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Don't let scam artists torpedo your online ad budget. Imagine Google sending you a $100,000 AdWords bill, when you only planned to spend $500 on your pay-per-click advertising campaign?

Today, tens of thousands of people are considering starting a home based business, and for good reasons. On average, people can expect to have two and three careers during their work life. Those leaving one career often think about their second or third career move being to their own home.

Learn how to hit a home run with investors--from a guy who struck out. Shortly after my college graduation, a few friends and I started a new media company. Within a few weeks we fleshed out the concept, wrote a business plan and set out to seek financing.

Learn to be proactive now, and your business will thrive in any economy.

Twenty metros where Americans have a hard time meeting expenses. Vexed by gang wars and rising real estate prices, late rapper Tupac Shakur mused in 1996 that the overall cost of living in Los Angeles was so high he would almost rather 鈥渓ive life in the pen[itentiary]."

The good news: Fewer people are dying on the job in the United States. Last year work-related fatalities dipped 6%, to 5,488 (or 3.7 per 100,000 workers), according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' National Census of Fatal Occupation Injuries report.

Young chief executives are becoming an endangered species. Since the height of the tech boom in 2000, the number of CEOs aged 45 or younger at the helm of the 500 largest publicly traded U.S. companies has dropped by more than half, to 28 from 60, and just three haven't yet reached their 40th birthdays.

Hard labor pays. In the latest list of America's highest-paying blue-collar jobs, the workers earning the greatest amounts of money are not afraid to use their hands and get a little dirty.

Some states birth more new intellectual property than others. Here are the most prolific of the bunch.

The medical field still dominates the top, and the food service industry holds at the bottom.