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How To Edit Photos For Free Online
Don't have Photoshop or aren't super technical… no worries, I'm about to show you how to edit photos for free online. This tip is both fun and easy, so grab a photo you've been meaning to edit! Or if you want to ride on the waves of creating cool graphics that you can include in…
How To Live and Work Anywhere
I'm really grateful that I'm able to live and work anywhere because of the business structures I've put in place. Photo credit In the past few months I've traveled to: Austin, Texas Los Angeles, California Carmel By The Sea, California Portland, Oregon And New York City 4 times (is it any wonder I'm relocating there?)…
Scrivener Tutorial – How To Import Mind Maps Into Scrivener
I'm so excited to be bringing you this Scrivener tutorial on how to import mind maps… why? Because I've been a fan and user of Scrivener since 2007, when I was first dabbling in the art of writing for fun. This is part two of my writing process series. Click here to see part one,…
Mind Map For Writing – A Mind Map iPad App Recommendation
This tutorial is part one of a two-part series on the writing process, and we're starting off by looking at the benefits of the mind map for writing. If you're not familiar with the concept of a mind map, here it is in a nutshell: it's a visual representation of ideas and words arranged around…
How To Add Facebook Comments To Your Wordpress Blog
If you're reading this, chances are that you use social media and have a Facebook account. Did you know that Facebook is on track to have 1 billion users by August of this year? Crazy right? Yes, and crazy good for your online business and getting more traffic to your website. In today's article and…
The Firestarter Sessions and Danielle LaPorte
I've read a lot of self-help books. I remember reading that "you earn money in proportion to how much value you bring to the world" and I nodded, and figured that I understood the concept. But if there's one person who really gets this concept, and who has brought a lot of amazing shifts to…
How To Create a Facebook Group and Google Group
The other day, the lovely comfort queen Jennifer Louden asked me to demystify the whole online group creation process, starting with how to create a Facebook group. I also decided to throw in a quick tutorial for how to create a Google group too, and the difference between the two. So if you're looking to…
Email Overload – Strategies To Reduce Email Overload
I'm hard-pressed to think of anyone who isn't experiencing email overload on a regular basis (except my grandmother, she still loves getting new emails!). That's why I think it's so important for each of us to take on the task of learning some new strategies to reduce email overload. Today's getting techy with it tip…
The $100 Startup – Bootstrapped Startup Success Stories
I love books, and especially business books that are jam packed with inspiration and actionable advice. This is definitely the case with Chris Guillebeau's The $100 Startup, a tome full of bootstrapped startup success stories and lessons learned along the way. I'm especially excited to be sharing this book review with you today because of…
What Martin Luther King Can Teach You About Getting Raving Fans and More Buyers
You could learn a thing or two from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Not just about tolerance and changing the world, but about improving your business. To wit: People don't want just a solution. They want something to believe in. TOMS Shoes aren't popular because of the shoes themselves. They're popular because they tell a…
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