Mary Anne Carter
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Jan 13 2012

Setting up my home office

by Mary Anne

For years I have been “making do” with hand-me-down office furniture in my home office.  Nothing is ergonomic, nothing looks nice.  In fact, it looks horrible!  I have a very old student desk that I was given when I was in 3rd grade that I put an old wooden desk top on top of that I use to put my computer on.   My printer is on a plastic shelving unit beside that desk.  My chair is an old bar stool with casters on it.  Nothing about it is comfortable at all!

I would like to buy new office furniture to set up my home office, I’m sure that I would be a lot more productive if I was comfortable! 

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Dec 26 2011

Good to know

by Mary Anne

One of the things that seems to be effecting everyone I know is how this challenging economy is ruining their credit ratings. Many people are defaulting on loans and credit cards because they have lost their jobs, or had to take pay cuts. Fortunately there is a plethora of useful information online about how to rebuild your credit fast to minimize the consequences of bad credit. In addition to the free information about how to rebuild credit fast there are a lot of businesses available who provide credit repair services available to the consumer.

Figuring out which is the best credit repair service can be problematic, however. I think that if I felt the need to get professional help with that situation I would probably go to my local bank and talk with my friend Katie to ask her where to start. She’s been my personal banker for the past two years and I have confidence that she would steer me in the right direction.

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Dec 16 2011

Drowning in paper

by Mary Anne

For years I have resisted going paperless. I’ve wanted paper credit card statements in my hand to make it easier to reconcile the statements, and I did not want to have to use my own printer ink and paper to print them off. But I’ve noticed that my home office is drowning in paper, and I’m seriously considering checking out some paperless office software. Sometimes I feel a little bit old-fashioned in my desire for permanent hard copies of everything, but since I’ve been working with computers since the very first personal computer came out on the market I’m a little bit gun shy over the losses that can happen when something crashes. For example just yesterday when I downloaded photos from my digital camera and then was trying to modify and save the changes. The program crashed and during the crashing it deleted the entire photo. Gone, forever, never to be recovered or seen anywhere again. So I’m a little bit gun-shy, do you know what I mean?

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Dec 7 2011

The new marketing strategies

by Mary Anne

One of the things that I like about the advancement of the Information Age is how it allows more people to be able to work from home instead of having to commute several hours a day. Sadly many people don’t have the skills they need to be able to do that, and still others live in an area where the Information Age is still trying to reach them. I find it surprising whenever I meet a neighbor that tells me that they cannot get fast Internet where they live!

One of the companies that employs people who have access to the Internet, and copy writing skills is the triangle direct company. This company assists businesses to market their businesses on the Internet, and one of the ways it does that is by hiring people who can write for them without even leaving their houses! Can you imagine being able to make your living by staying home and typing on the computer without even having to change out of your pajamas? Sounds great to me!

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Dec 6 2011

My sister came for a visit this weekend.

by Mary Anne

My younger sister came over this past Saturday afternoon and spent the night.  It was nice to see her and to catch up on what’s going on in her life!  We were talking about the bad economy, and how hard it is to keep up with the ever increasing cost of living.  She is interested in starting her own business, and we were talking about the opportunities to make good money doing something like that.  I suggested that she sign up for a couple of college courses in starting a business because I think that it is a lot harder to do than it sounds.

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