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Money Mondays

Top 7 Tips for the Budding Entrepreneur

Start with a plan. You really can’t get your entrepreneurial masterpiece off the ground if you don’t have a solid business plan in place to start with. In fact, you’ll need to do a lot of research before you even pen the plan. Consider your niche, analyze the market, and try to determine a strategy to fit in before you ever put together a prospectus to show potential investors.

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Holidays

Get Your Home Holiday Ready

Preparing for the holidays is never easy, especially when you have family on the way and mountains of built-up clutter to contend with before you can even start cleaning. When your son went off to college, he probably didn’t expect you to turn his bedroom into a storage facility (and he definitely won’t appreciate climbing over a pile of boxes containing your scrapbooking material to get to his bed when he returns home for the holidays). And since you’ve started working from home, you may have found that what began as a contained office space has quickly spread to coat every room in your house in a layer of paperwork, reference materials, and computer equipment (or product, if you run a retail business).

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Tips Tuesdays

Get Organized & Save: Create Your Own Shopping Checklist

Coupon sherpa

Going to the shops without any list or even knowledge of what you have and haven’t got in the cupboards can be a disaster. You buy more than you need, and you buy things you might want at the time, but probably won’t later on. Your bill is astronomical and you might still not have the one thing you really needed.

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DVD Tuesday

The Last Airbender, Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, Lottery Ticket on DVD Tuesday 11/16/10

Experience the thrilling live-action adventure based on the hit Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Join Aang, an extraordinary boy with incredible “bending” powers, as he journeys through an exotic land filled with magical creatures and powerful friends.

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HealthAndWellness

Thanksgiving: How to Avoid Packing on the Pounds

As Thanksgiving once again draws near, so do the decadent desserts and succulent dishes that accompany the holiday. From the delicious turkey to the massive mounds of mashed potatoes, the Thanksgiving feast is a time-honored tradition for households across the country.

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Money Mondays

How to Save Money on the Hottest Gifts for the Holidays

Whether you’re buying the latest noise-making toys for your nieces and nephews (that’s right, the holidays are the perfect time to have a little fun at the expense of your siblings!), a bushel of electronics for your friends, or some new perfume that the ladies are raving about, you are likely to end your holiday shopping spree with PTSSD (Post Traumatic Sticker Shock Disorder).

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Fit Fridays

A Runner’s Perspective – ING NYC Marathon

NYC marathon runner holding her medal

On Sunday, November 7, 2010, over 44, 000 runners registered for the ING NYC Marathon and amongst them was my friend Karen Lui and I’m proud of her. After her race I had to ask her a few questions that we might all want to know the answers to, I love her answers, even more motivation to start or to continue running. If you have any questions to ask Karen please leave a comment, but she seems to covered every question we might have:

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#10WeeksB4Xmas Giveaways/Contests Holidays

Family Night is LOL Funny #10WeeksB4Xmas

This holiday season get ready to spend time with the family and LOL, because Comedy Movies by SceneIt? is a must-have game!

For those you that have never played SceneIt? you don’t know what you are missing, this game is addictive and tons of fun.

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Movies

Upcoming Flicks to Watch Out For

Although you are likely bombarded on a daily basis with movie trailers for the latest Hollywood blockbusters, you may have begun to notice that most of them suffer from a major flaw: they’re exactly the same schlock you’ve seen a million times. Take for example the new Denzel Washington vehicle about a runaway train. What’s the name of it? Who cares! It should be called Artificial Tension, because that’s all it is.

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Holidays

The Best Holiday Gifts for Mom and Dad

There’s no doubt about it: buying gifts for your parents can be a nerve-wracking and brain-numbing experience (that must be repeated every year). If your mom and dad are like most adults, they probably have just about everything they need and buy whatever they want throughout the year, making it extremely difficult for you to find them good gifts when the holidays roll around.

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Movies

Don’t Look Up – Skyline

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In the sci-fi thriller Skyline, strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth. In a matter of hours we will all be gone!

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Midweek Recap

Let’s Link Together – Midweek Recap

Here are some links to some of my favorite blogs and what you’ve missed this week…

If you missed Black Girls Rock on BET this week The Chic Factory gives us a recap…

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Holidays

A Spa Treatment – The Best Holiday Gift

Everyone loves spa treatments, massages, facials, mani & pedi, etc… we all love to be pampered, yes even the men.
Spa, the official SpaWeek gift card, are accepted at over 1,500 spas across North America, so finding a participating spa close to home, shouldn’t be a hassle. Best of all, they never expire.

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Tips Tuesdays

3 Truly Unique Gifts Your Man Will Love

Are you having trouble trying to find a unique gift for your man for the holidays? Have you been planning for Christmas gifts for some time now? If not, don’t sweat it. Here are 3 great and truly unique gift ideas that will have your man telling you that you are the best and most unique girl in the world.

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Wear This Wednesdays Wearable Wednesdays

Levi’s Spring 2011 Collection

Last week Thursday, Levi’s had a preview of their Spring 2011 Men’s & Women’s Collection for members of the media and press to come check out before it hits the store.

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Movie Reviews

MegaMind, MegaCute, MegaFun!

MegaMind, incredibly handsome, criminal genius, and master of all villainy!

What do you get when you combine good, evil, a damsel in distress and some really entertaining actors?! A really fun to watch animated movie!

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#10WeeksB4Xmas Giveaways/Contests Holidays

For Your Sexy Beast! #10WeeksB4Xmas

Every Dog Has Its Day With Sexy Beast!
(SexyBeastStyle.com)

This week’s our #10WeeksB4Xmas/holiday giveaway goes out to the dogs in our lives; this giveaway is strictly for the dog owners, I’m sorry all other pet owners, maybe next time.

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Reviews

Hollywood or The Landing Strip?!

Dyanna Spa 40 East 21st Street (Between Park & Broadway) New York, NY (212) 995-2355 Hmm, by now you probably know what this post will be about, I’ll try not to be too graphic & detailed. A few days ago I went on a first time Brazilian trip, more like a Brazilian strip. Anyways, after […]

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Reviews

Essie’s Fall & Winter Collection 2010

In September, Essie notified us with their hot new fall collection, with amazing colors such as Merino Wool, In Stitches and Sew Psyched to name a few.

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Money Mondays

Back to School on a Budget – At Any Age

One of the main reasons that people don’t go back to school is Time. What’s the other one? Money.

You can’t always make more of either of those in your life, but you can change the way you spend them so it seems as though you have more. If you want to have more money for school, you have to spend less in other areas. Even though this is common sense, it can also seem difficult.