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How to Raise Your Credit Score

The largest single factor in your credit score is on-time bill payment.

(SALEM, Ore.) - How can consumers boost their credit scores? If you want to increase the three-digit number that shows up on your Experian, Equifax or TransUnion report, there are a few things you can do that will almost certainly deliver favorable results within a mere six month period.

Here's a quick look at realistic steps people take to improve their scores.

Translation for Small Businesses: 4 Key Languages

Make sure your firm gets the best chance to get ahead in the world.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Do you want to expand your small business? Get online translation for these 4, widely-used languages, and access a large global market as you upscale.

Translation for small businesses means opening the door to many more opportunities. For instance, Mandarin is spoken by 971 million people, it's the most spoken language in the world.

DEA Warns of Counterfeit Prescription Pills

Fentanyl is involved in more deaths than any other illicit drug.

(SEATTLE, WA) - The Drug Enforcement Administration is alerting the public of dangerous counterfeit pills killing Americans.

Mexican drug cartels are manufacturing mass quantities of counterfeit prescription pills containing fentanyl, a dangerous synthetic opioid that is lethal in minute doses, for distribution throughout North America.

8 Types of Marketing Content Your Company`s Facebook Page Needs Right Now

Creating a robust Facebook marketing scheme is not overly difficult

(SALEM, Ore.) - It’s impossible to overstate Facebook’s centrality to the typical company’s social media marketing efforts. As the world’s most popular social media network by most accepted measures, mastering Facebook is a mathematical imperative: The typical company generates more social leads through Facebook than any other platform.

Unfortunately, way too many businesses take a perfunctory, even negligent, approach to Facebook marketing.

Online Payments More Secure Than Conventional Payments

The digital payment market is forecast to exceed $10 trillion by 2026.

(SALEM, Ore.) - It is hard to even recall that there was a time when electronic credit/debit card payments were a rarity and most people carried their cash around with them every day.

What started out as an alternative to conventional payments, has grown to become an industry of its own, an industry with far greater possibilities compared to conventional banking.

What are Cryptocurrencies and How Do You Trade Them?

It's similar to selling shares of stock...

(SALEM, Ore.) - Cryptocurrencies are intangible assets, also called digital assets, that serve as a medium of monetary exchange between parties.

The crypto part of the term is used because when this digital asset is exchanged, there are very sophisticated cryptographic codes used to verify the transactions and protect the information.

Oregon DMV Stops Accepting WA Dismantler Documents

Oregon will no longer accept Washington dismantler bill of sale instead of vehicle title

(SALEM, Ore.) - Oregon DMV will reject applications submitted by mail with a dismantler’s bill of sale if they are postmarked Oct. 21 or later.

Washington does not issue salvage titles. In Washington, the legal owner of a totaled vehicle, or the insurance company, must surrender the title within 15 days of a vehicle’s destruction or settlement of its status as totaled. The vehicle may be subsequently sold with a notarized bill of sale – typically for dismantling. However, dismantlers’ bills of sale are not state-issued and are not secure documents.

Impeachment Now or Continue the Inquiry?

According to a recent Gallup poll, 52% say Trump should be impeached and removed from office.

(SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.) - The impeachment inquiry should continue even though there is already enough evidence of “high crimes and misdemeanors” to support impeachment.

The evidence so far includes Trump’s admission that he solicited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden, his possible opponent in the 2020 election, and his son Hunter Biden for corruption, in violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971. This alone is enough for impeachment.

5 Essential Tools and Software Every IT Team Needs

Looking to improve your IT team? Read on, to find out about the essential tools and software you need to complete your tasks

(SALEM, Ore.) - Trying to maintain the IT needs for a company can be extremely difficult. Even if you have a substantial team to help you look after the health of a corporation, you need to make sure that you always have the tools for the job.

Here are five essential tools and software we think all IT teams should have.

Are Harm Reduction Promoters in the Opioid/Drug Epidemic Dangerous?

Unconditional love does not mean the acceptance of bad behavior.

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - I have been researching the agendas of some self-proclaimed "harm reduction promoters" in the raging opioid/drug epidemic destroying families in the hundreds of thousands.

Harm reduction promoters are not focusing on prevention, education or treatment, but rather the insanity of giving those addicted safe places to shoot up illegal drugs.