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25% off all Website Design (Including WordPress!)

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We pride ourselves on designing eye-catching sites! I wanted to let everyone know that we are offering 25% off all website design services for the month of April! Request A Quote! Do you need a brand new website? Would you like to give your current site a face-lift? Or are you looking to transition your existing site to a WordPress platform? We would love to help! Take a look at a few of our most recent Website designs: http://taylorconsulting.us http://mycoportal.com http://specair.net Although we love (and recommend) WordPress sites, we are also able to work with traditional html or php based…

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Help, I’m Spinning

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I often do a brain dump exercise like this when I’m feeling overwhelmed with a project I’m working on or when I have lots of ideas or commitments going on in my head. I may think “Who has the time for this?” but the reality is that it doesn’t take long and truly saves you time and energy and gives you peace of mind. It could even be a great way to help you focus at the start your day.

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What Dancing With the Stars Can Teach You About Business

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In case dancing isn’t your thing, Donald Driver, wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers, won this year’s Dancing With the Stars. Even if you’re not a Green Bay Packers fan, there are a lot of reasons to root for Donald. He’s the classic rags-to-riches story: Dad in jail when he was born, family was homeless during much of his childhood. He was a seventh round draft pick of the Packers and ended up becoming one of the most productive receivers in Packer history. (Plus he’s just an all-around really nice guy.) But even though Donald is probably worth having…

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The Difference Between Exhausted and Tired

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I’ve been exhausted a few times in my life but I’ve been tired many more times than I can count. When I’m exhausted I’m on the wrong path and beaten up, down and sideways. Raced, depleted, drained, mentally beaten up, emotionally sucked dry are all things that occur when you’re doing something that is in contradiction to what you know is in your highest and best interest. Exhausted

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Why Traditional Marketing Agencies are Failing … and what to do about it

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Traditional marketing agencies that offer full service marketing, advertising and public relations services are disintegrating. Firms that have stood the test of time are filing Chapter 7, or re-organizing under Chapter 11. Why? Like so many others, these overly-staffed traditionalists failed to focus on the changing landscape of the digital age. Smaller, leaner and tech-savvy digitally-astute agencies are gaining market share on a daily basis.

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Shop ‘Till You Drop (With Caution)

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Buy fewer pieces but all high quality. In Europe almost everyone looks good even when they wear the same clothes repeatedly. The reason? Because they are of good quality. I was brought up this way too, so it doesn’t bother me at all to wear the same clothes year after year. However, I do take the opportunity to freshen up my wardrobe during the sale seasons and suggest you do the same.

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3 Ways to Give Underperformers a Kick in the Butt

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On every team there are “A” players and under-performers. My guess is, you know who those people are, but may be struggling with how to deal with the latter. It can feel like a complicated problem, especially when you are dealing with under-performers on the sales team. In my time as a corporate sales trainer, I have found that there are three simple ways to effectively manage sales force development and performance.

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Don’t Be Afraid To Imitate Others

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You’ve heard it said before: imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.  It’s true, so go ahead and look to businesses that you respect. What do they do well? For example, do they have strong operations, great pricing, quality products, strong customer support or inventive marketing strategies?  Identify what you admire about them and try to imitate, or better yet, where possible, even improve upon those aspects that strike you favorably. A good way to step ahead of your competition is to be vigilant about looking closely at what they are doing.  Likewise, some of your best ideas may…

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What to Look for When Hiring a Content Marketing Pro

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Everyone knows that newspapers have fired or forced out journalists left and right since the shrinking of newspaper revenues began some years back. It’s not for the lack of content; the news is still being reported, in blogs, online news organizations, the traditional news media, etc. Advertising revenues vanished as consumers are sick of the bombardment. Content marketing has taken over.

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4 Steps to Conquer Fears and Start Living Life On Your Terms

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We’ve all been afraid to try something new at one time or another. Why is that? It seems as we age, our fear controls more and more of our willingness to try something new. We prefer to forgo a new experience because we want to avoid whatever bad thing we think could happen. Maybe the anxiety is just too stressful for us to even contemplate facing our fears. Whatever the reason, we justify that trying something new is not worth the risk.

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Become A Master of Change

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For most of us, the thought of change can send us into a panic attack. For some of us, we might fear change because it disrupts our sense of security and consistency by challenging our perceptions. As much as we crave stability and security, change is an inevitable part of life and we can either choose to embrace it or resist it.

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Need Some New Ideas? Consult your SWAMI!

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Creativity can sometimes seem like magic, but anyone can enhance their creative abilities simply by understanding the underlying principles and grasping one very important rule. Creativity consists of two distinct phases — divergence and convergence. Divergence is the stimulation of new thinking by diversifying and exploring. Convergence refines and chooses the best possibilities from the ideas generated by divergence. Divergence is an expansive process, with the idea being to stretch the mind in order to come up with new ideas.

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