Business Columns
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Video, podcasts create attention for businessesAug 23, 2015 5:12 am - Having trouble getting your message heard through all the noise, especially on the web? Assuming you've targeted the right audience, there are ways to be noticed. "There...
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Investment hunches seldom end wellAug 23, 2015 5:00 am - Q: I am well diversified with an IRA and investment portfolio worth about $300,000. Home and cars are paid for. No debt. Earlier this year, I found $9,000 cash sitting i...
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Cash: what's not to like?Aug 23, 2015 5:00 am - Q: As a longtime follower of the Couch Potato portfolios, and now as a retiree drawing from my savings, I have a question about management. While working, I invested reg...
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Constable: What about selling mattresses for school fundraiser?Aug 20, 2015 5:30 am - When your daughter needed to raise money for her youth soccer team, you brought her boxes of chocolate to your office, where hungry co-workers coughed up the dough. When...
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Constable: School shoppers can't write off pencilsAug 18, 2015 1:00 am - Those back-to-school checklists in our brave new world require so much more than glue, lined notebooks and rulers. Little kids need to bring hypoallergenic tissues, baby...
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End your summer with free concerts at Algonquin CommonsAug 18, 2015 1:00 am - The folks at Algonquin Commons are seeing summer out in style. They're holding an end-of-summer bash the last weekend in August. The Rock and Shop Concert Weekend, which...
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The real story behind high-yield CDsAug 17, 2015 6:12 am - The offer is amazing, but there it is. Plain as day, a newspaper advertisement offers an FDIC-insured certificate of deposit. It's a big, bottom-corner ad with "5.5 perc...
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The value/cost problem of financial adviceAug 16, 2015 6:12 am - Q: I have a financial planner with a major national bank. I have $685,000 with him. The high value for this account was $695,000. I recommended we add a stock to the por...
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Work advice: When microwave manners stinkAug 15, 2015 11:00 pm - Q: For the past few months, my co-worker has been cooking frozen fish and vegetables in the common work microwave every day for lunch. He cares deeply about nutrition an...
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White House floral designer brings roots to suburban storeAug 15, 2015 11:00 pm - Michael J. Skaff of Glen Ellyn knows the importance of color, texture and the appeal of flowers during life's milestones. For more than 30 years, the former FTD executi...