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How My Experience as a Black Entrepreneur Shaped My Views on Building Financial Freedom

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Having allies at work isn’t just about having a confidant or an enforcer of policies. In an effort to soothe these discomforts at the office, I would decompress at happy hours, hire personal trainers and purchase loose-fitting clothes—all of which impacted my ability to save and invest. The impact of toxic work environments.

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16 Business Owners Share What They Would Do Differently

Stephanie LH Calahan

Learning new skills by watching videos and interactive Power Point presentations is a widely accepted medium for explaining terminology and techniques - just look at the popularity of YouTube! In this context, I found it difficult to set and implement a cancellation policy. This is a cardinal mistake! Check The Checklist.

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What's Under the Hood of Your Web Copy? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

If you write web copy that speaks of being good in sales but sounds like it comes from a casual, laid-back stay-at-home mom, your client won’t be pleased if she’s actually a businesswoman who wears upscale clothes to impress clients at high-profile meetings every day at her downtown office. Ragnar´s last blog.

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Why Good Copywriting Goes Bad: Ignorance | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Could I have chosen a more arcane reference?) Foreign language copywriters or professional translators skilled at intercultural communications adapt your key messages to targets whose cultural values and references can differ significantly. Good copy will reveal that the emperor is has no clothes. Take notes.

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Creative Mind Cleaning | Men With Pens

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Possibly behind that couch in the corner, the one buried under boxes and old clothes. Reply Catherine Caine ( @CatherineCaine ) January 13, 2010 at 6:20 pm The only addition I’d make to this is that Stephen King always refers to the place he writes as a mental basement instead of an attic. You’re not sure, though.

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Why You Don't Need to Mimic Someone Else's Fame | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

However, he isn’t stodgy, and his social skills are better than mine. Perhaps that’s why I drop in so many pop culture references… All kidding aside, showing “humanity&# on occasion is a great way to connect. Now I feel like James, who (apparently) can’t reference to anything “popular&#.

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Social marketing 101: respond to your customers about social issues too

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As we live in a technologically advancing world where even seven-year-old children carry smart phones, social consciousness becomes a major factor when building brand loyalty and increasing the number of new customers referred by existing customers.