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Trigger Business Growth by Coming Out of the Closet
Do you remember the old MasterCard commercials? They compared the cost of different aspects of an activity to something that is priceless. It went something like this... Someone's careening off the...
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The 7 Steps to Getting More Action on Your Blog Posts
If you have ever written a blog post, you need to read on. Do you consider yourself a newbie, intermediate, or possibly even an expert level blogger? You may have found yourself in the following...
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The Business Consequences of Being Gender Blind, Deaf and Dumb
The business world remains tense about sex roles and conventions, even as rules and etiquette keep evolving. Confusion continues to reign. Men still can't decide whether to step aside to let women move...
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A Legal Introduction to a Pet Trust Fund
Animal law has become a legal specialty in the past thirty years. While historically animals were purely "property," a "rights" or "companionship" viewpoint is slowly developing. For example, a few...
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#GivingBack and Thriving in a Big Way
One Beauty Company in the PNW is Giving Back to Cancer Patients in a Big Way 'Tis the season of giving and with #GivingTuesday setting a new record at $116.7 million given by 698,961 donors across 71...
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Why it's Time to Be REAL in Business
I've gone through most of my life hiding my true self because I was afraid of being judged, laughed at, rejected, or uncool. I've struggled with vulnerability: showing my quirks, my flaws, my real...
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You Can Change Your Whole Life By Destroying One Fear
What's one of your biggest fears? Spiders maybe? Public speaking? Annual performance reviews? Let's say it's snakes. Many people are terrified of snakes. Picture one now in your mind. Now imagine that...
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Want to Keep Your Millennials -- Mentor Them
Written with Bridget McKeogh There seems to be a profound disconnect in the workforce between Millennials (1984 - 2012), Generation Xers (1965 - 1983), Baby Boomers (1946 - 1964) and Greatest...
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Creating Partnerships Is the New Marketing
Marketing is a hot word for small business owners everywhere. It's often thought to be the end-all-be-all in terms of how to rake in new business. Just think about how much your company spends on...
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6 Things That Will Absolutely, Positively Happen To Your Business In 2016
A lot of experts and pundits are making their predictions for 2016. These are guesses, at best. But small business owners like me don't want guesses. We want certainty. So I'm not going to make...
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Why Watching Aziz Ansari's "Master of None" Will Teach You More About...
For those of you who don't know him, Aziz Ansari, got his start as a comedian and is best known from his role as Tom Haverford on the NBC show Parks and Recreation. Recently, he wrote and starred on a...
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How to Make Your Money Last: Review of the New Book by Jane Bryant Quinn
I don't review many books but I felt impelled to report on this one because as I read it, I found myself saying "I wish I had known that in 19xx", or "Yes, I should have done it that way, I wonder what...
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Self-Management Begins with State Management -- Get Your 2016 Off to a Great...
by Bill Sanders, Principal and Sr. Consultant with Roebling Strauss The look of horror as the cell-phone user finally realized that her car was already halfway in my lane as well as her instant...
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5 Horrible Things Congress Just Snuck Into Law
Congress has officially approved the latest omnibus budget deal, which now heads to President Obama's desk. The bill is essentially guaranteed to be signed into law, because anything less means the...
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9 Phrases Smart People Never Use In Conversation
We've all said things that people interpreted much differently than we thought they would. These seemingly benign comments lead to the awful feeling that only comes when you've planted your foot...
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The Long and Short of Mobile-Friendly Website Development
Let's begin by stating the old hard fact that any website administrator and owner needs to acknowledge and live with - your website needs to rock on all devices, not just mobiles, and that includes...
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10 Habits of Ultra-Likeable Leaders
If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but...
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Leverage the Fuzzy Front End Between Accepting and Starting a New Job
Many leaders fall into the trap of thinking that leadership begins on day one of a new job. But everything new leaders do and say, and don't do and don't say, sends powerful signals, starting well...
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Enough With the 'War on Christmas'
Starting last month with Starbucks' plain red holiday cup sporting only their green logo, and culminating in a resolution against the "War on Christmas" introduced by House Republicans just before they...
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Women in Business Q&A: Jill Herzig, Editor in Chief, Dr. Oz, The Good Life
Jill Herzig is editor in chief of Dr. Oz THE GOOD LIFE, a new healthy lifestyle magazine and joint venture from Hearst Magazines and Mehmet Oz, M.D. Inspired by the optimism, curiosity, and energy of...
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