Negotiate Your Way to a Higher Salary

Negotiate Your Way to a Higher Salary

Here are tips to negotiate salary.  New job market – new job opportunities, time to talk salary negotiation….Let’s start with some stats…(based on reporting by Forbes): Forty-six percent of men negotiated their salaries compared to 34 percent of women. Workers...
5 Tips to Tame Your Time Management Expenditures

5 Tips to Tame Your Time Management Expenditures

Time management plays a critical role in the success of a business. How focused are you on time management?   5 Essential Time Management Techniques Be intentional: Keep a to-do list. Write a weekly list and color code it based on clients and types of tasks. Literally...
Be A Networking ACE

Be A Networking ACE

Be a Networking ACE!  Networking is often seen as a daunting task to people who are just starting.  The key to success is easy to obtain. All you need is consistency, authenticity, and an ability to have fun.  How to be a Networking ACE Authenticity You can’t put...
Summertime Cybersecurity Check

Summertime Cybersecurity Check

Now is the time for a cybersecurity check.  Do not wait!  There’s a lot riding on your laptop. It’s probably the only hard drive you save things to, and it just accumulates information as you go about your life. It would be a very valuable asset for fraudsters and...
Buying the Perfect Gift

Buying the Perfect Gift

Is there such a thing as the Perfect Gift?  Do you ever just find yourself sitting and staring at your to-do list, and dreading all the upcoming gifts you have to purchase?  I do….gift giving is too fine an art to mess up — especially when you care enough to put real...
The Art of Negotiating

The Art of Negotiating

Do you know the Negotiating Rule(s)?  You should!  There is not a day that goes by that I am not negotiating something. Whether it is a client’s cable bill, a vendor in my home, or a new contract – negotiation is the name of the game!  There are three types of...
Overturning Murphy’s Law

Overturning Murphy’s Law

Have you heard of Murphy’s Law?  Well, let me share…  In the last two weeks, my clothes dryer has died.  I detected rotted sections in my siding.  My downstairs bathroom sink started leaking… After the obligatory feeling sorry for myself and re-watching...
Are You Watching Cable? Get a Smart TV!

Are You Watching Cable? Get a Smart TV!

First question:  What is a smart TV?  Second question:  Is your cable bill getting out of control? Related question: Do you subscribe to a package deal? Do you really still need it? After careful evaluation, I realized I didn’t.  Sure, I needed the Internet — but I...