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Six Steps to Better Website Content
Improve Your Website with Quality Content Website design isn’t just about making your site look pretty with rainbows and flowers or dazzling with special effects; your business website needs to be designed so that your customers easily find what they’re looking for....
Tips for Getting Through the Nasty Parts of Running a Business
While Keeping Your Sanity and Ethics Intact Most days, there’s nothing better than running a business you can call your own. You make the rules. You call the shots. You get to do what you love each and every day — and get paid for it! Running a business and watching...
Takeaways from WordCamp Asheville 2019
The WordCamp Lessons for Business Owners To learn what WordCamp is, you first have to know about WordPress. WordPress is a website platform, originally used as a content management system for blogging. It’s come a long way since then; today, it’s one of the most...
The Difference Between an Amateur and a Professional Writer
Professional Writing Help for Your Business Anyone who can craft a sentence can be a writer. Anyone who can formulate an idea on the page can write a blog post. Yet there are a number of differences between an amateur writer and a professional, not the least of which...
What to Do When Negativity Knocks
Or How to Stay Positive When You Don’t Feel It Most business owners know by now that you have to stay positive to make it in business. It’s been revealed that how you think affects your outcomes. See books such as Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, Norman Vincent...
The Small Business Juggle
Trying to Fit in All of Your Small Business Tasks Small business owners have to do everything themselves. If you own a small business, you’re not just doing all the work of your business — whether it’s washing boats, making jellies or writing blog posts — you’re also...
How to Get Your Press Release Noticed
Smart Tips for Sending Out Your Press Release The big day is coming: you’re finally ready for your grand opening! Or the founder of your company who’s lasted 44 years is retiring. Or you’re holding the biggest blow-out sale in your company’s history. Or you’re hosting...
15 Creativity Hacks for You and Your Company
Tips to Improve Creativity and Your Business Every small business owner finds a million and one things that have to be done every day. It's a never-ending torrent of tasks. Since it's often impossible to complete them all, your stress levels go through the roof. And...
Avoid Lazy Writing
Remedies for Writing That's Become Muddied Every writer falls into it from time to time: lazy writing just to fill up a page. Filler words and trite phrases slip into your prose unsolicited. And they end up crowding out your message, making your writing clunky,...
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