HOW TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS WITH YOUR OWN MONEY - MAKING NEWSLETTER Writing and publishing a successful newsletter is perhaps the most competitive of all the different areas of mail order and direct marketing. Five years ago, there were 1500 different newsletters in this country. Today there are well over 10,000, with new ones being started every day. It's also interesting to note that for every new one that's started, some disappear just as quickly as they are started - lack of operating capital and marketing know-how being the...

US carrier Verizon is to slash a further 8,000 positions in the face of falling profits and pressures in the fixed line market. On Monday the firm announced that net income for the second quarter fell 7.2 per cent to $3.16bn compared to $3.4bn in the same period last year. Operating revenues increased 11.3 per cent year on year to $26.86bn, compared to $24.1bn in the second quarter of 2008. But John Killian, Verizon's CFO, said that...