By William Khury

1) 24/7 Marketing

a. Imagine hiring an amazing marketer, who works 24/7, 365. A website is just that. It could be 3am and someone is up all night worried about his mortgage payments and decides to go online to find a local mortgage broker who can help him… are you open at 3am? I doubt it! But your website IS. Read the full story

By William Khury

Staff Writer

 Two industries have blossomed over the past few years and it seems that everywhere you look is an ad for them. What’s scary is the overwhelming UNQUALIFIED companies offering these services and the SEVERE consequences to the customer when working with them. I’ll show you how to protect yourself and spot the real from the fake BEFORE you spend your hard earned money hiring them. Read the full story

By William Khury

Two industries have blossomed over the past few years and it seems that everywhere you look is an ad for them. What’s scary is the overwhelming UNQUALIFIED companies offering these services and the SEVERE consequences to the customer when working with them. I’ll show you how to protect yourself and spot the real from the fake BEFORE you spend your hard earned money hiring them. Read the full story

By William Khury

Staff Writer

These days more than ever, we as business owners need to watch what we spend.

We keep an eye out for special deals, negotiate with sales people, and stretch supplies and resources to the max – But at what point does being financially savvy mean you’re just being cheap – and more importantly, what is the true cost of being cheap to your business? Read the full story

By William Khury
Staff Writer

With today’s increasingly difficult job market, more and more people are finding themselves out of work and out of options. Adults with years of experience and loyalty in their field and company are losing their jobs. Now you have hundreds of thousands of newly graduated college students, eager to work and start their lives looking at the same unemployed and job ads.

“Go to school so you can get a good job” – this is what we’ve heard since childhood, but does it still apply these days? Is a Bachelor’s really just B.S.?

Well, think about this: Every year, hundreds of thousands of eager, motivated, newly educated college students are unleashed into the job market hoping and expecting to work. With today’s job market being so bad, where are all these grads going to find work?

Modern day grads find themselves in a difficult position. They’ve been raised in an “instant gratification” society, where whatever they could possibly imagine or desire is readily available within reach. Food, jobs, fun, travel, education – it’s all right at their fingertips. Furthermore, they’ve seen some of the most Read the full story

By Philip Brewer of Wisebread

Courtesy of DivineCaroline

It used to be that spotting a “good” counterfeit bill was impossible for ordinary people. If it was good enough to pass the “look and feel” test, then it was going to take an ultra-violet light or a magnetic ink detector. But for the past ten years, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing has been making bills that are easy to check.

The amount of counterfeit money in the US is low enough that most people feel safe taking money with barely a minimal check for counterfeits. Does it look and feel like money? Then it probably is. But have you ever gotten a bill where something-either the bank note or the person giving it to you-seemed a little off? Ever wished you could quickly check to see if it was good? Well, here’s how.

Step 1) Look and Feel

This is as far as most people go, and it’s good enough most of the time. US bank notes are printed on special paper that’s 75 percent cotton and 25 percent linen. The linen gives it an extra stiffness that’s distinctive. There are also red and blue fibers imbedded in the paper. Bank notes are printed with a Read the full story

By William Khury

Love is an amazing feeling. It consumes you. It motivates you. It fills your life with purpose… On the other hand, it can also blind you.

Once upon a time, there was a very motivated man with life goals, dreams, and vision beyond his years.  Everything he did was to hopefully move towards reaching those goals. Along came a beautiful young woman that absolutely swept him off his feet. The two fell madly in love with one another and had goals of marriage and a beautiful life together. Before you know it, this young woman is now the only thing on the man’s mind. They talked all day and night. Everything they did revolved around each other, and their romantic relationship flourished and grew very rapidly.

One day, however, something happened… the young man received a disturbing phone call from an angry client who’s been feeling neglected by him. Our young man apologized and promised to correct the issue and pay more attention. Unfortunately, this client wasn’t the only angry client; pretty soon our young man began receiving letters and calls from several other clients unhappy with the lack of attention they have been receiving. He was even close to being sued and losing his largest account, when he had to finally take a step back and think… WHAT’S GOING ON!?

What was happening is he was “cheating” on his 1st love… Read the full story

Arab TIme

By William Khury

Tick, tock, tick, tock… Time waits for no one. While the entire world runs on appointments, normal hours of operation and deadlines, it seems like Arabs are above the law with respect to time.

This may seem harsh, but wake up and smell the Ahwa! Arabs are so notorious for being late to appointments that we have our own time zone-”Arab Time.”

As always, I speak from personal experience and by no means want to sound like I’m not late every once in a while, but seriously friends, let’s clean up our act here.

Punctuality is very important to our reputations both personal and business. It shows we have respect for the people we’re meeting, Read the full story

By Reuel Amdur

Staff Writer

 OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA — Prior to the Canadian convention of the Islamic Society of North America, there was a two-day conference on Islamic banking, finance and insurance. The underlying principle was the Qur’anic prohibition of interest, called usury in the Qur’an: “Allah had permitted trade and forbidden usury.” However, during the convention it became clear that it is necessary to parse interest into component parts to see what is permitted. Read the full story

By William Khury

Staff Writer

Yes, that’s right, mind your OWN business.  Don’t get offended… really what I’m saying is to Pay attention to your own business. Do you know who your customers are? Do you know how much it costs you to get them as a customer? Do you know how much it costs you when they leave you? Read the full story