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3 Guidelines for Blog Writing
Keep Your Blog Great: Avoid the One-Note Blog The purpose of a business blog is to attract an audience. A well-written, well-considered blog can educate your customers and potential customers. It can answer in-depth questions. It can explain the ins and outs of your...
The Difference Between Morning and Night People
Why the Distinction Matters in Your Business Are you a lark or a night owl? Do you get your best work done before noon or after five? Whichever answer you give, you may not have much say in the matter and may in fact become more productive and happy with your work if...
The Best Blog Topics
Because You Want Your Blog to Be Read Undoubtedly, the best blog topics are those that get read. And read a lot. These blog posts: Get passed around Generate a buzz Keep visitors on your site longer Get readers to look through your website Turn readers into customers...
How to Prevent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Carpal Tunnel Can Strike All of Us... Even You For nearly 20 years, I owned a business that relied heavily on my two hands. I cleaned and reconditioned boats. Waxing and scrubbing, holding vibrating sanders, mops, buckets and rags and climbing all over 25-to-65-foot...
How to Work a Networking Room
Networking Advice for Business Owners Networking is one of the most powerful means at your disposal to market and grow your small company. Yet so many business people fear the crowded rooms. But be assured that not everyone sipping wine and trading business cards is...
How to Overcome Writer’s Block
When You're Stuck for the Right Words Everyone goes through periods when the words just won't come. You sit and stare at the page or the screen, and you can't imagine what comes next, whether you're working on a novel, a blog post or a letter to your brother in...
5 Tips to a Better Sitting Posture
Improve Your Posture: Advice for Your Office Here at Ray Access, we are writers and editors who work long hours at our computers. Don't get us wrong: we love what we do. But we've also learned a few things along the way to help us avoid back injury, unnatural...
How to Diversify Your Blog Portfolio
Ideas for Your Blog Can Come from Anywhere By now, most investors know that you get the biggest bang — and lessen the overall risk — by investing your money in diversified funds. The old adage of "don't put all your eggs in one basket" is true in many arenas,...
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Thank You, Bob Dylan, for Giving Us the Words Like many writers, we know we can always count on Bob Dylan lyrics to illustrate a point. These words, originally penned in the early 1960s, are truer now than ever before, but we're not speaking of political turmoil....
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