A.I. What You Need to Know

Unless you’ve been living under a rock in recent times, the world has become a far different place in the last few years. And perhaps one of the biggest developments that we have seen in a generation or perhaps in all of our history is the rapid development and roll out of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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4 Steps to Starting Your Handyman Business

Your Step-By-Step Guide to Starting a Handyman Business

Written by Guest Author, Teresa Greenhill, from mentalhealthforseniors.com

During the height of the pandemic, home improvement projects experienced an exponential increase. This was mainly driven by the prominence of work-from-home culture that provided homeowners additional time and money to dedicate toward improving their property. Hence, it comes as no surprise that research by Geoff Dart of DGC Advisory shows that the home improvement industry in Australia is worth over $45 billion.

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Is the Fed about to Trigger a Recession?

These are the words we’ve come to expect and become accustomed to from the Fed Chair over the last … 18 months or so.

“Long way to go” to beat inflation; expect more fed rate hikes

Jerome Powell, [1]

Its safe to say that the common person has lost a lot of, if not all confidence in the powers that be, that govern monetary policy. You don’t need to wander to far to simply see the stress that people are going through. Everything simply costs more, money doesn’t go as far as it used to, and although prices might not be rising as quickly as they used to, they’re still going up.

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Inventory Management for Growing Businesses

8 Tips for Managing Inventory for a Growing Business

Written by Guest Author, Teresa Greenhill, from mentalhealthforseniors.com

When your business grows quickly, it can be tough to keep up with the demand. With more customers comes an increase in inventory. And if you’re not careful, that inventory can start to take over your workspace — and your life! That’s why effective inventory management is key for companies on the rise. Today, we discuss the importance of inventory management and offers eight tips on how to do it effectively.

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Market Volatility and Your Money

You’d have to be living in a cave without reception to not know how expensive life has become or to understand how much less your hard-earned dollar is worth. Fuel is up, food is up, rent is up, rates are up … stress is up! And above all there is the need to keep up!

Saving is one thing, but when the hourly rate starts to barely scrape by keeping ones life and life style afloat something has to change. Of all times, the means to earn money and to make it work has never been more important.

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Fixer-Uppers & Income after Retirement.

Seniors Can Start a Successful House-Flipping Business With This Guide

Written by Guest Author, Teresa Greenhill, from mentalhealthforseniors.com

House-flipping is a big industry these days as more people discover the advantages it offers, and it’s become a great way for older adults to earn income after retirement. It may seem like an overwhelming task to find the perfect home and renovate it to sell, and while it can be a big job, it mostly requires careful planning and research. Knowing how to find the right home, when to tackle DIY projects and when to let a pro take over, and how to fund the project can go a long way toward making this endeavor a success.

Take a look at a few of these helpful tips before getting started:

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Why is it so hard to start a business?

Time and time again, I see questions pop up, either in my mail box from various forums or other sources from the public asking things along the lines of, ‘I want to start a business, what should I do?’ or ‘I’m thinking of wanting to start a business, what is something good to start?’

At this point aside from being perfectly legitimate questions, in my opinion, there is simply no good, simple or clear answer to them.

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Setup for Life – What is Seed Money?

Give it enough time, and everyone gets that warped dream of firing their boss, being financially independent, retiring early and living their life however they hell they like. There is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot. ‘ … Setup for life …’

It also goes with many other expressions …

Bigger contributions to the 401K or Superannuation will ‘Set you up for life.’ Winning the lottery can ‘set you up for life.’ That next high paying job will basically ‘Set you up for life.’ This is the deal that will ‘Set you up for life.’

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Why Nothing and No One is Safe

2020 has been a challenging year to say the least, and above all there have been a number of realities that have been exposed, as well as the hard lessons to go with them.

Earlier in the year when whole states, and countries of the world initiated lockdowns and people went into isolation, very few people foresaw the shockwave that would circle the globe, and how the impact reached every single person.

Whether we call the COVID-19 Pandemic a black swan event or not, it exposed how fragile individual lives and livings are, and just how vulnerable we are. It proved that nothing and no one was safe.

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Why you should not trade crypto

Full Disclosure: The Author [Richard Ronc] has no cryptocurrency holdings.

Have you ever been in a car with a lunatic who just kept doing stupid ****? Have you ever seen that crash coming and simply frozen as all of the events have simply unfolded around you? Have you ever been in a situation so unstable and so out of control that if you turn away for a single moment you know that you’re in trouble?

Welcome to the Cryptoverse. Finely enough unlike financial editor Ross Greenwood I’m not going to tell you cryptocurrencies are bad or that you need to stay away from them. Not at all.

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