Tue.Jul 09, 2019

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How to Write a Professional Development Plan

Eat Your Career

This is the second article in a two-part series on the topic of Professional Development Plans. In the first part of this series, you learned that a professional development plan (or PDP) is a written document used to focus, evaluate and prioritize professional development goals and activities. In this article, you’re going to learn exactly what should be included in a PDP document and the simple 10-step process I use to write a PDP.

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Freelancers and Solopreneurs are Increasingly Exporters

Small Business Labs

Despite trade wars, tariffs, and the erection of other barriers to cross-border commerce, independent workers, freelancers and solopreneurs are increasingly finding customers outside U.S. borders. As the MBO Partners State of Independence study chart below shows (click to enlarge), in 2019 22% of Independent workers who work full-time as independent workers said they provided goods or services to customers outside the U.S.

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How to identify and fix problems at work

Practically Perfect PA

Problem-solving is one of the critical skills that will be needed by office employees by 2020. You will see this skill more and more on job applications for Assistants (if you aren’t already) because we are often called upon to put out fires and deal with problems that nobody else in the office wants or […].

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How To Prepare Your Digital Business for Outages

Tips From T. Marie

I celebrated the July 4 th holiday by taking 4 days off from work. It was a hot few days here in southern Maine, and as usual, the hot weather broke with a round of strong storms rolling through on Saturday. Our power flickered out momentarily and we breathed a sigh of relief, having experienced lengthy power outages in the past. Our sighs of relief were short-lived however when we realized we had no Internet service.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Business Basics: How You and Your Company can Avoid Litigation

Small Business CEO

Who doesn’t dream of running their own business and creating their empire from scratch? It’s exhilarating, exciting and incredibly rewarding – not to mention profitable! The journey from fledgling business to industry tycoon can be a rocky one, especially if you have a lawsuit on your hands. Having legal action taken against you is going to severely damage your reputation, your relationship with clients and potentially your profits.

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How Much Capital Is Needed to Become a Day Trader

Small Business CEO

So you want to start day trading? You’ve invested in all the trading tools you need, and you’ve spent the time needed to learn how to analyze price movements as well as a few basic strategies that you can continue building on as you go. Maybe you’ve already spent some time trading just to get your feet wet. Great. Now there is just one more thing to figure out.

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How to Improve Your Blog Conversion Rate

Small Business CEO

There’s nothing more frustrating than seeing how good your blog posts are, how social media shares are on the rise, how traffic is growing steadily, but despite that, just a handful of people are taking action, subscribe to your email list or engage with your content. Even though you’ve done a good amount of your job correctly, maybe you did not apply a few ways successfully to improve a blog’s conversion rate, and today we’ll show you how can you do that. 1.