05 Jan 11 How to Shop without Exceeding your Budget?

Are you a shopaholic, who just can’t stop drooling over stuffs and stop temptation to purchase beyond affordability and pre-set budget? You are not an exception. There are many people who just can’t stop shopping, are too impulsive about purchase decisions without considering budget and eventually end up into bankruptcy. Here are few simple tips about shopping to your heart’s content yet not exceeding budget.

Prioritize your shopping list

Don’t shop randomly, without considering what’s more important and required to be shopped. Always keep in mind, first shop all those items which are absolutely necessary and are considered as basic needs. These can be basic food, basic clothes. Once your needs have been met, buy the things that you want to have a better life like better fashionable clothes, shoes with elevated heels. Always satisfy your wants when your basic needs are met, as a fancy dress won’t make much difference to your life if you don’t have bread to eat. So prioritize your needs. Buy what is essential first, then if you have extra money fulfill your wants and luxury demands.

Don’t buy with cards randomly

Credit cards often push us into the wrong practice of buying without considering the shopping budget, affordability and thus land us into financial crunch. Use credit cards, but judiciously. Know how much you purchased with your card and keep a limit for yourself. Know how much you can buy in a month with card and stick to it, since you have to pay back too.

Look out for discount shops

Don’t be too brand conscious or obsessed with buying from a particular mall or shop. Rather keep your eyes open, keep an eye on who is offering good discount. Visit those stores, who knows you may not even believe that you can be so lucky and change your preference forever. It will not only save a lot of money and help you to finish entire shopping within your budget, but may also change your preference towards shops and shopping practice. Even big brands offer seasonal discounts. Always look out for such lucrative offers.

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21 Feb 10 A Job-Search Guide to Help People Over 45 – XIII

In the last couple of posts, we talked about résumé and the role it plays in building your case for your employment. We will continue this discussion in two more posts. In this part, we will see what all you can do to fine-tune your résumé.

Wear your Employer’s Shoes

Well, not literally. What I meant was you need to have a fresh look at your résumé to see how a person on the other side of the table will look at it. Put yourself in your employer’s shoes and see if you would have called a person carrying this résumé for the interview? There is no point for being right, so do not lie to yourself. This exercise is done solely to find problem in your CV.

See what is the flavor of the market

Tight fitting, camel toe revealing outfit might be a huge fashion in yesteryears, but today if you wear it you will look funny—I am not a fashion person so I might be wrong here. But, I know I am not wrong when I say you need to use the format that looks modern. See what format is used these days, and follow that trend. You may be 45, but your résumé should not look that old. Dress it up like youth does!

What’s the new lingo

In your youth, hyperlink and HTML would have meant nothing, but today it does. There are many similar changes in terminology of almost every field. Find out what words got omitted and what got added to your field in last couple of years, or from the time you last checked. Embrace the change, at least in your résumé. It will tell your employer how much you are unlike your age, I meant up-to-date with current trend.

We all new to adapt and evolve with time, this is the only way we can sustain ourselves. Keep on working, and keep on evolving.

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19 Jun 09 Use Your Keywords Correctly

When you write absolutely anything online that you expect to garner attention from web surfers needs to properly make use of inserting keywords. Otherwise you’re basically wasting your time on blog, articles, etc, that nobody will ever read. Keywords are the language of search engines, and you want to use them effectively throughout everything you write, so that your site will rank higher on the major search engines. The higher you rank, the more likely your work is to pop up for anybody randomly searching for content relating to yours.

Although as important as good, fluid keyword placement is, nothing is more valuable than realizing the importance of every word you write, not just the ones intended to trigger search results. All the keywords in the world aren’t going to make bad writing interesting enough to captivate a steadily large audience. So never undervalue the importance of quality writing, because that’s what keeps the people coming back after they’ve found you on a search engine.

Put yourself in the shoes of someone using a search engine to find the kind of content you are going to provide through your writing. Think of the words they would enter into a search bar. You want to use words and phrases like these relating to your topic, fairly frequently throughout the piece, but not so often that the quality of what you’re writing suffers. Your content should be clearly discernable and comfortable for the average person to read, but you want to stuff those keywords in as often as possible without compromising that quality. It’s also worthy to note that you’ll have the most effectiveness on search engines by frequently using your keywords at the top and bottom of a page.

Also, don’t undervalue your title line. This is the first big draw of any page, and the first piece of information that a search engine takes into consideration, so all of the most important keywords you are using should appear in the title. Form a relevant, concise title, informative but also quick and to the point, so as to grab the most attention as quickly as possible.

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