RSSNew Hope and Support for Small Businesses
Businesses of all sizes were hit hard by the economic downfall this country has been dealing with, but did you know that small business generally recover faster than large business from such downfalls? In fact, small businesses are currently showing sustained growth in hiring, with nearly 150,000 new jobs created since June, 2009. Here at Coupon-Gurus, a small business ourselves, we think that is important news, and our own company is actively in the process of expanding and hiring new employees currently.
However, despite this small business upward trend in hiring, the tracking of these small business trends and behaviors tends to slip through the cracks when it comes to business indices. Small businesses with 20 or less employees are often simply left out, while measuring
A Big ‘Ole Mug of Magic
Some people believe that “you are what you eat”. Obviously, this is not a saying to be taken literally, but simply a notion that what we put into ourselves has a measureable effect, over time, on our health and well-being. This notion has many going vegetarian, vegan, or organic. Obviously, a healthy diet promotes a healthy body. But some people go a step further to suggest that it is not only about the body, but about the mind and spirit. What one imbibes in food and drink may carry some trace of its own personal history; the field it was grown in, the warm sun that shined upon it as it grew, the gentle breeze that past over its leaves. Ask any wine connoisseur, and they will tell you that those things, such as region, weather, and time of year, make all the difference.
That
Escape the Horror of Hackers Forever
Plundering pirates. Invading Visigoths. Conquering conquistadors. Ransacking Romans. At every period on the human timeline, someone, somewhere, was looking to steal or otherwise abscond with the valuable possessions of someone else. While the prize to be won was once gold, jewels, land, and women, today our most valuable possession is information. Presently, there are hackers hiding in vaporous virtual clouds of cyberspace, poised to steal your passwords, social security number, bank account information and more…and the scariest part is that you may never know you’ve been “robbed” until it is too late.
Protecting yourself fro m invisible enemies is no small matter. For every clever computer security system, it seems that there is an equally clever hacker out there able
Keeping Up with Your Down: Washing, Care and Maintenance
You’ve got your comfy, cozy, and ever-so-warm down comforter…and then you go and spill your lunch all over it. Who would have thought eating pasta in bed could lead to such tragedy? Alas, you must clean up this mess, but can one even wash a down comforter?
Coupon-Gurus and Pacific Coast have teamed up teach you the right, and wrong, ways to take care of your down products…
For starters, stop eating in bed! Down will last longer the less it must be cleaned, so the best advice we can give is preemptive; try not to expose it to things that are going to dirty it!
Second: Duvet, duvet, duvet! The duvet is simply a fancy word for cover, and cover your down comforter, you must! The duvet is going to protect it from dirt, dust, and body oils. Wash your duvet as needed, but only
Another Mother’s Day?
Another Mother’s Day is here again, leaving all dedicated children scrambling, last-minute, for the perfect gift and card. It seems that many of us find ourselves in this predicament every year; the holiday rolling around, with no idea what to get the women we owe our very lives to.
First, flowers are a given. Flowers bring beauty and tranquility to their surroundings; something we think mother’s everywhere can truly appreciate. But there is a proliferation of floral sites, with combined thousands of possible arrangements…which do you choose? Well, here at Coupon-Gurus, we have picked out a few of our favorites from the top floral sites.
From Flora2000.com, we fell in love with “Tuscan Sky” (which also happens to be $10 off), “Blushing Secret”, and