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How Deesha Philyaw Built Her Writing Career From the Ground Up—and Landed a 7-Figure Book Deal

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There’s actually a format for how you query an agent and what you send and what you don’t send and when you send it.” Then I pitched him, and then I ended up writing several pieces for his magazine and that was great until, again, the economy collapsed.” These church ladies ended up receiving a tremendous reception.

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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. Best practices for standing up for yourself.

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Garry Grant – CEO of SEO Inc. | The Future of SEO: How AI and Quantum Computing Will Revolutionize Search

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I could sum it up very simply. So if you have a company that services maybe elderly people, I’m not talking old, I’m talking fifties on up. What Google wants to know and what they already know, they just don’t know how to put the big data together with quantum computing. Google is rolling out one. Right now.

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Article Marketing: Repurpose Your ONE Article in 3 Easy Steps!

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You’ve written a fabulous article … you publish it in your newsletter … and that’s it! They don’t realize that they can take that ONE article and really leverage it to: get more subscribers and clients; position themselves as an expert in their niche; and. take your article and post it to your blog.

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Want to Reduce Digital Distractions? Brain Coach Jim Kwik Shares Strategies for Better Focus

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How are you supposed to get through your to-do list, much less design your life and achievements when you can’t focus?” Brain coach Jim Kwik’s morning routine advice “What a lot of people do first thing in the morning is they’ll flex their distraction muscles by picking up their device,” Kwik says. Try the F.O.C.U.S.

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Mid-Sized Cities are Feeling the Benefits of a Multigenerational Workforce

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This multigenerational blend is set to grow in the coming years, with projections suggesting that by the decade’s end, the share of workers over the age of 55 will rise to 25% — up from 20% in 2011, according to Fortune. However, Austin isn’t alone in this trend.

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Jeremy Fennema – CTO and Founder of Fennema.io | How Emerging Tech is Reshaping Business Models and Workplaces

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It was a total screw up, actually. So Internet of things like small edge computing devices, typically up till now they’ve just been intelligent sensors or small microprocessors. When we talk about artificial intelligence, Bell of the ball, as you mentioned it, we all look at the real flashy stuff up front.

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