Cultivate and Harness Your Passion and Inspiration

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Passion and Inspiration are still two of your greatest resources for achieving anything you're trying to accomplish. This obviously works for both personal and professional goals. I believe it's extremely important to remember to go to these wells daily. Don't just get into the mode of coasting through the day. Consciously engage your passion and inspiration. Constantly make the effort and let … [Read more...]

5 Ways To Strengthen Your Own Professional Brand in 2011

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Whether you are an entrepreneur, run your own business or work for a company with 1000 other employees, it's important for you to develop your own professional identity online. The business model of getting a job when you're 22, then working there until you retire is really not realistic anymore. Far from it! It would behoove you (yes, behoove you) to develop your independent professional … [Read more...]

Let Your Website Do The Work For You

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Want to have your website do more for you? Probably, huh? I'm sure most people would like to see their website doing more for their business (and income). One Word… Downloads One way to let your website take more of an active role in your business is through offering downloadable files to your visitors (customers). If people can download information and products directly from your … [Read more...]

Your Website = Your Online Magazine

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Static websites are dead and have been for sometime now. There are very few businesses that wouldn't benefit more from having a blog based interactive site. Chris Brogan wrote an article recently, Magazine Thinking,  that describes using the magazine business model as a good way to think about current and future business projects. The basic formula is: Content - Community - … [Read more...]

Where Do They Come From?

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Do you know where your site's traffic comes from? Do you know how to find out? These are two questions that, if you know the answers, could help you determine where to focus more of your attention to drive more traffic to your site. Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube could be helping more than you know. Google Analytics If you're not using Google Analytics on … [Read more...]

How To Stand Out

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In almost any job you involve your self in, you do many different things. Or at least need to have knowledge of many different things. It's rare that you do just one thing all day long. (Thankfully!) But What Is It You Are Best At? What do you do that you know you are great at? What areas do you excel in? What do you do that you know will be effective in making a difference for … [Read more...]

What’s Your New Business Idea for 2011

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The great thing about this economy these days is that it's, in some cases, giving creative people and entrepreneurs the time to put more energy into their own business ideas. That's fantastic! Do you have an idea for a new business? What are you passionate about? What's a new business idea that you think could really help people? What's the idea for your new business? Share in the comments! … [Read more...]

How To Make Money Online – The Movie! :-)

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This is a bit of a video followup to a recent post: Making Money Online. This information answers one of my most frequently asked questions by people who are looking to start a business online or just looking to make some supplemental income. In this video I talk about the basic concepts of starting an online business, but obviously it's a complex topic, much more in depth than I can cover in a … [Read more...]

Inspiration Drives Success

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Using Inspiration to Establish the Connection How do you interact with your customers or clients? People come to you because they need a solution. How do you approach that? Do you go through a dry presentation of what you offer, how much it costs and how soon you can deliver? Do you focus on just closing the deal, making that sale and moving on to the next customer? Here's how I … [Read more...]