7 Questions To Test Your Financial Literacy

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Did you know that April is Financial Literacy Month? With taxes fresh on your mind and spring cleaning in the air, it’s as good a time as any to brush up on your financial literacy. After all, as we’re required to make more and more financial decisions, financial literacy is becoming almost as important as being able to read and write.

So where should you start? While you can literally read entire books about financial planning, I’ve repeatedly come across several common misunderstandings that can lead to big financial mistakes. To test your financial literacy, see how well you answer the following questions...

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6 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Becoming A Freelance Designer Full-time

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Freelancing is a great career choice, but it does not necessarily mean its the best career path suited for everyone. There’s certain skills you must have, in order to ensure you have a successful and prosperous freelance career. The article is not just tips for freelance designers, but freelancers of any profession.

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5 Most Common Incorporation Questions Answered

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While every business is different, most people who are looking to incorporate tend to have very similar concerns about the process. Incorporating entails giving up some control over a business, so these concerns are understandable—obviously, you don’t want to rush into something that can wind up costing you hundreds of dollars only to find that you don’t like running a corporation. Over the course of my career as CEO of MyCorporation, I have helped hundreds of small-business owners incorporate their businesses. Most of these small-business owners come with a laundry list of concerns and questions, but I’ve noticed that five questions tend to come up more than any others. Here are answers to the five most frequently asked questions about the process.

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20 Crucial Money Questions To Ask Before 'I Do'

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Bethany and Scott Palmer, authors of First Comes Love Then Comes Money: A Couple's Guide To Financial Communication, believe couples can't afford not to ask the following 20 questions before saying, 'I do.'

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Twitter: To Schedule or Not To Schedule?

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To paraphrase Shakespeare to the point of mangling:

To schedule, or not to schedule, that is the question:
Whether ’tis better to always be present
In person when you tweet,
Or to prepare tweets in advance,
Ever ready for what you will say next.

Whether or not to schedule Twitter updates is a topic of hot debate in the social media community. Numerous tools – including BufferApp and Tweetdeck – allow you to set up Tweets in advance, helping you save time while boosting your Twitter presence. On the other hand, opponents of scheduling argue that pre-scheduled tweets are lazy, and show a disrespect for your audience.

In this article, I look at the cons and pros of scheduling. Admittedly, I favor a mix of scheduled and live tweets. For me, scheduling a tweet is similar to scheduling a blog post. It’s convenient for you, as it saves you time, and it’s convenient for your audience, as it spreads your tweets across the day.

I’ll be as objective as I can, but bear in mind I’m biased towards scheduling.

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The Weirdest Interview Questions Tech Companies Ask

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Career site Glassdoor has compiled its annual list of the oddest job interview questions that companies ask, and – surprise! – there's a bunch of questions from tech companies like Google, Amazon and Salesforce.com.

Glassdoor analyzed more than 300,000 interview questions asked at real job interviews and posted by people who use its website to come up these whoppers.

We posted the full list of 25 here, but here's a rundown of the ones asked by tech companies.

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The Most Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about WordPress

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While yesterday’s world required webmasters to have advanced programming skills, today’s world allows individuals to create websites in as little as a few hours. Although there are many available platforms, such as Wix, MoonFruit, and FreeWebs, that allow users to create websites via pre-built templates and drag-n-drop tools, these sites usually display ads or their own branding on your website and are often limited in customizability.

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Answers To 15 Google Interview Questions That Made Geniuses Feel Dumb

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Google used to ask job applicants ridiculously hard brain teaser interview questions.

Yesterday, we posted 15 of these questions to show just how hard they were.

Today, we've got answers.

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9 Critical Questions to Ask When Hiring a Social Media Agency

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A few months back, New York Times Bestseller, Gary Vaynerchuk said that 95% of Social Media consultants were “bozos”. Although Gary apologized for his hyperbole, on some level we agree that businesses would be better off if they asked their agencies better questions up-front.

Since social media has taken a front-seat role in many communications plans it pays to dig deep and really understand what your social media agency has “under the hood.” This isn’t new, the web is filled with helpful agency hiring checklists, but most of them ask the wrong questions.

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Homework Questions? Ask a Tutor on InstaEDU

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The pool of tutors available to teach high school and college-aged students just became a whole lot more accessible.

Online tutoring site InstaEDU, which launched in public beta in May, announced new features to its site on Tuesday. Now students can schedule tutoring sessions in advance, including SAT prep courses.

Previously, InstaEDU was kind of like a reliable Google search for homework questions. Macroeconomics class giving you a tough time? InstaEDU would connect you to a tutor in real-time who is skilled in this subject. Tutors for one-shot sessions are available any time of day for 50 cents per minute ($30 an hour).

Now, InstaEDU lets students develop stronger and longer-lasting relationships with their favorite tutors by booking ongoing sessions. InstaEDU’s private tutoring can cost as little as $22 an hour for returning customers.

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5 Questions to Ask Before You Act on That Great Idea

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f your small business’s innovation efforts are successful, you’ll end up with an embarrassment of riches—dozens of innovative ideas and possibilities, each one of which has the potential to enhance, enrich and change your business. When you’re lucky enough to be in this situation, you’re faced with a new challenge: How do you decide which innovative idea (or ideas) to act on?

Many small businesses approach innovation the wrong way around, devoting lots of time to coming up with ideas and then quickly deciding among them in a scattershot fashion. For best results, however, you should spend more time assessing your ideas and deciding which one/s to implement than you do coming up with those ideas in the first place.

So how do you assess your ideas? Here are some questions to ask about the innovations you’re considering.

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Content Marketing 101 – Essential Questions & Answers

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Who hasn’t wrapped their arms around content marketing yet? Believe me, plenty of companies are still navigating the pros and cons, ins and outs of how to better implement content in their digital marketing mix. In a recent interview I was asked about content marketing basics and what companies should consider. I thought it would be useful to share some of those insights here as well.

If you’re new to implementing content marketing as a productive complement to your paid, earned and shared media efforts, check out the basics below on starting out, measuring success and where content marketing may be headed.

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What First Got You Interested in Technology?

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In our "What Was It" series, we've been talking with notable people about what first piqued their interest in technology.

People like Steve Wozniak and Alexis Ohanian have shared what pushed them into this field. Last night, at the American Museum of Natural History, Neil de Grasse Tyson told us what got him hooked on space exploration.

These recent discussions have been illuminating, and we'd like to hear more on the subject from our readers. So what did it for you? A trip to a planetarium? A high school science teacher? Tetris?

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7 questions asked by noob designers, answered

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Anyone who writes about web design or runs a web design blog (like this one) is bound to get questions from new designers on a pretty regular basis. And most of us try to answer those questions as time allows (which, unfortunately, isn’t as often as I’d like).

Since time can be an issue, I’ve pulled together some of the most common questions that get asked over and over again, and tried to answer them. These include things like where to learn to design, what skills you need, and how to get clients.

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Would You Buy a 3DTV if You Didn't Need Glasses?

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3DTV hasn't taken off the way the TV and Movie industries hoped it would, but institutes like the MIT Media Lab are getting closer to developing displays that have the 3D effect and don't require glasses, which is one of the big grievances of naysayer. But would you join the ranks of the 3DTV faithful if you didn't need specs, or do you think the technology in general is frivolous?

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Google Search Beats the Crap Out of Siri In 1600 Question Test

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Pitting Google search against Siri using a monster 1600-question test shows how useful Siri really is: not at all. Google answered correctly 86 percent of the time. Siri achieved just 68 percent accuracy. At that point, it's not much better than a crystal ball.

We knew that Siri isn't very good. But this intense test shows just how ridiculous the gimmicky voice assistant could be.

The fact is that even Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has been saying this since the day Apple introduced the iPhone 4S with Siri. It just sucks. Siri as an independent product, before Apple acquired it, the Woz told us at the Gizmodo Gallery...

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Do You Actually Use Voice Commands on Your Smartphone?

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If the last month has made anything evident, it's that tech companies are not treating voice recognition as a gimmick, and in fact, are increasingly paying more attention to it. But like our friend Matt Buchanan points out, it's sort of de-humanizing. Is this something you actually use? How do you use it? Do you feel comfortable talking to your phone in public?

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8 Brain-Busting Interview Questions Apple Asks Potential Employees - Answered!

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Apple asks its future employees to solve Khan Academy brain teasers, we learned while digging around for information about the questions Apple recruiters asks.

You may not have heard of the Khan Academy, but it's a serious brainiac-creating effort, a nonprofit backed by money from Google and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Make no mistake—these are very, very tough questions, even for senior-level software engineers.

But luckily, they all have a single correct answer.

So if you want to be best prepared for your interview with Apple, you should study these questions. They will probably pop up in some form during the recruiting process.

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Can These 6 Questions Tell You If You're Clinically Addicted to Facebook?

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American medical discourse is chock full of addictions these days. There's video game addiction. Porn addiction. Gambling addiction. Internet addiction.

And of course: Facebook addiction. At least, that's according to Norwegian researcher Cecilie Schou Andreassen, who says people who can't get enough of the social network show many of the same signs of withdrawal and mood swings associated with gambling junkies.

Although Facebook is not a chemical like alcohol or cocaine, she said in an email to The Atlantic, Facebook users can fit the criteria for addiction that are applied to other things.

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If Your House Was Burning, What Would You Take With You?

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Allow me to ask you a question: If your house was burning, what would you take with you? It’s a conflict between what’s practical, valuable and sentimental. What you would take reflects your interests, background and priorities. Think of it as an interview condensed into one question. Foster Huntington has collected answers to this telling question from thousands of responders all over the world to get to the heart of what it is that people truly value.

The result is The Burning House, along with a wealth of all-new material on TheBurningHouse.com. Fascinating and remarkably revealing, The Burning Houseprovides a captivating keyhole into people’s lives, feelings, and innermost thoughts.Illustrated with sometimes moving, often unusual photographs of people’s most prized possessions, The Burning House ingeniously celebrates the differences between human beings around the globe—and the surprising similarities that unite us all.

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