As you’ve probably noticed, new digital technologies and services are often named after older objects or natural features, to reassure us that they’re here to stay: cloud, fire, tablet and blackberry spring to mind straight away. And Blackboard is no exception. It’s one of the world’s leading Learning Management Systems (LMSs), and its humble name […]
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7 Easy Ways to Make Money with the Pictures on Your Smartphone I recently moved from Florida to Oregon, but before we moved my wife and I went through everything (literally everything) we owned and sold anything we didn’t use anymore. If we couldn’t sell it we gave it to Goodwill for the tax […]
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Everybody writes their resumes in ways that enhance their best qualities and obscures their weaknesses. In the same vein, people answer interview questions in the most self-flattering way possible. This behavior is perfectly acceptable and should be expected from recruiters and business managers. The problem comes when interviewees tell out and out falsehoods about their […]
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If you’re struggling to come up blog post ideas, I can help. Blogging is one of the most effective marketing tools around and it’s clear every business should be doing it. What’s not always so clear is what you should be blogging about. Fortunately, there is a bottomless pit of ideas just waiting for you […]
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As an entrepreneur if you think the secret to getting more clients or more sales is more traffic to your website–think again. These businesses listen to “pros” who tell them that they need to attract more visitors to their site or spend thousands in paid search ads to draw in more potential customers. Its not […]
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Understanding Your Personal Brand An organisation’s brand is supposed to encapsulate its core values. And the same is true of your personal brand. This doesn’t mean you have to spend all day every day marketing yourself, but it does mean that it’s a good idea to know how you appear to the world around. Understanding […]
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Guest post provided by the team from ListWellness.com. There is nothing like a clean shaven face to get a good start to a day (unless you’re a massive beard fan!)! A perfectly shaven face never fails to impress potential clients, colleagues and of course your significant other, who love to touch a smooth face! However, […]
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Trying to squeeze your carry-on luggage, plus a laptop and other work materials in a small overhead space, navigating from the airport to your clients office in a city you’ve never been to, spending the night away from home while eating a room service dinner…business travel isn’t always as exciting or fun as one may […]
Continue readingIn 1937 George Valliant, a psychologist and Professor at Harvard University, began one of the longest running studies of physical and mental wellbeing ever recorded. For over 70 years Professor Valliant and his colleagues studied the lives of 268 individuals through wars, divorces, sickness and even a successful presidential election. The purpose of which was […]
Continue readingAny new entrepreneur knows that investors can provide more than just capital to their business — they can become resources for organizing, marketing, and realizing ideas. Mentoring and nurturing people with their ideas can be as important as the first seed capital funding that they receive. Sometimes an angel investor is akin to a good […]
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