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My cousin has been looking for Outer Banks foreclosures, he’s always had trouble managing things–including property.

Ever since we were young everything he touched would be destroyed. We used to call him “The Destroyer” for that, and up until now, he still lives up to his title. It’s funny, really.

Do you have any Foreclosures to recommend? It would really be greatly appreciated. Feel free to just comment on this page. I gave the link to my cousin and I made sure he checks it everyday.

He knew I blogged a lot and that people read this, so he figured posting a little question/survey would help him look for a decent foreclosure.

Last week, I’ve decided that it’s time to move forward and join a new company. So, in spite of the fact that my new job offer does not include health coverage or benefits, which means I need to start going through life insurance leads and avail one for my own, the compensation and growth and career opportunity in the new company definitely outweighs that minor inconvenience. Consequently, I formally resigned from my company of six years.

Creating a resignation letter was actually quite a breeze for me because I simply just recycled the one I used in 2007. However, I had never found the need to bid farewell to my colleagues until now. I did research on “How to inform your colleagues about your resignation” and was able to come up with the goodbye-let’s-still-keep-in-touch letter below. It’s a personal email to be sent to your colleagues. After all, you wouldn’t want to burn the bridges now, won’t you? Hope this letter helps!

Subject name: [your name] Update

Dear [colleague name],

I would like to personally let you know that I am leaving my position at [present company name]. I will be starting a new position in [new company location – do not be too specific] on [your start date]. This decision to pursue another opportunity was not an easy one and took a lot of consideration. Nevertheless, I feel that it is right for me as I work toward fulfilling career goals. I have enjoyed working at [present company name] because of you and I sincerely appreciate having had the chance to work with you.

Thank you, [colleague name], for the support and encouragement you have provided me during my time here at [present company name].

I would appreciate your continued advice as I start the next phase of my career. Please keep in touch! I can be reached at my personal email address [state your email address] or via my cell phone [state your mobile number].

It’s been a pleasure working with you.

Best regards,

[your name]

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Email: [state your email address]
Skype: [state your skype username if you have any]
Cell: [state your mobile number]

Fed up with my CEO’s unfair treatment and inability to manage people, I have decided to go forth and seek for another career opportunity where I could definitely bloom to my fullest. Time for job applications and interviews…

Before those though, I need to make myself more presentable. The eye wrinkles I’ve accumulated due to stress in my current job are becoming more apparent. Also, I need to look more relaxed, not desperate. Hmmm… at the moment, what I need is to buy a good eye cream for wrinkles and schedule myself for a full body massage to relieve the tension on my back.

Oh, and I’ll need to get myself some interview clothes and shoes as well. Hehehe. I know it sounds like I’m just making up a good excuse to go shopping 0;) but trust me when I say that during interviews, how you carry yourself and how you look, from head to toe, matters – not just your curriculum vitae or resume. After all, how you present yourself speaks volumes of your character.

Wish me luck!

During our management committee annual offsite strategic planning this April, our CEO decided to take marketing to the next level by creating promotional products. Guess who he placed in charge of that? Yep. Moi.

Frankly, company branding and promotions have never been my strong point. Right now, I still find it amazing that I’m the Online Marketing Head of my company – and am successful at that (we just ranked #5 in our main target keyword in Google right now). But I’m not the type who backs out at interesting challenges such as the promotional products. Besides, that would mean I get to pick where and how our logo will be placed in what item. The main item on my list is on a cool, sleek company wind breaker or jacket. Just not sure what the rest of the items would be. Any suggestions other than the classic pen?

When asked what they prefer, having a business or being employed, most people answer “having a business of course” especially “owning a company”. As this may probably be your choice too, we all know that this is not an easy goal to achieve. This is why some just search the net for New York jobs to get the best positions to apply for.

So what does it take to start a good business? Is it the money? An MBA perhaps? Take for instance the story of how Paypal started. Max Levchin, the mind behind Paypal started out small by creating encryption tools for Palm Pilot. He did not have enough money, but somehow, his determination to succeed made him find an investor that helped him expand his company that now became the most trusted portal in internet money transactions. Basically, successful businesses start out small, but with the biggest efforts involved. You do not need the money, you just need a very good idea and a will to succeed. Everything follows after.

Personally, I love being employed. However, I want to work someday just for pleasure. This is why my goal is to have my own company, while still working for another one. This way I get to enjoy the job I do at the same time become financially secured in the future.

I am not a big fan of creating documentations, especially from scratch. But my company is fairly new and has been expanding like crazy. Unfortunately, the expansion does not include formalization of job descriptions and a clear line on who’s really in charge of what. This has been causing problems and confusion for some time now but since those are readily resolved, no one has taken the initiative to point this out.

Then I experienced a task delegation confusion that almost made me lose my composure and made me realize how very crucial an SOP is to any type of organization. We should have had that in the first place anyway. I mean, what if the manager went out of town, had some travel emergency and could not attend to an urgent task at hand? Whom should the rest coordinate with?

At my friend Mark’s suggestion, I’m now drafting my department’s SOP in client handling for our General Manager’s approval to avoid incidents like what happened this week (which by the way was a clear example of lack of proper procedure in an organization). I am sacrificing my precious weekend and sleep to draft the SOP, but then again, with this initiative, I am hoping the rest of the managers will follow suit and create their own SOPs to professionalize our company. Ganbarimasu!

That’s one of the most catchy lines I picked up from the hit TV series, How I Met Your Mother. It’s such an epic series, it never fails to amuse me.

  Mesothelioma lawyers sure have a heckload of responsibility. If you’re wondering what Mesothelioma is, it’s a kind of disease. It’s actually necessary to start legal proceedings to protect the rights of those who are concerned, so yeah. I’ve heard of these kind of lawyears and I salute them for choosing to help the sick ones.

Yesterday I have received my Christmas bonus. I’m planning to start a small business or just get a franchise. The nightly news about economic slowdown has made me think twice on spending my cash bonus. I consulted friends of mine who were professionals in marketing management and asked them about tips on starting a small business. I also asked what type of businesses are still feasible knowing that we are in economic crisis.

The best investment for my money – settle all my debts first. This is the best way to begin investing they said. If I have no more interest-earning debts, all the profit in my business can be used to expand it. I haven’t thought of this but it really makes sense, not that I have much debt. They also suggested that I get an in-depth training about the franchise first before I get into it. They also added that I must be completely educated on the terms and conditions of the franchise of my interest. Having a business of your own can really be stressful if you are not fully aware on how to run it. I thought of hiring someone who can manage the business but they said that will only add to expenses. And so I decided that I’ll just save the plan for later until I have paid all my credit card bills and have studied about the details of my planned business.

My officemates and I are currently busy revising our website�s template. While doing that, we did some usability studies and research on how to effectively create a user and SEO friendly layout, and found out how much our website sucks. This lead to an overhaul of our site and eventually, the overhaul of our site logo�

We�re currently brainstorming with our site logo and I was lucky to find out a do-it-yourself instant logo design creator online. Amazing. In few easy steps, I was able to come up with several professional looking designs. They pretty much have all sorts of cool related designs per topic. I played around with it a bit and come up with this (this is not our website domain, it’s just for testing purposes):

I�ll still mix and match around, send a couple of my designs to our CEO, then wait and see. I�m pretty sure our CEO will be amazed himself with the professional looking logo designs I�ll be able to come up with that amazing logo creator. Especially with the fact that those logo designs do not lose detail when you make them smaller. It will be a definite shoo-in when he finds out that if he decided to get our logo and design today, we not only get to make free unlimited changes to the card we create, we also get a 100 free premium-printed business cards coupon! Truly amazing.

Today, I shall review this website called instantmoney4u. This site shares a method that helps you earn fast cash. You can read stories here shared by other people who have succeeded in using this certain method.

This method is called the Reverse Funnel System. I better not post here the complete details since it would spoil the fun in visiting the site and seeing it for yourself. It claims that as long as you have a computer that has access to the internet, this system will work for you so I guess it�s pretty much easy and it would most probably benefit you regardless of your social status (eg. Background, education, etc.).

By the looks of it, I can see that it turns out to be quite successful. You can see success stories of real people on this website. This site is also pretty much user friendly since it�s easy to navigate and to register. You just have to enter your name and e-mail address and the owner will send you all of the details of the system. If you have further comments about this website, try commenting on this blog post. It would be greatly appreciated.