Times are changing on the hit BBC show The Apprentice. Not only has Lord Alan Sugar taken on a government role as the new Enterprise Tsar to the Prime Minister, but Margaret Mountford has resigned. She will be replaced by the "First Lady of Football" and former Birmingham City managing director, Karren Brady.

Who is Karren Brady and what makes her such a corporate success? Chantl du Plooy takes a look at Karren's career and the role she is expected to play on The Apprentice Series 6.

The new Margaret
With Lord Sugar appointed as a Labour peer, the BBC Trust has called for a rescheduling of the programme. It wouldn't be appropriate for The Apprentice to give additional media coverage to the Labour party when a general election is due. As a result, viewers will have to wait until July or August for the show to air.

I have been living in this neighborhood for five years and Im just now meeting the neighbors. It is not that they are unfriendly or that I didnt want to meet them, its just that I had a very demanding job. I worked a lot of extra hours, it was usually dark before I got home, and I went on frequent business trips. With the little free time I had, I just didnt have the time or energy to walk around the neighborhood and make an effort to meet anyone.

Recent recession has brought the focus on jobs and unemployment. People now recognize unemployment as a measure of a country's economic woes. Economic theory says greater the unemployment, lesser will be the disposable income available in the hands of jobless people, and therefore, lesser will be the demand for most manufactured goods. This will lead to more businesses closing down, and creating more unemployment. Eventually, very few businesses will survive the vicious cycle, and the goods that they produce and sell will become very expensive because they need to recover the cost of manufacturing in the absence of adequate demand as people no longer have monies to buy their goods. Even the costs of procurement of raw materials to manufacture these products shoot up, as many of the regular suppliers would no longer be around. Effectively, jobs can affect cost of living! Jobs can be both blue collar as well as white collar.

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We all have been affected by the economic downturn in one way or another. The biggest problem is the fear or panic we feel either for ourselves or for those around us that we may lose our job or fear of having to take a pay cut. A recent national statistic of weekly hours worked has dropped from the standard 40 hours a week to 32.2 hours a week. That equates to a significant loss in income.

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Have you ever been late on your house payment? What about not having enough to put food on the table? Tired of always waiting for payday, only to find that your entire check is gone that same day? Well I was! I hated the fact that it was so hard to hold onto money when all of it was gone. And what happens if I needed something out of the ordinary? A surprise birthday, parents coming over for dinner, or an unexpected cold? Was I to wait until payday to continue my life. I hated it. I know there has to be a way to make some fast money, so I turned to my computer, went online, and started searching.

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MLM or Multi Level Marketing

MLM is most often referred to as network marketing. In this form of business, you are actually reselling a product on behalf a company and gathering your commissions for each sale. You have various options open to you. You can further hire representatives to do the job alongside, and provide them a commission on what they sell. Thus not only do you make money on your sales, but also on the sales of your recruited representatives. This is the meaning of 'multi-level'.

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My friend Lenny asked me the other day if there was any way he could do something working online without a website. He doesn't like his job and is looking for a way out, but for now he's just looking for some extra money.
It never occurred to me that someone would want to learn how to start an Internet business without a website. I have several websites and one of them is for my old window cleaning business. I don't sell any thing on there but wouldn't be with out it, I realised many years ago that even for that business I needed an online presence, that's how important the Internet is in this day and age that we live in.

I admit it, I was sucked into reading an article on one of the major search engines this morning titled “The 10 best work at home jobs”. Although, actually, their point was that those 10 work at home jobs are “real” and “legitimate”.

While I agree that the jobs they listed which included translator, web designer and teacher are “real” jobs, they are not exactly jobs just anyone can pick up today and start doing. You need to have a particular highly developed skill in order to do them.

Other jobs mentioned, like franchise owner, can take an awful lot of up front cash that not everyone has laying around. When you buy a franchise you typically have just solved someone else's cash problem but you are a long way from solving yours.

Americans were thankful and joyous to learn of the successful rescue of Richard Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama, a commercial ship bringing much-needed food and supplies to Africa. Capt. Phillips acted heroically when his ship was attacked by Somali pirates five days earlier, surrendering himself as a hostage while protecting the crew from a similar fate. President Obama noted that Captain Phillips' demonstration of courage was “a model for all Americans.” We all join in admiring his unique combination of integrity, professional training and bravery.