ant farms, spud guns, little rubber ’shrunken heads’ and other novelty items (I [...]
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Workforce Investment Act Grants
What is WIA?
Actually, I’d never heard of them until recently. Being the stoutly (sometimes stupidly) self-reliant person I am, I don’t usually ask how the government can help me. But one of my clients (Susan on the short audio interview here) mentioned them a while back, and now another client (Brian, also [...]
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OK, so I’ve been on Twitter for a couple of months, and am starting to see several patterns developing.
None of them are what I would call conclusive, but I think they’ll bear out.
A word of caution – many of the job tweets feed the same jobs, so you’ll need to try them, adjust and decide [...]
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“When opportunity came, it appeared in a different form and from an different direction than he had expected. That is one of the sly tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is [...]
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I just finished the novel “Rise to Rebellion” about the American Revolution by Jeff Shaara, a historical novelist. It’s an intimate look at the people and events leading up to the Declaration of Independence, told through the eyes of the people who lived it (the same style as his and his father’s other widely read [...]
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