Business

Document Safety Protocol: 5 Dangers of In-House Shredding

When you’re in business, you are going to have files, documents, invoices, records of sensitive information and many other things that should remain confidential. Then there are also computers and hardware to consider. When something is no longer needed, it should be destroyed so that nobody can retrieve it in any way. This means that even the business and its employees should no longer have access either. There are a couple of ways to do this.

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Money

Temporary Home: 5 Best Tips to Enjoy Your Short-Term Rental Experience

Sometimes, a job may take you temporarily to a new place, such as a new city or new province. You know that you will be back, but where would you live? If you have no relatives or friends there, one great idea to consider would be a short-term rental. Thanks to the Internet, short-term rentals have increased in popularity for all kinds of reasons. The nice thing about a short-term rental is that your new place becomes your home away from home.

Unless you’re loaded, staying in a hotel might not be an ideal solution. A short-term place will give you comfort and privacy and is also affordable. You can even personalize it. Here are some tips to get a good deal to make the whole experience a positive one.

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Business

Organize Your Inbox: 5 Simple Tips to Manage Your Email at the Office

Have you heard those rumors that email is dead? Well, we all know that those rumors are greatly exaggerated, but sometimes we wish on certain days that email would meet its great demise. Of course, that is unlikely to occur in our lifetime, which means it is up to you to adapt…or die.

Maintaining and managing your email at work can seem like an impossible endeavour. The constant emails from clients, the regular check-ins from your superiors, the promotional emails that flood your inbox and the social media updates (we all know you get them). What’s the solution? It’s simple: better manage your email at work. This may seem easier said than done, but it is doable as long as you incorporate the right measures at work.

Here are five tips for managing your email at the office:

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Miscellaneous

Avoid the Electronic Graveyard: 6 Tips to Manage Your E-Waste

E-waste is now found in landfills across the country. The damage caused by such waste is an endemic issue that is impacting the environment in significant ways, from water channel pollution to waste disposal challenges.

It’s the reason that many companies are looking into computer recycling programs and gaining insights on how to manage their e-waste more effectively so it doesn’t end up in landfills across the country. In this post, our experts provide their three tips for managing e-waste.

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Health

Should You Get Dental Implants? 5 Facts About the Dental Procedure

For many, any type of dental procedure can cause some stress and worry. The procedure of dental implants is no exception. Though this stress is normal, it can be greatly minimized if you are aware of what is involved in the procedure.

Dental implants are titanium posts that are surgically attached to the jawbone to secure previous dental work such as a bridge, denture, or crown. Once these posts are placed, the implants then bond with the bone and a connector will be attached to keep the implant in place.

The following is a list of the things you should know before investing in dental implants. These points will help ease any worry you may have.

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Business

How to Use Real Estate CRM: 4 Tutorial Questions for Beginners

In a modern world where we are used to often dealing with a computer or an automated voice, real estate is one of the domains where a personal touch goes a long way. Buying and selling a home is a huge decision and having a real estate agent that you trust and can depend on goes a long way.

Due to the fact that they care so much about providing the best possible service for their customers, real estate is a very stressful job. They need to provide exceptional service in a quick and efficient way, often leading to an unconventional work schedule and a constantly on the go work schedule.

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Health

Active & Healthy: 5 Sports Medicine Tips for Athletes

We all know the old adage by now: no pain no gain. Well, that’s what athletes go through. Whether you have been active in sports your entire life or you have only recently become athletic, you likely know that pain is a considerable factor in this journey.

Sports medicine is crucial for athletes, both professional and amateur. Without it, they’d endure pain, agony, aches day in and day out. Baseball players, runners, swimmers every athlete seems to experience hurt and discomfort at least once in their lives. But what type of pain is it? Over the years, sports medicine clinics have seen and done it all. A freak accident or a common ailment, it doesn’t matter: they know what the human body can or can’t do.

That said, here are five sports medicine tips every clinic will tell you:

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Food

The Royal Feast: 4 Reasons to Hire a Party Caterer

As the Christmas holiday season approaches, a portion of the population will begin looking to Pinterest for how to “wow” their various family members and friends who will be coming over for: upscale drinks, fun appetizers, a cookie exchange, or the full meal on Christmas Day. The other portion of the population has not had time to think about dinner parties and is more concerned how to best introduce mom and dad to the new partner, roommate, or genius scheme to pay off the ever-mounting Toronto lifestyle debt.

If you’re part of group two, eventually you will realize that mom and dad need more than an awesome boyfriend and dreams to satisfy their hunger, and you will frantically begin scouring your cupboards for something edible and festive to serve up.  If your cupboards are something these guys would be proud of, you might want to consider the following four reasons to cater your holiday meal.

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