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1. Never enter a negotiation that you’re not prepared to walk away from. Accept the fact that you may not reach agreement and may have to walk away from the deal.
2. Never fall in love with the item your negotiating for. You lose your leverage if you do and your love will make #1 above almost impossible.
3. Never be the first to name a price.
4. If you’re providing a service, always negotiate your price up front. Remember the “call girl principle.”  The “call girl principle” states that the perceived value of a service declines precipitously after that service has been performed.

Your risk tolerance level may demand a different strategy, but in general, I try to stick to the following guidelines when it comes to investing in real estate.  This means avoiding investments that fall into the red boxes/categories.

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Is this the future of brick and mortar video rental stores?

According to a Time.com article (read the article here), the Cleveland Plain Dealer is one of 10 major newspapers that will either fold or go digital in the next 18 months.

The 10 newspapers were chosen on the basis of three criteria:

1. The financial strength of their parent companies;
2. The amount of direct market competition;
3. Their financial losses (based on industry information).

So, how bad are the industry’s financial losses?

According to a Silicon Alley Insider estimate, printing and delivering the New York Times costs twice as much as buying each subscriber a new Amazon Kindle ($359 Retail).

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What is The Long Tail? According to Wikipedia, the phrase The Long Tail (as a proper noun) was first coined by Chris Anderson in an October 2004 Wired magazine article to describe the niche strategy of businesses, such as Amazon.com or Netflix, that sell a large number of unique items, each in relatively small quantities. 

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You can either post or find a job for free.  Currently, there are nearly 6,000 open jobs on the site ranging from fixed-price web design to part-time video game coding.

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This method uses a roundabout way to export your Lotus Notes address book and has three prerequisites.

1. You must have a mobile device that syncs with your Lotus Notes address book (i.e. a BlackBerry device.)
2. You must have a Gmail or Google Apps account with Google.
3. Your mobile device must be supported by Google’s Mobile Sync software.  (Click here to check) 

1. Install Google Sync for your mobile phone.
2. Configure Google Sync to connect to your Gmail account.
3. Sync your contacts.
4. Log in to your Gmail account and view your Contacts.
5. Click Export and select an option.

**Remember – Google Sync is a BETA product. Please be sure to back up your mobile device before installing Google Sync.