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 ODay

Holiday Shopping: Keeping Your Money Safe

By Sharon O’Day – Holiday shopping! Black Friday alerts are popping up all over my email these days, a sure sign that the peak holiday shopping season can’t be far away. Excitement’s up, precaution’s down. And, like all the riffraff that appears right after a major hurricane to take advantage

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Letting Go of Prince Charming

By Sharon O’Day – “Read it to me one more time, Mommy.” And off we go again, hearing how the damsel in distress was swept off her feet by her charming prince … and lived happily ever after. Unfortunately, that’s probably one of the most insidious things our mothers could

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Karen Jordan

Following Through: More Excuses

By Karen Jordan – Excuses, excuses, you’ll hear them every day. And the Devil he’ll supply them, if the church you stay away. When people come to know the Lord, the Devil always loses So to keep them folks away from church, he offers them excuses. (Kingsmen, “Excuses”) I can

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Business
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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Business
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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When Your Inner Child Becomes a “Material” Girl

By Tamara Elizabeth – This time of year with all the fliers and mail/internet order fliers and catalogues arrive at your doorstep, our inner child evolves into a “material girl”. She comes out of the gate fighting- a ravaged shopper from hell – and she’s hungry. The pre-holiday sales are

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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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5 Factors that Could Threaten Your Financial Plan

By  Jacqueline Darien – What could make your retirement plans go awry? And what strategies can help you keep your plan on track? The events of the past few years have led to many people rethinking and restructuring their retirement plans. A large percentage of people are planning on postponing

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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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Ways to Success: 1st Step – Stop Procrastinating

By Olga Hermans – Many times I have heard people tell me they are just “waiting on God.” While it sounds very spiritual, self-sacrificing and honourable, I also find that more often than not it’s just a politically correct way of procrastinating or justifying indecision. Instead of gathering information, creating

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Job Interview Etiquette and Tips

By Marla Levie – Although unemployment rates in America have been slowly decreasing over the last few months, the competition in the job market is still at an all time high. I have been working as a recruiter for over 20 years and see very competent people make simple interview mistakes that

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Where Does Sarcasm Fit In Your Workplace?

By Pamela Cournoyer – There are so many sweet opportunities to take a jab at others. It’s all in good fun, isn’t it? I hate to break it to you; if you lead as a supervisor, manager, department head or business owner – sarcasm does not belong anywhere you are.

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