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Beep, Bop, Boop! What Will AI Do For You?

The fine line between Sci-fi and Sci-fact is becoming thinner. Throughout entertainment history books, television shows, and movies have somewhat accurately predicted the creation of the technology we indulge upon today. Self-driving cars to cell phones, space travel to wireless earbuds, smart homes and the ability to connect face to face regardless of physical distance, […]

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Sealing the Deal: Quote to Sell

Finding a company to purchase a high dollar item from, or a contractor to do a big job seems a lot like what I imagine online dating to look like.  Swipe left, swipe right. Running online searches to verify credibility, asking around to see if friends have ever utilized their services, triple checking to make […]

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Put the “I” in Goals

The majority of the holiday hustle and bustle is coming to an end. This week we get a breather.  This is the week that if you are anything like me you are probably bloated, broke and burned out. This is the week where you look back at the past 365 days and say, “Where did […]

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Drive-Thru Disaster

I don’t normally eat fast food. But when I do, it usually leads to disappointment . For the past month a commercial from a big chain burger joint has been tempting me to try their new chicken sandwich. It looked amazing. It came with pickles. I’m a sucker for pickles. I managed to abstain, until […]

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Why I’m Glad I Started My Career in a Franchise

Franchises. I wonder if you are thinking of Big Macs, your beloved sports team, or Double A-M-C-O…… There is plenty to like and dislike about franchise businesses, and I’ll bet whichever one you are thinking of gave you a strong association. If you’ve read more than a few sentences I’ve written you won’t be shocked […]

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Reflecting on 500

I’m writing this from 30,000ft in the air on the trip my family was supposed to take exactly one year ago today. We didn’t go because, while we didn’t exactly know what was about to happen in the world, we knew things would get strange. But that’s a story for a different day, and, quite […]

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WFH: Make it Work, Then Make it Better

Hi, my name is Meredith, and I am an extrovert. I, like many of you out there, have had my ups and downs while navigating this “working from home” thing. I crave human interaction daily and let’s be honest, there is not a lot of that going on right now with no true end in […]

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Winning The Business

Ever since my wife and I got our dog, Walter, 6 years ago, we’ve ordered his dog food off Amazon. It’s slightly cheaper than buying it at the store and delivered right to our door. We had never considered changing it up. There was no reason to. That is until last month when we decided […]

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Undershirts: The Smart Choice

Let me tell you about the time I didn’t wear an under shirt to a wedding. It was the summer of 2011. Newly broken up with my long-term girlfriend, I sought to find a second part-time job to fill up my now newly-acquired free time on the weekends. For some reason, I thought Wedding DJ […]

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A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities: well, it’s actually one city, Chicago, and the tale of two trips there in attempt to buy a vehicle with very different results.  The lease on my wife’s Subaru Outback is about to expire.  So, we did some talking and some shopping and narrowed in on a target vehicle, a […]

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