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July 14, 2016
Dan Anton’s SEO Business Formed Through Military Leadership
(source: dananton.com)
What does it take to be a “good” businessman or woman? An ethereal questionanswered through this fundamental truth, retired military members do very well in the private sector, some amassing large fortunes. By analyzing the traits associated with leadership roles in the military, principles, and execution, we can see how Dan Anton was able to not only excel at a high level in the public sector, but transition successfully into a lucrative career as an SEO (search engin...
July 11, 2016
Let Content Drive Your Marketing – A Content Marketing Prime
Easy (& Quick) Ways To Develop Valuable Content
The market is not an easy place to be! Especially so, for small business owners, need to enhance visibility, ideas, and tools to become known to their niche market! This is the main idea I try to convey to a friend of mine (a newbie entrepreneur in the education market) having no marketing knowledge at all and wanted more information for small business marketing.
My main point was to tell him that it needs a lot of work, investment in personal...
July 7, 2016
Critical Advice for Startups – 5 Ways to Control Spending
When starting a new business there will always be obstacles in your path and little annoyances that you must deal with, sometimes on a daily basis. Actually, if a statistical analysis were to be made, one of the leading problems that confront...
July 4, 2016
Top Resources for Leaders to Write Convincingly
How to become a better writer and a better leader?
Today’s post is by Veronica Hunt. Veronica is a professional copywriter and blogger writing frequently about blogging, writing, education and new technology. You can follow Veronica at Google+.In the business world, it is impossible to always get what you need, but you can make your arguments more convincing to move closer to this kind of mightiness. Too often, leaders underestimate the power of email communication and strong motivating spee...
June 27, 2016
How To Develop A Side Income Online
Business, today, is not what used to be. When I start working there were no widespread internet infrastructures and its main purpose is to facilitate the communication between distance business parties. The advance of technology and the practices developed upon the web’s infrastructure changed all that and render Internet one of the favorite places for doing business, communicate and interact.
The shift of the traditional economy to a digital one was not always easy nor happens without prob...
June 20, 2016
When Edison Met Apple
Odd situations! Have you ever wonder if someone with the ingenuity of Edison or Tesla had access to a device like Mac. What would happen if Edison met Apple? Where the innovation would be today, when the ingenuity of a thinker like Edison met the processing power of a device like MacBook. What would have happened?
Edison would use the processing power of MacBook to documented better his patterns and his inventions, to work better in a virtual environment, to design better the things he envi...
June 13, 2016
Why Bother Blogging?
When I start writing for the web or journaling (around 1994 if I remember correctly) the term blog was not as widespread as it is today. The infrastructures for web were very expensive to use on a personal base and I didn’t have a domain on my own (this happens, later on!) I wrote for company purposes and I wrote posts, newsletters, and information for my company, for products or services of interest or for the projects I managed, but rarely personal reflections and things I’d like to share.
...June 6, 2016
The Hidden Infrastructure For A Productive Day
Productivity Tools To Get Things Done
Modern working conditions require modern tools to help you manage your work and focus on what’s important. I use daily a set of tools that help me to manage my work and connect me with the people I need to communicate.
I’ve heard once by a carpenter that in order to work effectively the wood you need to work it across its grain direction. Exactly like human habits. You cannot opposethem without considerable thinking,...
June 2, 2016
The Leadership Myth
Why leadership is still influencing us and how can it be used to bring results
Leadership has many dimensions and stories to tell. Myths, fairy tales, storylines, daily stories, and anecdotes have tied together to provide a solid foundation for leadership myths to grow up and flourish. It is exactly of those myths though that leaderships can provide us with the live examples needed in our lives to help us improve and assume the responsibility of our life and society.
Today, m...
May 30, 2016
Leadership Productivity
Organize your life to become an effective leader
It might be a truism to repeated it again and again, but leadership is closely related to productivity and effectiveness. The one cannot exist (or co-existed) or function without the other! Whatever the leadership style may you employ to lead your life and business, whatever infrastructure or organization you have in place, you cannot be truly successful before you learn to integrate your productivity schemes in your leadership style.
