What is Guerilla Marketing and how can you use it? Guerilla Marketing is the use of avant-garde marketing techniques intended to get greatest results from the smallest amount of resources, which let’s face it; in today’s economy plays an important role. Today, guerrilla marketing is a non-traditional, low-cost, and highly effective marketing endeavor, which when used properly can reap huge rewards for the diligent user.

To further your career or business, it is imperative that you market in ways that are new and unique in order to catch someone’s eye and get ahead of your competition. The first step into the guerilla marketing zone is to think outside the box. What does that mean? Don’t do what everyone else is doing. Here area few ideas to get you started:

Starting a business in a tough economy is hard, but a great captain does not set sail on a rocky sea without a carefully plotted course. Start plotting your course by setting up a goal chart, listing a timeline of when you want to obtain the goals. Leave a page or two after each goal to list the strategies you used to obtain the goals. Once you obtain a goal, check it off the list, but be sure to keep the strategy list so you will know what worked.

The chart will enable you to visualize your goals as well as see those goals that have not yet been obtained. The ones that haven’t been obtained can then be re-looked at to see what your strategy was, the parts that worked and those that didn’t and then reset your strategy to ensure you achieve those goals as well.

I have been right where you are, trying to lose weight, reach my goal weight and then keep it off. I have spent my life going up and down with yo-yo dieting and at times doing double duty with 5 hours a day of exercise, while my mom sat down with a pound of her favorite candy and lost weight without any exercise.

Losing weight is hard. It’s much easier to pack on the pounds than to take them off. I have been on the starvation diet, the low carbohydrate diet, the cabbage soup diet, nothing but chicken diet and every other diet and form of exercise that I found.

I always managed to take some of the weight off, but not all of it. Additionally, once I was beginning to feel good about myself, I became subconsciously uncomfortable with my new found slim line and packed the pounds back on again but with more added weight than before.

I finally decided I was going to look inward and make decisions. I realized that it wasn’t my fear of failure; it was my fear success that was actually holding me back.

Medical insurance costs are skyrocketing and many places of employment no longer supply medical insurance without a major dip into your pocketbook. The impact of under-insured or uninsured Americans and senior citizens are taking a toll on households across U.S.

As long as I can remember, I was told not to eat past 7 PM, so perhaps that is what stimulated the subconscious desire that stimulates my hunger pangs and munchie madness by 8 PM.

No matter what I have done to curb what I call the Midnight Munchies, I always lose the battle and pack on the pounds without losing the weight I wanted.

The other day it occurred to me that since I was already eating past 7 PM consistently, why not eat my dinner at 8 PM instead. That way I wouldn’t eat dinner and eat junk late in the evening.

That solved a small part of the problem, but why was my desire to eat more food consistent at night? It didn’t make sense to me. During the day I usually had to force myself to eat. I wasn’t hungry, didn’t want it, and forgot to eat. But then I was tired.

So why wasn’t I hungry during the day? The answer was, because I was so busy during the day, I was distracted! I had so much going on that I didn’t want to eat. So I started to exercise at night to keep myself busy and avoid the television, which always gave me the munchies.

Traveling is a lot of fun and a great way to invest time with friends and family on vacation. To save money and time as well as plan a fun trip, please use the following tips.

Planning a trip “off season” can save you a lot of money on airfare, hotel and sight seeing. Lots of fun, not a lot of people and a lot less expensive. Last January we went to Florida, stayed at a five star resort and flew on a non-stop flight for less than $1,500 for two people, including Disney World and Epcot Center tickets. In addition to not spending much money for 7 days, lo and behold not a single line in Epcot or at Disney World. Amazing! To get on any of the rides at Disney World or see Epcot in its entirety was astonishing. No waiting at all.

With the downturn of the economy, many families are without basic needs. Additionally, the fires, floods and tornado’s have left many people without food, shelter, clothing and even a blanket.

If you know someone who needs help or you are someone who needs help, there is assistance waiting for you. Emergency food, clothing, blankets and household items and in some cases, small cash advances are available through the following helpful services.

Sometimes, eating out can be less expensive than eating in and a lot more fun (but be very careful, because in the long haul eating out on a consistent basis will cost you quite a bit of money and, a much larger waistline). In order to get the most value for your dining experience, buy coupon books from a school and help them make money while you save!

Why wait for fate to plan your date when you can have the most fun with only a little money, and just a little planning? How many times have you sat around with friends and family pondering what can be done with free time, but no one can come up with anything other than dinner, rent a movie or to go see one? BORING! But what about other times when no one has the money to go out? Does that mean you have to stay in and watch TV? No way!

Having a fun day out with family, friends, your boyfriend, girlfriend or spouse does not have to be a costly affair. Many fun and fantastic date and outing ideas will cost you very little money if any. The following is just a list of a few ideas that will help you when everyone is stuck for an entertainment idea, or short on cash.

Going Green is the cause celeb of the day, but if you really look at history, going green has been a cause for many people from the get go. The following are a eight tried and true methods to help you go green, which will not only save you money, but will help you help to save the environment for generations to come.