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This Digital Nomad Couple Sold Everything to Travel the World in a Sailboat—Here’s What They’ve Learned About Life, Goal Setting and Relationships

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They met on Tinder in 2015 while living in Sweden as expats: Ellison, an aviation sales director from Des Moines, Iowa, and Darsy, a human resources systems specialist from Paris. They spent two admittedly short Swedish sailing seasons preparing for the inevitable roadblocks and learning how to co-captain on their own.

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2015 can be YOUR year!

Step It Up VA Coaching

It’s called, 6 Month Life & Business Development Coaching Program , and it runs January through June 2015. In my 11 years as an entrepreneur and in creating two successful businesses – - I learned a few things! I learned… that your business can only grow at the rate of your personal growth.

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8 Things Good Leaders Never Say

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Employees make mistakes, and it’s important to allow them to learn from those mistakes rather than blame them. When you critique an employee in a harsh or passive aggressive way, the only thing they’ll learn is to play it safe rather than play to win. And that won’t just hurt them—it’ll hurt the whole company. Here, let me do it.”

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5 Ways to Start Your Day Just Right

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To learn what works for other people, I turned to business owners who consider themselves happy and successful. For many, avoiding email keeps them on track with morning intentions, while others insist on seeing the new arrivals to their inboxes. This article was published in April 2015 and has been updated.

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Ten Small Business Trends You Need to Embrace in 2015

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As a business owner there are a few trends that experts say will be important for success in 2015. Now let’s break them down and explain why they are important to the success of your business in 2015.: Adopting the cloud for your business is just good business sense for 2015 and beyond. What about marketing in 2015?

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Personal Attention Is the Key to Winning Business—Start with These 7 Best Practices

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Evercontact ($59 a year and up; free 30-day trial) updates your smartphone’s address book by extracting contact information from email signature lines. How many times have you promised prospective clients that you would follow up with them next week only to have your voice mails go unreturned and emails ignored ? Your clients are busy.

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5 Things to Do Before Your Next Job Interview

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For recent graduates, talking about a particular project or paper can highlight what you’ve learned over the last four years, which can segue into a discussion about how those newly attained skills “would be of value to the company and/or the job for which you are interviewing,” says Mary Spencer, Ed.D,