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4 Keys to Creating Loyal Customers

Customer relationships are just like any other kind of relationship. To grow strong, they need to be nourished with honesty, attention and communication.

How To Keep Your Business Headed In The Right Direction

If you don't know where you're going, you aren't going anywhere.

Why Brand Image Is Important to the Tiniest of Businesses

Many small business owners overlook -- or avoid -- brand building. Too often, that's a critical mistake.

3 Simple Tips for Saving the Most Money This Holiday

There's only three things you need to know to save this holiday season.

Score! How to Host a Great Game Night

If you want to have fun and socialize without dropping lots of cash, a game night is totally the answer. Here's how to make it awesome.

11 Crazy-Good Crock-Pot Pasta Recipes

Take set-it-and-forget-it to the next level of comfort food with delicious "Crock-Pasta." So good. So easy!

The 5 Best Fishing Rods

Catching fish isn't easy, but it can be. Use any of these fishing rods and the big ones will start biting!

Best Money Tips: Quick Cheats to Save Time

Today we found some awesome articles on ways to save time, fix furniture, and use rubber bands.

Join Our Tweetchat on Thursday 6/11, 12pm Pacific for a Chance to Win Prizes

Topic: Summer Travel on the Cheap! Join our conversation for chance to win Amazon gift cards! Use #WBChat to participate!

10 Reasons You Should Be Grilling on Gas

The debate between gas and charcoal has raged for years. Here's why Team Charcoal lost.

Financial Lessons From The Hunger Games

The popular story takes place in what might seem like a very different society, but it has many real-world lessons.

Best Money Tips: 146 Useful Things Everyone Needs to Know

Today we found some great articles on useful things everyone needs to know, mistakes people make when exploring their passions, and surprisingly free airline and hotel perks.

Can Black Google Save You Energy?

An Australian company, Heap, has come up with a search engine that could Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year. How will they do it? They've turned Google black. From what I've read, ther

Rolling Stone article on ethanol

In my recent post Plan for expensive fuel, I mentioned sustainable fuels in a somewhat dismissive fashion. [more]

It's A Small (And Changing) World After All

It's easy to stick our heads in the sand and say that the answer to "Life, The Universe, and Everything" is 42. But we all very well know that the world we live in is

Best Money Tips: 21 Smart and Surprising Uses for Salt

Today we found some great articles on smart ways to use salt, how to supercharge your afternoon with a coffee nap, and financial planning tips for millennials.

On Problems and Opportunities

People who say, "It's not a problem; it's an opportunity" might be jerks. But they might also have a good point.

Where Are my Photos? Picturebug Goes out of Business

Today I received a notice that Picturebug is going out of business.

Best Money Tips: How to Get the Most Cash at Your Yard Sale

Today we found a step-by-step guide for getting the most cash at your yard sale, the best places to score cheap Halloween candy, and ways to fight groggy mornings.

Roll your own cost-of-living index

If you have a budget--more specifically, if you track your spending--you have the data you need to track changes in your own personal cost of living. That's a lot more useful