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Monique Wells

A Smarter Way to Run Your Business in 2012

By Monique Y. Wells – Have you noticed that everyone is talking about “overwhelm” these days? Whether it’s due to not knowing how to use social media or some new technology, not knowing how to find your niche market, or doing all the mundane, routine tasks for your business yourself,

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Social Media Marketing: What Sites Are Most Effective?

By Lee Ussher- Most businesses create profile accounts on many social sites without actually thinking about the goal or structure of how they are going to effectively use it as a social media marketing strategy. A lot of time & money can be wasted without a plan or knowing what

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How to Create what you Want through the Power of Visualization

By Jane Morrison – Have you ever wondered how those Olympic athletes have such drive, willpower and tenacity to push their bodies to the limit of physical capabilities? It’s because they have a vision, an end in sight. Without a vision, one cannot accomplish anything and the alternative is like

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8 Ways to Plan and Brand Your Small Business

By Liz DiMarco Weinmann – In the current economic climate, thousands of people are starting their own businesses. Some stride confidently into setting up a business that they’ve been thinking about for a while. Others are taking on freelance assignments while they continue to network and interview for their next

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Pamela Cournoyer

Working With and Managing Other’s Stress During The Holidays

By Pamela Cournoyer – Keyword: WORKPLACE STRESS Stress responses in others are predictable and can be managed without causing more stress for you. This is especially true during a typically “over the top” time of year for those in the workplace who tend to extend themselves even more. I’m sure

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Monique Wells

Getting over Overwhelm in Your Business: Time Out – Time In

By Dr. Monique Y. Wells – The term “work/life balance” has become an integral part of the conversations that we have regarding the stress associated with work and the toll that it takes on our lives. Sometimes, this stress grows to the point of “overwhelm” – the feeling that one

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Lois Landford Art

Another “ROCK” Your Own World Story By Sibyl White – Lois Langford Art http://www.loislangford-art.com Murals, art on furniture, custom art, color and fabric matching, portraits of pets,people on canvas, monograms, and borders   Lois Langford has over 25 years of experience as an artist. Her artwork includes: nursery and children’s

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Facebook Marketing Kept Simple

By Lee Ussher – I had a very supportive fan ask me a valid question on my Facebook Business Page recently and wanted to share my response with all of you as I think it answers a question many Facebook Business users have. The question: “Hi, Lee! I have a

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How to Increase Your Presence on the Net with Article Marketing

By Jeannine Clontz – Article marketing on the Internet harnesses the power of the Web and the hunger for written content. Article marketing allows writers to promote themselves, their websites, products or literally anything, by writing about them and making the content freely available for reproduction on other Internet sites

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Expect the Best, Key to Success!

By Maryann Ehmann – As a very accepting, adaptable and patient person, not wanting to be demanding, controlling, or ungrateful, I have often crossed over into the land of settling and not going for what I really want. In fact, for years and for a variety of reasons, I didn’t

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How To Avoid the Top 5 Public Speaking Mistakes

By Kathy Caprino – As a frequent speaker at live and online conferences and events, I’m in the company of hundreds of folks each year who are top authors, experts and consultants. In many cases, these are great thought leaders who perform public speaking as just one aspect of their

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Sharon Hurley Hall

Business in the Cloud: Is it Really Workable?

By Sharon Hurley Hall – The cloud, the cloud, the cloud – that’s all you seem to hear these days. But what exactly is the cloud and is it a viable business solution? Cloud computing makes computing into a service rather than a product. It’s based on sharing information, resources

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Work Options in the Golden Years

By Laurie Neumann – It used to be when you reached 50 plus years of age, you were nearing retirement, ready to golf and spend time with the grandkids. It was also the time of life that many people started a second career, pursuing a job that incorporated an interest

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12 Days to Better Leadership

By Beverly Lewis – The calendar is flipping really fast and I admit to moments of nervousness when I see the inevitable countdown charts with the days left ’til Christmas. I’m focused on keeping it simple and enjoying the gifts in every day. Here are 12 strategies to help position

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Jane Heacock

On the Road to Success: Saving Time for Busy People

By Jane Heacock – We often hear people say they don’t have enough time? People generally start the week with expectations to complete a list of tasks and never seem to find enough time to get it all done. We fill up our schedule so much that there is little

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Second Half Strategies

By Nancie Carmichael – …This part of the journey does not require tools for building as much as it requires tools for letting go. Our family loves watching football—and we especially love “our” Oregon Ducks. I’m intrigued to see that in many games, the Ducks come out to play the

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The Richness of Respect

By Beverly Lewis – My home is situated in a unique area in North Florida called the Sand Hills. Located north of the beaches of the Emerald Coast, our soil is not rich. The only really good thing about that is that it drains quickly when we get buckets of

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Facebook Promotion Guidelines – The Dummies Guide!

By Lee Ussher – When Facebook changed the Promotion Guidelines without any prior warning I was in the middle of running a competition, and if you were like me, it left you scrambling for clarity on some of the sections written that confused us all. From a number of authority

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Mannequin Madness

Another “ROCK” Your Own World Story By Sibyl White – Award-Winning Mannequin Liquidation Company—New & Used Mannequins/Dress Forms—For Sale & Rent One mannequin for an art project in her garden—that’s all Judi was looking for. What she stumbled into eventually became a full-time business. ________________________________________ How did you make the

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Necessity may be the mother of invention…

but DARE-ING are the mothers of reinvention By Liz Weinmann – Twenty years into my career as a marketing executive, I decided I’d had enough of the world that shows like “Mad Men” glorify, as fun as all of that was. The events of 9/11 so catalyzed me that, with

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