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25 Self-Help Books You (Probably) Haven’t Read

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Procrastination is something trained into us, first by parents who tell us to eat our beans before we get ice cream, then by a school system that makes suffering a requirement of learning. They say no to cubicle lunches, four-minute book summaries, “multitasking” (whatever the heck that means) and monochrome, microwave dinners.

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How to Launch (and Maintain) a Successful E-Commerce Business

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Your value proposition is “a promise of value to be delivered ,” says Peep Laja, founder of marketing training firm, CXL. If you fail to get this right, as I did with my online men’s store, then your customers won’t care about your offerings, and you’ll have to go back to your old cubicle job. Choose a product or service.