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No One Is Hiring. Now What?
Know what you want--and what you don't. If you're a number cruncher with dreams of a future in finance, should you bag it all to become a pharmacist? Yes, if you want a job that involves math and...
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Hack Your Image: Become a Thought Leader Without All the Sweat
Image is everything -- especially if you're in the business of selling ideas. The amount you are able to charge and the speed at which your company grows are often directly proportional to the degree...
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Earn More Money in 2016 by Renting Out These 5 Things
Have you thought about renting one of your rooms on Airbnb--you know, the extra bedroom with the exterior door where you've been storing junk for the past decade--but cleaning up and letting people...
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What Is Customer Experience?
Forrester Research defines customer experience as: "How customers perceive their interactions with your company." Forrester did a fine job reducing the complex and multi-faceted integration of...
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The 5 Best Industries for Social Media Marketing (and 3 You Wouldn't Have...
Social media marketing is a divisive strategy. Because it's relatively new and based on a technology that didn't previously exist, many business owners continue to believe that it's a fad, or that it's...
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14 Persuasive Words and Phrases Every Sales Rep Should Use to Drive New...
Subtle cues can suggest authenticity or reveal deceit. The language we use in communicating with customers and prospects impacts our ability to excite them about the topic at hand and close the sale....
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Why Your New Year's Resolution Has Already Failed and How to Get Back On Track
Is your New Year's Resolution still on track? By the time you're reading this, statistically you are suffering from the disappointment of yet another shattered resolution. For the handful of you who...
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13 Seasoned Entrepreneurs Give Their Best Beginner Advice
According to Bloomberg, 8 out of 10 entrepreneurs who start businesses fail within the first 18 months. Pretty dismal statistics, huh? But what if you could avoid making the same mistakes that 80% of...
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The 4 Best Metrics to Track to Successfully Scale Your Ecommerce Company
This post originally appeared on the Do It Better blog. Tracking is trendy right now. Just look at the FitBits, the Apple Watch, and all other wearables out there that allow you to monitor your...
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The Paradox of Knowledge
In real estate, they say the three most important factors are location, location, location. In public speaking, the three most important factors may very well be preparation, preparation, preparation....
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How to Create Your Best Year Ever
How many times have you done this? You start a new year by creating new goals because you're about to have the BEST. YEAR. EVER. And then a week or two into the new year, it starts. You've fallen off...
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5 Ways to Overcome Passive Resistance and Drive Organizational Transformation
"Organizations are made up of two things. People and everything else. Organizations don't change, people do, or they don't." Ever hear the story of the night in stormy waters where the tanker sees a...
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Scaling Your Business to Balance Your Life
When you're building your business, you may have to do almost everything yourself. But getting your business off the ground is only the first step; after that you've got to achieve sustained flight...
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Top 5 Ways to Invest in Your Business in 2016
In the age of bottomless options (cue, Netflix) it's no wonder so many millennials find it difficult to make a decision. And now, said millennials are dropping out of the baby boomers view of the...
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5 Practices to Get Started on LinkedIn and Staying Connected
1) Create A Complete Profile Having a sparse profile does not interest those who view it. Build it out with details of work experiences/projects etc. Also, a profile with a number of keywords to your...
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How the Fed Tightened
Back in August, we explained in our blog the mechanics of how the Fed can tighten policy in today's world of abundant bank reserves. Now that the first policy tightening under the new framework is...
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What It's Like to Spend New Year's as a Refugee in a Greek Anarchist Shelter
ATHENS, Greece -- The clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, and the room on the ground floor of this former tax administration building is filled with people chatting and laughing. Persian dance...
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How To Spend Your Marketing Dollars in 2016
The beginning of every year offers the chance for a fresh start and the opportunity to define how we would like the next 12 months to unfold. Aside from the personal resolutions that most of us have...
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The Importance Of Having An Email List
If you're venturing into the realm of Internet Marketing and don't have an opt-in email list strategy, then you're no better than wandering around in the dark. The importance of an email list cannot...
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4 Ways Aspiring Solopreneurs Can Conquer Anxiety and Fear
Crippling fear and anxiety. Two emotions that plague all aspiring business owners. As an anxiety sufferer, the cards were stacked against me when I launched a freelance writing business in 2014. I...
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