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    Get the Word Out There

    Your business will only boom when you get the word out. Unless you’ve got super powers, you’ll need to use these four marketing channels to tell others about your product or service. It’s best not to choose just one channel – the more of them you use, the better chance you’ll have of reaching more customers for your business. This blog will take a look at each one.

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    Keep on Learning

    When you walk down the aisle and graduate with your classmates, you may figure that your studies are done. You’ve finally learned enough to move on. Don’t stop there! Your life will be so much more meaningful if you now begin to learn what you want to learn – not just what you have to learn. Get a hobby – learn a language – take on a project. Why is it important to keep on learning?

  • That's Scary!

    Even though we wear armor on the outside, often we are riddled with fear on the inside. What are we afraid of? The top 10 most common fears are flying, public speaking, heights, the dark, intimacy, death, failure, rejection, spiders, and commitment. Look at that? Rattlesnakes didn’t even make the list! So how can we deal with our fears and get on with our life? Let’s take a look.

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    Efficiency is a Plan

    Traffic engineers have masterminded the most efficient way for us to get from Point A to Point B. Without these intricate highways, we would lose all sorts of time going up hill and dale, like they did in years gone by on dirt roads. How can we engineer our days so that we get from Point A to Point B more efficiently–and effectively? Let’s look at several things we can do to tighten up our journey.

  • Keeping Track

    This pile is overwhelming, isn’t it? Postcards, photographs, and who knows what else. Organizing these may be a task that no one has yet tackled, but once it has been done, it would be easy to find one item out of all of these. The same thing happens in our Inbox. We get email messages from all over the globe about topics that run the gamut. Do we just let these messages add up, add up, add up – making our mailbox as overwhelming as this pile? Instead, we can use a mail management strategy to keep track of the messages we have on hand. Let’s look at this simple strategy using folders that begin with a T.

  • Getting Cozy

    Even with his downturned smile, this pug looks cozy, all wrapped up in a soft blanket. What’s that have to do with business, you might ask. Think of the blanket as your product or service – how well do you know it? How cozy are you? In order for your customers to be convinced to purchase, you need to know your product or service inside and out. So, how do you get cozy with it? Let’s look at a few questions you can ask yourself to get started.

  • Reaching Out

    This 21st century of ours has created a society that tends to reach out in electronic ways – telling personal stories on social media, texting a quick message to a friend or family member, and describing details of their lives in emailed blogs. How can you take full advantage of this electronic age we’re in to reach more people? Let’s take a look.

  • Take a Look-See

    People get pummeled with email. Everyday we hear “You’ve Got Mail!” over and over again. We pitch this one and that one. We don’t want our own marketing messages to go into the trash, though.. So how can we create subject lines that keep our potential customers opening those email messages? And get this – they say that nearly half of the people out there open a message because of the subject line. That sounds super important then, so let’s take a look-see.

  • So Many Problems

    Not all of life’s problems are computer-related, even though sometimes it might seem so.  What are the most prevalent problems that distract us from what we want to do – or even need to do?  And what can we do about them so that we can get back on the path to productivity? Certainly there…

  • Oh, Yawn!

    You run out of time. You stifle the yawns. Oh, well – you’ll go to bed late, again You need to get this and that done. No big deal, right? Wrong. So, let’s take a minute to find out what a lack of sleep can do to you.