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Get Creative With Compensation

When Stephany Deberry opened her first Simply Salads and Smoothies restaurant in Leesburg, Virginia, limited funds left her with a dilemma. "You have all these dreams, but then you realize it's very difficult to grow a business when you're the only employee," says DeBerry, who launched the company in February 2005. The ability to offer competitive salaries was out of her reach, so she got creative

Second Life

Doreen Motton says she knows how it feels to hit rock bottom: It hurts. Feelings of inadequacy helped fuel a 20-year alcohol and drug addiction. “To hide and suppress my...

Women of Power: Exercise Your Own Power

It seems like today’s theme at the Women of Power Summit is all about power, with all three morning sessions, “The Power is You!” “Negotiate Like You’re Holding Trumps (Even...

Can you trust your kid with a credit card?

Janett Pike, 46, a single mother of two who lives in Hackensack, New Jersey, is sure of one thing. She won’t let her son, Jarydd, a sophomore at Rutgers University,...

Make Lemonade From Lemons

Don’t feel too bad if your basket of stocks and mutual funds turned sour last year. The average stock fund lost nearly 40% in 2008. The favorite stocks of mutual fund managers, such as ExxonMobil, GE, and Microsoft, all suffered double-digit losses. One way to get over those losses is to turn them into tax time winners.

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