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Profiling Of Self Or Personal Branding

Due to some problems in theaccesscertain resources, this article was published earlier with some incomplete data and with the wrong author. Many apologies for this inconvenience!

Personal branding is a major component for modern economy. It is important to know your limitations and strengths. To know who you are and most of all to know your audience (readers, followers, tribes, etc) who you are and what you stand for!

Profiling in general is the:

the extrapolation of information about something,...

The Power of Templates

There were a time when I had to produce a lot of content in very short period of time. Part of my business development duties was the draft of the comprehensive responses to various Calls Of Tenders and proposals providing specialize solutions and approaches, towards various clients! And this it was a lot of writing!

In order to do more efficient my work and manage to cope with all this writing tasks, I was relying on the power of templates to help me manage all this workload.

What Templates Ar...

The 7 Stages of Small Business Success [Infographic]

What it needed for a small business to succeed, in the new business environment? There are many critical factors and numerous parameters. This infographic, developed by the Infusionsoft Team,presents a framework that explain exactly these critical factors, that can lead a small company to the next level.

Explore more visuals like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually.

A Simple Guide to Becoming an Ethical Blogger

This is a guest post by Paige Donahue,a professional writer for Best Essays AU. In this post she is focusing on the limits an ethical blogger cannot crossed. An excellent and valuable approach by a young author!

There are no rules carved in stone for bloggers. In fact, they are free to be as expressive as possible and not be limited to the conventions of writing. However, as encouraging as it may sound to let all break lose, it’s still important to know the lines which cannot be crossed. Thoug...

How to Speed-Up Your Decisions!

Is it possible to speed-up your decisions? Is it, even, feasible? There is a safe-proof method that would help you to make better decisions? Most of the times, the problem does not lies with the decision process!

The problem rests to the searching space/vectors (the items we have to consider before you make a decision!) and in our inability to limit it only to the important ones (those items/data, that actually make a difference!). It is a problem of organization and it can easily be solved by...

History Will Teach Us Nothing?

Here an article I wrote, not so along ago, in Medium. Its style its complete different from the posts I usually write for this blog, since the subject is quite different.

This article focused on the story ofCarthage and its destruction by the Roman Empire, aiming at drawing some conclusion about present conditions. Furthermore it a story about the memory and the human consciousness!

I hope you will enjoy it!

Marketing Is About You!

The new economic conditions, the rise of the social media and the internationalizationoften neglects, one of the main marketing principles! That the exceptional good marketing focused on YOU!

Marketing tries to make you feel special and part of a larger entity (culture, community, group, etc). It is not something for everyone to do and, certainly, it is not something of a mass nature! Its success or its failure is not just to make you buy something! It is to hooked you up with an idea, a speci...

Monthly Review – March 2014

The Monthly Review for March 2014 is a collection of the most interesting posts and articles, presented in this blog and articles of interest from around the web!

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