Sat.Jun 26, 2021 - Fri.Jul 02, 2021

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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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"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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Moxie Tip #1: Focus on Plan A

Virtual Moxie

In all areas of your life—life, work, relationships, money, business, etc., ditch your plan B. Nothing great comes from having a fall-back plan. Consider marriage. Anyone getting married knows that divorce is possible if she gets in and wants out. But would you ever suggest to your bestie that she marry someone with that in mind? No…you probably wouldn’t, because love, like life, needs—and deserves—an all-in sort of commitment.

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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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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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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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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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Charcoal may be great for barbecues — but it’s bad for the planet

Ideas.Ted

In much of the world, barbecuing is practically synonymous with summer. And while some people grill with gas and electricity, many barbecue enthusiasts will tell you that grilling with charcoal gives their food with a particularly smoky flavor that just can’t be matched by the alternatives. . Charcoal is one of the oldest fuel sources in existence.

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How to Drive Traffic to Your Website and Increase Brand Awareness

Success

In this week’s episode of SUCCESS Line , we get granular, diving deep into the fundamentals of branding, positioning and marketing. . My guest, Gerald, is a consultant and speaker who uses his background as a musician to help companies ramp up their productivity and accomplish more every day. He came on the show to discuss the website he just launched—one of the five he manages.

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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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8 Tips To Increase Affiliate Marketing Conversions In 2021

Small Business CEO

Good conversation rates are important for any affiliate marketing program. Your conversion rate will depend on several factors like the quality of content, price of the product, user experience and several others. 1. Optimize Your Website For SEO. Optimizing your website for SEO will help drive more traffic from consumers who are looking for exactly what you have to offer.

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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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‘Suffering Is What Makes Life Beautiful’

Success

Entrepreneur Steve MacDonald inched his way up Cotopaxi, a 20,000-foot tall volcano in Ecuador. He was tied in to his fellow climbers, and at best, they covered 50 feet per minute, one halting, shuffled step at a time. Darkness engulfed him on the slow and treacherous climb. He looked up toward a peak he couldn’t see. He looked down at the edge of an ice shelf, and couldn’t see that either.

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Information Inflation Equals Truth Deflation

Brilliantly Better

In an interesting discussion online, Yuval Noah Harari brings up one of the most subtle changes in recent human history. Namely, the increase in information processing as a result of technological advances. Mass media, and, more recently, the internet, increased hundreds of times, if not by thousands, the amount of information that it’s produced, and.

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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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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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Ep 121: Emily Claver – Executive Assistant to Brook Castillo at The Life Coach School

Go Burrows

Emily Claver has been an assistant in some capacity for 33 years. She supported the c-suite at a $40m ad agency, the president of the Kansas City Chiefs NFL franchise (for 8 seasons), and now as executive and personal assistant to Brooke Castillo, the founder of The Life Coach School. In this episode, Emily and I had a great time chatting about her career, especially the part where she worked for my favorite NFL team. ??.

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4 Must-Read Books for a Successful Summer

Success

In the pre-ebook days, I was the person whose biggest vacation dilemma was which books to bring with me. (Which meant I was also the person with the heaviest suitcase.). I’m a big reader all year round, and I like to use summer to dig into books that I really love and can’t put down. That includes fiction, but I also enjoy personal development books that connect with my own experiences and teach me more about myself, my attitude to life and the world around me.

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Why Having a Morning Routine Matters

Productivityist

My morning routine has evolved bit by bit over the years. I’ve recognized its importance, especially as my life became more complex as others entered it (like my wife and kids). Back in my Costco days, I didn’t have much of a morning routine because I didn’t feel as if it would serve me. That was before I really got into productivity practices, though.

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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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Here’s What You Need to Know While Buying 3m Glasses

Small Business CEO

Although purchasing your 3m Glasses online may be more convenient, there are a few things to consider before handing over your credit card information. There are many of options available for you to browse through, regardless of the type of glasses you are looking for. You’ll discover everything from high-end brands to more budget-friendly options.

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Recruit CRM's Recruitment Entrepreneurs Series Ft. Brett Clemenson

Recruit CRM

Based in Sydney, Brett Clemenson with a Bachelor's in business— Human Resources Management from Australian Catholic University is leading one of LinkedIn-recognised most socially engaged staffing industry, ALRA. He was happy to explain to us the process of setting up his own recruitment firm and the difference between working as a recruiter for 7 years and owning a recruitment firm for 7 years.

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How to Say No to Someone Asking for Money

Success

The average person gets asked for financial support in many ways. Usually, we get bombarded with GoFundMe requests and Facebook fundraisers or asked to donate to a collection at work for a colleague’s baby shower or wedding. Although those situations can be mildly challenging to say no to, it’s not too difficult to create a budget line to prepare for them and move on.

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Making Money Is Not About Making Money

Brilliantly Better

Everybody is searching for the next “get rich scheme”, in a relentless quest which sometimes reminds me of the quest of the Holy Grail. Except the quality of the goal is slightly different, we’re not after eternal youth or complete redemption, as the Holy Grail promises, but mostly about comfort and predictability in this very. Read more.

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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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3 Reasons Businesses of The Future May Reject The Office

Small Business CEO

In 2021, we’re facing a brave new era that may see the old ways of working ushered out. Traditional office formats are vanishing in favour of remote setups, and though some businesses still value the concept of a physical premises, others are simply rejecting the office altogether. And who can blame them? Over the past year, many businesses have survived and even thrived with entire workforces operating from home, with huge benefits for both companies and staff that are still paying off.

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Episode 377: The Athlete’s Mindset with Dre Baldwin

Productivityist

Former professional basketball player Dre Baldwin shares how you can build repeatable success through systems he learnt from his athletic career. This episode is sponsored by Sit Down, Startup, a new weekly podcast from Zendesk. Getting your business off the ground is hard. Find out why customer experience is at the heart of success. The startup’s team chats with Zendesk leaders, founders, and CEOs in a coffee-shop style conversation about starting up when the world is upside down.

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What Is a Good NPS Score?

Success

Net promoter score—or NPS—has gained popular use across industries. This adoption owes to both the simplicity of the metric and its overall utility. Surveyed customers have only one question to answer. “On a scale from 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend [company name, product, or service] to a friend or colleague?”. And that’s it—away we go! Respondents answering 9 or 10 are considered promoters.

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Six Months Of Writing Every Day – Checkpoint Six Of The 365 Days Writing Challenge

Brilliantly Better

Today I accomplish 6 months of publishing an article every day on this blog. Technically, it’s not “writing every day”, but more like “publishing every day”, because, especially in the beginning of this challenge, I was also scheduling articles in advance, for two, three days. Nevertheless, it hasn’t been one day without a new article.

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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