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Learn The New, Hang Onto The Old

May 11, 2010

Are you still stuck in the past? Are you hang­ing onto things and ways from “back in the day”? Are you still using older ways or things when other peo­ple are mov­ing on? I was lis­ten­ing to a con­ver­sa­tion my wife was hav­ing with some of our friends the other day. The topic was about how […]

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Stuff Every Man Should Know — Really?

May 7, 2010

Every once in awhile you come across some­thing that really makes you think about things. This was one of those times. I was walk­ing through Mei­jer ear­lier today and of course I had to make a detour through the book sec­tion (as always). By the way Miejer has a pretty good selec­tion of books. Any­ways, I […]

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Good Content Marketing and What it Can Do For You

May 5, 2010

As you have prob­a­bly heard, using con­tent mar­ket­ing, specif­i­cally free con­tent, helps cre­ate cred­i­bil­ity and trust and can turn prospects into leads and buy­ers. Your con­tent should solve prob­lems and help peo­ple. I wanted to share a real world exam­ple of this very thing today. I have been putting together The Vault ebook together lately and […]

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Distractions — 9 Practical Ways to Deal With Them

May 3, 2010

One of the biggest obsta­cles from work­ing at home is dis­trac­tions. There are all kinds of things that can inter­rupt or even com­pletely throw you off. This is espe­cially true if you have kids as well. I per­son­ally jug­gle tak­ing care of kids and fam­ily, work­ing a 9–5 job (more like a 3–11, but same difference) […]

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Influence — You Are What You Eat — And Read, Watch, Listen…

April 30, 2010

The things we are into affect what we do. I’m not say­ing that it’s the cause but the influ­ence. As a writer I read a lot. I read all kinds of fic­tional books which in turn has influ­enced my fic­tion writ­ing. I picked up styles and lit­tle things from all that read­ing. I took that […]

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5 Reasons You Should Have a Facebook Page

April 29, 2010

As you may know, Face­book is the most pop­u­lar social net­work­ing site right now and is a great place for net­work­ing and cre­at­ing rela­tion­ships for you and your busi­ness. There are over 175 mil­lion peo­ple that log into FB every day. That’s a lot of peo­ple! You may also know that your pro­file is limited […]

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Passive Income: Creating Income When You Can’t Work

April 23, 2010

This last week I have spent the major­ity of my time in bed and in the bath­room. Our fam­ily caught the flu we have all been mop­ing around the house try­ing to get bet­ter in between clean­ing up acci­dents. It hasn’t been pretty. But it got me to think­ing about how our work effort reflects […]

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Are Retweet Groups Worth It?

April 19, 2010

As we all know, Twit­ter is the big thing right now and every­one is on it. It’s great for expo­sure, brand­ing, mar­ket­ing, com­mu­ni­ca­tion, all kinds of stuff. There are even groups of peo­ple that get together for the pur­pose of retweet­ing. They are called Retweet groups and here’s a lit­tle about how they work. What is […]

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Using Past Credibility to Sell New Products

April 16, 2010

As you may know, cred­i­bil­ity can make a big dif­fer­ence in the response you get from what you offer. The more cred­i­bil­ity you have the more peo­ple trust you and are more will­ing to down­load or buy your con­tent or prod­uct. For exam­ple, every­one knows who Stephanie Myers is right? No? How about “Twi­light”? Of […]

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How to Make Your Business Stand Out

April 14, 2010

One les­son that is taught is to make you or your busi­ness stand out from the rest. It’s said that you need to get a usp (unique sell­ing point) and come up with some­thing that peo­ple can remem­ber you by. Well that sure seems eas­ier said than done right? I mean there about a million […]

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