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What You Need To Know About #Marketing #With #Influencers You make a short list of the influencers most complementary to your business in terms of audience, reach and tone. Read more http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansutter/2016/04/08/what-you-need-to-know-about-marketing-with-influencers/#57fde979534c.

Why #Successfully #Building a #Brand Starts with Shutting Out the Noise When a brand #to-do #list starts to resemble a grocery list for Thanksgiving dinner, then it’s time to take a step back and focus on the driving factor, which is identifying the end game – who and what the brand should ultimately become. Read more at http://www.business2community.com/branding/successfully-building-brand-starts-shutting-noise-01499642#ArRucdl0Vk4BD4qV.99.

#How to #Break #Bad #Writing #Habits for a Content Marketing Win Bloated sentences and bad constructions. If you have to read a sentence more than twice, it’s probably too complicated and should be trimmed or broken up—even if it’s technical. Read more http://www.business2community.com/content-marketing/break-bad-writing-habits-content-marketing-win-01501077#Fv6qbRjXxCsXXSiJ.97.

#How to #Build #Your #Brand Name #Through #Social #Media: A Primer There are many social media platforms for you to pick from to begin your branding journey. However, you need to #carefully #choose the #right #one to prevent yourself from being spread too thin. Opting for multiple platforms at one time will negatively impact your brand since you won’t be able to reach your potential audience. Read more http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/272386.

5 #Tools to #Manage Your Freelance #Content Team With #freelancers, you can #save #money on #operational #costs since you don’t need to provide benefits or workspace. Plus, you can pick and choose whom you want on your content creation team from a pool of freelancers around the world. Read more at http://www.business2community.com/brandviews/marketo/5-tools-manage-freelance-content-team-01443921#bBMtDjmTEHyRcZl1.99.

6 Things #Resilient #People #Do #Better 1. Be positive Instead of dwelling on what went wrong in your day, called “fault finding,” pay attention to what went right—no matter how small it is. Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson found resilient #people #have #the #same #number #of #negative #emotions as unhappy people but they #do #not #focus #on #them. Fredrickson computed a formula for happiness. In order to be resilent and flourish, the average person needs to experience a 3-to-1(link is external) ratio of positive to negative emotions. Read more https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-wellness-list/201601/6-things-resilient-people-do-better.

Over 75 percent of executives and entrepreneurs have a schedule that simply exhausts them. If I ask to look at a leader's calendar it often looks like a box of spilled jigsaw puzzle pieces and many don't have the ultimate picture they are trying to create. Focusing on time management alone will not help.

When this law was being considered, the IRS was against it and with good reason.  Using private collection agencies to collect taxes on behalf of the IRS had been done twice in the past and according to Nina Olson, the National Taxpayer Advocate at the IRS, “Twice the experiment ended in failure.”  Not only did the IRS manage to collect twice as much of  overdue taxes as the private collection agencies did, but having the IRS do the collecting was far less costly.  So private collectors managed to collect less tax money at greater cost.  The new law requires the IRS to hire private tax collectors by early March.

#Reliable and #Efficient #Website About RocketZoo RocketZoo is not just a top-notch server hosting service; we’re the fuel, toolbox, and crew that will get your ship into orbit and out to the stars. #Grab #as #much #data #space #as #you #need through our server plans and then #let #us #take #care #of #maintenance to help you make sense of the zoo that website upkeep can be. With services that start with out-of-this-world server hosting and don’t end until you’ve made a place for yourself in the Milky Way, RocketZoo is here to help you all the way to the moon and beyond. Read more https://rocketzoo.com.

The Cons: Ingredient Brands Eat Their Hosts If ingredient branding brings this kind of success, what’s there to worry about? Let’s take a look at some sinister examples where ingredient brands, if not eating up their hosts entirely, then at least took a large bite out of them. The Intel Inside initiative, the most famous of all ingredient brand programs, is a cautionary tale worth examining. Launched in 1991, Intel Inside followed a model that chemical companies had successfully used to promote their patented products further along the value chain. DuPont was a pioneer of this idea and had used it to establish the Lycra, Kevlar, Teflon, and rayon ingredient brands. These brands provided enhanced credibility for the host company and proof of specific and important benefits (for example, Teflon equates with nonstick).

This week, I consulted with two potential clients — both in their early 60s. One sees a world of scarcity — she laments that men only want younger women. The other sees a world of abundance. She crafted a captivating online profile, signed up for classes in which she can expand her social circle, and says “yes” to all invitations. Guess which of these two is NOT sitting home on Saturday night?

The Espresso Cat is dark and mysterious, with a rich coat and bright eyes. It’s alert and ready to pounce at any moment, much like the espresso drinker once they’ve had a strong jolt of caffeine.

The Zika virus is "is now spreading explosively" in the Americas, the head of the World Health Organization said Thursday, with another official estimating between 3 million to 4 million infections in the region over a 12-month period.

The Truth is Out There: 5 #Content #Marketing #Myths #Debunked Your best shot of having something blow up is to perfectly #align your #content #with the #interests #of your #audience. Get to know them, get to know what they want and then give them exactly that. There’s no sure-fire formula for success, but having a keen understanding of your customer’s needs is a good place to start. Read more at http://www.business2community.com/content-marketing/truth-5-content-marketing-myths-debunked-01438587#Vvox6I1qqg7twSh6.99.

6. They spend time with people who put them at ease. They determine which relationships are worthwhile based on how comfortable they feel when they are with another person. The point of spending time with others is to experience connection, and if you have to self-monitor your every word and behavior, it’s because you know you’re at risk for being judged (which means, of course, the person doesn’t love you as much as you may want to assume).

Instead of always focusing on the future and the next to-do, stay present. Research shows that when our mind is constantly in the future, not only are we less happy, but we’re also far less productive and focused.

If you’re plagued by migraines, this has to be worth a try. There are migraine sufferers who say that acupuncture really helped them, and it’s an accepted treatment for pain relief.