PROVOKEDmagazine

Health Insurance Without an Employer: What Actually Works After 50

During these pre-Medicare years (let’s call them “bridge years”), we might be freelancing, caregiving, divorced, widowed, or testing phased retirement. Our income may yo-yo. The one constant? No employer is helping pay our premium or flagging plan changes when networks shrink or costs spike.
We’re on our own, just when premiums are skyrocketing.
It’s scary. Insurance is complicated, and the plan you’re paying for could leave you high and dry when it matters most.
But you have options. We’ll look...

PROVOKEDmagazine

'Overqualified' Is Just Polite Code for 'Too Damn Old'

For women over 50, “overqualified” isn’t a compliment. It’s a slick way to keep talent on the sidelines. Experience and maturity aren’t liabilities—and what employers overlook, women can reclaim.

PROVOKEDmagazine

What’s Love Got To Do With Your Bank Account? How to Share a Life, Not a Ledger

“It never even crossed my mind that it would be anything other than: I would have my money, and he would have his. And that’s how we’ve done it ever since.” That’s a relatively new attitude.

PROVOKEDmagazine

Polite Women Finish Last: Tough Questions I Wish I’d Asked My Financial Advisor Sooner

I’ve pissed off my financial advisor. Badly enough that he’s thought of “firing” me. Why? Because I failed to ask the right questions when we first started working together—the kind you should be asking, too.

Business 2.0

Something Old, Something New

The Knot leaves no marketing tactic untried to maintain a top spot among wedding sites.

Business 2.0

All for the Cause: Cause marketing is helping dotcoms profit through philanthropy

Charities with well-known 'brands' are screening potential partners the way venture capitalists do business plans.

Business 2.0

Sugar Daddy: Electricfood.com wants a slice of the online specialty foods market

"Electricfood aims to set itself apart by being the first to make the stuff of a champagne taste available to those on a beer budget."

Yellow Pages

Drug Abuse: Symptoms To Look For In A Loved One

Addiction actually changes a person's brain structure and function. So while drug use may start voluntarily, a true addict shouldn't be faulted for a lack of morals or willpower.

Yellow Pages

Top 10 Questions To Ask An Orthodontist

"Orthodonture is a little like a relationship: Easy enough to get into, but much harder to back out of."

Yellow Pages

Urgent Care: What To Know, When To Go

Don't confuse urgent care with "retail clinics" found in stores such as CVS and Wal-Mart or in strip malls. Staffed by nurse practitioners, these clinics can't offer urgent care's breadth of services or treat serious illnesses.

SAP

What is supply chain management (SCM)?

This ... gives businesses the efficiency and productivity they need to become less reliant on foreign production.

SAP

Green Logistics: What It Is and Why It Matters

Green logistics includes any business practice that minimizes the environmental impact of the logistics network and delivery. Sustainable or green logistics secure a strong bottom line without sacrificing customer satisfaction, or the planet's well-being. Intelligent businesses are rushing to understand and embrace sustainable logistics management, supported by powerful technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced analytics.

SAP

How to Create a Learning Culture

A learning culture is one where employees are encouraged to grow personally and professionally, and have easy access to tools, programs, and training that helps them develop, share, and apply new knowledge and skills.

In addition to closing skill gaps, a learning culture actively promotes curiosity and growth, with the end goals of short and long-term organizational and personal success.

SAP

What Is Data Storytelling? | Definition, Importance, Examples

Pure, raw data speaks a very precise language that only a few specialists can understand. Data storytelling is simply a means of taking that flat, numerical information and building a contextual narrative around it that people can grasp and relate to.

Edmunds.com

Used-Car Lemon Laws

In order to determine if you truly have a lemon and to build a solid argument, make sure you've taken the following steps.

Ask Patty

Candid Talk for Women (Men Allowed, Too)

When it comes to cars, women have their game faces on, thanks to a great equalizer, the Internet. They are tuning in to Web sites like Edmunds.com/women, Roadandtravel.com, AskPatty.com and Motherproof.com for advice, consumer reviews and a little humor. With virtual clipboards in hand, women say, they can shop without being humiliated by insensitive salesmen.

NBC News

What Do Women Want? A Hot Sports Car Will Do.

Male drivers take note: Most sports cars are sexy, but a new survey shows some are better than others at arousing the passions of female car buyers. Road & Travel Magazine, which targets upscale professional women, has released its 10th annual "Sexy Car Buyer’s Guide,” which aims to identify the  “sexiest, hottest, wildest wheels” on the road.

Edmunds.com

What Are Automakers Doing for Women? Part I: GM Reaches Out

Let's say you wake up one day and find that women are buying 35 percent of your vehicles, influence around 80 percent of all purchases and make up 65 percent of service customers.

What do you do?

You pay attention. You start figuring out what women want in a vehicle, how to let women know about your cars and how to bring more women into the company.

Edmunds.com

Confessions of a Car Thief

"I was stealing two cars every day, and that would put about $800 in my pocket. I went from staying in abandoned houses to being able to rent motel rooms for a week at a time, with just an hour's work."