marketing
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Yes, Your Own Phone Number Is Spamming You
1At this point, we’re all used to receiving spam texts: Messages purporting to be from your carrier offering you a “gift” for paying your bill, or from “Netflix” asking you to open a link and “update your subscription.” These attempts to rip you off aren’t unusual. What is unusual is when these texts come not…
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What Not to Say When You’re Buying or Selling a Home
While buying or selling a home can bring up a lot of personal feelings, it’s ultimately a business deal, and it’s best to keep your cards close to your chest. Expressing every thought you have or sharing every detail about your situation could backfire, making you less competitive, compromising your leverage, or losing you the…
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Smurf, Nerf, Buff, and More Old Words With New Meanings You Should Know
The spread of modern technology has changed nearly everything in our lives — including what even the most common of words mean. Rather than invent a word for each novel thing or concept, our language is flexible enough that we can just borrow old words and tweak their meanings. We don’t even need to think…
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How to Get a Burner Email Address With iCloud+’s ‘Hide My Email’
You should think twice before giving out your real email address to a random business or a website. Not only can it lead to spam, but your email address can also end up in a marketing database.