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Strategic Planning Exercise: How To Grow Your Business in 2013
New year's goals and resolutions get a bad reputation, but this strategic planning exercise is meant to be the antidote. We all start out with a lot of excitement and energy for our goals, but many times they aren't sustainable goals, or we quickly forget why we wanted to achieve them in the first place.…
How To Find Time To Write
Short of having your dog write for you, you might be asking yourself how to find time to write… and you'll be surprised to find out that I was able to find more time to write while walking this little cutie! I've written about how to write faster here before, because as bloggers and writers…
How To Keep Track of Bills
You're a busy business owner, or you just happen to have a lot of other things going on in your life, and you need to figure out how to keep track of bills and finances more effectively. There a lot of systems and programs out there that can tell you how to keep track of…
How to Make a Presentation Fun & Prezi Review
Maybe you've discovered how to teach classes online, now you're working on your content and you're asking yourself how to make a presentation fun… while teaching and educating your audience. There's actually an art to making a presentation fun, and entire books and courses have been created on the topic. Having been on the receiving…
Email Game Review – How To Spend Less Time On Email
My clients and business friends often mention their email overload situations… but what if we could turn things around using something as simple as making an email game? As children, we used to turn everything into a game. From tea parties with faeries, to jumping over sidewalk cracks to avoid crocodiles, and playing hide and…
How To Make a Quiz For Your Email Optin
I get a lot of questions asking me which tool I used, how to make a quiz, and how I hooked it up to my e-mail marketing system. This week I'm excited to be going behind-the-scenes and teaching you how I created the much-talked-about Website Checkup. No more mysteries, I'm showing you how I did…
The Pumpkin Plan Book Review
Killing your darlings, and searching for the best seeds… that's exactly what Mike Michelowicz's latest book The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field advocates. I'm taking a book off of Nathalie's Library and delivering this business book review just in time for my favorite time of the year:…
Social Media Time Management Tools
Photo credit Social media is a great way to connect with more people and boost your business connections… but one thing is often lacking when we get started: social media time management tools and techniques. I've been on both sides of the social media pendulum: Being super social media obsessed and spending most of my…
How To Make Screencasts For Free Online
Photo credit I often get asked how to make screencasts, and I've showed you before how to record your screen on a Mac and PC… But today we're looking at a cool new online tool, that lets you record a screencast without any software. So even if you do have a program like Screenflow or…
WordPress Spam Comments & How To Stop Them
Photo credit WordPress spam comments suck, so in this tutorial we're going to look at how to stop them once and for all. It's important first to understand how the default WordPress comment system works, and why spam is so prevalent. Each time someone leaves a comment on a WordPress website, a link is created…
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