June, 2021

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3 Smart Money Moves to Make Before Starting a Business

Success

If you have a groundbreaking entrepreneurial idea floating around your head, then you might be wondering what to consider before starting a business. . Adopting this simple mentality will help: The more planning you do upfront, the better off your new business venture will be. It’s just like taking a vacation. You likely knock out all the logistical tasks first, such as reserving a rental car and booking your hotel.

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Mapping the Creator Economy

Small Business Labs

The venture capital firm Antler recently released The Ultimate Guide to the Creator Economy. The guide includes the map below (click to enlarge), which shows, by category, "the 220+ platforms that are empowering creators to make an income by doing what they love."  We like their taxonomy, including their category descriptions: Audience curation: The platforms that are enabling creators to build foundational audiences.

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3 Steps to Improve Accuracy and Attention to Detail in Your Work

Eat Your Career

This video is an excerpt from a live Q&A session with Chrissy Scivicque, Career Coach & Corporate Trainer. The full video is available in the Career Success Library. A participant in our recent Q&A (Ask the Career Coach) session asked for some help with the following: We’re looking for resources on being more accurate and working not to miss details.

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How To Make Traditional Business Cards Work For You In The Digital Age.

Tips From T. Marie

Purchasing traditional business cards used to be one of the first official things you did when you started your own business. Today, with everything from file storage to forms being offered electronically, many business startups are abandoning the traditional business card altogether. But should they? Is it possible this paper dinosaur could be a powerful tool to grow your business?

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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3 Easy Ways to Be a Better Person at Work

On The Job

Walk into any mall store -- or check out any online retailer -- and you're likely to find a "Be Kind" t-shirt. Or tote bag. Or pillow. Or coffee mug. It seems we all want to be kind to one another and hope others will do the same. But what does it mean to be kind in the workplace? Some seasoned career professionals will tell you that being kind is fine, but when it comes to your career, you have to be a bit cutthroat as well if you want to survive.

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How to Help Your Sales Team Overcome the 4 Most Limiting Mindsets

Success

Sales managers are responsible for optimizing seller performance to realize revenue goals. Often, sales managers rely on training to help improve seller performance, but this approach by itself is insufficient. Training and hands-on experience can only get sellers so far. In fact, the biggest difference between successful sales performance and a lackluster record is mindset.

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What are Gigfluencers?

Small Business Labs

Influencer marketing has become a popular way for companies to promote their brands.  According to Influencer Marketing Hub, brands are expected to spend $13.8 billion on influencer marketing programs in 2021. As their chart below shows (click to enlarge), influencer marketing spend has been rapidly increasing. Of course, you can't have influencer marketing programs without influencers.   These are people who have an online audience that they monetize by getting paid to pro

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Building Career Resilience: How to Bounce Back After the Unexpected

Eat Your Career

As a professional, you have hopes for your career. When things don’t go your way, it’s easy to get stuck in disappointment and regret. If you’ve ever been laid off or terminated, passed over for a promotion or denied a job you thought was perfect, you know how hard it can be to bounce back. But staying in that negative space will only prolong the problem and potentially create a downward spiral of destruction.

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Testing Google Audio

Stephanie LH Calahan

The post Testing Google Audio appeared first on Business Growth Solutions for Service-Based Entrepreneurs - Stephanie LH Calahan and copyrighted to Stephanie LH Calahan. Chat with Stephanie on Google+ | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube.

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Elevating the Virtual Interviewing Experience

Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.

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How to Make Yourself More Powerful at Work

On The Job

Are you a person who gets things done? Not just your daily "to do" list of picking up the dry cleaning, attending a meeting or hitting the gym. But do you get things done when others are opposing you? The key to that question may be in determining how you are seen by others. Are you giving off nonverbal cues that make you seem strong -- or weak? For example, tilting your head or looking down means you're giving away your power, says Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor of organizational behavior at Stan

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Reasons You Should Utilize The Internet in Your Marketing Efforts

Small Business CEO

For the past few decades, the internet has totally dominated so many people’s day to day lives. It’s transformed the way we work and live. If you aren’t currently using the internet as part of your marketing strategy, instead opting for more traditional forms of advertising, then you’re missing a trick. Here’s why… 1. Your competitors are doing it!

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10 Powerful Ways to Stand Up for Yourself in Any Situation

Success

Every day we make dozens of little choices that either benefit us by asserting our ideas or diminish us because we hesitate in making our views or desires known. Sometimes it seems easier to go with the flow to avoid potential conflict. But the truth is that letting people walk all over you can increase feelings of stress and anxiety, and it might eventually lessen your feelings of self-worth and play to your insecurities.

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CB Insights Creator Economy Map and the Rise of Content Monetization

Small Business Labs

CB Insights is a technology analyst firm covering emerging technologies and tech startups.  They just released a creator economy market map , which is below (click to enlarge). CB Insights points out that digital content creators have had to cobble together various tools to build and monetize their activities.  This is quickly changing.  Key quote: " a slew of startups are looking to disrupt the way creators make content, develop their audiences, or grow their businesses be

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Mandatory COVID Vaccination Policy Template

New vaccine mandates and testing policies will affect employers with more than 100 workers. Get Paycor’s free, customizable vaccination policy template to communicate critical details and new requirements to your employees. Get Paycor’s Template today!

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Understanding Resilience: The Rubber Band Analogy

Eat Your Career

This video is an excerpt from a live training session with Chrissy Scivicque, Career Coach & Corporate Trainer. The full video (“Building Career Resilience”) is available in the Career Success Library. The article below summarizes the video content. I like the rubber band analogy, because it really makes a lot of sense, and it’s a great visual when we’re talking about something like resilience, which is actually a pretty abstract topic on the surface.

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The wrong way to email someone for career advice — and the right way to do it

Ideas.Ted

Great career advice is hard to come by, no matter where you are in your life. Discover powerful insights to navigate challenges and help you take control of your professional life with Zig Zag , Manoush Zomorodi’s business podcast. Listen to it on Apple Podcasts. . Not long ago, I got an email asking for advice. This person was negotiating a new contract to host a podcast.

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3 Things to Do When You've Made a Mistake at Work

On The Job

When was the last time you made a mistake at work? If you say "never," then I've got one word for you: HA. That's because everyone makes mistakes at work. Sometimes they're little, harmless ones like forgetting to take your moldy sandwich out of the office refrigerator. But sometimes they're much bigger -- like the kind that can put your job in jeopardy.

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Virtual Events that Could Help Drive Growth Within Your Business

Small Business CEO

Did you know that online virtual events have their roots back in the early 00s? While business juggernauts such as IBM and Cisco were, at the time, leading the way for virtual events, many smaller businesses were a little slow on the uptake and the importance of this revolutionary and immersive platform. Fast forward to 2021, and virtual events are not only considered the norm, but a standard practice across a multitude of industries.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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5 Life Lessons I Learned from My Father

Success

My oldest daughter Madison was excited to be interviewed for this article because, as she so bluntly put it, she’s had “a very unusual upbringing.”. You see, she was raised by a coach (me)—a dad who spent many professional hours working with CEOs and entrepreneurs learning how to be better leaders and how to make their businesses run more efficiently.

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"Hotel on Wheels" #VanLife Firm Cabana Raises $10 Million

Small Business Labs

Cabana rents custom-built Ford Transit vans that include beds, storage, bathrooms, and Internet access.  Their tagline is "a hotel that travels with you"   They're hoping to tap into the large and growing number of #Vanlifers. These are digital nomads who travel in vehicles that have been converted into roaming residences.  In the digital nomad study we collaborated with MBO Partners on, we found 1.9 million Americans describe themselves as VanLifers.  The LA

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The Workforce is on the Move…and so is Compensation

Bonnie Low Kramen

By Jeremy Spake and Bonnie Low-Kramen. May 26, 2021. Employees who work from home are choosing to take “remote” literally. They are moving to new cities and new qualities of life, as nature may become the new corner office. So…when they choose to move, what happens to their compensation? Make no mistake – a workplace revolution is happening right now and these types of conversations, decisions, and new policies are being formulated right now.

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How to find the right therapist for you

Ideas.Ted

When people are trying out a new therapist, they often tend to put the therapist in the driver’s seat during their initial sessions. But this isn’t quite right — the client should be an equal partner too. What else should people keep in mind during that process? And how can they figure out if a therapist is right for them? To answer these questions, Brianne Patrice , executive director of Sad Girls Club, a nonprofit dedicated to destigmatizing mental health and wellness in the Black

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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How to Ensure Fair Treatment as a Remote Worker

On The Job

When interviewing for a job, it's always a good idea to pay attention when you get a tour of the workplace and meet other employees. During this time, you want to look for red flags -- the things that indicate that employees are unhappy or that the workplace has a toxic atmosphere. (Some indications include workers who never smile or make eye contact, rundown facilities, lack of clarity regarding advancement, etc.

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How & Where To Get Section 12J Property Investments In South Africa?

Small Business CEO

Investing in Section 12J has been quite popular among South Africans for a while now. Why wouldn’t it be? It’s the most effective tax saving option that allows small and medium businesses to grow by working towards increasing their equity finance access. Since the Section 12J has been written into the Tax Act, SMMEs have seen an increase in investors, since those have been given the opportunity to achieve a 100% tax deduction by making those investments.

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16 Rich Habits

Success

Intelligence, talent and charm are great, but more often than not these aren’t what separate the wealthiest among us from the poorest. Instead, the differences are in our daily habits. Do you realize that these subconscious, second-nature activities make up 40 percent of our waking hours? That means that two out of every five minutes, all day and every day, we operate on autopilot.

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Online Platforms Supporting Digital Nomads

Small Business Labs

Platform Professional's  Platforms and Digital Nomads  covers online platforms supporting digital nomads. Key quote: "Platforms may not have created the phenomenon of the digital nomad, but they are making it easier to become one." The article focuses on the challenges digital nomads face and how platforms help digital nomads overcome them.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha