A Blog Carnival is an online blog event that involves several bloggers contributing articles to the host of the Carnival. Like a magazine, a Blog Carnival has contributions around a particular theme. If a blogger you read regularly participates in a Blog Carnival, you may find other bloggers whose content is of interest. I’ve just […]
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Working from home is great. My commute is across the hall not across town. I don’t have to shovel the driveway first thing if I don’t have plans to go anywhere. Heck, there are days I don’t have to leave the house at all. What’s the down side? There are days I don’t have to
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Audacious: showing no fear; daring; bold; defiant of restraint. I don’t know if it’s just my personality or because I’m Canadian, but being audacious doesn’t come naturally to me. I wait for the light to turn green before crossing, I follow directions and I always colour between the lines. But staying between the lines doesn’t
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Organizational experts tell us the average person spends one hour a day looking for things. We get it – walking into an office filled with piles of papers, files and books is a drain on your productivity. But what about the mental clutter? ADD management coach Jennifer Koretsky says that, “mental clutter is made up
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It arrives in your inbox in the dark of night. You open it. It’s an invitation to join a teleseminar. Your eyes light up. Your pulse quickens. Without thinking, you reach for your credit card. As business owners we need to keep on top of a changing business climate. Things change so quickly, there are
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“What’s going on in general society first happens in sports,” Bruce Rumpf, CEO and President of Job1USA, told me. I must have sounded skeptical so he explained. Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson In 1936 the Olympics were held in Nazi Germany. Jesse Owens, an American track star who also happened to be African American, was
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One thing I’ve learned about entrepreneurs is that we’re always learning – about our industry, about marketing, about business. We go to courses and seminars and conferences. They’re a great way to learn as well as to network with other entrepreneurs. But one of the easiest and cheapest ways to learn is by reading business
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Sunday I ran into a colleague at a social event. She was still waiting for an email I had sent the week before. Monday morning I checked her email address and resent it. Tuesday she emailed me saying she still hadn’t received my message. I checked the address on her email – yes, it was
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I received the following email from a prospect: “I like your email writing – it’s interesting how many writers write horrible emails!” It’s not just writers. Look in your in-box and you’ll likely notice a similar trend – email with poor grammar, typos, spelling errors and badly constructed sentences. Your writing style may not matter
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Social networking sites, particularly Facebook, are getting a lot of press these days. While I have joined Facebook, mainly as a way to connect with some of my out-of-town friends, I’m focusing on LinkedIn as my online networking tool of choice. I was first introduced to LinkedIn by someone I met in a coaching program.
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