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Recession Tips: Reduce Your Rent with This Simple Letter

February 12, 2009

ShareI can say from personal experience, if you are a good tenant, this will almost definitely work. In a recession you need to learn how to best use the economic climate to your advantage.
From a landlord’s point of view, less rent on a reliable basis is a much better bet than having [...]

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Dunkin’ Donuts Kicking Starbucks While it’s Down, Offers $.99 Recession Lattes in NYC

February 6, 2009

ShareIt’s been no secret that Starbucks has begun seeing an end to it’s glorious salad days when people cheerfully doled out $5 for a cup of coffee.
There’s nothing like a good, old-fashioned recession to make people tighten up their purse strings and start wondering why the hell they’re paying so much for a ground up [...]

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Affluence.org: Let them eat cake

January 26, 2009

ShareEveryone likes to network socially, and up until now the rich rubbing shoulders with the poor on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter was fine, but in case you haven’t noticed, things have changed.
The country is in the throes of a deep depression and if there’s one thing rich people don’t want to hear about it’s how [...]

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6 Free and Easy Tips on Using Social Media to Market Yourself Through the Recession

January 24, 2009

Share2009 will be the year that the scales tipped in favor of social media. We just watched as a man brilliantly used social media to launch himself to the Presidency of the United States.
Considering that, using some of these tools to help us get through the recession seem a little less daunting. [...]

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Circuit City Officially Announces Total Liquidation

January 17, 2009

ShareIf you’re looking to pick up some electronics, tomorrow may be a good day to get a few good deals provided you can get your hands on them. 
This is what is currently posted on Circuit City’s website:
Circuit City would like to thank all of the customers who have shopped with us over the past 60 [...]

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Recession Turns Facebook from Social Networking Tool into Social Panhandling Tool

January 12, 2009

ShareA friend of mine got a message from some girl on facebook that basically said, “hey, do you remember me?  I think we went to middle school together.  Anyway, hi!”
My friend was pretty shocked to hear from this person he hadn’t seen, or even thought of, in years.  Still he was polite and not only [...]

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