Business Columns
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Corner Barkery owner finds niche after leaving a tough industryOct 25, 2015 6:12 am - Lisa Senafe of Palatine worked for a number of years as a loan officer for a mortgage company in Schaumburg. Many in her family also worked in the mortgage industry. So ...
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The math behind long-term care insuranceOct 25, 2015 5:47 am - Q: I am a 59-year-old single woman with no children. I have a little over $1 million in qualified and taxable accounts. Due to pre-existing conditions, I am unable to ob...
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Kendall: How to 'stage' your businessOct 19, 2015 1:00 am - Sheila Schostok mostly stages houses, working with homeowners and Realtors to make a house for sale look as appealing as possible. You know: Rearrange the furniture. Hid...
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Career Coach: We got spirit, how 'bout you?Oct 18, 2015 7:41 am - Fall means "Spirit Week" season at schools. If you have children at the right age, or remember back to you own high school days, you know this means dressing up each day...
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Being active is usually good in investingOct 18, 2015 6:56 am - Q: My husband and I have about $1.5 million in assets with a financial planner, and we've been with him for about 15 years. His fee is 1 percent per year. We have a fe...
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How to 'stage' your businessOct 18, 2015 6:30 am - Sheila Schostok mostly stages houses, working with homeowners and Realtors to make a house for sale look as appealing as possible. You know: Rearrange the furniture. Hid...
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Wiegel breaks barriers in metal stamping industryOct 18, 2015 6:12 am - Erica Wiegel of Elk Grove Village wanted to make a name for herself as one of the few women in the metal stamping industry. So she worked side-by-side with her father, ...
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What to do when your boss is a bad tipperOct 18, 2015 1:00 am - Miller writes an advice column on navigating the modern workplace. Each week she will answer one or two questions from readers. Reader: My boss is a bad tipper. When we ...
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If Adobe won't retire Flash, just hit deleteOct 17, 2015 7:37 am - Arguably the most useless and obnoxious piece of near universally installed software, Adobe Flash has received another kick that ought finally to send it to its grave. A...
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Liability switch could leave merchants holding the cardOct 13, 2015 1:00 am - The days of the swipe are over. Get ready to dip. The anti-theft credit card technology that has been a standard overseas for the past decade is now making its way into ...