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Leverage your time, efforts, and profits with multi-niched silos Should you niche or be a generalist? There are pros and cons to each. Niching helps establish you as a subject matter expert, thought leader, and influencer. It’s easy to build a following. Being a generalist suits writers who have multiple interests and don’t want …
Credit: mohamed_hassan Pixabay Strong presentation skills are necessary for long-term career and business success, but it may be one of your biggest challenges. Have you ever mispronounced a word or fumbled a sentence so badly it you felt like a fool? Are you nervous about speaking up at meetings? Does the thought of making a presentation turn …
Credit: Photo by Matt Winkleft on Unsplash How to take charge of your thinking What are you thinking about right now? Are you focused on this article, or are you thinking about the next item on your to-do list? Maybe you’re wondering about what to have for lunch? You’re out of bread! You need to go to …
The transition from being a writer to having a full-time writing business is tricky to navigate Credit: geralt @pixabay My mother was an executive in retailing at a time when most women were housewives. My dream was to climb the corporate ladder as far as I could go, and my best friend in college once told …
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Develop as a professional with skills improvement e-courses from The Unstoppable Professional and give your career or business a boost. Start with Your Mood Down in the dumps? Can’t get motivated? Everyone gets into a bad mood. It’s caused by a variety of reasons; some serious; some not. Long-term mood problems might be a sign …
@ Credit: KeithJJ@pixabay Get into flow to be more productive and get the results you need faster and easier Have you ever been so engrossed in something that you not only lost track of time, but you seemed to move out of time? You stopped noticing distractions and became totally immersed in what you were doing. …
Get faster responses and control your inbox with these 5 hacks The ability to write and manage email is a major factor in how productive you can be each day. Statistics show that people receive more than 100 emails each day, not counting the ones you already have read and completed that are just hanging …
Often when we think of marketing, we go straight to marketing copy since this is the most common vehicle through which we target and reach our clients and customers. Rarely do we consciously think about what supports effective marketing efforts. Just like the keystones that support the weight of massive cathedrals and help distribute tons …
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Why is hard for some of us to talk about how good we are? Why do we feel as if we’re bragging? Maybe we sound like we are bragging. Ugh. Whether you’re presenting your ideas to a corporate officer or meeting with a potential client over coffee, you have to talk about yourself, your talents, …
How do you recover from a setback that slams your self-confidence to the ground? What does it take? It starts with understanding about why we focus on the negative and learning how to shift a negative into a more positive frame of mind. Early in my writing career, I got an editorial go-ahead to write an …