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How Do Core Values Result in Deeper Relationships? An Interview with Business Coach Jay Rooke
Synopsis: The Art of Showing Up is a podcast interview that I appeared on to discuss core values and consistency as the foundation to deeper relationships hosted by my friend, accomplished Business Coach Jay Rooke. How are you showing up in your life and business? The...
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Learning personal branding from the best
Elon Musk announced that he will be selling flamethrowers at $500 apiece, and within the next few days, he sold all his 20,000 production units, amassing a total revenue of $10 million. Musk also sold out 50,000 Boring company baseball caps priced at $20 each. There...
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The Sales Playbook to Social Selling
What Is Social Selling? Social selling is the process of researching, connecting, and interacting with prospects and customers on social media networks -- notably Twitter and LinkedIn, but others certainly fit the bill. Through commenting on, liking, and sharing...
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IT TAKES A HUMAN TO BE A LEADER OF HUMAN BEINGS
We’re all human. We have different hopes and dreams, and different fears and flaws. We’re all unique in our own unique way. It’s our uniqueness that makes each one of us 7.8 billion human beings on this planet, human. But what is it that sets us apart from all the...
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HATE YOUR NEW JOB? HERE’S WHAT YOU SHOULD DO
Admit it. Your new job just isn’t living up to expectations. On paper, it should be everything you’d hope it would be – after all, you’re now in a more senior position, working on more exciting projects and even being better financially rewarded than you were in your...
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When to Refresh Your Career Option
The head of a major multi-national, multi-business firm had a very simple but effective strategy. Whenever he returned to the US from a major international trip, he began at work thinking it is his first day and outlined areas for change and focus to his team. He had...
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Tips to Have an Effective Career Strategy
What is Career Strategy? Career strategy is an organized way of developing capabilities, skills, understanding tools and their usage to achieve a desirable position or role in your career. It could be done on a personal level, and many organizations also do it for...
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How To Start A Successful Online T-Shirt Business
If you’ve been thinking about starting your own online T-shirt business, it’s important that you’re aware that it’s a competitive field in ecommerce. If you want to succeed, you’ll need to make sure that your store stands out from the crowd. To ensure this, it’s...
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Set on the Path for Success
Even for him, Scott’s success with the one product store sometimes felt surprising. “When I hit 100 orders I was thinking, ‘I don’t know if I’ll sell too many more of this.’ When I hit 1,000 I was like, ‘You know I think it’s kind of getting exhausted.’ When I hit...
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The Journey Towards the One Product Store
If you’re going to have a single product ecommerce business, you should make sure that the product you choose is really, really good. But how do you go about choosing that one perfect product for your store? Scott followed a few golden rules...
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The One Product Store: This Entrepreneur’s Simple Formula for Success
“K.I.S.S.” Keep it simple, stupid. Scott Hilse has been taking this philosophy very seriously. Over the past year and a half, he built a six-figure ecommerce business and transformed his life. And he did it all by selling just one product. Starting From...
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What Should You Sell Online?
1. Brainstorm Dropshipping Product Ideas You never have to start on a blank page. Your head is already full of the best items to dropship: your hobbies, products you like, newly discovered passions. Using tools such as Google Trends can unearth new possibilities and...
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This Millennial Entrepreneur Is Carving Her Own Path to Success
Millennials, huh? Those avocado-toast-loving, Instagram-influencering, selfie-taking young’uns. They’re always too busy disrupting industries to get to the business of making themselves a proper career. Just kidding. You’re safe here in the knowledge that I, too, am...
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10 Ways to Increase Average Order Value in 2020
The key benefit of increasing average order value is that you make more money from each transaction. Thus, making your store more profitable. Often, when a customer shops online, they’ll only buy exactly what they’re looking for. However, with some of the average...
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What is the Small Business Administration?
Small businesses in American have undergone rapid growth in the past 20 years. It's important to understand the vast amount of resources available to the small business communities in the United States. One powerful resource is the Small Business Administration. The...
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3 Practical Tips to Build Your Business While Working in an Office Setting.
Are you dead tired after working a full day in the office? Are you motivated to build your side projects once you leave the office only to get home and lose that momentum? The top struggle for freelancers, contractors, and full-time employees is finding the time to...
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Reputation is Currency: How to Transform Your Network into a Power Circle
Have you ever attended a networking event and felt completely awkward and out of place? Have you tried to read a book or take a course to try to be "more interesting"? You are certainly not alone. Networking in professional settings is broken for several reasons. If...
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SharePoint’s Modern UI Best Practices with Richmond’s SharePoint Community (Recap)
When your mission is dialed in and you are committed to a certain path, there are moments along the journey that remind you why you took the first step to begin with. Richmond's Microsoft SharePoint community has been a staple within my career since the earlier days....
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3 Easy Tips to Improve SharePoint Adoption of Modern Sites
Is it more important to create solutions or ensure that your user community gains value from the solutions that have been created? When the story of adoption is told across organizations, we often find the latter. Many companies invest heavily into customization and...
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3 Ways to Tailor Your Public Speaking Delivery for User Group Audiences
What are the fundamental differences between Microsoft User Group audiences and attendees at community conferences such as SharePoint Saturday? On the surface, it may be perceived that one audience is the same as any other. No changes to make and simply focus on your...
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2 Simple Strategies for Microsoft Technical Speakers to Improve the Quality of Presentations
Glossophobia is the technical term for the fear of public speaking. Would you believe that it impacts up to 75% of the US population? Submitting technical sessions to deliver before a technical audience provides an additional layer of anxiety. Technical demos that...
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