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How to Use Barriers to Entry to Your Business Advantage
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| According to Cisco Innovators Forum guest blogger Bob Goedjen when we refer to barriers to entry for a business we are not talking about such issues as normally required start-up costs of business but rather about those things that are inherent in the industry or selected market place that impede a small business or any business from entry. |
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How to Raise Prices
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| Bob Goedjen, guest blogger at Cisco Innovators Forum says that if 90% of entrepreneurs have under-priced themselves, plus many businesses have cut prices during the recession, how do you raise prices now that the economy is picking up again? I asked Bob Goedjen of Silicon Valley SCORE to give us his insights. |
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How to Bring a Partner, Co-founder or COO into Your Business
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| According to Cisco's Innovators Forum guest blogger Bob Goedjen
It's not unusual to realize that as a solo-preneur you've reached the end of your expertise and that you need to bring someone else into your business. Even if you have employees, there are times when a partner can share the load. But how do you find a partner, vet a partner, and protect yourself in such a critical relationship? I've asked our guest experts to give us their insights. We'll be featuring them over the following weeks. Here's what members of Silicon Valley SCORE had to say. ---- |
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Align Sales & Marketing with Lead Nurturing
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| Lead nurturing is all about having consistent and meaningful communication with viable prospects regardless of their timing to buy. It's not calling up every few months to find out if a prospect is 'ready to buy yet?' Lead nurturing is about building solid relationships with the right people. Read our Lead Nurturing Guide to learn how to qualify, score, and nurture leads that aren't quite ready to be handed off to sales.
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Benchmarking your Core Competencies
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| All organizations claim to have “core competencies” but few actually benchmark their capabilities to track and measure improvements over time. Take the time to evaluate your business from a high-level, and commit to continuous improvement. Use Demand Metric’s Core Competencies Assessment to set a baseline for your organization, and work to improve your score before your next self-assessment. |
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Sam Walton Quotes
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| Sam Walton Quotes |
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Finding Your Currency
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| "What if I don't have much to offer?" You know, I'm shocked and a bit sad by the number of people who ask that when I explain that to build strong relationships -- the kind that will consistently grow sales, boost your career, or just pack your social calendar -- you have to give, give, give, and not keep score. (Click here to read Keith's "Don't Keep Score" column. |
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Responsibility
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| Before he won his first national basketball championship, Hakeem Olajuwon, the all-pro center for the Houston Rockets, knew that he needed to improve his 15-foot jump shot.
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The New Secrets of Guerrilla Marketing
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| The most important things you need to know about marketing are in this column. In the few minutes it takes you to read this, you'll learn more basic truths about marketing than you'd pick up with a score of MBA degrees under one arm and all the marketing books ever written, including mine, under the other.
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The Best News
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| There are many different attitudes. Roberto de Vincenzo, a golfer from Argentina, beautifully displayed one of the best ones many years ago when he won the Masters Golf Tournament but was denied the coveted green jacket. I say he won it because he had the lowest score at the end of four days. But his playing partner who kept the score had inadvertently written that he had made a five on one of the holes when in reality he had made a four. De Vincenzo signed the card, and when an incorrect card is signed, the player is disqualified. He had not cheated, but the rules stood. What was his reaction when he learned he was disqualified? Did he blame his playing partner? No, he said he made a stupid mistake. He accepted full responsibility himself. Now what kind of man is he?
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Play the Point, Not the Score
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| I watched Rafael Nadal play two incredible matches at the Australian Open over the weekend. In the semifinals, he defeated Fernando Verdasco in a 5 hour and 14 minute match 6-7(4) 6-4 7-6(2) 6-7(1) 6-4. He returned to the court a little over 40 hours later and defeated Roger Federer 7-5 3-6 7-6(3) 3-6 6-2 in a match lasting 4 hours and 23 minutes. If you are a tennis player, you know this is an amazing physical and emotional achievement. |
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Disaster Continuity Planning
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| According to a report by SCORE on the impact of disasters on U.S. small businesses, natural and manmade disasters have increased by 40% over the last 15 years. The likelihood that you'll experience one is too high to ignore. About 25% of businesses do not reopen following a major disaster. You need to plan ahead to make sure you can weather the storm (pun intended) and continue to be profitable. |
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member initiative
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| A leader of a team must encourage everyone's efforts |
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C-Level Selling Tip 4 -- Relationships with C’s Produces Business, but You Don’t Have a Relationship
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| Relationships at C’s and high levels are easy to attain if you know how. Let me explain.
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Useful Internet Marketing Tools On The Cheap: YouTube Insight
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| If you're playing in the online video arena with your Internet marketing campaigns, YouTube must be one of your parking places. But are you getting all you can out of those postings? Do you know which of your videos are being viewed the most? Who's watching them? Are people commenting on your videos? |
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All Opportunities Are Not Created Equal
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| When reviewing an opportunity, most sales manages will ask about the odds to close. When asked about odds to close, most sales reps have a ready answer. Most often, it's wrong; based on some mystical gut feel, but it sure does makes everyone feel better - like authentic planning, prioritizing and time management actually occurred. |
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The Importance of Focus
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| Usually, it is difficult to reach a goal unless we aim for it. The importance of focus is mission critical in first, finding the target, second, adjusting the aim, and third going for it. All this usually happens in a mental mechanism that is outside our consciousness. To raise the potential for success in life, learning to focus helps to reduce clumsy tries and near misses. Effectiveness becomes predominant with the application of focus. |
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NEWS RELEASE QUIZ
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| Today, thanks to the Internet, everything we’ve learned about writing press releases has changed. Here's a short quiz to see if you have changed with the times. |
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Hire the Best Salespeople on the Planet
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| Several months ago Objective Management Group began to identify hirable candidates that are ideal - they will ramp-up more quickly than a normal hirable candidate. A normal candidate should ramp up according to this formula I devised many years ago:
Normal Ramp Up = Length of Sales Cycle + Length of Learning Curve + 30 Days. |
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Are you living to work?
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| Do you feel like all you do is work? Are you noticing dissatisfaction in your personal life? Here are some tips from a life coach that can help you evaluate your quality of life. A happy person is a productive person. |
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Startups: Top 10 Funding Sources
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| Even in today’s stressed economy, there are multiple ways to keep your startup alive and moving forward. I find that many startup founders fixate on one or two, often at the expense of their business. Following is a prioritized larger list of sources, with some “rules of thumb” which may save you a lot of time and energy:
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Sales Scoreboard
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| Having a scoreboard is an essential element of any game. Constantly showing the score helps you know where you are, evaluate your performance and make the adjustments necessary to win.I've used this same type of scoring system to help organizations and individuals increase their performance and achieve record results.
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You Can't Win If You Don't Keep Score
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| Unless you have the DREAM Marketing budget, it's vital that you make every penny count, yet the majority of businesses out there don't really keep score when it comes to the effectiveness of their marketing initiatives. It's no wonder, if you have every cracked a book on marketing metrics. Most are pretty dry and definitely written in "yawn-ese." So, what should you be measuring beyond the obvious (sales revenues and profits)? |
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RFM - Recession Proof Your Marketing Spend Today!
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| RFM stands for Recency, Frequency and Monetary Value. It has been used by direct marketers for over 40 years as a segmentation tool to increase marketing ROI. The basic premise of RFM is that customers who have purchased more recently, more frequently and have spent more with your company are your best prospects for future direct marketing campaigns. Like data mining/response modeling, the goal of RFM is to increase marketing ROI by communicating (via direct mail, call center, etc.) only with customers that are likely to respond. Done well, you increase your ROI as you attain almost the same number of sales by contacting only a fraction of your customer base. This is a fullproof method to increase sales while decreasing marketing spend in a bad economy. |
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4 Critical Principles of an Online Outsourcing Marketplace Feedback System
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| Feedback systems are such a fundamental part of making an online outsourcing marketplace work that it sticks out like a sore thumb if you don’t have one. They are designed to improve the experience of both the outsourcing buyer and the freelance provider. As a whole, these systems allow outsourcing companies to establish their own reputation as a reputable employer while reviewing the reputation of freelance providers in an effort to find the most capable and proven talent.
Outsourcing companies submit feedback on freelance providers and relay their positive or negative experience so other buyers can review feedback before entering into an outsourcing relationship with that freelance provider. In theory, the entire process works great...depending on a few critical principles... |
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How to Position Your Company in the Minds of Consumers
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| In most industries there are no heroes, just choices. So rather than try to be all things to all people, business owners need to proactively position their company and define their points of differentiation to the consumer. Positioning draws the attention of your target market and reduces the chance that your competitors will define who you are, a situation no business owner wants to experience. |
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The Joy of True Teamwork
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| If you've ever been in a great team, you'll know there's nothing like it. But great teamwork shouldn't be down to luck or good fortune. You can make it happen if you follow these seven rules. |
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FREE Salesforce Grader Tool
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| It's free and it provides you with a score on the relative effectiveness of your salesforce. |
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The Best News
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| Story about a PGA Professional and his winning attitude. |
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Management's Guide to the Top 10 Differences Between Sales Winners and Losers
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| In this article, I'll ask you to rate each of your salespeople in the 10 areas that differentiate sales winners and sales losers to determine how close you are to having an overachieving sales force... |
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Kurlan's Law of Increased Sales Effectiveness
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| E=AP Effectiveness=Awareness x Persistence - Read how to score yourself... |
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The Four Major Steps in Sales
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| By definition, a sale is the act of meeting prospective buyers and providing them with a product or service in return for money or other agreed upon compensation. A sale is an act of completion of a commercial activity. The "deal is closed", means the customer has consented to the proposed product or service by making full or partial payment (as in the case of installments) to the seller. |
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Finding An Entrepreneurial Lifeline In A Life Of Quiet Desperation
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| Henry David Thoreau wrote, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." I would agree with that, but in these modern times, women must be added into the equation. I believe that is the people living these lives of quiet desperation that is fueling the current boom in online and offline entrepreneurs. |
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How Balanced is YOUR Life?
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| Contrary to popular belief, balance is not an end point destination or a “thing” to be acquired. It is dynamic and always changing. Balance is more of a process not a place. A balanced life will look very different from one person to the next. The challenge is that most people have not given much thought to what a balanced life truly means to them. |
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Baby-U-Deserve-Getting-Every-Thing (Budget)
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| What is your reaction to the word “budget”? A sinking, depressed, deprived feeling? You are not alone. Many people audibly groan at the mention of the word. For the vast majority, it connotes scarcity, lack, and limitation—none of which are very pleasurable concepts.... |
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What would you do?
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| What does your soul long for? What would you do if you didn’t have to do it perfectly?
Many of us never discover our passions or follow our heart’s desire. What if we aren’t very good at it but can enjoy it anyhow? How would your life be different?
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TIPS TO ATTAIN PROPER SERP'S FOR A WEBSITE AND BLOGSITE.
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| A blog site will only be cached if Google crawls it from another website.Say you have a blog and you have submitted it to a directory.If the moderator of the directory approves your submission and is put in the front page of the relevant category there is every chance of your blogpost being cached.What really matters here is the blog platform that you are using.I use blogger and to my knowledge ten blogposts of mine are cached.Submit your blogposts to technorati or social bookmarking sites like digg and delicious to get it cached faster.Once that is done try re-directing visitors to your blogsite by adding a link to your blog from a forum or article directory. |
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What’s Wrong with Sore Losers?
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| What’s Wrong with Sore Losers?
If you’re asking me, I’d say nothing! |
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What is Link Building
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| Link Popularity refers to the number of links pointing TO your site FROM other sites on the Web.
The Search Engines consider your site more important and rank it higher if several other sites link to your site.
Now these days, inbounds links are the one of most important factor for getting a high keyword ranking, the most search engines are ranking their search result on the link popularity from your site. |
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Anger Solutions at Work - The Psychology of Procrastination
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| How often do we look at the things we must accomplish today, but we put them off for tomorrow? It is typically the difficult, the challenging, the unsavoury things that we tend to avoid, but they are often necessary to complete if we want to achieve success in our daily lives. One phone call. Sending one email. Finishing that report. Whatever it is that you are avoiding - you can face head on and accomplish in no time, just by making a few simple shifts in your thinking. |
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SCORE Legal Questions
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| Why Is A Business Plan Necessary? |
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Credit Card Debt Settlement - It may be worth sacrificing your credit score
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| We are taught through bank advertising and social pressure that a poor credit score suggests not only the loss of untold dollars due to higher interest rates on loans, but amazingly, that a high credit score makes you a “good” person and a low credit score makes you a “bad” person. Your credit score is a product, just like everything else advertised to you. It is not connected to your identity. And it won't cost you nearly as much money as you're made to think it will. |
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I Want To Improve Your Credit Score, But You Won't Let Me Help!
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| Credit score ignorance is just as bad as accumulating too much debt or not paying your credit cards on time. If you don't understand how your credit report score is calculated then you can't improve your credit score. read this brief primer and learn -- How do they calculate your credit score and who are "They"? |
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Business funding sources for today's business owner...
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| Yes and no. Yes if you have a strong personal credit score. No if you are typically under a personal fico score of 720. The banking industry has significantly tightened the credit requirements recently in the last 12 months. If you do maintain a strong credit score then you are in luck. |
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CREDIT SCORES: WHAT AFFECTS IT AND HOW IT AFFECTS YOU
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| Credit scores are fickle and hard to predict. Credit scores are determined by analyzing credit records and are supposed to show a person’s creditworthiness. Since the score uses so many different factors, it is impossible to know for sure how much an action will raise or lower your score. Different actions will impact your score in different ways, and those ways can change based on your current score. |
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Fico Score - What is it and How Does it Affect Me?
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| Your Fico Score, a.k.a. Credit Score, is important and there are many simple ways to improve it. We'll cover those in a minute but first, what is a good credit score? Do you know what your credit score is? Why does the finance company look at your personal credit but they tell you the financing will be in the business name? These are some common questions that business owners ask when it comes to understanding their Fico Scores. |
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You Know What Your Business is Going to Be, Now What? Steps to Open a Business
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| Your Fico Score is one of the more important steps to Opening A Small Business. While it may not stop you from actually starting your business, a low Fico Score will certainly give you a headache after you have run your head into many brick walls applying for Startup Financing, or any type of business financing. Traditional lenders will feel that you may be too high of a risk if you do not have a good Fico Score and may not lend you any money when you are just starting out or have a chance at expanding your business. Remember that most traditional lenders are going to look at your personal credit, especially if you are a small business. So having a good Fico Score is going to be one of the key steps to Opening A Small Business. |
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Credit Alliance Group Explains FICO & Debt to Income Ratio Info
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| In the United States, a credit score is a number based on a statistical analysis of a person's credit files that represents the creditworthiness of that person, which is the likelihood that the person will pay their bills. A credit score is primarily based on credit report information, typically from one of the three major credit bureaus: Experian, Trans Union, and Equifax.
Debt to Income Ration is another factor when it comes to your credit score. |
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Improving Credit Score - Good Credit is Essential to any Business
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| Improving Credit Score - sound difficult? It's really not if you are willing to stay focused and be disciplined. Credit Repair Help is quite easy to do yourself if you know what to do and understand your Fico Score. |
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Your Fico Score Is An Important Piece of Information That You Should Always Know About Yourself
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| Your Fico Score, a.k.a. Credit Score, is important and there are many simple ways to improve it. We'll cover those in a minute but first, what is a good credit score? |
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Seeing Your Free Credit Score
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| Can you really see your credit score without paying? Short answer is yes, as required by law. Here is how you can see your free credit score. |
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