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The goal of an SEO campaign is to achieve high rankings for keywords that will expose the site to its target market and help create new business. However, some web sites are easier for an SEO to work with than others. I've listed some scenarios that may have you scratching your head as how to best proceed. If you've ever had a client fall into t
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Dave Thomas starred in 652 commercials for Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers, more than any other person in television history.
But, he wasn’t just that friendly face you saw on TV with his white shirts and red ties; Thomas built his multi-billion dollar fast-food restaurant chain from the ground up, earning him a reputation as one of the most s
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Procrastination is not a time-management problem. It’s a complex problem involving personality, situations and motivation.
Here are three psychologically sound tips to help us procrastinators overcome this problem.
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The average customer visits their local Costco 22 times a year. The company has become one of the largest in the U.S., with 473 outlets and more than $50 billion in sales, and is also the largest membership warehouse club chain in the world. Its founder and CEO, Jim Sinegal, has been called the Sam Walton of the 21st century for his low-key style
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You can't manage what you can't measure. This concept has been around for ages - and it makes perfect sense. How do you know if your business is going well if you don't have some performance metrics to consider. How can you figure out if your staff are productive if you can't measure their productivity or output? The trouble is that performanc
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If you measure, you can manage. It talks about how and what you have to measure.
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When marketer Tom Fishbourne started drawing cartoons poking fun at senior management, all his marketing friends thought he was committing career suicide. But then, he started seeing executives pop up his distribution list too. Today he has 10,000 subscribers to his weekly cartoon and he landed his recent hot job because of his cartoons, not in sp
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When it comes to freelancing and working on the web, few things are more important than the online applications that make it all possible. From project management, to invoicing, to contact management, and more — each of these apps play a critical role in running an online or freelance business.
At FreelanceFolder, we’ve been on a sort of quest
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The key to being able to achieve a company's goals is to stay focused and keep people on task. But, too often upper management and sales teams are lured by opportunities of selling your solution to large enterprise companies. Learn if these large engagements are real potential or false hope and whether these large engagements are keeping your com
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Popular entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and blogger, Guy Kawasaki understands business. Guy is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine, and author of eight books on innovative business.
Here he shares with us a list of the five most important lessons he's learned as an entrepreneur.
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Ever increasing gasoline prices, food costs soaring, struggling financial markets. The economic news just hasn’t been good, and there’s no indication that things are going to get better any time soon. But, do tough economic times spell only gloom and doom? Are there opportunities to be had even in the darkest days of a recession?
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Robert B. Cialdini, in his classic book Influence: Science and Practice, reveals six universal principles that everyone needs to understand to achieve business and personal success. Mastering them, he says, can help people implement effective strategic communication management strategies, developing powerful working relationships, and build long–t
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Unique, niche, targeted markets are the domain of small business. And it's all built around your reputation. Earn it, spread it, your business grows. Don't and it won't. Here's a post that shows small businesses some inexpensive online tools to help with the spread of your deserved rep.
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Michael draws out five leadership lessons and brings attention to a particularly interesting point with this one: "All of us would do well to reflect on how receptive we are to the suggestions and opinions of others and alternate points of view. Leaders need to question their willingness to hear certain voices and not others. They need to make a
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The reason meetings are such a continual waste of time and energy is simple: pervasive distrust. And there's also a simple way to prove to your people who much you trust them.
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