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  1. What Home Lenders Look at Beyond Your Credit Score
    Key takeaways:    Mortgage lenders evaluate your full financial profile, not just your credit score Two people with similar credit
  2. Why Are Small Businesses at Increased Risk of Ransomware Attacks?
    The year 2020 will always be remembered for the coronavirus pandemic. It will go down in history for a deadly virus with no geographic boundaries. We have faced the unexpected countless times and somehow managed to deal with it. Like 2019, 2020 has been an interesting year in terms of data breaches and cyber-attacks. T
  3. Would You Pack Your Lunch for $1.2 Million?
    It's easy to eat lunch out. It's convenient. It's a nice break from work, and, boy, is it delicious. And how much does it cost? Not much at all.  "Just a few dollars." Well, that's what marketers want you to think.
  4. 10 Practical Content Marketing Tips for Small Businesses
    Content has become a big part of every small business marketing plan. Most online marketing strategies rely on content because without content there is nothing to optimize for search or share for visibility. We provide 10 useful tips to help you get started with content marketing. What is content marketing? Content mar
  5. 4 Employee Engagement Trends That Leaders Need To Know
    This article is first in a series focused on employee engagement. With rapid changes in technology, demographics and social norms/lifestyles, the workforce is changing at break neck speed. The workplace of today is definitely not that of just a few years ago, and one area that has changed most significantly is employee
  6. 5 Keys To Retaining Millennial Employees, The ‘Job-Hopper’ Generation
    Millennials (born 1980-2000) can get a bad wrap for being unloyal. In fact, half of Millennials are actively seeking a new job, or are ready to make a change. This characteristic has historically given off the perception that they aren’t committed to their work. It’s quite the contrary. First of all, their job hopping
  7. 5 Simple Ways To Prepare Your Personal Finances For A Recession
    Last fall, recession fears were running high. It was hard to escape the conversation; predictions for the next big crash flew all over the media while clients, friends, acquaintances, and others constantly asked the team at my financial planing firm if a recession was really about to happen. Our answer to that question
  8. CFOs worried about second wave of coronavirus
    CFOs are concerned about a new wave of COVID-19 infections leading to a further economic downturn, according to a survey Monday from Big Four firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, as their companies also confront issues related to racial inequality amid the Black Lives Matter protests. PwC’s sixth COVID-19 CFO Pulse Survey foun
  9. Emerging Financially Healthy After a Gray Divorce
    Laura and Caroline are in their late 50s. Friends since meeting at a playgroup for their toddlers, both were in long-term, seemingly happy marriages.
  10. GDP roars past pre-pandemic levels. Where does the economy go from here?
    WASHINGTON — Even with production glitches, transportation bottlenecks and labor shortages, the U. S. economy grew in the second quarter at one of the fastest rates in decades, lifting the nation’s total output above where it was before COVID-19 hit, according to government data released Thursday. “That we were able to