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Use the “12 and 12″ to Rejuvinate Your Brand!

This is a reprint of the six part series that I wrote exclusively for Blogher.com on Brand Power. Are You Building It! When you put yourself in the stream of positivity and possibility, it naturally picks you up and points you in the direction you are supposed to be going in! We have journeyed together [...]

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12 Ways to Makeover Your Business in 2012

I love  that 2012 is an even year and 12 is known as the ‘perfect number‘. The number 12 appears several times in the Bible,  there are  twelve tribes of Israel, the twelve disciples of Christ, twelve stones, the 12 steps and the twelve signs of the zodiac. My colleagues over at Network Solutions invited [...]

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Gratitude is Still an Action Word

Gratitude is Still an Action Word

“In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.” — Flora Edwards I write and post each year on Thanksgiving day, so that I can appreciate how powerful, timeless and enduring gratitude is to keep us centered on what’s important. The spirit of Thanksgiving [...]

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Managers Lie Because You Want Them To

This is an article by JT O’Donnell Founder of Careerealism that ran previously on CareerHMO.com. One of my favorite books of all-time is called, Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn. Published over 50 years ago, Kohn predicted our obsession with psychologist B.F. Skinner’s theory of behaviorism was making us soft (a.k.a addicts). He used multiple [...]

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Networking Mistakes of the Average Job Seeker

This is an article republished from Careerealism.com We recently received the following question from one of our CareerHMO.com members and wanted to share it with our readers. “In spite of the overwhelming amount of evidence that points to networking as the number one way to get a job, as well as all the free advice [...]

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Visual Marketing is How “You Look Mahvelous Dahling”

We have one chance today to make a first impression that will in most cases make or break whether someone will continue with or move on from you and your business. If there is not something that immediately connects someone to you visually or emotionally, there is a high probability they will loose interest.

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