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15 Easy Ways Your Business Can Go Earth Friendly

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Want to save money by reducing your costs, gain time by increasing your efficiency and build more reasons for clients to do business with you?  Be earth friendly! By following the familiar reduce, reuse, and recycle mantra you can save financially, which will allow you to invest more into growing your business or free up [...]

Creative Women Can Rocket in Business

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Have you wondered what shifted for me that helped me to rocket my blog to where it’s at now? In a nutshell, I started learning to believe in myself, and trust that if I just made the decision to get out there and serve more people no matter how scary it felt, things would work [...]

Who Do You Want Advice From?

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We get advice coming at us constantly from every direction. But unless your neighbor Bill, nosy Aunt Susan, or friend Jack either has a bigger business than you do, has guided others to build what you’re building, or is in your target market, their opinions don’t get to count. We’d be paralyzed trying to follow [...]

Save a Life, Get a Cool Book

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When was the last time you purchased a book that literally saved a life?  Yeah, I hadn’t done that before, either.  Until today. The Domino Project in conjunction with Box of Crayons is working with Malaria No More to help end malaria. When you grab a copy of their new book, $20 of the $25 purchase cost goes [...]

Reward Your RSS Subscribers with a Gift

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What do readers get when they subscribe to your RSS feed?  A bouquet of beautiful flowers?  Okay, that can’t be easily delivered digitally, but you can give them a gift. A freebie offer can encourage readers to subscribe by RSS, or you can use it as a nice unannounced gift for your readers. Here’s how [...]

Blog Branding: Company vs. Promise vs. Name

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How should you choose your blog title and blog’s domain name?  I got a great question via email recently: Should I use my name for my blog’s domain, my company’s name, or a combination of keywords? When you choose your domain name, you’ve got many choices.  You can do www.YourName.com or www.YourCompany.com or you can [...]

5 Ways to Add Visitor Interactivity to Your Website

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Is your website helping you to connect with customers? Or is it just talking for you? The internet is awesome.  It allows us a super cheap way to get the word out to the world about what we do, what we care about, and whatever we want to share. But it can help us do [...]

Are You Ignoring Your Best Possible Allies?

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A while back we were renting a home that was put up for sale before we moved out.  The realtors who came to show it to potential buyers wanted us gone when they were showing it, and they wanted to show up with only a few hours notice.  I understand this is “standard” practice.  But [...]

I Can *Borrow* a Copy of That, Right?

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The web is full of awesome content, isn’t it? Stunning photographs, super cute illustrations, insightful info graphics… Brilliant blog posts, beautiful prose and poetry, articles that answer our questions and challenge our preconceptions… …and we want to share it all! My Readers Would Love This!  I’ll Just Borrow it… So it’s okay, right?  I can [...]