5 Best Manually Picked Databases of Anything Free

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Everyone loves freebies, but not everyone knows how to get them. They seem to believe that they have to be some kind of money-saving guru to get something for nothing, and that just isn’t the case. All you have to know is where to look, and you would be amazed at the free stuff you can find. From product samples to full dinners without paying a cent, it is out there.

These are my five personal favorites for free birthday meals, super cheap products and giveaways.

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4 Conferences for Social Media-Aware Business Owners

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No matter your niche, your product, or your service, you can be sure that Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms will play a crucial role with your business in the future, and there is no time like the present to get started! Whether you’re looking to get noticed, start a new marketing campaign, or extend your current social reach, getting to know these platforms is your road to leveraging them into real business benefits.

As if there were any other kind of business proprietor these days, check out these four conferences for social media-aware business owners:

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Social Media Insurance: Do These Things Now Before Your Account is Hacked

Everyone fears being hacked online. Just having your social media account phished can be catastrophic, especially since we share so much of our lives on the Internet. Just think of the information that someone could get: pictures of your home, your mobile number, possibly even your mother’s maiden name.

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I am sure the implications don’t escape your notice.

The trick is to take precautions to help protect your account from being hacked or protect what can be utilized if it ever is and has to be recovered. This is much more simple than it sounds, fortunately.

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5 Events for Busy Entrepreneurs Who Love Traveling

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Being a self-made entrepreneur often means long work days and nights on the road, making the act of staying ahead through continued education and networking a nearly impossible task. Luckily, there are conferences, meetups and other events aimed at people in exactly your circumstances in cities all around the world!

No matter where your travels take you, you’re in the vicinity of colleagues interested in exchanging ideas, conversation and insight; here are five events for busy entrepreneurs who love traveling:

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Make Your Team Social-Media-Educated with ProProfs

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Everywhere one looks, technological advances are changing the ways that we communicate and do business. When training for your team of employees includes the need to have them possess savvy when it comes to social media and its utilization, you can count on ProProfs Training Maker suite to create online training courses aimed at making your team a social media educated one!

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Worst Blogs Online & Why Technorati Likes Them

technorati loveThere are good blogs, and there are bad blogs. In an ideal world, all the bad blogs would just go away and no one would ever read them, and all the good blogs – the ones with great design and even better content – would float to the top and thrive.

Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world. And any blog, good or bad, has the same chance of making it onto the Technorati Top 100. Unfortunately, Technorati doesn’t actually judge the socially redeeming value of a blog; it only gauges popularity, so dumb blogs make it onto the list all the time. Here are a few that have made the list despite their banality.

Balloon Juice

Really? You couldn’t come up with a better name than Balloon Juice? Anyway, this blog completely sucks. It’s just the rantings of a pop-political commenter wannabe. Actually it’s less ranting and more just quoting news stories and adding a few extra words that are supposed to make us angry, depressed, etc. Blah, blah, blah. No real value here.

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