Simplification

Less is More Scale ConceptIt’s way too easy to let life get complicated these days. For as many advances as we’ve made in technology, health, and lifestyle, nothing seems to have gotten easier. Sure, we now have dishwashers, clothing washers and dryers, laptops, iPads, smartphones, the Internet, Google, and everything else that’s supposed to make life better, easier, and faster.

These things should save you time and make you massively successful—at least, that’s how it looks on paper. But, do they really? With all the “time saving” these devices, tools, and pieces of technology are doing for us, you’d think we’d have all the time in the world to earn big in business, live the kind of life that dreams are made of, and still have enough time left over at the end of the day to relax and eat bon bons.

I don’t know about you, but I certainly don’t have that kind of time. In fact, life seems busier than ever. There’s always something to do and not enough time to do it. There are mindset issues that sneak up and further complicate things.

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An Overview of Using Twitter for Business

Pulcini Uccelli Blu Social Network-Blue Birds Social MediaTwitter is an exceptional social media platform. While Facebook is a lot more flexible and has a much bigger reach, Twitter’s nothing to sneeze at. It’s a way to express your business in 140 characters or less. It’s a way to spread the word about what you have to offer, to develop a following, to network with other marketers, and more.

Twitter is also becoming savvier when it comes to different types of content. For instance, now you can have video or an image in your update, which can gain more notice and be even more effective.

Twitter was really the first place where the #hashtag phenomenon took off. It started as a way to express yourself in a shorter space, but now it’s a way to connect topics and people with the same interests.

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How to Set Up a WordPress Child Theme

Wordpress recorteWhen you install a WordPress theme, there are occasions when you might want to tweak it to be slightly different from the way that it was originally intended.

But when you do, you take the risk of having your changes overwritten when a new version of the theme is distributed to you.

For that reason, you will want to learn how to set up “child themes”.

This bonus video will show you how to do that.

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Habits

break bad, build good habitsAre we always completely conscious of our actions and decisions every day? We are on the surface. But, there’s a magnetic force that’s constantly pulling us toward doing the same things over and over again. And once we do those things over and over again over a period of months and years, that magnet pulls stronger and stronger.

Sometimes, this force is a good thing. There are likely things you do every day that are great for your health, family, and business. You do these things without really thinking about them.

But there are other things that aren’t so great for your health, family, and business. These things consistently lead to bad results and you aren’t sure how to stop them.

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The Importance of the Offer

Great Deal - Arrows Hit in Red Target.There are so many different pieces that go into writing an effective piece of sales copy. You want to get it all right. You want to make your copy so effective that your target audience can’t help but buy it.

But, there’s something a lot of people miss when it comes to writing great copy. Often, the most important piece of the puzzle is the offer itself.

You could have the best sales copy in the world, but if the offer isn’t good enough, then people are going to get down to the bottom of your sales letter but they aren’t going to buy.

Or, you might have horrible sales copy but people buy anyway, at least the ones who make it to the bottom and see how enticing your offer is.

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