Business

Do You Have a Cleaning Lady?

January 11, 2012

Good Morning DINKS.  Let me ask you a question, who cleans your house? This past week I learned that two of my friends have Cleaning Ladies.  More and more of my friends who are mostly childless, except for two of my friends who chose a different path in life, have started to hire Cleaning Ladies.  [...]

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5 Steps to Help You Start Your Own Business

January 4, 2012

Good Morning DINKS.  Some of us work a 9 to 5 job, some of us have a second job (or a side hustle) that provides us with extra income, and some of us are self employed.  For those of us who currently work for a boss our dream may be to eventually become our own [...]

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DINKS Days of Book Giveaways: Day 3 – “Get Growing”

December 7, 2011

Within the last 3 days I have had some really great and some really bad customer service experiences and I really feel the need to rant and rave about them.  Customer service determines the bottom line for most businesses, and in one way or another we all work in customer service. Even though I work [...]

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Are Big CEO Bonuses Well Deserved?

November 29, 2011

Hello Everyone.  The Occupy Wall Street Movement is still going strong, but unfortunately it is not really accomplishing anything.  Would you like to know exactly what the Occupy Wall Street protestors are upset about? Amongst other things, they are outraged by the multi million dollar bonuses that CEOs are receiving. The perception of the US [...]

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The Forbes List of the World’s Most Powerful People

November 28, 2011

Good Morning DINKS.  Let me ask you a question… Do you think that having money automatically makes people interesting?  Actually let me ask you a better question, does having money automatically make us powerful? We have previously discussed the balance of money and power as it relates to a couple in a relationship here on [...]

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Are the Madoff Family Members Innocent Victims or Willing Accomplices?

November 10, 2011

Good Morning DINKS. Today we are discussing a topic that is related to both finance and to couples.  When we are in a couple everything we do or don’t do in our lives is directly or indirectly related to our spouse.  The money we make and the money that we spend affects our spouse.  If [...]

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Job Cuts or the Loss of Jobs? RIM vs. Apple

September 29, 2011

Good Morning DINKS. It’s time for the next post in our Stock Market Showdown series.  Today we are discussing  a topic that may be an ongoing battle between friends, co-workers, relatives and people of all kinds.  Today we are discussing the choice to own either a Blackberry or an iPhone, and the choice to buy [...]

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The Devastation of a Downgrade

September 27, 2011

In recent years we have all lived through some tough economic times; in more recent weeks we have seen the downgrade of the United States credit rating as well as the downgrade of two other major French Banks. Being downgraded for a small business can be extremely devastating to their future sustainability, but is the [...]

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A Day in the Life of an Intern

June 9, 2011

This past weekend I discovered a television show called Running in Heels.  It chronicles the lives of three interns who are currently working at a fashion magazine as interns, but hope to eventually land their dream job.  I know that it is common for last year high school students to intern for a semester.  It [...]

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DINKS Reality: Flip This House

May 17, 2011

The television channel A & E has a show called Flip This House which chronicles the experience of flipping houses for a profit. There are four main families/couples on the television show Flip This House.  Armando is the cheap businessman from Texas, Brian and Peter are best friends from Atlanta, Than and Paul are best [...]

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