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Travel Savvy: OGIOs Terminal bag style 711401 - Click To Read Article
Because my husband and I are full-time, professional travel writers, the nature of our hunt for the ideal carry-on bag has become almost an obsession. Add to that the diminishing limits -- both weight and size -- for carry-on baggage (especially on international flights), and you can imagine how discerning and picky we have become.

Travel Savvy: OpenJaw and Circle Fares
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When is a roundtrip not a roundtrip? When it's a circle or open-jawed itinerary. . .

Travel Savvy: How to Travel WrinkleFree
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A very great vacation starts with the perfect jacket; and what can be more classic than denim? Whether you're headed for Paris, France, or Paris, Texas, it's the ultimate chic cover-up.

Travel Savvy: Passengers paying for everything in flight
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Free is too expensive for today's airlines

Travel Savvy: Learning to pack light
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What a shock it was to discover diminishing baggage allowances on our annual trip to Europe last fall; and it's getting worse! New regs present challenges. But now, savvy travellers are finding ways and means to travel lighter and plan better.

Travel Savvy: How to tag your suitcase to avoid lost luggage woes
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If it happened to me, it can certainly happen to you.

Travel Savvy: What new security measures will mean for travellers
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Alleged terrorists planned to use liquid explosives concealed as sports drink bottles and common electronic devices to bring down as many as 10 planes in a nearly simultaneous strike. What impact does this have on the way you travel, today?

Travel Savvy: Packing tips for Women
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With even lower allowances for baggage on airplanes this year, it's important to pack smart. And for those who aspire to reach their destination relaxed and in perfect order, here is how smart women manage packing with perfection.

Travel Savvy: Packing tips for Men
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With even lower allowances for baggage on airplanes this year, it's important to pack smart. And for those who aspire to reach their destination relaxed and in perfect order, here is how to manage packing with perfection. . .for men.

Travel Savvy: Staying in touch for free or ET Call home
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If you're not using Skype or an equivalent Internet-linked phone service for at least some of your communications, you're wasting money. But don't stop with Skype; the world is full of clever and free phone services riding on the coattails of the Internet to deliver your voice via ethernet to friends and family.

Travel Savvy: Google Phone concept gets Good Reception
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Google's entry into wireless last week failed to spark the intense hype of the iPhone, but its impact could be even bigger.

Travel Savvy: BagFinder (Luggage tags) & HandleWraps
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These luggage tags are products that really work, helping your same-as-everyone-else's luggage really "stand out in the crowd."

Travel Savvy: The Big Travel Picture regarding Passports Travel Documents
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Can Canadians and Americans still travel as carefree as in the past?

Travel Savvy: Can't carry-on your laptop? Here's the answer
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Here's a little solution to a potentially big problem (and one I periodically face myself); I must travel by air in the next weeks. How do I take my -- absolutely essential -- laptop with me, and assure its safety?

Travel Savvy: Shopping the World -- Stuff you just cannot buy at home
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It it really that wrong to shop overseas, when the products are ones you cannot find at home? In these days of weight restrictions on most flights, one must choose carefully the goods carted home.

The real skinny on critics: How we do what we do and why
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Food writers and restaurant critics like me (and my evalu8.org colleagues) are frequently asked how we weigh the merits of the places we review. Here's the inside story. . .

Garber on Business: Being Seen on the internet
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Small business is getting lost in the gigantic mass of information, amusements, distractions and barrage of advertising on the internet. Big business has now received the message loud and clear: Go to the 'Net. If you're after that prime "youth" -- 18-to-35 crowd -- and you're not online, your business is definitely missing out. Here are some pointers from a baby-boomer who almost got left behind. Anne Garber found out the hard way herself just how important the online community is to survival of business!

Garber on Business: Your PR Checklist for success
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Companies and individuals wanting to enhance their self-promotion can benefit from doing a little strategy work before starting a new PR campaign.

Garber on Business How to get the media exposure you think you deserve
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The two questions I have been asked most often over my years as a member of the working media are: (1) "How does a person get into your line of work?" (translation: "How can I get a cushy, do-nothing, get-paid-tubs-of-money job like yours?") and (2) "How can you get a columnist to give you an ad?" (translation: "I don't know the difference between an ad and a write-up, but even though I'm completely ignorant about what your job as a writer entails, I still want you to spend the time to write all about my business, and promote it for me, for free.").

Garber Rant: The future of World Communications
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Who's your daddy? Not local telcoms, that's a sure bet!

Garber on Business: Advertisers, Know Your Market
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There's a radio ad on the air these days and every time I hear it, I burst out laughing. And it isn't meant to be funny, either. An essential rule-of-thumb for advertisers trying to win over stingy consumers like me, is "Know Your Market."

Garber on Business: Fishing on the other side of the Pond -- What to do when you are the victim of a faraway nonpaying business associate
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What resources are available to small, Canadian businesses when dealing with a non-paying associate in the United States? One small business owner had to resort to a bill collector!

Garber on Business: Selling online? Help your potential customers shop online safely
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Good deals, convenience and choices abound on the Internet. But before customers use all the Internet has to offer, help them be cyber-smart and make their online experience safe. When shopping online, there are several things you can do to add to your shopping safety. Being aware of technology scams, checking website policies and understanding your credit card rights will go a long way toward providing privacy and identity protection.

Garber on Business: Can YOUR business benefit from the boom in Culinary Tourism?
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Discover the new era of Culinary Tourism. Maybe there's a niche your business can fit into!

Garber on Business: Business dinner? Don't whine about wine
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No longer does the haughty sommelier at Le Cavalier Réstaurant Français glare down his well-trained nose and impatiently finger his goûte-vin as he debates how to intimidate you into buying a more expensive wine -- that is, ahem, to persuade Monsieur to make a better choice. No longer must you fumble through a 28-page wine list, searching for a name you recognize -- any name you recognize, in order to breathe a sigh of relief.

Garber on Business: Safe-guarding your reputation
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Should you worry about your reputation? What is your good name worth to you in business? They say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, but these days the maxim should be amended to "…no fury like a journalist deceived."

Garber on Business: Pier 1 and The Almighty 'Price-point'
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Consumers are ever more mindful of 'Price-point' -- especially during times of economic downturn. Savvy retailers will wise up to this fact of life. (And those who don't will be left behind.)

Garber on Business: How to lose customers through sheer stupidity
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Canadian communications companies are fumbling the ball when it comes to 'upselling' existing individual customers. The reason? Too many catches, and a basic dishonesty when it comes to ease of cancellation, should things not work out as planned.

Garber on Business: When did the Customer stop being King?
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It seems to me, it was only a few years ago when merchants smiled as customers entered the store, when credit cards companies were vying for your business (however meagre) and when the customer actually was king.

Garber on Business: Shipping across the country -- or overseas
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Moving items from point-A to point-B used to be a simple matter. Now you practically need a degree in logistics, and -- as they say on TV disclaimers -- "results may vary."

Garber on Business: Breaking in to Trade Magazine writing
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No matter how much experience one has as a journeyman writer, any new area of expertise presents certain challenges...

Ask the Bargain-shopper: The 10 Commandments of Shopping
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What do you mean "Thou shalt not covet?" Retail Therapy is all about coveting!


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(Visit Anne's Website) Anne Garber's media career spans 43 years in both print and electronic media, as author, publisher, photographer, columnist, broadcaster and the mother of two -- and evalu8.org's Managing Director. She has written 14 best-selling books and -- with editor John T.D. Keyes (who is also her husband) -- writes food, business and travel features worldwide; she contributes online to travellady.com and chocolate-atlas.com. The couple writes a travel column for the Culver City News and co-authored Victoria's Best Bargains, Exploring Ethnic Vancouver and Cheap Eats Vancouver. Ms. Garber has worked as both publishers' and authors' agent, and is known as the 'go-to' person in the book, magazine and newspaper publishing industries for legal opinion on North American trademark and copyright issues. A practicum in San Diego as Environmental Practice Group paralegal was followed by a return to the Pacific Northwest, where she is currently considered a leading expert on internet copyright infringement actions and online fraud investigations. Anne Garber divides her time between Vancouver, BC, Seattle, WA, Toronto, ON and Paris, France.

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